The Manage Layout option allows you to add, delete, and switch between different layouts. While creating a new layout, you can add customizable widgets to the interface.

Notifications

Notifications are real-time alerts that keep agents informed about crucial events and updates. Notifications play a key role in enhancing the user experience by improving responsiveness, productivity, and workflow management. By promptly alerting agents about New Conversations, Message from other Agents, Error prompts, Transfer Request, etc., notifications ensure that agents can prioritize their workload effectively and deliver swift, personalized customer service.

The Notifications icon helps you choose preferences to get notified about upcoming events, agent responses, and the type of sound generated upon receiving updates.

Notifications is compatible with the following browsers:

• Google Chrome
• Mozilla Firefox
• Microsoft Edge
  

Steps to manage notifications:

1. Click the Bell icon on the top right corner and click Notifications from the dropdown.
   
2. Click the Settings icon to view the available options:
   
3. Notifications can be managed for the following:
   

   Notes:

   1. The error prompt sound notifications apply only to console runtime errors and not validation errors on the configuration page.
   2. Web notification option is available for New Message from Customer, Message from manager, SLA Breach, Transfer Request, and New Conversation.
      

Click the name on the right corner to change the sound for a notification type.

Click Save to update the notification settings.

Clicking the Build Bot Status option displays whether the bot is active or not.

Features

The three monitoring icons, CSAT, Completed, and Average Response, provide details on the completed tasks, in-progress conversations, response time, and customer feedback.

CSAT (Customer Satisfaction) is triggered under the following conditions:

• In all digital and voice channels, both for user-side and agent-side chat termination:
• Out of Hours of Operation: CSAT is triggered when a conversation occurs outside of the designated hours of operation.
• Queue Max Timeout: CSAT is triggered when a conversation remains unaccepted or unassigned to any subsequent agents due to reaching the maximum queue timeout.
  

Agent Status and Profile

The Agent Profile icon is located on the top-left corner of the console. Clicking the Agent Profile icon displays a drop-down list with the following Options:

• STATUS: The STATUS icon allows agents to show customers whether they are available for the conversation or not.
  
• Profile: Displays a window that allows an agent to change their login and contact details.
  
  
• Logout: Allows an agent to exit SmartAssist.

App Language

You can choose the language for the SmartAssist desktop application from the following language options:

• English (United States)
• Japanese (Japan)
• Korean (South Korea)
• Simplified Chinese (China)
• Spanish (Spain)
• French (France)
• Italian (Italy)

Steps to choose the app language:

1. Click App Language.
   
2. On the App language pop-up window, choose the language.
   
   
3. Click Save.
   
   The app language is updated and a confirmation is displayed.

Add Users to Multiple Accounts

You can add all users (Agents/Supervisors/Administrators) to multiple accounts.

During Sign-in, the user can choose the account and set it as default.

After the user has signed in, they can switch between accounts. The system displays the account name on the top right corner.

Edit Account

Steps to edit account details:

1. Click the Settings icon beside the account name.
   
2. On the Edit Account pop-up window, you can edit the following information:
   1. Color
   2. Account Name
   3. Initials
   4. Interface Language
      
      
3. Click Save to update the account details.
   

Adding New Layout

To configure the responses under a new layout for a particular conversation, follow these steps:

1. Go to Console > Manage Layout > + Create New. A new layout page is displayed with the available widgets on the left-side panel.
   
2. Drag and drop the required widgets to the right side of the layout page.
   
3. Enter a Layout Name for the new layout and click Save.
   

Adding AgentAssist Widget to a Layout

The below example illustrates the process of adding the AgentAssist widget to a layout.

To migrate your existing AgentAssist v1 layout to AgentAssist v2. Refer to AgentAssist Widget FAQ.

Refresh a Widget

The widget level refresh button enables customers to refresh a widget individually, eliminating the need to refresh the entire application, and keeping widgets up-to-date with the latest information.

The refresh button is accessible only when the user is within that specific widget. Clicking this button refreshes the widget with the most recent data.

Users can still refresh widgets by refreshing the entire application.

Manage Layout

You can switch, share, edit, or delete layouts to handle different conversations using the Manage Layout option.

Share Layout

You can choose whether to keep your layout private or share it with other agent profiles or groups.
Sharing allows you to publish and assign a layout to agents in their profile or groups.

To share a layout:

1. Click the Share icon corresponding to the layout you want to share.
   
2. The Layout Publishing interface is displayed. Select Shared and click Apply.
   
   NOTE: By default, Layout Settings are set for Private use.

Edit Layout

The Edit option allows you to add new widgets, delete previous widgets, and/or rename an existing layout.

To edit a layout:

1. Click the Edit icon corresponding to the layout you want to edit.
   
2. Click Save after making changes.
   

Delete Layout

The Delete option allows you to delete a layout.

To delete a layout:

1. Click the Delete icon corresponding to the layout you want to delete. A Confirmation pop-up appears.
   
2. Click Proceed to delete the layout. A success message is displayed.
   
   

Chat

The Chat feature is used for internal communication between agents and supervisors. It provides real-time help to customers to solve product-related queries. Customers prefer live chat for quick query resolution. With live chat, you can provide customers with a method to contact you when they have questions or problems that they are unable to answer.

Clicking the Chat icon opens a new display to view the available agents, search for a particular agent, see chat history, and call the agent.