Front users

We recently launched a detailed video explaining how to set up a macro leveraging Connectors to process Stripe refunds for customers. This week, we expand upon that video with a useful tip for filtering your list of customers using an email address.Hope you enjoy!Video tutorial: Want to learn more about Connectors?Check out these resources:Connectors space on the Community Help Center: Understanding Connectors

When saving rules or macros with multiple actions, the actions are automatically reordered to a fixed sequence rather than preserving the order I set. This breaks workflows where later actions depend on earlier ones.Steps to Reproduce:Create a new rule with the following actions in this order: Move to inbox "Support Requests" Add tag "VIP Customer" Save the rule Reopen the rule to editExpected Behavior: Actions remain in the order I saved them.Actual Behavior: Actions have been reordered to:Add tag "VIP Customer" Move to inbox "Support Requests"Impact: This causes the rule to fail silently. In my example, the "VIP Customer" tag only exists in the "Support Requests" inbox. Because the tag action now runs before the move action, the tag isn't applied, the thread is moved but remains untagged

Hello, community! You might already know that we recently launched Front Knowledge Base, a tool for you to centralize all your internal info for your team and/or external info for customers, which you can manage and access right within Front — reducing both your content and software sprawl. We use it ourselves to host our Help Center.If there’s anything you want to know about this new feature, you’ve come to the right place! We’re excited to answer your questions and get you started, with the help of Front’s two knowledge base experts:Anisha: Our internal PM for Knowledge Base who can answer anything related to its features, roadmap, workflows, and tips. Karen: Front

One of the actions inside a rule is to send an email. You can send multiple people each the email of course. What would be great is to send a person an email and cc another person along with it. I use a template email inside a rule, and having to send two or three people the email seems clunky. 

I can forward or re-send a message as a new conversation. But I often want to reply in a new conversation - follow up on one element of a conversation with an external person, without keeping all my colleagues subscribed to it. Is there a way to do that? 

Hey Front community!We’re thrilled to showcase a new example of leveraging Front Connectors to process refunds in Stripe directly from your Front inbox. The best part is, the full walkthrough takes less than 15 minutes and there is no coding required! This setup involves just 3 app requests and 1 macro, allowing teammates to easily select the customer, the payment to apply the refund to, and the amount to refund. Teammates will also see a confirmation message once the refund has been successfully processed in Stripe.  Pre-requisites:Before diving in, make sure you’ve done the following in Stripe:Have access to your Stripe dashboard We recommend switching to your

Hi,I have had front in my company for 10 years, however, I never really understood all the capabilities. I now need to figure out of I can actually work like I want with multiple inboxes, and actual shared inboxing across my small organization. Is it possible to find a freelance engineer, who can assist me with the things I wan’t to do?Simon

Hello!I wanted to create a rule with a ‘Rule set data’ using keywords to assign to a specific teammate who are on Front, but there are some keyword rules that should forward the email to a teammate who are not on Front. Is there a way to create one rule, Where keywords are triggered and assigns to a teammate                                orKeywords are triggered but forwards the email to a teammate who are not on Front.or is creating two different rules is my only option?  

No one on my team can find our 'Discussions' since the latest update. Where did it go???

Many users are reporting that when they search their inbox/shared inbox for a specific tag, emails show up that don’t have this tag. Why would this be?

We currently utilize the platform “Acadia” to house all policies, procedures, onboarding and training. I’m curious if anyone in the community has experience with Acadia and has effectively integrated Front and Acadia. What specific workflows or automations were most effective? What integration tools or methods did you use to connect Front and Acadia? Did you come across any limitations or data sync issues when connecting the two systems? What key take-aways would you offer to a company looking towards this integration?

HI! What is the best way for a team with multiple supervisors to manage SLA Breaches? Should we subscribe all supervisors to those emails once the SLA tag/rule is trigger? Should we create views instead based on certain inboxes? Or should we create customer inbox fields for Inbox owner/supervisor and set up a rule to send SLA breaches to only inbox owner ?

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?

We can make individual message templates available to specific inboxes — is there a way to do the same for entire template folders? Thanks for your help!   

So far I see only one discussion on desktop vs browser, so I am here to ask if there is a resource to give a full comparison on the differences between the two. I notice the training course deals with the web browser and I am curious how the behavior differs when creating tags. in the browser there are toggles to show in conversation and allow all inboxes. alternatively the desktop only gives an option to specify teammates that can use the tags. allowing all does not seem to be achievable efficiently. so where can i read on the distinction between applications? 

Hi All,How can I create an auto-response in Front that sends an email to the client, informing them that their ticket has been created and assigned to a consultant?PS: Keep in mind that we have a number of consultants, so the system (front) should automatically select the assigned consultant and insert their name into the auto-response.

I am able to receive emails in Front and reply in Gmail. But when I try to reply in Front I get an ‘unable to send’ error. What is the issue? 

How’s everyone feeling about the new update? Personally, I’m struggling to find the value of the changes compared to the old model. Search bar moved, requiring extra clicks New layout sorting by “Open” and “Done”, then broken out by assigned/subscribed/inbox seems unhelpful. Additional time required to find archive. I like tasks--nice that the new layout allows filtering by tasks and discussions, however-- Discussions as a standalone category was nice.  Dropdown list for Inbox/Calendar/Settings/Analytics seems too hidden, easier when the icons were listed out at the top.  Objects condensed: I built a dynamic variable automatically linking a URL to the top of emails, but that is now condensed into an object icon instead of displaying the link at the very top.  I always give updates a chance a commit instead of reverting to old settings. I’m hoping its an evolving update, I realize this is the first

Hi, Is it possible to generate a list of all the emails I’m subscribed (not assigned) to? For example, if I go on holidays and have a ton of emails subscribed but not assigned then I come back to a sea of emails - UGH! I would like to get a view or list to see what I’m subscribed to so I can manage it. Is this possible? I have tried the subscribed in the side panel but nothing appears here. What is the purpose of the subscribed on the sidebar?

HiI’m looking at linking Front to ChatBase which we successfully use to help Front build knowledge for replies so I’d be keen if anyone has some experience with that.The pro’s and con’s 😀Thanks

I am looking for a Front expert to help my company better utliize Front email settings, rules, etc…..does anyone know of Front Experts/Consultant for hire? Some of us have no time to try and figure this stuff out wehile growing a company:)