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Quick Replies for Webchat

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Script: Forward to Queue

  • Forward to Queue has timeout to leave queue when time parameter met

  • Forward to Queue has test for queue conditions

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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

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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

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