Integrations / Analytics
Connect Foursquare to WhatsApp with an AI agent
Flann turns Foursquare into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Foursquare for you. Foursquare holds data about how your business is doing. Flann turns it into answers you can read on WhatsApp.
8 actions in Foursquare. All of them only look things up, so nothing in Foursquare is ever changed. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in Foursquare
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Foursquare actions.
“Show me my trending venues in Foursquare.”
“Show me my place tips in Foursquare.”
Step by step: Foursquare jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Foursquare actions, one step at a time.
Get answers about your places
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our places in Foursquare?”
- Flann runs
Retrieve places by idin Foursquare and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Foursquare is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your place photos from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our place photos in Foursquare stand.”
- Flann runs
Retrieve place photos by idin Foursquare and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Foursquare is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Get answers about your place tips
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our place tips in Foursquare?”
- Flann runs
Retrieve place tips using fsq idin Foursquare and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Foursquare is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Foursquare
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Foursquare is connected.
Spotting a sudden change early
Today
Drops in bookings or jumps in returns can go unnoticed for days in Foursquare. You find out when the month closes, too late to do much.
With Flann
“Has anything in Foursquare moved unusually this week?”
Scanning Foursquare for figures that broke from their usual pattern, Flann lists the ones that moved most and suggests a likely cause where the data points to one. You can ask it to check every morning. Reading is instant, and no changes are made.
What you stop doing: Finding problems weeks late in the monthly figures no longer happens.
Looking up a record mid-conversation
Today
A customer on the phone asks when their membership renews or what they ordered last time. Finding the record in Foursquare means a laptop, a login and a search screen.
With Flann
“When does Priya Shah’s membership renew? Check Foursquare.”
Within the chat, Flann searches Foursquare for the record and replies with the renewal date, plan and last visit. If two records match, it asks which one you mean. Looking up changes nothing, so it happens straight away.
What you stop doing: Opening a laptop to answer a simple customer question is unnecessary now.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Foursquare
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose Foursquare.
- Paste your Foursquare API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your Foursquare account settings.
- Go back to WhatsApp and ask for what you need. Flann chooses the Foursquare action and fills in the details.
Of the 8 Foursquare actions, 8 only read. The other 0 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Foursquare in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Foursquare with Flann
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks Foursquare and tells you what moved.
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in Foursquare first.
Ask, do not dig
Ask how this week compares to last. Flann pulls the numbers from Foursquare and answers in plain words.
How the same job compares, in Foursquare directly and through Flann.
| Compare | Opening FoursquareLog in, find it, do it | Foursquare through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Open the app and find the right page | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers | Filters and searches you run yourself | 8 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Foursquare records | All of them, one screen at a time | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Your Foursquare API key, once |
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Everything Flann can do in Foursquare
Every Foursquare action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 8
- Autocomplete places
- Get trending venues
- Validate API credentials
- Retrieve nearby places v3
- Retrieve place photos by id
- Retrieve place tips using fsq id
- Retrieve places by id
- Search places api request
Changes 0
None.
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Common questions
How does Flann connect to Foursquare?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose Foursquare and paste your Foursquare API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your Foursquare account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 8 actions in Foursquare.
Do I need to open Foursquare to use it with Flann?
No. Once Foursquare is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Foursquare.
Does connecting Foursquare cost extra?
No. Foursquare is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.