Sometimes websites contain a lot of different information so that the user could easily overlook the Webchat Toggle Button. However, to draw the user's attention to the virtual agent, a proactive welcome message or a preview of the chat can be shown:
In the example shown above, the Cognigy Webchat presents a so-called Engagement Message after a delay of two seconds. As soon as the user reacts to this action, and opens the webchat, the conversation could start.
In addition to that first "Call to Action" (Engagement Message), the Webchat could display a badge with the number of unread messages as well:
With this second information, the user can see how many, possible interesting, messages are in the closed chat. However, the user does not see this preview and badge when their are in another opened browser tab.
In order to display the information about unread messages in the other tab, the window's title can be changed with another setting:
Last but not least, a notification sound could be enabled, sot that the user gets the visual and audible information.
How to
In the Webchat Widget documenation, one can find the Endpoint Settings, that need to be used in order to enable the above features. Finally, the embedded code in the HTML file could look such as the following:
<script>
initWebchat("...",{
settings: {
// Show a teaser message after 2 seconds
engagementMessageText: "Hey, may I help you?",
engagementMessageDelay: 2000,
enableUnreadMessagePreview: true,
// Show a red badge with the number of unread messages
enableUnreadMessageBadge: true,
// Show a notification in the browser title
enableUnreadMessageTitleIndicator: true,
// Play a notification sound
enableUnreadMessageSound: true
}
});
</script>
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