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Hello Front Community! 👋 I'm Greg, Front's Director of Corporate IT & Enterprise Security, and I'm thrilled to share how our team is leveraging Front to revolutionize our internal IT support. It's been a while since my last update, and with all the exciting product enhancements over the last year, I couldn't wait to give you a fresh perspective on our journey.Some of these features that I am going to talk about are in beta, so contact your Front account team or our Support team should you have any questions or want to try them out yourself! Quick Snapshot of Our IT LandscapeOur mighty team of five handled an average of 120 tickets per month in 2024. We're proud to report an average ticket resolution time of

Hello! So our plan is to quickly setup and use Front to handle all customer feedback, organise it and make sure we do not miss anything important. We will have a few mail channels and maybe a couple of other types in time to come. Based on your real world experience what are the most important steps to follow in order to ensure a clean base setup in front?

Since there’s no native Google Chat channel, how is your team bridging the gap between internal chat and Front without losing context?

Hi everyone,I manage a shared inbox environment where multiple team members handle a fairly high volume of operational emails from different regions. One workflow that has helped us a lot in Front is combining Rules + Tags + Assignments to keep things organized and avoid overlap.Here’s how we structured it:• Automatic tagging by keywords or sender domain – For example, emails from certain partner domains automatically receive tags like Vendor, Logistics, or Client Support.• Rules to assign conversations – Based on the tag or email subject pattern, the message gets automatically assigned to the responsible team or teammate.• Status visibility using tags – We also use tags such as Pending Vendor, Internal Review, or Waiting for Customer so anyone opening the conversation can quickly understand where things stand.This helped u

Integrate Google Sheets into Front in 3 simple steps: Step 1: Open your Google Sheet normally and Copy the url. Step 2: Create a new App, add a name and an Icon you can easily recognize: Step 3: Add the Sidebar plugin feature to your app and paste the url from Step 1: You’re all set! 😃 Go to

New to Front but really enjoying it! One area of customization I'm still debating is enabling the ticket status setting.I would love to hear from some other users on their experience with enabling this vs treating every request as a conversation (keeping conversation status enabled)

Hi, does Front support sending WhatsApp voice notes via web or mobile without third-party integrations like Vocal?

If you’re having trouble getting up to speed with Connectors, you can now submit your feedback directly in Front.  You should see a Share feedback option when using the Send app request node and other Connector options in your rules, macros, and other workflows. We look forward to hearing from you! 

One approach that worked well for us when routing conversations automatically was combining multiple rule conditions instead of relying on a single trigger.For example, instead of routing only based on the recipient inbox, we built rules that check:• Sender domain (partner/vendor/client)• Keywords in the subject line• Whether the email came through a specific shared inbox• Presence of certain tagsThis allows Front to route conversations much more accurately. A typical rule for us looks something like:IF:– Email received in Support inbox– Subject contains a keyword like “invoice” or “billing”THEN:– Add tag Billing– Assign to Finance queue– Set a reminder if no reply within 24 hoursWe also make sure automation only assigns if the conversation is unassigned, which prevents rules from overriding manual assignments.O

I am wondering if anyone has found an easier way to navigate through the Auto-Created Customer Contacts? At this point, the only option I am seeing is to scroll from top to bottom. Is there currently a more efficient way to search through this list, aside from exporting and filtering?

Hello, Curious if anyone has seen any rules (outside of the “standard” rule set that really helps CS teams perform well? I am aware of the SLA features and love those, but any creative workflows or sequences anyone has seen work really well for Customer Success teams?

Hey Front Community! My job consists in a lot of introductions between my clients and our ecosystem. I am therefore trying to add as many variables as possible in my email templates (Name, Company Name, Job title, LinkedIn, etc) that I have populated in my ‘Contacts’ to automate most of that recurring task. So far, I have not been able to use variables such as {{recipient_1.first_name}}, {{recipient_2.first_name}}, etc. and it seems it is not an option. Do we know if front is planning on developing such a feature. Moreover, have some of you found workarounds?  Thanks a lot. Pierre

Hey folks,We started using the knowledgebase for internal tips and tricks about Front. I’m bringing in other team members to brainstorm how it can be used across our organization internally, and where it might also be useful externally. How are your teams using the knowledgebase? 

Whether you’re just getting started with Front or are a seasoned pro, you’re bound to come across questions — even our own Front teammates learn new ways to use Front all the time! So, to ensure you have easy access to all the education and content we produce, here’s a roundup of them all. And of course, if you have any questions at all, post them here!We recommend that you bookmark these links in your browser under a Front folder:🌎 Front Community: You’re already here! Join fellow users in our community to chat about the product, learn what others are doing, read about updates, and submit your own feature ideas.  🎓

Is there a single place you can look at everything that occurred with a conversation with time stamps and who touched what instead of going to the bottom of the individual conversation

We are implementing Front and all very new to the system. Does anyone have additional information on the Salesforce integration? We currently use the Salesforce plugin as well as Calendly for meetings and want to ensure events and emails flow through correctly to Salesforce. Thanks! 

Hi guys,  I`ve started exploring the Dialpad integration in Front and was curious to know if anyone could share some best practices and how to best leverage this integration. Thanks in advance!

Hi Front community,we are migrating from Freshdesk to Front and setting up our taxonomy from scratch. We need consistent reporting and automation across multiple teams, so we are trying to choose the right balance between tags and custom fields.Our main use cases are tracking client, request type, priority, and SLA category, while keeping rule maintenance and agent usage simple. In your experience, what should be modeled as a tag versus a custom field in Front when you care about long term analytics quality? Are there common pitfalls you would recommend avoiding early (for example tag sprawl, inconsistent tagging, too many fields, or fields that become obsolete)?Thanks in advance for any guidance.