Summary

Purpose

SLA Rules allow you to set goals of urgency for replying to messages within Live Chat. It helps you to ensure that specific customers or customers of higher importance get the support or treatment they expect.

Feature descriptions

Your first SLA Rule

To create your first SLA Rule click + New SLA Rules. As a first step, make sure you give your rule a descriptive name.

SLA Trigger

First Response Time. This is the time it should take a teammate to reply to the first initial message of a conversation that matches your rule.

Second Response Time. This is the time it should take a teammate to reply to subsequent messages from the same customer.

Conditions

By clicking the Condition element, the conditions configuration opens. There you find the following condition types:

Condition Type Description

URL

Where did the customer trigger the communication?

Inside opening hours

Does the request happen during opening hours?

Outside opening hours

Does the request happen outside opening hours?

Has Label

Does the conversation have a defined label?

Has ID

Does the ID match?

Agent online

Is an agent online to answer the conversation?

Agent available

Is an agent available to answer the conversation?

Country

Does the customer request come from a specific country?

City

Does the customer request come from a specific city?

To complete your first SLA Rule click Save & Activate.

Overview

In the SLA Rule menu, you will find a list of created rules. Here you can create, search for, update and de/activate them.

Additionally, you will see stats about how often each rule matched, and how often you missed your SLA target.