Integrations / Databases
Connect QuintaDB to WhatsApp: records by chat
Flann is an AI agent your business talks to on WhatsApp. Connect QuintaDB once, then ask Flann to look things up in it or get work done in it, by text or voice note. Analytics tools answer questions well, provided you know where to click. Flann does the clicking. You ask in plain words on WhatsApp, it queries QuintaDB and replies with the figure and a sentence on what it means.
12 actions in QuintaDB. 7 only look things up, and 5 create, update, send or delete. You connect with your API key.
What you can ask Flann to do in QuintaDB
Send any of these on WhatsApp, in your own words. Flann finds the right QuintaDB action and fills in the details from the conversation.
“Show me my forms in QuintaDB.”
“Show me my reports in QuintaDB.”
“Look up the database in QuintaDB.”
What Flann can work with in QuintaDB
QuintaDB gives Flann 12 actions across 4 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Records | createdeletelook upsearchupdate | 8 |
There are three ways to get records work done in QuintaDB. Side by side:
| Compare | In QuintaDB yourselfYou click through each job | A rules toolRuns the steps you wired up | Flann on QuintaDBYou ask, Flann does the clicking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asking for something | Open the app and find the right page | Only what was wired up in advance | A WhatsApp message, typed or spoken |
| Finding answers about records | Filters and searches you run yourself | Only the look-ups someone built | 7 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Making changes | Typed in by hand | Run unchecked once built | 5 changes, made from a message |
| QuintaDB records | All of them, one screen at a time | Only the ones you wire up | 4 kinds, from one chat |
| Getting connected | Nothing new to set up | Someone builds and maintains each flow | Your QuintaDB API key, once |
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Step by step: QuintaDB jobs you can hand to Flann
Each step below names the QuintaDB action Flann actually runs.
Create a record from a voice note
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Create a record in QuintaDB with these details.”
- Flann runs
List Recordsin QuintaDB and shows you what it found. - Flann runs
Create Recordin QuintaDB. - Flann creates it in QuintaDB and confirms in the chat.
Get answers about your forms
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our forms in QuintaDB?”
- Flann runs
List Formsin QuintaDB and shows you what it found. - Nothing in QuintaDB is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your reports from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our reports in QuintaDB stand.”
- Flann runs
List Reportsin QuintaDB and shows you what it found. - Nothing in QuintaDB is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Repetitive QuintaDB work Flann takes off your plate
These are the jobs that come back every day or every week. Message Flann instead, and keep the decisions for yourself.
Spotting a sudden change early
Today
Drops in bookings or jumps in returns can go unnoticed for days in QuintaDB. You find out when the month closes, too late to do much.
With Flann
“Has anything in QuintaDB moved unusually this week?”
Scanning QuintaDB 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.
Cleaning up duplicate records
Today
The same customer appears in QuintaDB three times with slightly different spellings. Reports count them separately, and nobody gets round to merging them.
With Flann
“Find duplicate customers in QuintaDB and show me what you’d merge.”
Records in QuintaDB that share a phone number, an email or a close spelling are grouped as likely duplicates.
What you stop doing: Merging duplicate records one by one is no longer on you.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to QuintaDB
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose QuintaDB.
- Paste your QuintaDB API key into the secure form Flann opens. You will find the key in your QuintaDB account settings.
- From then on, message Flann on WhatsApp. It works in QuintaDB whenever a request needs it.
Look-ups run as soon as you ask and change nothing in QuintaDB. You can disconnect QuintaDB from Connectors at any time.
Ways to use QuintaDB with Flann
A weekly summary on demand
Ask Flann for the week in brief. It reads QuintaDB and sends the few numbers worth knowing.
Check before you decide
Before a big call, ask Flann for the figure that matters. It looks it up in QuintaDB first.
Spot what changed
Ask what went up or down. Flann checks QuintaDB and tells you what moved.
Everything Flann can do in QuintaDB
The full list of QuintaDB actions available to Flann once you connect it.
Looks up 7
- Get Database
- Get Record
- List Fields
- List Forms
- List Records
- List Reports
- Search Records
Changes 5
- Create Record
- Create Records
- Delete Records By ID
- Update Record
- Update Records By ID
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Common questions
What can Flann do with records in QuintaDB?
Flann can create, delete, look up, search and update records in QuintaDB, using 8 actions (Create Record, Create Records, Delete Records By ID, Get Record and more). Looking up runs straight away and changes nothing. The other actions create or change records in QuintaDB.
How does Flann connect to QuintaDB?
Open Connectors in Flann, choose QuintaDB and paste your QuintaDB API key into a secure form. You will find the key in your QuintaDB account settings. Once it is connected, Flann can use 12 actions in QuintaDB.
Can I use QuintaDB from WhatsApp?
Yes. You talk to Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and Flann works in QuintaDB for you. You do not need to open QuintaDB.
Does connecting QuintaDB cost extra?
No. QuintaDB is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.