How does a conversation transition from one state to another?
The transitions include:
Open to Assigned:
- When Agent A opens an unassigned conversation and responds to it. It will be assigned to user A or;
- When Manager, Admin , Owner assigns a conversation to user A, it will be moved to Assigned State.
Assigned to Closed:
- When the conversation is marked as Resolved by the assignee or;
- Manager can assign it to themselves & mark conversation as resolved
ASSIGNED to Auto-Closed:
- When there is no response from the customer for the last 48 hours then the conversation will be auto-closed. Status will be CLOSED
Closed to Assigned:
- When a customer replies to a CLOSED conversation within 48 hours of the previous reply, the conversation will move to the last user/agent.
- When any user/agent sends a message to a CLOSED conversation, then the conversation will become assigned to that particular Agent
Closed to Open:
- When a customer sends a message after 48 hours from their previous message, the conversation will be moved to an OPEN state & anybody can pick the chat to answer this message. The chat will be assigned to that agent/user
Business Initiated Conversation (BIC) to Assigned:
- When a template message is sent by the Agent to the customer which is in closed state
- When a template message is sent by the Agent to a new contact.
- In both the cases, the conversation will be assigned to the Agent who sent the template message.
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