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📋 What’s about

The Canned Answers are predetermined responses to common and frequent questions: the Agent can use a canned answer triggered by a key rather than typing the same answer repeatedly or pasting it from some other another resource.

Using canned answers (when it's appropriate) may increase productivity but even maintain a good level of communication.

Global Canned Answers can be created here and used in several interaction contexts: Open Channel, Mail, SMS, Chat, and so on.

Canned Answers can also be defined as Local to the Channel and to the Account/Website: it means that you can use them only when the conversation takes place in that specific context (Local Canned Answers are available for all Channel entry points, except FAX Accounts) 

💡 How it works

When you enter this section you have the list of the Canned Answers already created:

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Each of them can be edited and modified or deleted using the commands displayed by clicking on 

You can download one or many canned answers: click them from the list and then click on the icons  to export or  to delete:

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⚙️ Create Canned Answers

You can create Canned Answers to be used in several contexts and modules by clicking on Image Removed and + button and insert: 

  • Key: keystroke the Agent will use in order to make the answer appear in the specific context (e.g. open channel interaction)

  • Type: you can choose two types of formats:

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HTML on channels that support HTML code (as email).
Consider that to use canned answer in email with the correct formatting, you need to use html type

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Text, mandatory for channels which do not support HTML format (SMS, WhatsApp, Openchannel, Chat)
Consider that in email channel, if you use text type, you will lose formatting.

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  • Then you need to insert Value, so the full canned answer text. 

  • Description: insert here a description of it (optional)

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Using variables in the Canned Answers text

This text can also include variables rendering text, like in the following example: 

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Refer to the Omnichannel Variable list documentation for a complete set of those that can be used in this context.

🔧 Using Canned Answers


Whenever the Agent interacts with the customer writing some text message (e.g. Mail, Chat, Open Channel, SMS) from the Omni Desktop Interface, Canned Answers can be useful: 

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If the Agent clicks on the icon button  he can insert a few keystrokes to make the available canned answers that contain them appear:

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and choose the one that best suits.