If you want your high-quality leads to get in touch with you as soon as possible, live chat can provide the experience your visitors desire while reducing your time to engagement.
Once you qualify visitors through the chatbot conversation, you can choose the right time to offer live chat to them. This way, people who meet your qualification criteria can engage with you immediately and move to the next level in your funnel.
Figure 1: Live chat example
Add the Live chat action to your conversation
While you build your conversation, you can choose the right moment to route qualified visitors to a live chat conversation.
Add the Live chat action to your conversation.
Figure 2: Add Live chat action
Configure settings
Hand-off message: After they confirm they'd like to switch over to live chat, this message lets them know you're connecting them to someone on your team.
Timeout settings: Set a timeout period. After the amount of seconds defined, it will show the visitor a timeout message, explaining someone on your team isn't available.
Advanced settings: If you'd like to gather the visitor's name and email before connecting them to a live chat, you can configure the messages they see requesting these details.
Assign live chat conversations to your team
Any Users in your account with a live chat license can accept live chats. Once they toggle Accept chats to ON status, OnceHub shows them any live chats that come in through your website.
Figure 3: Toggle live chat availability ON/OFF
We recommend all your team members allow browser notifications so they will be sure to see all incoming chats.
Until one User accepts a conversation, it is open for any User currently indicated as available through the availability toggle. Once they accept the conversation, it will no longer be available to others in your account.
During the conversation, they will be able to interact with the visitor and also offer scheduling to them, if they've qualified the conversation further and decided a scheduled meeting could help clarify things further or move the visitor to the next step in your process.
Learn more about offering scheduling
If no team member accepts a chat by the defined timeout period, that chat will disappear from the live chat inbox. The visitor will see your configured timeout message. So your team can take further action, the contact and their conversation can be accessed from the Activity stream.
Notifications for live chat
You will be alerted to live chat requests in the following manners:
Red dot: A red dot will appear next to Live chat in the top navigation bar.
Ringing: You will hear an in-app ringing notification. As long as you've got the OnceHub app open, you will hear the ringing, no matter which tab you're on or if your browser is minimized.
Browser notifications: If you click on Allow browser notifications in the banner at the top of your screen, you will receive pop-up browser notifications for live chat requests. These notifications will appear as long as your OnceHub app is open, even if your browser is minimized.
Team chat app notifications: Set up team chat app notifications to receive notifications on those platforms. This will help you to not miss live chat requests.
You will receive notifications on your chat app whether you have the OnceHub app open or closed. When you receive a notification, the basic details of the visitor will be included in the notification, as well as a link that will navigate you to the app where you can accept the live chat (within the given timeout period you've set).
You need to set up the notifications each time you create a chatbot. Add the Live chat interaction. Include the Webhook URL in the Webhook notifications bar.
We support the following chat apps:
Ending chat
A team member can end the chat at any point, once they determine the conversation is ready to be resolved.
Please note that if the visitor is idle for ten minutes, the chat ends automatically. You can view the conversation in the Activity stream.