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How To Enable and Use Screen Sharing

About Screen Sharing

The Screen Sharing feature will allow your agents to view the screen of your visitor’s website during an ongoing chat. This will improve the quality of the overall chat experience, and increase the resolution of cases by your team. When agents and customers aren’t able to view what is being referenced together in a chat, it can

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How to Add Google Business Messages as a New Channel

About Google Business Messages

Help your customers reach you with the scale of  Google Business Messages. Customers can now reach out to you via Google Business Messages. Integrate your TeamSupport account with Google Business Messages and bring all your conversations from Google Business Messages directly into TeamSupport Messaging and Live Chat. You can then have customers interact with either chatbots …

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Hub SDK

Introduction to the Messaging Hub SDK

The Hub Software Development Kit (SDK) enables technical customers to build and integrate custom third-party applications within the TeamSupport Messaging and Live Chat Hub. The Hub SDK takes Messaging Hub integration opportunities to the next level and provides a level of deep customization and automation that has not been available to our clients previously.…

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Supervisor

Supervisor Overview

Supervisor provides a way to monitor what is going on in real time, rapidly improve agent performance and increase customer satisfaction. You can use Supervisor to observe agents’ chats in real-time to coach or correct them and supervisors can also whisper/suggest answers to agents (completely invisible to the visitor). This empowers supervisors to better support and manage large,

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Conversation Events API

About this Guide

This guide goes into how to use:

The SnapEngage Conversation Events API  which allows developers to be notified of below conversation events from SnapEngage.

The Conversation Events API (formerly known as the Case Events API) allows you to send live chat events to a URL of your choosing. Specifically, each time certain events occur within an individual

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Starting a Chat from a QR Code

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of how to open a chat from a QR Code. A QR code in the window or on a site ensures you remain open at all times. Passers-by simply scan it on their phone to immediately chat with one of your friendly live chat agents.

Overview

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How does SnapEngage’s Queue Work? – FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

SnapEngage offers significant flexibility to how you manage your incoming chats. This document covers many of the frequently asked questions about the queue logic and how various features and situations affect it.

Can I set a limit to how many chats are allowed in the queue?

  • Yes! Under Agent Settings -> Chat Assignment -> Queue settings you
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SnapEngage Subscription Sales Tax

To protect our clients and comply with all local laws, SnapEngage collects and remits sales tax in the United States where required. Nexus is determined by each state and certain states now require sales tax for products and services like SnapEngage.

Beginning March 29th, 2021, SnapEngage will be required by law to collect sales tax for members’ paid subscriptions in …

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Setting Up a Post-Chat Survey Bot

*This feature is available on Enterprise plans only. Chat with us if you want to find out more!*

About the Post-Chat Survey Bot

The Post-Chat Survey Bot is the next evolution of our Agent Survey feature. Admins can use this setting to set various end chat actions including creating a new Guide Bot to automatically gather invaluable feedback from their

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How to: Integrate with SAP Sales and Service Clouds (Integration 2.0)

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of how to Integrate with SAP Sales and Service Clouds (Integration 2.0).

Integrate SnapEngage with SAP Sales and Service Clouds (latest version 2.0)

SnapEngage has built a brand-new integration with SAP Sales and Service Clouds (formerly C4C) using SAP’s modern REST API. Automate and enhance downstream …

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Reserve Tier

About This Article

This article explains Reserve tiers.

*Currently, this feature is available on Enterprise plans only. Chat with us if you want to find out more!*

What the Reserve Tier can do for your business

The Reserve Tier augments the SnapEngage priority tier routing system. It enables more flexible and powerful bot strategies, particularly when using multiple chatbots. Without …

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What’s New for Guide Bot – December 2020

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This article explains the latest version of Guide Bot and whats new.

 

SnapEngage has released the latest version of Guide Bot and it’s been completely overhauled to help you drive value for your business. Guide Bot shortens time to interaction, time to revenue and time to resolution. 

Continue reading to learn more about the December 2020

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Disable Tab Discarding in Chrome

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This article explains Tab Discarding in Chrome which is a new experimental feature developed by Google Chrome, to discard, or idle out, inactive Chrome browser tabs. The tab is discarded if it is left idle for a certain amount of time with no response. This can effect chat alerts.

What is Tab Discarding?

Tab Discarding is a …

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Labels report

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of label reports.

What is the Labels Report?

The Labels Report is a powerful tool that allows you to do more with chat. Labels are a customized way to gather more information during a conversation. They allow you to set a category for each conversation in …

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Displaying Dynamic JavaScript Variables in Guide Bot dialogue

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This article explains Displaying Dynamic JavaScript Variables in Guide Bot dialogue.

 

JavaScript variables consist of data which is collected prior to a chat starting, and you can display this information dynamically to a visitor through a Guide Bot dialogue flow.

For example, below, you can see that the Guide Bot is referring to the visitor by …

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Guide Bot Template: Team Router

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This article explains the Team Router Guide Bot Template.

Guide Bot Template: Team Router

See the full list of available Guide Bot templates here.

Companies often have separate teams for Sales, Support or other functions. This bot prompts your visitor to select the right team and routes the chat to that team’s widget. 

Benefits:

  • Quick and
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Guide Bot Template: Second Chance

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This article explains how to set a Second Chance Bot.

Guide Bot Template: “Second Chance”

See the full list of available Guide Bot templates here.

Website contact forms are great – but sometimes they scare your prospects away, particularly if you require too much information. Use this bot to quickly capture those interested leads before they …

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Guide Bot Template: Sales Qualification

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This article explains how to set a Sales Qualification bot.

Guide Bot Template: Sales Qualification and Routing

See the full list of available Guide Bot templates here.

Ask your visitors a few simple questions to understand their goals and readiness to buy – then route the chat to the correct sales team or agent.

Benefits:

  • Learn
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Guide Bot Template: High Traffic Queue Bot

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This article explains how to set a High Traffic Queue Bot.

Guide Bot Template: High Traffic Queue Bot

See the full list of available Guide Bot templates here.

Triage customer support requests with this bot when you are experiencing a high-traffic situation and you are unable to respond to all requests in a timely manner. Place …

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Guide Bot Templates

About This Article

This article explains templates which are predesigned bot configurations for common use cases or situations

Guide Bot templates are predesigned bot configurations for common use cases or situations. You can also set up your own Guide Bot configuration from scratch using our documentation here.

Templates are not intended to work “as is”, but provide a good …

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How to integrate SnapEngage with TeamSupport

About This Article

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of how to Integrate with TeamSupport.

SnapEngage integrates with TeamSupport. Once the chat is finished, you can send the transcript to TeamSupport.

How to configure it:

In order to configure this integration, head over to Settings -> Integrations, and choose TeamSupport.

 

On the server address …

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Bot Template: Categorize & Triage Support Requests

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This article explains the Categorize & Triage Support Requests template.

Categorize & Triage Support Requests

See the full list of available Guide Bot templates here.

Use this bot to help your customers categorize the nature of their support requests. Handle each type of request differently (e.g., “How To” vs. System Outage). Label chats accordingly for optimal …

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Visitor Identity verification

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of Visitor Identity verification.

Visitor Identity Verification is an advanced security and identity protection for businesses that communicate with authenticated users (signed into an application, portal, or other backend system). This feature is available with Enterprise plans. Please come and speak to us if you would

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Approval Checker

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of Approval Checker.

The Approval Checker allows you to ask visitors for consent before starting their chat, even on proactive chats. The visitor will no be able to start a chat, until they have confirmed they have read and understood the message. The configuration for …

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Dynamic Proactive Messages Using JavaScript Variables

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This article explains how set a dynamic proactive message.

Dynamic Proactive (and Bot) Messages.

Proactive chat is a great way to increase engagement with your visitors and clients. The most engagement occurs when you make your messages highly contextual and personalized. Making your messages dynamic (with variable content) is a way to make these messages even more …

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Minimized proactive chat invite

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This article explains how to set a minimized proactive chat invite.

Proactive chat is one of SnapEngage’s greatest features. It allows you to send visitors customizable invitations to chat based on many different factors, including URL, Country, and Javascript variables among many others. And those prompts can be routed to specific agents, tags, or even bots.…

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How to configure Answer bot

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This article explains how to configure an answer bot.

Note: There is an extra per month fee for bots more details here.

This article explains how to configure an Answer Bot. An Answer Bot is a bot that allows visitors to ask questions, and then suggests articles from your knowledge base based on search terms. It …

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Widget Distribution tool

About This Article

This article explains how to use the widget distribution tool.

 

This tool is available for Enterprise clients only. Please speak to one of our advisors if you need information on how to upgrade.

The Widget Distribution tool

The Widget Distribution tool allows you to have an origin widget installed on your site and use it as …

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SMS to chat for HIPAA accounts

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This article explains how to set up a HIPAA SMS to chat number.

SMS is one of the various Communication Channels you can use with SnapEngage to connect with your clients. The SMS to chat feature allows visitors to text a number, and start a chat with SnapEngage via their phone, the SnapEngage agent receives the …

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How to use Labels with Salesforce

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This article explains how to set Labels to use with Salesforce.

If you combine our Labels feature and our custom mapping, the results are limitless! Did you know you could set up a case to close directly on Salesforce from the chat itself? Or that you could map custom fields on Salesforce with information that the …

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How to set up my account on the European server

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This article explains how to set up your account on an European server.

 

We do offer the ability to migrate your account to our EU server. By default, your account is hosted on US servers, but we can migrate the entire account to EU. If you want more information please start a chat with us so …

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Chatbot API – How to build it

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This article explains how to set up the Chat Bot api for third party bot usage.

Currently, our Chatbot API  is only available on our Professional and Enterprise plans. Essentials plans do not include this feature. You will need to migrate to our new plans in order to utilize this feature.

In this article we will give …

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Auto-Translate

About This Article

This article explains how to set up and use the auto translate feature.

Auto-Translate

Currently, the Auto-Translate feature is only available on our Professional and Enterprise plans. Essentials plans do not include this feature. You will need to migrate to a higher plan in order to utilise this feature.

Auto-Translate allows visitors and agents to converse with …

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New left side column design for the Hub

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This article explains the left side column design for the Hub.

We are updating the Conversations Hub to improve the UI and usability. The main change is to the left side column where you will now find all your conversations, whether active, recent or internal in one view.

You can see a preview of the upcoming changes …

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End chat delay

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This article explains the End chat delay feature.

Under the integrations tab, you will find the “End Chat Delay” setting. When the delay is on, all completed chat cases will be “held” for a specified number of minutes before they are sent to active integrations (e.g., Salesforce or Zendesk). This delay allows the visitor time to …

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Request email transcript

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This article explains the Request email transcript feature.

Our request email transcript feature allows visitors to enter their email during a chat with an agent, so they can receive a copy of the transcript for their records once it’s finished.

This is very easy to set up, but please be aware that for this feature to work, …

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How to: Set Agent Sub-statuses

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of how to set Agent Sub-statuses.

The sub-status feature is available on Enterprise plans, please come and chat with one of our team members if you’d like to hear more or upgrade at snapengage.com

SnapEngage account owners have the ability to add sub-statuses for their agents. …

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Chat Transcript (caselink URL)

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This article explains the post chat transcript or case link URL

 

The post chat transcript or caselink URL is a detailed overview of the chat. It includes the chat transcript, visitor info, who ended the chat and more. We recently updated these the look and feel of the case link URL to have a modern feel.…

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Agent status API

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This article goes over how to set up and use the Agent Status API.

 

Our  Agent status API provides you with the ability to send and receive status information to SnapEngage via the API.

This can be very useful, if your agents work on different systems, and you need to share information across those systems.

As …

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Chatbot API

About This Article

The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the Chatbot API.

Currently, our Chatbot API  is only available on our Enterprise and Professional plans. The Essentials plan does not include this feature. 

If you want to know the steps to follow to configure your bot with our API, go here. You will also …

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How to test the Logs API

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This article goes over how to set up, test, and use the Logs API.

 

If you are familiar with our Developer website, you may have seen we have different APIs, among them, the Logs API which allows you to download logs from your widgets on a given timeframe, or even connect them to a third-party …

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Proactive Chat

About This Article

This article explains Proactive chat.

Proactive Chat

Proactive chat is a really powerful tool to improve chat engagement. Visitors are much more likely to respond to a message sent on behalf of an agent, than to start a chat manually. As Proactive Chat is such a large feature, we have separated the documentation in to several sections.…

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GDPR approval checker

The GDPR approval checker allows you to ask visitors for consent before starting their chat, even on proactive chats. The visitor will no be able to start a chat, until they have confirmed they have read and understood the message. The configuration for this is done from the admin dashboard, under Agent settings –> Chat assignment.

 

 

You …

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Getting Started with the Hub – Tips and Best Practices

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This article explains Tips and Best Practices for Hub.

Whether you’re new to SnapEngage, or new to Live Chat in general, we want to make sure that you get the most out of our solution. In this document you will find some of our collective wisdom on how to use your Live Chat most effectively.


Get familiar

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GDPR Recommended practices

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This article explains GDPR Recommended practices.

There’s a lot of information in regards to GDPR out there as this topic is very complex, and it is different for each of our clients. Your company has most likely done extensive research, and perhaps been in touch with legal advisors, on how to handle SnapEngage data and when to

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Data removal for GDPR

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This article explains Data removal for GDPR.

One of the key points of GDPR is that companies should only keep data for as long as they need it, see our best practices article. SnapEngage has different data retention and deletion tools in place for you to use.

Delete on the logs page

If you are an …

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Privacy policy checkbox for GDPR compliance

Add a checkbox onto the pre-chat/offline forms for GDPR compliance

About this Article-

This article goes over how to set up a GDPR privacy box for usage.

**For proactive chats or manual chats with no pre-chat form, see this article**

Do you need your visitors to check a box before starting a chat? (this may be a requirement for …

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Introduction to Hub

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This article explains Hub the chat agent portal.

The Conversations Hub allows your agents to chat in style without sacrificing performance. You will definitely enjoy how easy it is to navigate and use the Hub, due to its modern design and a layout with separate panels. You’ll learn about all this in our guide, so let’s begin!…

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How to: Set Up the Pre-Chat Form

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This article explains how to set up a pre chat form.

The Pre-Chat Form

 

 

Tired of seeing leads come in with no email address or name attached? Want to ask the visitor what company they are from or if they agree to your terms and conditions? The Pre-Chat Form allows you to ask the visitor …

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How to set up your Communication Channels

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The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of how to set up your Communication Channels. Under Settings > Channels you can set your Facebook Messenger, SMS text-to-chat, WhatsApp and Google Business Messaging.

Your SnapEngage account allows you to use various communication channels to connect with your clients. Besides live chat installed on your …

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How to: Use the Design Studio

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This article explains how to use the design studio. The Design Studio is a powerful tool that will allow you to create your own chatbox, pre-chat form, and offline form, in addition to the online and offline buttons with separate settings.

Design Studio!

The Design Studio is a powerful tool that will allow you to create your …

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Generating, Changing or Deleting Your SnapEngage API Token

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This article explains the ability to manage your own API token for SnapEngage.

You now have the ability to manage your own API token for SnapEngage. The first step in doing so is making sure you actually need an API token to accomplish your goal. You do NOT need a token to work with the SnapEngage Javascript …

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