Front users

We have teams from all over the world working but we want to keep responses to those individual time zones separate based on the team. How can we set up different working hours per team?

Question for the community. Has anyone had someone they have setup Front for, and they simply do not get how it works? Totally stuck within the Outlook realm no matter how many training sessions, and guidance you have given? Keen to understand how others have overcome this. 

These integrations are great but could someone explain why the same phone number cannot be used for both SMS and Whatsapp through Twilio?

Hi,We have set up two rules for automatic receipt confirmations. These worked without any problems until yesterday. Now the message no longer goes out via email, but it still works on WhatsApp. When I look at the time of the last rule application, both show December 14th. 17:**. I can't find any reason why the rule no longer works today. Can you help me there?

Thank you so much to all who attended our webinar on Dec 12th - “How Front Support uses Front”We had a lot to cover so would encourage any questions during or after the event to be added as replies to this post. We will respond to all by Thursday Dec 14th!For any chatbot specific questions, we encourage you to head to the Chatbot AMA where our Product Manager and Front Support Chat Manager will be addressing questions on Thursday Dec 14th.If you didn’t make it to our webinar, here’s the recording of it: Thank you!

How often is your team answering the same question over and over? How often are they gathering the same information to resolve a customer inquiry? Does your customer communication feel a bit chaotic?Chatbots can play a massive role in eliminating those repetitive tasks and driving efficiency for your team and organization. Now that chatbots are available on Front Chat, we want to help you take advantage of the endless possibilities they create.  Two chatbot experts at Front are coming together to answer all of your questions on Thursday, December 14th. Julia Wang, Front Chat’s Product Manager and Lemuel Chan, Front’s Support Operations Analyst (developed Front’s Support chatbot) can help you:Evaluate how to use chatbots in your business - Even if you don’t have a live chat team! Troubleshoot chatbot flows you are considering or actively working on Answer questions about recent and upcoming updates to Chatbots and Front Chat overallPlease submit as many questions as you’d like by replyi

Can users in the FrontApp Community Share Reports with others?I've used Spiceworks in the past (a long time ago) and found that function to share reports in the community was great as there was nearly always someone who had created the unique report we were looking for.Cheers.

Front is making it easier for logistics companies to access essential quote or shipment details and manage conversation follow-ups — right in Front. Learn how logistics industry professionals including brokers, 3PLs, and carriers can use Front’s newest features, linked conversations and dynamic objects, to dramatically improve agents’ process flows. In this webinar recording, you’ll learn how to:Link conversations to easily handle related to-do’s  Save time by bringing data into Front from other systems Use these features together for maximum productivity If you have further questions about the topics presented in the webinar, feel free to leave a comment below or visit these specific AMAs: 

Is there a way to hide any of the announcement popups, placeholder graphics, and maybe even all the front jokes? They’re just big, repetitive, and unnecessary for our team. It gets really old. 

All of our teammates (including agents that do not have admin access) have used the team inboxes dropdown menu every week for the past several months (some of us have used that feature even longer than this). We use the analytics feature weekly and everyone reports their own analytics per inbox. Each of our agents have always been able to do this regardless of whether or not they had admin access. However, since last week, they have no longer been able to filter their personal analytics by inbox/channel. Has this happened to anyone else?

I work for a tourism company where guests book trips with us. We use Front as a way to manage customer questions. Does anyone have any suggestions on ways to link those conversations directly to the guests's bookings? I’ m also wondering if anyone else in the same industry has any additional suggestions for automations using dynamic objects?

Does anyone have any general tips with front use so we can compare to see how we might do better? Thanks. 

Hi, We have had some issues with tagging emails correctly due to the wide variety of how someone can request an action from us. What is the best way to get around or deal with this? It’s been mentioned that set email formats/forms would work well.  Thanks, 

I have templates that are important and will be used, however, rarely used. Is there a feature to hide or archive message templates?

Is there a way to automate a survey to users following a chat conversation? 

Hello. I have a problem with our emails to ONE specific domain.Our user sends emails from a shared inbox with a Google group channel.SOMETIMES there is an error in Front, and the email to NAME@DOMAIN.cz is not delivered. The error in Front looks like: bounce / 450 4.1.8 <bounces+7887486-433e-NAME=DOMAIN.cz@front-mail.OURDOMAIN.com>: Sender address rejected: Domain not found. There is no incoming email with info about rejected emails.Most of the time, user’s emails to this address go uninterrupted. Their admin can see only this log entry when the email is rejected:Sender address rejected: Domain not found; from=<bounces+7887486-433e-NAME=DOMAIN.cz@front-mail.OURDOMAIN.com> to=<NAME@DOMAIN.cz> proto=ESMTP helo=<o6.front-mail.frontapp.com> I have no info about their email server.Deliverability in Front is set correctly. As far as I know, there are no similar problems with other domains. What should I or their admin set up to make an uninterrupted flow of emails?

Hi! When someone sends me an email with an .ics file attached, Front shows the the event above the email message with a calendar icon. But as far as I can see, there is no way to have Front add the event to my calendar. Do I have to do it manually? 

Upgrades to Electron 27.1.2 Fixes an issue with automatic timezone detection on macOS Sonoma

Hello, everyone. Another email post from me. We are starting to introduce Front to our company. We have a wide variety of users. Some have preferred Outlook, while others have preferred Gmail. Any tips on how to convert them into Front when it’s this diverse? As usual most people don’t like change, but I know Front could be more beneficial for them to use, but just curious to see what has worked, or challenges others have faced when releasing Front within a company. 

Hello, I am still pretty fresh to Front, and have reviewed some conversations on shortcuts, plus the training. Something that would be nice (unless I completely missed it), would be custom tag shortcuts (similar to Outlook). Our users are used to Outlook and most of them have shortcuts to send emails to specific folders. It would be nice if we could customize shortcuts for that. When on an email instead of using Ctrl + E to archive if I could customize a shortcut “Ctrl + 1” to tag and archive an email. 

When do “Launched” Ideas become 'Already Available?'I received an email from Front, regarding the status of an Idea that had its status changed to ‘Launched.’ (See Below)  The status ‘Launched’ does not appear in the list of “what each idea status means.”When do “Launched” ideas become available in our Front instance?  Do we have access to a calendar of upcoming releases?  it would be helpful to know in advance of new features going live, so that Administrators could become familiar with them and appropriate training be made available/created for end users.  

I am working to try and improve search functionality for my teammates. One of the continuous complaints is that some of our group reporting crowds our search results when looking for previous conversations. We tag these reports which allows us to archive them and keep our inbox clean, but if you search using the order number then all of those reports appear in the search. When trying to filter these out I do not see an inverse filter, as in filter by tags that do not equal “Reports”. Anyone had any luck with inverse filtering? 

Hi,We work with custom views to divide inboxes because we don't have teammates for individual topics, but we have different teams for different areas. We sort these views using tags and corresponding rules. If we remove such a TAG, the conversation will, of course, immediately disappear from the view. It is then relatively difficult to find them again, e.g. to archive, reply or set another TAG.Do you have any suggestions for solutions to this? BestNina

Hi, I’m receiving a error saying “Draft Failure Mail Server rejected a command”. Can you help me please? 

Hi there, I’m wanting to setup a workflow where our @sales team requests our @production team for a piece of information (e.g. lead time to get an order out) but I want the conversation to stay in the @sales inbox.Is there a good way to do this? Using tags and views for the @production team members? Thanks,Tom