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Chat surveys in Agent Chat

Display conversational questionnaires to your end users to gather important information from them, before and after they chat with a live or virtual agent. For example, you can run pre-chat surveys to collect preliminary information about your requesters and use that information to route chats to appropriate live agents. Use post-chat surveys to get user feedback on their experience with your support agents.

How chat surveys work

Instead of using forms to collect information from your requesters, you can create different questionnaires that run in the chat client to capture preliminary user information or post-chat feedback. The questions in this pre-chat survey example ask users to identify their service issue and to provide additional details.

Example of pre-chat conversational survey in web chat client. — Figure 1. Example pre-chat survey conversation

Survey administrators and administrators use Survey Designer to:

Build survey content: Survey Designer provides various controls for defining survey questions. The example above shows the choice list control, which displays a list of items that your users can choose from. Each survey question has corresponding properties that you can set to manage survey behavior. For instance, you can make a survey response mandatory. If you make a survey response optional, users can skip the question in the survey. You can also configure your survey so that an introductory note starts the survey and an end note displays after users finish the survey.
(Optional) Save certain survey responses as chat context: When defining your survey, you can map a particular survey question to a chat context variable so that survey responses are stored in the context variable. You can then use these variables to route chats to live agents in certain queues (specify the chat context variables in routing conditions) or to the virtual agent.

After creating the surveys, administrators configure the surveys to run as conversations in the chat client. The chat client renders the chat survey as a live chat conversation.

What to do next

Setting up chat surveys involves these main steps:

Steps for setting up pre-chat and post-chat conversational surveys

1. (Optional) Define chat context: Use the Chat Setup form to set live agent controls and define the chat context variables for storing survey responses.
2. Create your chat surveys: In Survey Designer, build your conversational questionnaires for gathering pre-chat information and post-chat feedback from your requesters. If you defined chat context variables to store certain survey responses, you can map the appropriate survey question to the corresponding chat context variable.
3. Define pre-chat survey configurations: Determine the pre-chat questionnaire to be presented to your requesters based on conditions that you apply.
4. Define post-chat survey configurations: Control the post-chat questionnaire displayed to your requesters to gather feedback on their experience with live agents.

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Survey administrators and administrators use Survey Designer to:

Build survey content: Survey Designer provides various controls for defining survey questions. The example above shows the choice list control, which displays a list of items that your users can choose from. Each survey question has corresponding properties that you can set to manage survey behavior. For instance, you can make a survey response mandatory. If you make a survey response optional, users can skip the question in the survey. You can also configure your survey so that an introductory note starts the survey and an end note displays after users finish the survey.
(Optional) Save certain survey responses as chat context: When defining your survey, you can map a particular survey question to a chat context variable so that survey responses are stored in the context variable. You can then use these variables to route chats to live agents in certain queues (specify the chat context variables in routing conditions) or to the virtual agent.

After creating the surveys, administrators configure the surveys to run as conversations in the chat client. The chat client renders the chat survey as a live chat conversation.

What to do next

Setting up chat surveys involves these main steps:

1. (Optional) Define chat context: Use the Chat Setup form to set live agent controls and define the chat context variables for storing survey responses.
2. Create your chat surveys: In Survey Designer, build your conversational questionnaires for gathering pre-chat information and post-chat feedback from your requesters. If you defined chat context variables to store certain survey responses, you can map the appropriate survey question to the corresponding chat context variable.
3. Define pre-chat survey configurations: Determine the pre-chat questionnaire to be presented to your requesters based on conditions that you apply.
4. Define post-chat survey configurations: Control the post-chat questionnaire displayed to your requesters to gather feedback on their experience with live agents.

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