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Auto-close incomplete Workflows conversations
Auto-close incomplete Workflows conversations

Close conversations with customers who have stopped interacting with a customer facing workflow

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Written by Ivan
Updated over 3 weeks ago

To increase your team’s efficiency, you can auto-close conversations where customers stop interacting with your customer facing Workflows.

This will allow your team to better organize the Inbox, so they can focus on conversations that require their attention.

To do this, just go to Settings > AI & Automation > Automation and choose "Auto-close abandoned workflow conversations" and then, tick the box for the Workflow triggers where you'd like to auto-close conversations:

Finally, select how long the bot should wait before auto-closing the conversation:

The wait time before closing the conversation cannot be customized. You can choose from 3, 5, 7, 10, or 15 minutes.

During the Workflow, there are different points where the bot will wait for customer input. At each of these points, a timer starts. Now, if customers don’t reply (or interact with a Workflow buttons) within the specified length of time, the conversation will automatically close.

For visitor and lead conversations, if an email or phone number is collected, then the conversation is left open. This allows your team to engage with prospects that have provided contact information but may have stopped engaging with the Workflow 👌

By default, conversations started by Workflows will appear in your "Unassigned" inbox. By auto-closing them, they will automatically be moved to your closed conversations list, so your team can focus on conversations that require their attention.


How is Workflow interaction completion defined?

Workflow interaction completion is defined as

  • The end user reached the end of the Workflow

    • Reached an end path on a Workflow

  • The end user stops interacting with a Workflow for 3 minutes and the auto-close abandoned conversations feature is not enabled.

The end user can resume interacting with Workflow after 3 minutes but assignment rules will have been run and the conversation will now appear in a teammate-watched inbox, such as Unassigned.


FAQ

Why is the workflow not auto-closing when a user does not complete the ticket form in my workflow?

The Create Ticket step always has to be the last step of the workflow. When we reach this step wether it is completed or not the workflow is marked as finished because it has got to the final step. This means the auto-close settings for abandoned workflows won't take effect as the workflow isn't abandoned.

A workaround would be to send the ticket form using the 'when customer opens a new conversation in the messenger' trigger first:


Then have a second workflow for 'teammate has been unresponsive' which would mean that if a teammate doesn't jump in then this workflow will close the conversation with the abandoned ticket form:


If you wish to only target customers who have seen that initial workflow then you could apply a tag in the first workflow and check for this in the audience rules for the inactivity workflow.


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