Contents
- Introduction
- Starting Your Working Session
- Starting Agent Desktop
- Selecting a Phone Device
- Logging into Agent Desktop
- Installing and Updating the Agent Desktop Helper Application
- User Interface Overview
- Changing Your Agent Desktop Appearance
- Understanding Screen-pop
- Configuring Your User Profile
- Configuring Your Voicemail
- Listening to Voicemail Messages
- Call Forwarding
- Using the Calendar
- Getting Help
- Understanding and Handling Your States
- How to Interpret Your Current State Information
- How to Make Yourself Ready
- How to Make Yourself Not Ready
- Handling Calls
- How to Answer an Incoming Call
- How to Reject an Incoming Call
- How to Make an Internal Call
- How to Make an Outbound Call
- How to Send Numeric Information
- How to Use the Directory
- How to Redial a Previously Dialed Number
- How to Use Favorite Contacts
- How to Mute a Call
- How to Release a Call
- How to Wrap Up After Call Work
- Dispositions and Notes
- How to Hold and Retrieve a Call
- How to Make a Consultation Call
- How to Transfer a Call
- How to Host a Conference
- How to Participate in a Conference
- How to Place a Call in a Service Queue
- How to Connect a Voice Application to Your Call
- How to Use Prerecorded Messages
- How to Record a Call
- How to Stop or Pause Call Recording
- Voice Signatures
- How to Schedule a Follow-up Activity
- How to Send SMS Messages
- Participating in an Outbound Campaign
- General Information About Outbound Campaigns
- How to Review a Calling Record
- How to Reject a Calling Record
- How to Reschedule a Call Attempt
- Handling Service Chats
- How to Accept a Chat Request
- How to Reject a Chat Request
- Chat Messages
- How to Send and Receive Pictures and Documents
- How to Transfer Your Chat Session
- How to Create and Edit Canned Chat Responses
- 1 How to End a Chat Session
- 2 Blacklisting a Chat Client
- Handling Multiple Chat Sessions
- Handling Mobile Interactions
- Handling Email
- General Information About Handling Email
- Understanding Email Cases and Threads
- How to Accept an Email
- How to Retrieve an Email from the Team Queue
- How to Retrieve an Email from My Queue
- Overview of the Email Working Area
- How to Review an Incoming Email
- How to Mask Sensitive Data
- How to Close an Email without Replying
- How to Change an Assigned Email Service
- How to Transfer an Email
- How to Forward an Email
- How to Change Default Email Font
- How to Compose a Reply
- How to Use My Follow-ups to Send a Follow-up Outbound Email
- How to Use Cases to Send a Follow-up Outbound Email
- How to Send a New Outbound Email
- How to Save an Email as a Draft
- Knowledge Base
- General Information About Knowledge Base
- How to Use a Knowledge Base Article
- Contributing Content to the Knowledge Base
- Other Useful Functions
- Dashboard
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Ways to Request Assistance
- How to Use Internal Chat
- How to Report a Call Quality Problem
- How to Send Agent Desktop Application Logs to Your Administrator
- Ending Your Working Session
- Error Messages
How to End a Chat Session
A chat session may be terminated either by yourself or by the customer. If the customer terminates the session, you do not need to do anything in order to end this session on your side.
If you choose to terminate the chat session first, click the End Chat button in the Contact Info Panel.
Depending on your contact center practices and the type of service, your state will either change to Ready or you may be given time to wrap-up the work related to the chat session that has just ended. In this case, your state will change to After Call Work. For more information, see section How to Wrap up After Call Work.
Blacklisting a Chat Client
Starting with version 3.14 of Bright Pattern Contact Center software, agents handling chat interactions can "blacklist" a chat client (i.e., customer) by typing a command directly in the chat dialog window. For example, if a customer is sending inappropriate material to the agent, is misbehaving, or is clearly sending spam material, the agent can instantly end the chat session and prevent the customer from initiating future chats.
This functionality works for every type of chat (web chat, SMS text, mobile app messaging, and so forth) and is carried out by the agent working within the Agent Desktop application.
How to End a Chat Session Forever
To end a chat and ban a customer from chatting again, the agent simply types /ban in the text entry field of the chat dialog window.
The command instantly ends the chat, and the agent is placed in the After Call Work (ACW) state. The customer can no longer initiate chats, texts, other other such messages.
