Customer Chat Handover via Join Chat & Signature Message
TL;DR:BotSailor live chat introduces join chats and signature message features to make team-based customer support faster, clearer and more professional. Join Chat allows agents to smoothly take over conversations when needed, while Signature Messages notify customers when a new agent joins, ensuring transparency and accountability. Together, these features improve teamwork, reduce confusion during handovers, and create a better customer experience across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram - all from BotSailor's shared inbox.

Join Chat" and "Signature Message" are two new features in BotSailor Live Chat to bring more flow in teamwork. These two tools help to bring more speed in customer problem resolution, transparency, accountability in team members, and give a clear track record of when team members join or leave a conversation.The "Join Chat" option and customizableSignature Messageprovide your team a professional conversation flow to improve the customer experience. In this blog we have given a comprehensive guide and use case ofJoin chatand theSignature massagefeature in the BotSailor live chat.

Table Of Content

  • What is BotSailor Live Chat?
  • How does the “Join chat” handover feature enhance Customer support?
    • Use case of Join Chat feature
  • What is a Signature message?
    • How to customize Signature massage
  • Conclusion


What is BotSailor Live Chat?

BotSailor live chat is an all in one shared inbox for Website chat, WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Telegram; from where team members can send and receive messages, add labels to specific customers, and more.
Read our comprehensive blog onBest Omni Channel Inbox for Customer Supportto learn more about the features and uses.

How can the “Join chat” feature enhance Customer support?

The live chat join is a newly added button that a customer agent has to click to send a message to the customer.

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After clicking the “Join Chat” option, the live chat panel will auto reload and a new agent can take over the conversation.

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Use case of Join Chat feature

Sometimes customers ask to talk to different members in the team or in an awkward situation when a customer is angry and the support team member is also sad because of not being able to help the customer. At that time, the customer support member can handover the conversation and a new customer support agent can send a signature message including his name on it.

What is a Signature message?

A signature message is a short message that can be sent after the new agent joins in the conversation, this message will be sent to the user to confirm that the user is talking to another person.

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The new agent has to select thesend signature message to the subscriberand after clicking theJoin chata message will be sent to the user addressing that the new agent is now connected with the user.

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How to customize Signature massage

TheSignature Messagecan be customized from theBot manager settings > configuration.

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The agent can send their name to the user also if thenamevariable is used in theSignature Message.After the desired changes, the setting needs to be saved.

Conclusion

The Join Chat feature is a handy feature that can help when someone has more than 1 team member. Also, the signature message is a convenient way to inform the customer about the conversation handover to a new agent. The admin can monitor everything who came in and who is now connected with the customer

For team collaboration, this small feature can make a huge difference and can bring more speed to customer problem resolution.


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Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about this topic

Conversation handover can make communication and issue resolution fast. When a team member encounters a technical or complex query they cannot handle, passing the conversation to a more qualified teammate improves customer satisfaction and saves time. It reduces frustration for both the customer and the agent.

BotSailor's Live Chat is a real-time communication inbox for Web chat, WhatsApp, Facebook Instagram and Telegram, From where team members can directly chat with customers, provide instant support, and more through this shared team inbox.

The “Join Chat” feature allows team members to collaborate efficiently by enabling one agent to take over a live conversation.

Admin can see conversation handovers and can see who handed over the conversation, which agent joined the chat and the timing of these actions. This transparency ensures accountability and effective team management.

This Informs the customer about the handover. Adds a personal touch by including the agent’s name.

When the “Join Chat” button is clicked by the new agent, the live chat panel auto reload

And a new agent can send messages to the customer.

Join Chat" lets a team member take over an ongoing conversation - great for customer support."

Yes, from Bot Manager settings the Signature Message can be disabled.

Yes - you can customize the Signature Message from the Bot Manager settings to fit your brand tone and include agent names if you wish.

A customized notification to the customer when a new agent joins a conversation confirms the change in support - called a Signature Message.

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