Product Q&A

Everyone seems to be talking about BIMI for better brand recognition and verification/ trust for those receiving your company emails. Does front offer BIMI within the app? or is there another way of implementing it?

My company is still working through the initial rollout of Front, and for the most part it is going well. We have some users complaining of a delay between emails hitting their old Outlook client through an 0365 channel and showing in Front. We’ve done some testing and have not been able to replicate.  I found some discussions on SMTP rate limiting, but I am curious-- are delays with retrieving emails from O365 a known issue?

We have a large number of email templates created by various employees over time, and we want to clean them up. It would be more efficient if we could export the templates into an Excel sheet for easier review. Does anyone know how this can be done or have alternative suggestions? This would be a huge time-saver for our team. Thank you!

The ability to see how many conversations are under the Open and Waiting tabs. Preferably directly in the interface. This is quite critical for us in customer service management.Would it be possible to add this?  

I am trying to link the Slack message created by the Send to Slack option, but I cannot figure out how to do that. I would like to either see the Slack conversation in the Front conversation or, at minimum, see a link to the Slack message in the Front conversation. Is there a way to do that?  

I am looking to snooze conversation when a specific tag is applied.  I cannot seem to find a way to set this up.   Can this be done?

Will macros currently set up in the team inbox eventually be allowed to use in individual inboxes? Our customer base tends to first reach out to the CSMs first and we are trying to transition them over to our Support team so responses are quite repetitive during this transition period and having macros that are currently applied in our shared inbox be allowed to be used in personal inbox would be very helpful 

Hello all, I am working on setting up an integration between Talkdesk and Front.  It seems this will allow me to pull in call data from Talkdesk, but I was wondering if anyone else is using this integration and what are some of the best use cases you’ve found with this integration. Thanks!

Unable to send emails in Front. Getting error that we have used up our Office 365 storage quota, but when we look at Office 365, we are well below our storage limit.  Is there an issue on the Front side?

Hi Front team,Our team operates 24/7 on a rotating shift basis, but our clients and partners are often unavailable outside their normal working hours. We frequently need to snooze conversations until their morning hours, which requires calculating time zone conversions.To simplify this, we decided to use your 'Add snooze' feature for different time zones. It works well for time zones behind us (e.g., US Pacific), but not for those ahead (e.g., Asia Pacific) since snoozing for a particular hour (not a number of hours from now) is only available for the same day, not the next. Can you please add a feature of setting up 'Add snoose' for the next day?Or even better to snoose according to Zulu time? 

Hi, Do you know how I can export my message templates in a .csv file ? Or any other way to export our templates ?Thanks for your help !

In a dynamic variable for a rule, I’m looking for a way to filter a group by another group, and I’m struggling to figure out how to do this with the existing options.Essentially, I have two groups of teammates: Group A (specific teammate group) and Group B (participants).  I want a new group that is everyone in Group A that is NOT in Group B.The goal is to limit duplicate notifications for a single conversation by notifying only the members of the specific teammate group who are not already subscribed.  Mobile notifications can become very noisy when a team member is already subscribed to a conversation and then receives further notifications for the same message because of triggered rules.

Team is receiving a draft failure unknown email error when trying to send emails?

I have found document on how to share your calendar with others in order to also see them in Front. However, does Front offer calendar delegation and if so what types of delegation does Front offer (full access, invite only, etc.)?

Hi, We use Numbers for our whatsapp communication and some of our clients use a emoji on a question or even sends only an emoji as a responds. This only shows blank on FrontSimilar, when a client send or forwards a previous message in the same chat this just shows as a blank. Is there a way to show the emoji’ responses or the forwarded messages?   

I need a way to reduce the amount of messages sent to our customer support team. For that, I want to create a quiz on my website, that answers user questions before they are able to contact me with a contact form. Only when a certain path thru the quiz is taken, a contact form becomes visible that submits tickets to our Front Inbox.  Do you know a solution for that? 

Hi! My name is Libby and I work for a property management company. We are diving into utilizing Front as a communication solution for our Owner Liaison team (aka client relations team), who work directly with the home owners for our rental properties. We currently operate using individual cell phones and personal phone numbers. While this works just fine for us in the day-to-day, it creates challenges when a team member leaves or a home is assigned to another team mate. We want to incorporate a platform that will sync with Front for calling and texting with owners, so we have a reference record of those communications as well.We are looking into Dialpad, but that seems to require all of the team to change their phone numbers or go through a lengthy porting process.Does anyone use a program that allows you to use an existing phone number for this purpose?

Hi there, We’re super happy with the ability to be able to set business hours and have SLAs/automations (like auto repliers) work based on them. The only thing we’re running into now is there’s no way to account for special days or holidays when configuring our business hours. Google solves for this by adding the ability to configure one-off day schedules (see below). Is there any way or plans to support special hours?  

Did you know you can pull in information from your third-party systems directly into Front with dynamic objects? Simplify and automate your communication workflows using the orders, shipments, accounts, and other business objects that your communications center around.If you’re curious to know more, you’ve come to the right place! We have our Product Manager @robby_p here to answer all your questions about dynamic objects and how to use them with your systems. 📹 Here’s a demo showing dynamic objects in action and how to set them up: If that looks interesting to you, you can use these additional guides to help you set up:

We currently using Front for e-mail communications.  We have received calls from clients indicating that they have sent e-mails to us, and we do not receive them. To confirm, we go into Outlook and there are e-mails from our clients that have not been pushed to Front.  Has anyone else experienced this? We are trying to only use Front for both internal and external communications, but if certain e-mails are not coming through, we will be forced to check Outlook periodically as well and that is inefficient.  If anyone has had this issue, what did you to resolve it?  We need help.  

Hi All!Is it possible to stop front unassigning a conversation when it is moved from one shared inbox to another? We use inboxes to track workflow so it is confusing those on the team when they move their conversation to the next step in the flow (the next inbox) and it unassigns itself from them.Thanks in advance! 

Hi all!I’ve noticed that, when I reply to a new message in a Front thread, it clears any draft I currently had (i.e, if a new response comes in while I am drafting an email). Is there a way to undo when a draft is cleared or a way for this to not happen at all?Thanks! 

I just recently started creating Macros for my team and one thing that we noticed is that when we respond to our customers using the macro function (using one of our templates) it does not use a signature. Is there any way that when replying using the macros that it defaults to the user signature? Example below: We would like to see our company signature after “Thank you for your patience”  

What is the single best Front tool you use for effectively managing shared inboxes?