Coach Agents During Live Chats with Customers

SmarterTrack's live chat feature gives businesses the ability to reduce phone calls, capture information on website visitors, and assist more customers concurrently. With its included coaching functionality, Managers can provide assistance to agents during active live chats without the customer's knowledge. This is a great way for organizations to aid in agent training and efficiency, which ensuring the customer receives accurate information.

Applies to SmarterTrack 7.x-12.x

Follow these steps to coach an agent during a live chat:

1. Log in to the SmarterTrack management interface as an Agent with a role of Manager.
2. Click the Live chat icon.
3. Expand Global Live Chats in the navigation pane.
4. Click Active. A list of all active live chats will load in the content pane.
5. Select the live chat for which you want to coach. The live chat will load in the content pane.
6. To coach the agent, type a message in the yellow chat box. Once sent, the coached message will display in green to only the Agent. 
7. When an Agent receives a coached message during a live chat, an additional textbox will appear where they can reply to the Manager coaching them. 

For more information, please refer to the SmarterTrack Online Help.

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