Home page and News pages built into the Front Chat widget for proactive messaging
We love Front but find the chatbot lacks some nice features that Intercom has with the chatbot. We would love to see the Front chatbox be upgraded to allow proactive messaging/information to be shared. We would use this to share news about our lat...
Set chatbot hours and/or conditionally split chatbot responses based on hours
At a high level we would like to be able to only have our chatbot run in Off Hours and have our support representatives handle all live conversation during business hours. So part 1 of the request: be able to set the chatbot to only turn on during...
Front locks down chats to the customer after 6 hours, but not to the agent. The agent can still send messages to the customer and the customer cannot reply. This should not be allowed or alert the agent that the customer cannot reply to the messag...
The limit is set to 2000 characters currently, it would be nice if this could be increased to avoid needing to send multiple messages or direct the customer to another form of communication i.e. email when dealing with a more complex inquiry.
Chatbot does not recognize line breaks upon receipt
Front's chatbot does not recognize line breaks. This means that requests group into large blocks of text that can be difficult to decipher - and lead to errors. It also differs from how the customer intended to submit their request (since line bre...
Handling Chatbot Messaging During Holidays/Slow Periods
Request an efficient way to indicate slower response times to users during holidays or low-activity periods, without manually updating messaging across multiple channels. Potential solutions: Centralized setting/flag to activate "slow response" mo...
Only notify me when a new chat conversation begins, not for each message
Currently I am notified every time a chat message comes in, which means I get a ton of notifications all the time. I'd prefer to only be notified when a new chat conversation comes in (once I know there's a new chat conversation, I tend to stay on...