Posts Tagged ‘occ updates’

Improved Canned Messages, New Offline Settings, Print Chat & Translation Stats

Written by: Victor Bilandzic Categories: Features,News
November 26th, 2012

On Friday of last week, we posted some pretty significant to updates to OCC, with some further refinement this week:

Print Chat

This is a new feature for visitors to your website requesting a chat. Directly from the chat window, visitors can print a transcript of the chat they’re having with you or your operators. The Print Chat option is automatically enabled for accounts but can be disabled from your Account Dashboard under Setup > Basic Settings > Global Account Settings

Check out the look of the new button below

Print Chat Transcript

Offline Settings – Hide Icon & Disable Offline Messages

We added 2 more Offline Settings that were highly requested by our users. Both of these options are for Premium & Enterprise users only and can be found in your Account Dashboard under Setup > Basic Settings > Offline Settings

Each of these settings is definable per department/website like most of the other features within OCC:

Disable offline messages but do not hide chat icon – When all your operators are either hidden or offline, this option will show your offline icon but will disable offline messages. It is a setting we had before but it was not able to be set per department.

Hide live chat icon - When you’re offline, this setting will NOT show your offline icon but will instead completely hide the icon. OCC is still tracking visitors to your site but the icon will not be displayed to visitors.

Offline Settings

Canned Messages – Initial per department and per operator

Canned messages can now be individualized further by having the initial message defined per operator or per department or both!

Find this function in your Account Dashboard under Setup > Messages > Canned Messages

In the example below, if “Send as Initial Message” is selected, you can then choose which department/website and/or operator will use the message as their initial greeting to the chat visitor. The per operator selection will override the department selection.

For example:

1. Message A is set for all departments
2. Message B is set for the OCC department
3. Message C is set for OCC department and Victor
4. Message D is set for all departments and Brandon

All operators will send Message A for all departments except OCC department which sends Message B except if Victor accepts the chat then it is Message C.
If Brandon accepts a chat from any department, he sends Message D.

There are checks for each scenario that will prompt you if a conflict arises. Below is an example of how the initial message setting now looks:

Per Operator Canned Messages

Translation Statistics

And, finally, we added some pretty cool and useful graphs to our Translation Program that displays what percentage of each language we have translated for each portion of OCC for each language.

Translation Statistics

New Generate HTML Area with Direct Link Launched

Written by: Victor Bilandzic Categories: Features,News
March 22nd, 2011

Some of our users may have noticed an updated Generate HTML area in their account administration section.

live-chat-html-for-websites

Other than the more updated look, we added 2 features that we hope will greatly improve the deployment and ease of use of our website live chat system :

1. The department select page is disabled by default for accounts with 1 department or less. It can be enabled again through a checkbox under the Options section. TheĀ  ability to toggle whether chat requests require a pre-chat request form or whether the page is bypassed to go straight to chat is also available through the Options section:

Multiple Departments in Live Chat

2. A new option is available – Direct Link using a shortened URL, http://occ.bz. The new option is designed for direct linking to your live chat account or department. We also used a short URL for easy integration into character-sensitive systems like Twitter. This new option is ideal for social networks such as Linkedin and Facebook.

Live Chat For Social Networks

Check out the new Generate HTML section and expand OCC live chat support to all the social networks your company uses:

Live Chat HTML Generation