This article is a high-level walkthrough of the steps administrators need to take to get started using social messaging with their Zendesk accounts.
The steps in this article are specific to integrating third-party social messaging channels. If you are setting up Zendesk's own messaging capability in a Web Widget or mobile SDK, see Getting started with messaging for web and mobile.
This article includes the following topics:
Add your social channels
You can connect your Facebook and Twitter public accounts and a number of private social media accounts. Because you complete the tasks in the social channel's settings, each one has its own set of instructions.
Public channels:
- Facebook: A popular messaging app that enables you to post public messages, such as Facebook Wall posts and comments. See Setting up your public Facebook channel.
- Twitter: A popular messaging app the enables you to send public messages called Tweets, as well as make public mentions, replies, and likes to Tweets. See Setting up your Twitter channel.
Private channels:
- WhatsApp: A popular chat and voice messaging app with more than 1.5 billion users in over 180 countries. See Adding WhatsApp channels to the Zendesk Agent Workspace.
- WeChat: A popular, China-based mobile text and voice messaging communication service. See Adding WeChat channels to the Zendesk Agent Workspace.
- LINE: An all-in-one communications app for text, voice, and video calls, moments, photo sharing, and games. See Adding LINE channels to the Zendesk Agent Workspace.
- Facebook Messenger: A popular American messaging app that enables you to send private messages through Facebook. See Adding Facebook Messenger channels to the Zendesk Agent Workspace.
- Twitter Direct Message (DM): A popular American messaging app that enables you to send private messages through Twitter. See Adding Twitter DM channels to the Zendesk Agent Workspace.
- Instagram Direct: Instagram's private messaging service that allows you to communicate directly with other users. See Enabling and using Instagram Direct.
Enterprise accounts can set this up in a sandbox to test it out before making it public. See Adding social messaging to your sandbox.
Enable agents for social messaging conversations
After you add a social messaging channel, you need to give access to each agent who will participate in social messaging conversations. To do so, you assign each agent a Chat Agent role.
To enable agents for social messaging conversations, see Giving agents access to messaging.
Set up your workflows
Once your channels are added, you can configure the settings that will help your agents manage incoming requests, and help admins keep track of how things are working.
- Configure conversation routing. Define whether incoming conversations go to specific agents or are available to all, and set up your notifications.
- Enable automatic responses. Use the auto-responder to let end users know you received their messages, without relying on unavailable agents.
- Let customers know how to contact you. Adding a Message Us button to your website, mobile app, or help center allows customers to discover and connect to your social channel. Additionally, you can also add social media buttons to your emails.
- Request feedback from your end users. Enable satisfaction surveys to see how the customers rate the service they received.
Prepare your agents
All agent-side messaging happens in the Agent Workspace. These resources can help your agents get started with social messaging:
- Take our free training course, designed for administrators who are new to social messaging at Zendesk.
- Learn how agents work with social channels, including responding to messages, reassigning tickets, and creating new messages.
- Use the notifications list. Agents can juggle multiple conversations with ease and grace, and without creating cranky customers.
5 Comments
Can you tell me what is going on with my email and password not working
If users hold the same username on their social platform and their ZD customer profile, will their social media DM ticket merge into their ZD profile?
Hi Mars Anderson!
That at the moment is a known limitation in Agent Workspace with Messaging.
Zendesk Support Product won't be able to recognize that those are the same user. In Support, the only unique identifier that can be used is an email address.
We do have a 3rd party app that you can try out which is available in the Zendesk Marketplace: Smart End-Users Merge
Hey team,
What is the lag-time associated with a comment/post on a social media channel and when the ticket is auto-generated in Zendesk? Thanks.
May we confirm if you are referring to delays in ticket conversion from your social media channels to zendesk? Currently, there is no specific topic in our docs and publicly published that there is a lag-time associated with social messaging. Depending on the traffic volume of your channels but tickets should be immediate accordingly. Otherwise, if there is an outage on zendesk or social channels end then pro long delay should be expected.
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