What is Alexa?
Alexa is an Amazon’s Intelligent Virtual Assistant and natural language understanding service that can listen to your voice commands and reply with contextual responses to help you get the information you need.
How to use Alexa with Click & Pledge?
Alexa connects you to your Click & Pledge reporting statistics for your account(s). Ask Alexa what are your statistics for today, yesterday, this week, last week, this quarter, last quarter, this year, last year, GivingTuesday 2017, etc. Alexa will provide you with detailed account statistics as well as year-to-year comparisons.
Prerequisites: To use Click & Pledge with Alexa you will need to have an active Click & Pledge account and must have completed the setup instructions for Amazon’s Alexa.
How to Setup Click & Pledge Skill on Alexa:
1. Through your Amazon account or using the Alexa App, find the Click & Pledge skill and click ENABLE button.
2. You will be redirected to the Click & Pledge login page. Enter your email address associated with your account and click on Get Code.
3. Please check your email inbox for the Login Verification Code email. Enter the provided code and click Verify Code.
4. After verifying, you will receive the confirmation screen that you have successfully linked Click & Pledge to Alexa.
Commands to use:
Alexa what are my (the) statistics (stats, receipts, numbers, transactions) for (of):
> today?
> yesterday?
> This/last week?
> This/last month?
> This/last quarter?
> This/last year?
> September 20, 2017?
> 1st/2nd/3rd/4th quarter 2017, 2016
> January, February, … 2016/2017
Examples:
- Alexa what are my stats for this quarter?
- Alexa what are my stats for this year?
- Alexa what are my stats for today?
- Alexa what are my stats for January 2017
- Alexa what are my stats for first quarter 2017
- Alexa what are my stats for last month?
- Alexa what are my stats for last year?
- Alexa what are my stats for this week?
- Alexa what are my stats for September 20, 2017
The question may be asked in different ways. Let's use "Quarter" as an example:
- Alexa what are my stats for this quarter?
- Alexa what are my stats of this quarter?
- Alexa what are my transactions for this quarter?
- Alexa what are my transactions of this quarter?
- Alexa what are my receipts for this quarter?
- Alexa what are my receipts of this quarter?
- Alexa what are my numbers for this quarter?
- Alexa what are my numbers of this quarter?
If you have more than one Click & Pledge Account:
Alexa will start the conversation like this…
Alexa: You have multiple Click and Pledge accounts. Which account number you wish to review?
Me: My account number is 12345.
Switch between two accounts:
- Alexa Switch my Account number to 98765.
Comparison of two-time periods:
Me: Alexa what are my stats for last week?
Alexa: $1500. If You want to hear more say more or ask for another specific period.
Me: More
Alexa will tell the comparison of last week with present week.
Me: More
Alexa will tell the comparison of last month with present month.
Me: More
Alexa will tell the comparison of last quarter with present quarter.
Me: More
Alexa will tell the comparison of last year with present year.
& to stop:
- Alexa bye
- Alexa goodbye
- Alexa thank you