Using chat, it is easy to show your team’s availability to users and when they can expect a response from your team.
You can do this in three different ways in chat,
Display live response time (real-time value calculated based on your team’s performance)
Customize response expectations for individual Topics
Set your work timings with Business Hours
Let customers know you are out of the office with Away Experience
Note: Topics and Response Expectations available for all plansThis allows the user to plan their next move based on real-time information. If your team normally responds in a few minutes, your customer might choose to wait for your response. Or if you normally respond within a few hours they’ll know to move on to doing something else.
Display your team’s live response time
Chat automatically calculates response times based on your team’s response rate in real-time. You can display this time to give a fair picture to your users about when they can expect a reply from your team.
Go to Admin Settings > Chat Widget Settings > Response Expectations
You can pick either Response Time or Time for first response. Response time is the overall average time of all responses sent by your team and Time for first response is the overall average time taken by your team to send the first reply to a user once the chat gets assigned to them.