Routing by Tag is an advanced feature, available only on Premier Accounts, which enables routing of chats to the most appropriate agent based on skill-set, language, specialty etc. Setting up this feature requires configuration in the SnapEngage Admin Dashboard and can also be used in conjunction with functions inserted into your website code.

Step 1. Enable the Feature

To …

Some users may want to hide the Chat Button initially, then reveal it after X seconds. Here is a little copy-and-paste Javascript snippet you can use to do this. This snippet utilizes the functions: SnapEngage.hideButton() and SnapEngage.showButton().…

***If your account was created in 2017, or if you have the Design Studio instead of the Style tab, then check these instructions instead***

In order to set up SnapEngage in a different language other than the one defined in the Admin Dashboard, you will need to use the code found under the ‘Advanced‘ section of the …

With mobile device usage constantly increasing, SnapEngage Chat has also become mobile optimized. The Mobile Browser section within the Style tab allows you to customize your mobile browser chat experience. (The Mobile Browser section is for Legacy users only. Users who signed up prior to 1/4/17)

Nevertheless, you might not want to offer chat to visitors on your website …

Awesome proactive chat engagement is something that we pride ourselves in here at SnapEngage.  However, when we implemented the proactive chat feature, we went off the assumption that if a visitor wasn’t called to action within a minute or two, they probably weren’t interested in initiating a chat, and consequently, we programmed the proactive chat window to automatically disappear.  We …

You can pre-populate the “Your question” field in the Pre-Chat Form. The message will still be fully configurable by your Visitor.

To pre-populate this field you can add the following code to your widget code where it says, “// Place your SnapEngage JS API code below”:

SnapEngage.setDescription('I would like to know about your awesome product...');

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During a chat with a customer, SnapEngage will collect all sorts of information about the customer, their environment and the chat itself. If there is any additional information you would like to gather, you can do this using a prechat form or by using formulas to define new variables in your SnapEngage code on your site (JavaScript Variables)!

Prechat Form

You will have to setup a rule (or some rules) that matches the URLs for these pages and therefore have a proactive chat message prompt defined. The delay should be long enough such as the engagement is not done by the timer but by the API call.

Just make this call from your JavaScript logic to start a proactive chat …

You can programmatically send text to the agent when a chat is in progress by calling the following API function:

SnapABug.sendTextToChat('Added a pink pony to shopping cart');

If this function is called when no chat is in progress, the call is ignored.…

Add a call to the following SnapEngage API function whenever you would like the cookies to be deleted.

SnapEngage.clearAllCookies();

Example

You might have a simple Sign Out link that runs a function from the <a onclick="" event.

<a href="#" onclick="exampleSignOut()">Sign Out</a>

Then you would just add the above-mentioned function into your exampleSignOut() function.

function exampleSignOut() {
    ...
    SnapEngage.clearAllCookies();
    ...
}

To allow multiple widgets on the same page, we assume you already have one widgets JavaScript code from the Get The Code tab installed on your website (if you are using the Proactive Chat mode then install the widget code of this one).

Because the floating chat button on the border of the page can only be connected to one …

Overview

There are a few ways to start a chat with our Javascript API after you have the SnapEngage code installed on your website. Your usage may depend on exactly what you’re hoping to do, but in most cases we recommend using the following.

SnapEngage.openProactiveChat();

You can make this call from a JavaScript function, or hook it onto the “onclick” …

Love coding and want to get your Agents status with an API? Well, you are in luck!

See the Javascript API Doc for .getAgentStatusAsync() here.

Here is how it works:

You can call this new API with an anonymous function as an argument. That anonymous function takes a boolean argument (online, in the example below) which will evaluate …

In addition to copying the SnapEngage code to the page, you can add an onclick attribute to any HTML tag to open the SnapEngage window when a click on this element is performed.

onclick="SnapEngage.startLink();"

If you want to make a link in your content open SnapEngage, here is an example of how you could do that:

<a href="#" onclick="SnapEngage.startLink();">Chat with 

Overview

You can track your SnapEngage live chat events in Google Analytics. To get started, please use the guide and samples below as a reference.

NOTE: Before getting started, you will want to review the Javascript event API that is available from SnapEngage. You can find that in our developer section of the site, or directly here: http://developer.snapengage.com/javascript-api/

Setup Your

Have returning visitors or customers coming to your site frequently? You can pre-set the email address of known users using our JavaScript API. This will permit you to pre-populate the email field on a pre-chat form or if you are not using that, it will pass the email address of the visitor on to the agent at the start of …