Product Q&A

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:How to create dynamic objects Create dynamic objects with third-party dataAnd now, fire away with your questions below! This could get technical depending on how deep you want to go, so we welcome all your questions as you’re setting up, or general questions about how you might use this feature. Robby will answer them all on Tuesday, December 5 (but questions after tha

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?

Our company is a long time Front user but we are now hiring a Sales Team and trying to Integrate Pipedrive. We’re trying to figure out the best way to get our contacts into Pipedrive with the least amount of manual entering. Any suggestions or tips on how to do this most effectively?

Hello,As you have put a restriction in number of rules, I tried to create set of rules to reduce the unique rules.Formatting options are available for unique rule as you can see below, but are not available for rule sets. I cannot organize properly auto comments in rule sets. Line break is not possible and all information are completely mixed.Unique rule: Rule set:  How can I arrange that? Have you planned any correction?Best,Benjamin

Hello, Some of our associates prefer having their monitor set up vertically for the monitor they have email open on. In Outlook, you can change the reading pane to be on the bottom instead of the right, making it easier to read. Is there any way to change the orientation of things in Front?

What are the benefits of using Dialpad with Front? I’m mostly looking for a feature we can enable for SMS messages, but am interested in learning other possibilities. Is there an article I can read more about this?

Hello, We are currently having a downtime and need to send the same message to everyone who has contacted us. Is there a way to send a bulk message in Front?

I’m trying to get a support team to follow the best practice of “if it’s a new query, move it to a new conversation”. However, when they do this, a reply time SLA is not triggered, which I would expect to happen as a new message has been received, and a new conversation created (manually). Is this a gap in functionality or an error? Thanks!

Hello everyone, I am a bit confused by the pricing of WhatsApp. The comparative table states that WhatsApp is available on all plans with third-party integration (I understand this refers to Twilio). However, there are no comparisons showing how to have the Front version. Only at checkout I find out I need the growth plan and additionally to buy 70 USD worth of credits. Are these credits on top of 1000 monthly free credits that WhatsApp provides ? Thank you for your time.George 

Hello everyone, Is it possible to receive and send voice messages in the Front App on mobile when using the WhatsApp channel ? Thank you. George

Hello,I’ve noticed that the “compose with AI” spelling and grammar tool offered in Front is very inconsistent. It generally catches spelling errors, but the grammar and punctuation check leaves a lot to be desired. When it isn’t functioning, sometimes it will work if you highlight the content and then do the spell check. Though, sometimes even this trick doesn’t work.With Grammarly no longer supporting Front integration, is there any advice out there? My work solely relies on the app and not web browsers for their emails. It would be awesome if Front were working to improve this.

Hi Everyone, I have just started using a chatbot and I am loving it but I am stuck on one part.  I want to authorise a user based on their email address they submit.  I have created an Open Ended Question “To see if you qualify for support, please enter your email address?” once they enter i cannot see how using ‘Branch by visitor data’ or ‘Branch by keywords’ how to take this input, check if the user already exists.I mistakenly tried to use ‘Collect contact details’ first but realised that this actually creates the contacts.If anyone has any ideas about this or smarter ways of doing authentication against contacts then i would love to hear your ideas.Keep up the good work, the chatbot will be a gamechanger for us and allow us to move away from email support.Chris

Is it possible to implement a “time to first response” SLA that only looks at the time between the first message and the subsequent reply? Use case: Implement a Time to First Response SLA which measures the time from the very first message received in a conversation, to the very first reply sent. I’ve tried implementing the rule with a “when” condition of “doesn’t have tag ‘First Reply Sent’”, which is added by another rule when the first reply is sent. However, this seems to do weird things with reporting, as the analytics can see that an SLA breach tag is added when the SLA is breached, then removed when the reply is sent, but seems to think that the SLA no longer applies because the First Reply Sent tag has been added, so it doesn’t show the conversation in the “SLA breaches” stats. Note that it does show the conversation in the “SLA breach time (avg)” stat, which is a little confusing If there’s another way to implement this, please let me know!

I was thinking of creating shifts for when we have people coming in to work on the weekends they can be temporarily added to the weekend shift. That way others could see who else was working. Is there a better way to handle this? If not, how do you create a shift without having someone assigned to it?

Is there a Teams plugin in available or any plans to integrate it in the future?

Hello! I’m currently trying to configure the AI portion of my chatbot. I have set up an external facing knowledge base for the Chatbot to pull from. I have also editing my flow code to incorporate the AI answer feature after open-ended questions as well. However, every time I go to test the feature within the “Preview Mode” the AI Chatbot never produces any answers to my question. Based on this I had a couple of questions: Does the AI feature only work on the User End? Is there another method of testing the AI Chatbot? I would like to see if my knowledge base needs to be updated before making the feature live to my users. 

Hello everyone, I was wondering if it is possible to send one of the preconfigured WhatsApp template messages through the mobile App ?I can do this through the web UI but can not seem to find the equivalent on the mobile App. Thank you in advance.George