Atla Water review for Shopify Inbox
Aug. 2, 2022
Shopify Inbox is finally getting enough functionality to begin being useful for many merchants. Here's how to get to five stars, Shopify: -Customers need to be able to attach images in chat -Team members should be able to have internal discussions about a chat that the customer can't see. Our current workaround is to communicate outside of Inbox to discuss issues in Inbox -Add the ability to turn off 'add to cart' and 'buy now' when inserting Products in chat. We want people to see our subscription options and 'add to cart' and 'buy now' allows the customer to bypass the product view and miss those options -I dream of Shopify offering a customer Knowledge Base feature for merchants with a nice standardized theme. In addition to having this knowledge base available from store menus, customers can search this knowledge base within the chat client, saving support agents a lot of time. Intercom does this really well -Chat conversations can be synced to CRM software like Hubspot -Customers can see the agent's name (or handle) in chats as opposed to the chat always being from "Company Name" -Agents can upload a profile photo -Collision avoidance so multiple agents don't accidentally respond to the same chat at the same time. This could be as simple as allowing agents to see when other agents are typing on a chat -Agents can set their availability to away which will pause audible notifications -Browser notifications should not show each message from a customer and another agent to all agents. With multiple ongoing conversations, this gets very loud and when an agent is helping a customer, the other agents do not need to see every message sent in those chats -Just because someone enters their email address on Chat, it doesn't make them a Customer. We define a customer as someone who has made a purchase, so it would be nice to have a separate bucket for these contacts instead of adding them all to the customers list in Shopify. Alternatively, if Customers in Shopify were renamed Contacts, this may make more sense
Thank you so much for taking the time to write your review and to lay out all of your suggestions here. It's greatly appreciated and I can see why all of the recommendations you have made would help make Shopify Inbox an even more useful tool for you and your business. Merchant feedback plays a big part in how our development team decides how to improve our platform, and this is especially true of our apps and Shopify Inbox in particular. I will be sure to pass all of your suggestions onto our team for their consideration. Thanks again for getting in touch. -Victor, Shopify Support
