I am overall responsible for managing our live chat. With the new chat, is there a way for me as an admin to view which users are online currently, and change a user’s status to away/online? For example when someone forgets to switch to offline before the weekend or when they’re away at a trade show etc.
Alternatively, can individual users schedule their availability for set days and times like on the old chat, rather than just having a persistent setting and manually changing between away and online?
I’ll second this. I was hoping that team members “status” could automatically be toggled to unavailable when message or conversation is not opened (like it did in the old interface). I understand this muddles things a bit with the Slack integration, however, adding a toggle to automatically enable/disable team member availably based on the user’s conversation or messages interface being currently open would be super helpful.
FYI while my note referred to toggling availability automatically based on chat being opened in your browser… you can set availability based on business hours. See this article: Overview of the conversations inbox
Yeah, unfortunately, the business hours thing isn’t really that scalable for us as we have chat users spread accross the US, Europe and Australia, with people having very flexible working hours.
I also believe this feature would be helpful as well as the ability to set the availability of a user as an admin. IE if someone forgot to logout, I could toggle them off as well. I don’t think every HubSpot user should be defaulted to answer chat. It’s confusing for higher level admins to have to “set away” when they have nothing to do with the chat feature for their website.
Being able to opt-in users would be a more beneficial setting/UX.
We are first working on a team managment page that would allow an admin to be able to update the status of an agent. It would solve the usecases mentioned here about a agent forgets to set themselves away and this will allow the admin to be able to fix it.
We should be working on this in the near future, so I will update the thread here!
For autosetting the agent away, this is on our radar and something we will be figuring out in the medium future, so I don’t have a time frame quite yet but it is something our team is thinking about. I can provide more details once I have them.
Hey Cassie, can we be on the beta please. A client that needs this urgently, and does not seem to be anything in the API that we can present online/offline agents to managers. 30 agents, and this is a major issue for us. Thanks!
With the ability to manage this now via Team Management, would anyone happen to know if the ‘Availiblity’ status is available via the API so that we can it synced to other systems?
