Assigning conversations to teammates and teams

Assign specific conversations to teammates or teams in the Inbox.

Written By Markus from Featurebase

Last updated 7 days ago

Overview

If you want to make sure a conversation gets answered by the right person in your company, you should assign it to a particular teammate or team. There are 2 different ways to do that in Featurebase:

  • Manually assign conversations to a team and teammate

  • Automatically assign conversations to a team or teammate with Workflows


Manually assign conversations

When you need to pass a conversation to someone else you can quickly manually assign the conversation to the best teammate or team who can answer it:

  1. In the Inbox, open the Conversation details panel

  2. Click the Assignee or Team option at the top

  3. Choose the right teammate or team

And you’re done – now the conversation is visible in your teammate’s or team’s inbox view!

Manually assigning a conversation to a teammate will not interrupt Workflows or Fibi. Automations will only be interrupted if a teammate sends a message in the conversation.


Automatically assign conversations

Conversations can also be assigned automatically using Workflows:

  1. Go to Automations → Workflows

  2. Click + New Workflow in the top-right corner and select Start from scratch

  3. The best triggers to use for this kind of Workflow are:

    • Customer opens a new conversation in the Messenger

    • Customer sends their first message

    • Customer sends any message

  4. Use the ‘Apply rules’ block to automatically decide which conversations should be assigned to which team or teammate based on rules

    • Rules can be based on the content of the messages, conversation attributes, how long a customer has been waiting and/or any information about the lead, user or company that you track in Featurebase.

    • For example, if Plan is Starter and Message Content contains upgrade, then Assign to Customer Success

  5. You can then click Save and close and set your Workflow live

Workflows can also automatically tag conversations, mark them as priority, or set conversation attributes & SLA rules. Learn more about building Workflows →


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