The Social Messaging add-on is available for purchase with certain Zendesk Support plans (see About Zendesk product add-ons). The Zendesk Support Suite also includes the Social Messaging add-on at no additional cost.
If you have the Social Messaging add-on and have added Facebook Messenger, Twitter DM, WhatsApp, LINE, or WeChat channels to Zendesk Support or Zendesk Admin Center, you may want to set up the auto-responder for those channels. The auto-responder sends messages automatically to an end user when you receive their messages.
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About the auto-responder
You need to set up the auto-responder for each of the Facebook Messenger, Twitter DM, WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat accounts that you have added to Zendesk. You can't do this once for each channel. You must be an administrator to set up the auto-responder.
Here's how the auto-responder works:
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There’s no character limit for the automatic response.
- The auto-responder does not support dynamic content (see Using dynamic content to translate your ticket fields (Professional and Enterprise)).
- The automatic response is sent once a day, not every time the end user sends a message.
- If you have automatic responses set up via Chat triggers for live chats, they may also apply to social messaging conversations.
Triggers created with the following conditions and actions will apply to social messaging conversations:
- Chat trigger conditions: Visitor department, Account status, Department status, or Chat-related information (all types).
- Chat trigger actions: Send message to visitor.
Chat triggers created with other conditions and actions will not work for social messaging.
Adding user properties to automatic responses
You can add user properties to the automatic response, such as the user’s first and last name, if desired.
Hi, {{firstName}}, Thanks for reaching out. An agent will be with you soon.
Hi Martin, Thanks for reaching out. An agent will be with you soon.
If the user's first name can't be resolved, the message looks like this:
Hi, Thanks for reaching out. An agent will be with you soon.
Also, you can include a default value in the placeholder. This value is used if the user's first name can't be resolved.
For example, if your automatic response is configured like this:
Hi, {{firstName || there}}, Thanks for reaching out. An agent will be with you soon.
Hi there, Thanks for reaching out. An agent will be with you soon.
For more information about what properties you can use and how to correctly format them, see Managing user information in the Sunshine Conversations help center. The user properties used in the automatic response aren’t the same as user property keywords used in other parts of Zendesk Support.
Setting up the auto-responder
To set up the auto-responder for WhatsApp, LINE, or WeChat
- If you're using the Zendesk Agent Workspace, in Admin Center, click Channels.
If you're not using the Zendesk Agent Workspace, from Support, click the Admin icon (
) in the sidebar, then click Channels > Channel Integrations > Social Messaging > Accounts.
- Open a channel for editing.
The Edit screen displays.
- Click Auto-responder.
- Activate the auto-responder.
- Edit the default auto-responder message.
- Save your changes.
2 Comments
my wechat backoffice dashboard, the server setting, already have existing URL and token occupied by other services.
how can we apply the URL & token from zendesk again?
Hi there,
Could I please confirm that you have followed our article Setting up your LINE or WeChat channel (Social Messaging add-on)?
Please let me know how you go with this and if you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to respond and I will do my best to help!
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