Customize estimated response and assignment times in Messenger | Voters

Customize estimated response and assignment times in Messenger

Dan Baird

to set our own expectations to the customer on response times in Messenger

We want to be able to set our own expectations with the customer when they initiate a chat in messenger on how quickly someone will be with them and what to expect.

Created by Stephen Boss

May 18, 2023

Master User

Stephen Boss any progress on this one? I feel like this is actually pretty critical in terms of setting proper client expectations. And it should be that hard to implement a customization step in the workflow / auto-responses.

Ryan Burbridge

We would also like the ability to set expectations on this. The reason is if all of our technicians are working on remote sessions and on phone with clients.  There will not be replying to Threads during this time.  But if we cannot, I have an idea:
Similar to how Thread has automation that after 5 minutes you can have the thread go into Swarm Mode...
I think that after 5 minutes, a GREAT feature that would help us is to send the user a TimeZest Schedule link for the ticket if no response is received by a member of our teams.
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Master User

Ryan Burbridge: +1 thousand. That's a fantastic idea. Would be fairly simple to implement I would think.

Connor Bachert

Our biggest concern, is that we have certain clients that submit chat threads (non-priority) knowing that it will take longer than 5 min for us to reach out when we can. Setting our own expectations will allow us to go off our own SLA based response times.

Stephen Boss

Merged in a post:

Can we change the text on Messenger when you create a live chat

Luis Almeida

Can you change the "Looking for someone to assign (Est. 5 minutes)" ? It may not be 5 minutes and we may need to change that.

May 18, 2023

Kristof Orts

Hi Luis, what would you change it to? The reason it's 5 min is because a live chat should never take more than 5 min to reply to. Ideally less even.