Respond to a Chat
3. Navigating the dashboard
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Navigating the dashboard
Great! Now that you’re set up, let’s walk you through some other features and areas of the dashboard that may be helpful.
So, I’d love to give you a quick tour of the dashboard and some of the features and menu items that are quite important. So, right now we’re on the dashboard — on the main menu. And if you remember earlier, if you click the top here you can be associated with multiple different properties. You may not or may not. You may only have the one widget you’re responding on behalf of, but I think it’s important to note, because you can change between this and your personal profile page.
So, you can see here in ‘Live Visitors,’ there’s one person on our page right now. If we switch it to a test property, there’s no one on the page. So, at times, you can be on your personal profile page, and there’s no one there, and you’re seeing the wrong statistics there. You can change between properties up at the top there.
In your dashboard settings, well, this is ‘Live Visitors,’ and you can look at how many people are actually live on your website now. You can also scroll back to periods of times and it gives you all the statistics that we think are quite relevant at the time like ‘Visitors’ versus ‘Page Views.’
Now the difference between those is that ‘Visitors’ shows unique visits. Now, when we say visitors, we mean how many visits you’ve had to your website. The page views are how many pages they scrolled through. So generally, the page views are higher than the visitor count. You can look at how many chats you’ve had in the last seven days and the reporting sentiment, etc. And you also have access to your most recent chats. In the bottom right, you’ve got our blog articles that are relevant and you can browse items as well.
In the upper-right corner, ‘Monitoring’ is where you can see actually who’s on your website right now. So you can click on that. You can even start a chat with them should you need to. ‘Active Chats’ show who you have an active chat with. At this time. it’s blank. There are no active chats.
The ‘Inbox’ is where we store all your chats or previous chats and tickets and you’ve also got access to your visitor’s details in ‘Contacts.’ There, you can see people who started the chat with you, provided you saved information in the actual chats. I’ll show you how to do that in the next video.
And this is ‘Spam,’ ‘Trash,’ etc. This also layers your access to tickets. So our ticketing system is the way to take the conversation from chat to email or a way to manage your email communication directly from the one tawk.to dashboard. With our tickets, if we’ve got any in here, you can see with your tickets you can respond directly to the customer from the tawk.to dashboard. You can mark the status as ‘Open,’ ‘Pending,’ or ‘Closed.’ You can assign it in a level of priority. And you can assign it to a particular person on your account.
So, moving on, the ‘Knowledge Base’ is your own personal knowledge base. And we’ve got a video that will explain to you how to set up your knowledge base where you can create articles and content for visitors and customers.
The ‘Reporting’ section is self-explanatory — it gives you all the reports associated with the property. And we’ve got the paid add-ons in here.
The ‘Administration’ section is where you can customize your chat widget and set up automated responses and departments. And all that is accessible all from the bottom left-hand corner. And just make sure that you have the right property associated when you make any of the changes.
So the ‘Group Chat’ feature on the left-hand side is a way for you to communicate with team members — whoever is in your tawk.to account and associated with your property. So it’s a really easy set-up for group chat. Just click on the plus ‘+’ icon to the right, and you can create the group name. Let’s just call it sales. We select the property you want it to associate with. And let’s add Archie and Jeff to this group chat. Once we click ‘Create,’ there you go! So we can communicate with each other. We can see everyone’s got access to the conversation now. ‘Direct Messages’ are the same, but they’re just one-on-one conversations.
Learn more:
How to use Messaging and Ticketing
Here is a video showing you how to use Messaging and Ticketing.What is the Knowledge Base?
Here is a video showing you what is the Knowledge Base.Group Chat
Here is a video showing you group Chat.Navigating the dashboard
Great! Now that you’re set up, let’s walk you through some other features and areas of the dashboard that may be helpful.
So, I’d love to give you a quick tour of the dashboard and some of the features and menu items that are quite important. So, right now we’re on the dashboard — on the main menu. And if you remember earlier, if you click the top here you can be associated with multiple different properties. You may not or may not. You may only have the one widget you’re responding on behalf of, but I think it’s important to note, because you can change between this and your personal profile page.
So, you can see here in ‘Live Visitors,’ there’s one person on our page right now. If we switch it to a test property, there’s no one on the page. So, at times, you can be on your personal profile page, and there’s no one there, and you’re seeing the wrong statistics there. You can change between properties up at the top there.
In your dashboard settings, well, this is ‘Live Visitors,’ and you can look at how many people are actually live on your website now. You can also scroll back to periods of times and it gives you all the statistics that we think are quite relevant at the time like ‘Visitors’ versus ‘Page Views.’
Now the difference between those is that ‘Visitors’ shows unique visits. Now, when we say visitors, we mean how many visits you’ve had to your website. The page views are how many pages they scrolled through. So generally, the page views are higher than the visitor count. You can look at how many chats you’ve had in the last seven days and the reporting sentiment, etc. And you also have access to your most recent chats. In the bottom right, you’ve got our blog articles that are relevant and you can browse items as well.
In the upper-right corner, ‘Monitoring’ is where you can see actually who’s on your website right now. So you can click on that. You can even start a chat with them should you need to. ‘Active Chats’ show who you have an active chat with. At this time. it’s blank. There are no active chats.
The ‘Inbox’ is where we store all your chats or previous chats and tickets and you’ve also got access to your visitor’s details in ‘Contacts.’ There, you can see people who started the chat with you, provided you saved information in the actual chats. I’ll show you how to do that in the next video.
And this is ‘Spam,’ ‘Trash,’ etc. This also layers your access to tickets. So our ticketing system is the way to take the conversation from chat to email or a way to manage your email communication directly from the one tawk.to dashboard. With our tickets, if we’ve got any in here, you can see with your tickets you can respond directly to the customer from the tawk.to dashboard. You can mark the status as ‘Open,’ ‘Pending,’ or ‘Closed.’ You can assign it in a level of priority. And you can assign it to a particular person on your account.
So, moving on, the ‘Knowledge Base’ is your own personal knowledge base. And we’ve got a video that will explain to you how to set up your knowledge base where you can create articles and content for visitors and customers.
The ‘Reporting’ section is self-explanatory — it gives you all the reports associated with the property. And we’ve got the paid add-ons in here.
The ‘Administration’ section is where you can customize your chat widget and set up automated responses and departments. And all that is accessible all from the bottom left-hand corner. And just make sure that you have the right property associated when you make any of the changes.
So the ‘Group Chat’ feature on the left-hand side is a way for you to communicate with team members — whoever is in your tawk.to account and associated with your property. So it’s a really easy set-up for group chat. Just click on the plus ‘+’ icon to the right, and you can create the group name. Let’s just call it sales. We select the property you want it to associate with. And let’s add Archie and Jeff to this group chat. Once we click ‘Create,’ there you go! So we can communicate with each other. We can see everyone’s got access to the conversation now. ‘Direct Messages’ are the same, but they’re just one-on-one conversations.
Learn more:
Navigating the dashboard
Setting up your account
Video: 6min
Your own personal profile page
Video: 2min
Navigating the dashboard
Video: 4min
Responding to a chat
Video: 4min
Shortcuts
Video: 3min
How to use Messaging and Ticketing
Here is a video showing you how to use Messaging and Ticketing.
What is the Knowledge Base?
Here is a video showing you what is the Knowledge Base.
Group Chat
Here is a video showing you group Chat.