Welcome to Assist Scout’s launch notes! This quarter we’ve launched our Fb Messenger channel integration, information migration capabilities, and extra. Learn on to study what’s new in Assist Scout!
Handle Fb Messenger conversations in your shared inbox
Now you can join your organization’s Fb account to Assist Scout! With this new social channel app, you possibly can deliver your whole direct Fb Messenger conversations into your Assist Scout inbox. In only a few clicks, you possibly can join your account and provides your workforce the power to be notified of, reply to, and handle Messenger conversations. You additionally get all of the organizational advantages Assist Scout provides, like workflows, tags, and reporting. Prospects obtain help within the channel of their alternative and your workforce can handle it multi function software.
Observe: For the reason that authentic publication of this submit, Fb Messenger entry has been added to all present Assist Scout plans. For added plan particulars, go to our pricing web page. For up to date data on activating Messenger in Assist Scout, take a look at this docs article.
Migrate buyer and dialog information in only a few clicks
Now you can migrate information into Assist Scout from over 25 instruments! We’ve partnered with Import2 to supply streamlined information migration from functions like these and others:
Zendesk
Intercom
Gmail
Freshdesk
Groove
New to Assist Scout? Our new information migration capabilities will let you simply migrate your dialog historical past and buyer profiles out of your earlier software. Present buyer? You can too use these new import capabilities to usher in information from previous options into Assist Scout or consolidate Assist Scout accounts by importing information from one Assist Scout occasion to a different.
Create Docs articles with ease in our new editor
We’ve given our Docs editor a refresh, in and out. Constructed for intuitive article creation, we’ve added the next new options to make writing articles a breeze:
Shortcut menu: Add quite a lot of components to your articles with no code needed. Simply entry the menu utilizing slash instructions corresponding to “/callout” to insert a callout or “/desk” so as to add a desk to your article.
Inline formatting menu: Spotlight your textual content and also you’ll see the brand new inline menu, permitting you to italicize, embolden, and make different formatting modifications to your textual content from wherever in your doc.
The brand new, trendy UI eliminates distractions with a clear interface. No extra busy sidebars — as an alternative, open and shut the appropriate sidebar as wanted. We’ve additionally added efficiency enhancements to make modifying and publishing as clean as potential. Draft and auto-save be certain nothing will get misplaced as you’re employed. In the event you do make a mistake, you possibly can revert again to your revealed model or unpublish articles with the clicking of a button.
Management who has entry to your Docs websites with restricted Docs
Need to defend proprietary data from non-customers? Or possibly you need to create a tailor-made Assist Heart for a selected group? With the assistance of your developer or technical lead, use Assist Scout’s API to hook up with your buyer database of alternative. Utilizing the info out of your CRM, restricted Docs authenticates guests as they go to your data base. You’ve got full management over who can view your Docs websites whereas viewers take pleasure in a seamless expertise.
Create new properties in Assist Scout
Buyer properties will let you gather and show the details about your clients that issues to your workforce. Beforehand, you possibly can replace present properties through API however couldn’t create new ones. Till right this moment! Our new buyer properties endpoint permits you to create new properties in Assist Scout through API. We help new properties with the next parameters:
Identify
Property ID
Kind
Textual content
Quantity
URL
Date
Dropdown
With this replace, you possibly can simply create new properties, and guarantee your workforce has the info they want in Assist Scout.
Coming quickly: New modifying expertise in Mailbox and Instagram channel app
We’re onerous at work creating a brand new social channel to hook up with and an up to date editor for the Mailbox.
Our new Mailbox editor provides a contemporary, streamlined expertise. Formatting choices will stay inside the editor, making it simpler so that you can add components like bullets and pictures utilizing slash (“/”) instructions. In the event you’re utilizing the brand new Docs editor or have created a Message not too long ago, this modifying expertise will look very acquainted!
This quarter we launched the power to attach Assist Scout to Fb Messenger, and subsequent quarter we’re excited so as to add one other social channel to the record — Instagram! With our Instagram channel app, you’ll have the ability to be notified of, reply to, and handle direct messages out of your firm’s Instagram account.
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Each time we share launch notes, we ask on your assist in making Assist Scout higher. In the event you match any of the factors beneath, please attain out at [email protected] and our product workforce might be in contact!
Cool ideas
Our Groups function isn’t only for different departments at your organization. Groups will let you transfer conversations out of Unassigned by assigning them to a shared folder for as many individuals as you’d like. They work extra like segmented queues. It’s a good way to maintain your inbox organized! You possibly can even use an Computerized Workflow to make sure sorts of conversations skip Unassigned and go straight to a Workforce folder. Be taught extra right here.
Have you ever tried the Translate function for Beacon? This function interprets your Beacon labels to over 30 languages, however what I take pleasure in essentially the most is you can additionally enter your individual customized textual content! For instance, you possibly can change your chatbot’s title and customise the interactions it can have with guests.
One other nice use case is updating header labels to share particular hours of operation. For example, underneath the “Ask” and “Ship a Message” menus, there are fields known as “Message button description” and “We often reply in” that by default say “in just a few hours.” Lots of our customers have up to date these fields to incorporate extra particular data (e.g., “Our Assist workforce is on-line from 9 a.m. to five p.m. EST”) to enhance their guests’ experiences and set service expectations. It’s a small however mighty element that may make an impactful distinction throughout!