## How can we pass additional parameters to the rest channel?

We have a custom rasa chatbot UI and wanted to pass an extra parameter (not slots or entities) to the API. Can we do something like this?

```json
{
  "sender":"1234",
  "message":"hello",
  "param": "some value"
}
```

## Introduce yourself

I’m Kiran, CEO of [Cedex Technologies LLP](https://www.cedextech.com/). I’m excited to learn more about chatbots.
Feel free to check the collection of boilerplate templates for different chatbot use cases on the RASA platform. [https://github.com/cedextech/Rasa-Chatbot-Templates](https://github.com/cedextech/Rasa-Chatbot-Templates)