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Use quick replies
Save the answers your team types again and again, and insert them with /.
Quick replies are saved answers, like your delivery times or a greeting. Owners and supervisors add them to an inbox, and everyone inserts them while replying.
Inboxes → your inbox → General → Quick replies
- Click Add quick reply.
- Fill in a Shortcut, for example
deliveryor?. Use up to 40 characters, with no spaces or /. Letters are saved lowercase. - Write the Message, for example "Orders ship within two working days. You'll get a tracking link by email."
- Click Save.
To use one in a chat:
- In the reply box, type / and the first letters of the shortcut, for example
/deli. You can also click Quick replies under the reply box. - Choose one with the arrow keys and press Enter, or click it. The message takes the place of what you typed.
- Change the text if you need to, then send it.
Good to know
- Each inbox has its own quick replies, up to 1,000. A message can be up to 4,000 characters.
- Typing after / also finds words inside the message, not only the shortcut.
- Click Edit to change a quick reply, or Delete to remove it.
- To add many at once, click Import CSV: one quick reply per row, the shortcut and then the message. A header row like
shortcut,messageorname,contentis optional. Spaces in shortcuts become-, and rows that can't be used are skipped. Before you import, the dialog lists every row it will add and every row it will skip, with the reason. A message over 4,000 characters is skipped: split it into shorter quick replies. A shortcut that already exists gets the new message. Export CSV downloads the list. - Agents use quick replies but can't open this settings page.