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How to Create and Edit Canned Chat Responses

Canned chat responses are greetings that you send as standard to your customers. Creating canned chat responses can save agents time in that agents will not have to type in standard responses for every new chat (i.e., Hi, my name is .... How may I help you?). Such responses are guarantee that agents reply to customers in a standard way.

You can create your own canned chat responses as well as edit existing responses provided by your team or your contact center administrator.

To create new responses, follow these steps:

1. Click the Settings icon in the upper right corner of the desktop.
2. Select the Chat Responses option. A list of the previously defined responses will appear.
3. To define a new chat response, click the add option.
4. Type the desired text in the editable field and click the OK to confirm.

To edit an existing chat response, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings > Chat Responses
2. Select the item to edit. The text of the response will appear in an editable field.
3. Make the desired changes and click OK to confirm. Note that you can also delete a response while in the Edit window.

A new canned response

To arrange your canned responses in folders, follow these steps:

1. Click add folder.
2. Enter a folder name.
3. Click OK. The new folder will appear in the list.
4. To open the folder, click its name.

Note that depending on your permissions, you may be able to make the chat responses that you create available to all agents in your contact center. If you have such permissions, you will see the for all agents checkbox in the Edit window.

The following variables can be used in canned chat responses:

• %AF – for agent’s first name
• %AL – for agent’s last name
• %F – for customer’s first name
• %L – for customer’s last name

Appending Canned Chat Responses

Once one or more canned chat responses (i.e., greetings) have been created and saved, agents or users working in the Agent Desktop application have the option of editing a canned response from within the chat window before it is sent. This capability allows agents to change a standard response to suit the customer's message or question, before the response is delivered to the customer.

For example, if your saved canned chat response is, Hello, how may I help you?, and your customer's message explicitly states what the customer needs (e.g., How do I change my login ID?), you should append your canned chat response to something more appropriate, such as, Thank you for your question. I can help you with that. Appending canned responses makes it easy to create a more relevant, personalized chat experience for your customers.

Step 1: Begin a chat.

Canned chat responses are edited from within the Text Input Field in the Agent Desktop application. When a customer initiates a chat, the incoming message will pop up on the screen, as shown.

Clicking Accept will make the chat available in the Active Communications List, which will display the chat icon indicating that the chat session is now established and the timer for this session will start. The available customer information will be displayed in the Contact Info Panel. Note that because you accepted the chat, your status will be automatically set to the Busy state, which you can see in the upper left-hand panel of the screen.

You can begin a chat session with the customer. Begin by typing in the chat box, or, insert a canned chat response (i.e., a greeting or message).

Step 2: Select a canned chat response.

• To select a canned chat response, click the Select predefined message icon .
• Select the desired greeting.
• The selected greeting will appear in the Text Input Field. Note that you can modify this message before sending it--this is called editing and appending a canned chat response.
• Click Send message or hit Enter.

If you have not already created any greetings, no greetings/canned chat responses will be displayed. You must create them before they can be edited in the chat window.

Step 3: Edit the canned chat response and append it to the chat.

• When you select the desired greeting, the greeting text will appear in the chat box.
• You can edit your canned chat response from within the Active Communications List window.
• Hit Enter to send the message to the customer.

In this example, the canned chat response was originally I can help you. It was edited to be Thank you for your question. I can help you.

The appended message was delivered to the customer, who received the message as shown.

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