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This is a must please.
Do you show as away during booked meetings? That should be added too if it’s not already part of the functionality. Since HubSpot books the meetings it should know you can’t answer messages during those times.
Even if it only shows away when the pc is locked (which can be set to happen automatically) that would be great.
This really isn’t rocket science. Windows Messenger and even mIRC both had a setting to mark yourself as away automatically after being idle for X minutes… That was a reality in the 90s.
Give us a setting so that chat agents are marked away after not touching their computer for a selectable amount of minutes, or if they lock their computer, and to become available again when they wake the computer up or just return to Hubspot.
Yikes… This feature was requested in 2017.. I’m not going to hold my breath.
yes, and auto time out would be great. would be good if it prompted you first, of course. maybe even by mobile notification, so you could see it if you got up from your desk but still wanted to be available by mobile. also, an admin needs to be able to set other team members to away, in the event that they forget
Yes more functionality around the away mode would really help.
If the chat mode could you use the device’s activity mode such as an instant messaging app would…
This (and the automatically rotate after X minutes of inactivity) feature are absolutely critical to a client who’s looking to switch over from Drift (which has this functionality and a lot more by the way). Any update on the status?
Also looking for an update on this! Could really use it.
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Agreed! It is so easy to forget to go offline and I’m worried it’s giving the end user a bad experience. It would be awesome to have member-by-member availablity!
I absolutely agree that either an auto-reset of someone’s status to Away after being dormant for a few minutes and the option to configure a message which responds immediately if someone is waiting more than a minute for a response (this would be ideal).
Alternatively, at least the ability to change one of your team member’s statuses to Away when somebody has forgotten to do so.
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Agreed. Today it is to “risky” because my team constantly forget to set their status online/away, and I understand them. This should be automated, e.g.:
- Set as away if inactive for 2-3 minutes (and activate again upon return)
- Set away if computer is offline (and activate when computer is online again)
- Set away outside defined business hours (active during business hours)
Or maybe combinations of these… Anyway we desperately need some automation to set the away mode.
Is there any update this functionality? Obviously there is a need from all the comments and we have been asking for it for over a year.
*bump
2 years and still missing very basic chat capabilities.
The number of times I discover that one person inadvertently left themselves online and we now have angry customers/leads asking why nobody is responding surprises me.
This seems like technically a fairly simple item relative to the numerous complicated features HubSpot is rolling out regularly.
Totally need this.
This is becoming a show stopper. Totally agree that we need an “auto away” functionality. ASAP.
This was first requested in 2017 and even though there’s a long string of “this is a must have” comments on the thread, Hubspot doesn’t seem to think it’s important at all. Disappointing.
I’m new to HubSpot and I went through this today with my onboarding specialist and this feature was my first question when looking at conversations. I must say that my immediate feelings were that until an automated away function is available, we won’t use it for anything more than basic tasks due to the risk of forgetting to set the away status. I really hope this is being implemented in the near term.