Cookbook for Enhanced Chat

Check out our recipes for optimizing Enhanced Chat to see if one fits your use case.

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Checkmark This article applies to: Enhanced In-App Chat and Enhanced Web Chat channels
X icon This article doesn’t apply to: Enhanced WhatsApp, Enhanced Facebook Messenger, Standard and Enhanced SMS, Enhanced Apple Messages for Business, Enhanced LINE, and Bring Your Own Channel
Use Case Recipe
Personalize an auto-response template with service rep and customer names. Send it when a service rep accepts the messaging session. Send a Personalized Customer Greeting with a Formula Template
Create a Salesforce Survey and use an Auto-Response component to send it after a messaging session ends. Set Up Post-Chat Surveys for Enhanced Chat
To provide service reps with customer information that helps move an interaction forward, send end-user data to the service console via the pre-chat API. Use Pre-Chat API to Pass Customer Information to the Service Rep in an External Website
To create a case when a customer messages outside of your business hours, don’t associate your business hours record with an Enhanced Chat deployment. Instead, create an Apex class that works with a flow and a bot to check your business hours record and create a case. Create a Case When a Messaging Session Starts Outside of Your Business Hours
Configure your Omni-Channel flow to transfer messages from a bot to a single service rep or a queue. Set up a Bot-to-Rep Transfer in Enhanced Chat