Overview
Quick replies are buttons that a customer can click on to help guide them through a webchat journey.
With this feature you can send these buttons from 8x8 scripting.
- If you are currently not using ICA, you can only collect information on webchat via the pre-chat form.
- If you aren’t ready for the ICA, you can now collect information on why your customers are contacting you.
Applies To
- Contact Center
- Web Chat
- Quick Replies
What are we releasing?
- From the webchat script, you can now forward a query to the social script
- This then allows you to to use all of the features that are available in the social script
- The query is then routed to the queue from the social script
Extra features this brings to webchat
Script: Send Prompt
- Send prompt allows you so to send multiple messages to your customer
- These can be sent at any time before forwarding to a queue
Script: Question Single Answer
- Single answer questions will send quick replies
- Customers can also type their response
- After a quick reply is selected, routing can be performed on it
- Multiple quick replies can be next together
Script: Question Yes/No
- Yes/No responses will end quick replies
- Customers can also type their response
- Routing can be performed on the response
- Multiple yes/no answers can be linked together
Script: Question Open Ended
- Collect verbatim responses before routing to an agent
- Multiple responses can be collected in the chat
- This will be displayed to an agent
- Routing not possible on open ended questions
Script: Get Customer Information
- Collect information from the customer, such as their email address, which will trigger a screen pop in the Native CRM
- Search other items in Native CRM
Script: Forward to Queue
- Forward to Queue has timeout to leave queue when time parameter met
- Forward to Queue has test for queue conditions
Prerequisite: Web Window Needs Keep Session Flag
- The keep session alive option must be set on the web window
- This also means that a customer can navigate to different pages on a website
- The time frame is how long the customers chat will stay alive if they:
- Close the browse/webpage
- Have internet connection issues
- Something else
Limitations
- Typing size of question/prompt boxes is not increased with this release
- Single question needs to be an exact match when typed
Linking with Speech Analytics
Create quick replies as topics in speech analytics
- Create the topics inside speech analytics
- Allows customers to monitor which their most popular quick replies are
- Information can then to be used to see what areas to invest in for ICA projects