--- title: "Power-ups" description: "Power-ups let your bot do things as well as answer questions, like handing off to a person, booking meetings, calling your API or showing cards and charts." canonical_url: "https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups" last_updated: "2026-09-25" --- # Power-ups **Available on:** Basic, Standard, Pro, Enterprise plans. Power-ups let your bot take actions during a conversation, as well as answering from its knowledge. Other products call these "tools", "functions" or "actions". You add power-ups to a bot, describe when each one should be used, and the bot decides when to use them. Power-ups are included on all paid plans. New to power-ups? Start with [How power-ups work](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/how-power-ups-work). ## Talk to people - [Hand off a chat to a human](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/talk-to-a-human): email your team when a visitor asks for a person, and escalate the conversation. - [Send an email notification](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/send-email): send lead details or messages to up to three fixed addresses. - [Connect an email inbox](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/email-inbox): let the bot read, send and organise email in a connected Gmail, Outlook or other account. ## Book meetings - [Book meetings with Cal.com](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/book-meetings-cal-com): offer your real availability and book the meeting in the chat. - [Book meetings with Calendly](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/book-meetings-calendly): open your Calendly booking form inside the chat. ## Connect your systems - [Call your API](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/call-your-api): look up orders, check stock or send data to any HTTP API. - [Zapier](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/zapier): trigger Zapier AI Actions (Zapier has deprecated these). - [Notion](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/notion): save to, query and write Notion databases and pages. - [Slack](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/slack): post messages to Slack channels and read their history. - [Discord](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/discord): read message history from Discord channels. ## Find information - [Search Google](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/google-search): search the web, or a single site, for up-to-date information. - [Browse a web page](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/browse-webpage): read a page live and pull out what the visitor needs. ## Show rich results - [Show cards, charts, tables, maps and diagrams](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/displays): power-ups the bot uses to show results visually. - [Show another power-up's results visually](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/display-modes): turn a power-up's response into cards, a chart or a table. ## Work with other bots - [Connect bots together](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/bot-to-bot): let one bot ask another bot for help. ## In this section - [How power-ups work](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/how-power-ups-work): What power-ups are, how to add, edit, turn off and delete them, how your bot decides to use one, and what visitors see in the chat. - [Hand off a chat to a human](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/talk-to-a-human): Let your bot email your team with the visitor's email and the conversation when someone asks for a person, and mark the chat as escalated. - [Send an email notification from your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/send-email): Let your bot email up to three fixed addresses with a visitor's details and message, for lead capture or contact requests. No inbox connection needed. - [Connect an email inbox to your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/email-inbox): Connect Gmail, Outlook or another email account so your bot can search, read, send, reply to and organise email with four power-ups. - [Book meetings with Cal.com](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/book-meetings-cal-com): Let visitors see your real Cal.com availability and book, cancel or confirm a meeting without leaving the chat. - [Book meetings with Calendly](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/book-meetings-calendly): Open your Calendly booking form inside the chat, with the visitor's name and email already filled in. No OAuth or API token needed. - [Call your API from your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/call-your-api): Let your bot call any HTTP API to look up or send data, such as order status, stock levels or new leads, using the API request power-up. - [Trigger Zapier actions from your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/zapier): Use the Zapier AI Action power-up to let your bot run actions you've set up in Zapier. Zapier has deprecated AI Actions, so read this first. - [Connect your bot to Notion](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/notion): Let your bot save items to a Notion database, query databases with filters, and search, read and write Notion pages live during a chat. - [Send and read Slack messages from your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/slack): Let your bot post messages to Slack channels and threads, and read channel history to answer questions like "What happened in - [Read Discord channel history from your bot](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/discord): Let your bot pull message history from any Discord channel it can access, for cross-channel summaries or messages older than its usual context. - [Let your bot search Google](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/google-search): Let your bot search Google, or a single website, for up-to-date information such as news, prices or documentation that isn't in its knowledge. - [Let your bot read a web page](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/browse-webpage): Let your bot fetch a web page during a chat and pull out what it needs. Use any URL or one fixed page, with CSS selectors, a custom prompt and basic auth. - [Show cards, charts, tables, maps and diagrams in chat](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/displays): Add display power-ups so your bot can show results as cards, charts, tables, maps or Mermaid diagrams in the web chat, instead of plain text. - [Show a power-up's results visually](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/display-modes): Turn on a display mode so a power-up's results, such as an API response or search results, appear as cards, a chart, a table, a map or a diagram. - [Connect bots together](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/bot-to-bot): Let one bot pass questions and tasks to another of your bots, so you can build a team of specialist agents behind a single chat. ## Related - [How power-ups work](https://chatthing.ai/docs/power-ups/how-power-ups-work): What power-ups are, how to add, edit, turn off and delete them, how your bot decides to use one, and what visitors see in the chat.