If a customer starts a live chat, enters their email at the prompt but leaves the site before an agent is connected to respond to their enquiry, it would be good if the live chat would understand when a user has left the site, and should, therefore, be automatically emailed the enquiry response from the live chat agent. Firstly, the live chat should state whether the user on the conversation is currently ONLINE or OFFLINE. Secondly, if the user is offline, the person assigned to the chat could enter a response in the conversations window that will email the response to the customer as well as post it to the live chat (to resume if they return to the website). Currently, there is no offline prompt - so a chat agent wouldn't know if the customer has read the response or not. There is no simple way to email a response, other than going into the contact and typing a new email response. (Starting a new email thread)
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