Tickets by email, a chat box on your own website, and SMS replies in the inbox

Email sent to your support address becomes a ticket, customers open tickets from the portal, a chat box on your site is answered by your AI agent, and customers' SMS replies land in the inbox.

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What changed

  • Email into the desk: each business gets an inbound email address tied to a department. Every email becomes a ticket, and staff replies go back to the customer by email.
  • Attachments: ticket messages can carry files. Projects now have a files section too.
  • Client portal: customers open and answer tickets from their portal. Its home page has working "Support Tickets" and "My Projects" tiles, invoice amounts show correctly in the business's currency, and "View & Pay" takes the customer to the payment page.
  • Website chat: a chat box you put on your own site. Your AI agent answers, every visitor who writes becomes a lead, and you can take over any conversation from the inbox.
  • Two-way SMS: customers' replies to campaign, journey and reminder texts now land in the inbox, where you answer them.

Support tickets and the inbound email set-up

How to use it

  1. On Support tickets, open "Desk set-up: departments and email".
  2. In the "Email into the desk" card, choose a department and press "Create an inbound address". Publish that address, or forward your current support mailbox to it.
  3. For the website chat, open the business's channel settings and press "Switch website chat on" in the Website chat card.
  4. Paste the snippet shown before </body> on every page of your site. On the agent screen, tick the agent that should answer for "Website chat widget".

The "Website chat" card in channel settings

Good to know

  • If email intake is not switched on for your server yet, the screen says so.
  • If the chat key leaks, "Make a new key" retires the old one.
  • Five new webhook events were added: credit note issued, subscription cancelled, ticket opened, customer replied on a ticket, and appointment booked.

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