You can add buttons to your email notification templates to help your customers discover and connect to your social media channels. These buttons, which link to your Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram channels, are added to the signature at the bottom of every customer-facing email:
If your account meets these requirements, adding the social media buttons is a simple process.
Social messaging buttons are added to email templates on a per-brand basis, so you’ll need to perform the steps below for each brand you want to add the buttons to.
We recommend enabling your social messaging channels in the Agent Workspace before implementing this feature, so you can accept and respond to support requests sent through those channels. Without social messaging enabled, these buttons will add links to your social media pages, but no ticketing functionality.
To add social messaging buttons to a brand’s email templates
- \In Admin Center, click the Account icon (
)
in the sidebar, then select Brand management > Brands.. - Expand the brand you want to update.
- In the Social buttons section at the bottom of the brand’s management
page, click to enable the social media buttons you want to add to the email
template.
- Enter the link to each social channel you’re enabling.
- Click Save changes.
The buttons are immediately included in any new end user-targeted email notifications for that brand:
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Will we see a Twitter button added to this?
This doesn't seem to be working for me. Do you have to add all 3 channels ? As we only use facebook.
Hey, @..., great question! Right now, we don't have support for a Twitter button, but I encourage you to create a new post in the Support Product Feedback topic in our community to engage with other users who have similar needs and discuss possible workarounds. Conversations with a high level of engagement ultimately get flagged for product managers to review when they go through roadmap planning.
Hey @...! You do not need to add all 3 channels in order for this to work. The buttons will only show in your email if you have the {{footer}} included in your HTML email template. For more information about editing your HTML email template, check out this article: Customizing templates for your email notifications
Hi Sabra, I have the same issue where the icon is not showing. May I know what will need to be inserted in the {{footer}}? thanks!
Hey Stephanie! You just need to include the {{footer}} placeholder in your HTML template as shown below -- nothing else is needed 😊
Thanks Sabra, in this case, I have already done both steps (adding the footer placeholder to the HTML template and updating the social buttons of Brands) and buttons still did not show up on emails. Please advise.
Hi Sabra, It's working now thanks!
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