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Handing a chat to your team

When the agent steps aside, who gets emailed, how to take over, and how it picks back up.

5 min readUpdated By the Zymbler team

The agent handles most of a conversation on its own, but some chats need a person. This article covers when the agent hands a chat over, how your team takes it, and how it comes back.

When the agent hands over

When your rules say a chat should go to a person, the agent hands it over with a one-line reason and stops replying, so your team can take over without the agent talking over them. The owner and the assigned teammate get an email.

Taking over a chat

  1. Open the chat in the shared inbox

    Every WhatsApp chat lives in one inbox, updated as messages arrive, whether or not the agent has handed it over yet.
  2. Take over

    One click takes over any chat — not only the ones the agent flagged. The agent steps aside the moment you do.
  3. Reply as your team

    Your replies show up in the same WhatsApp chat the customer sees. The contact page next to the chat shows what the agent has learned so far, so you don't have to scroll back through the messages.

Handing a chat back

When your team is done, hand the chat back and the agent resumes answering. It sees what the person wrote while they had the chat, and carries on from there — it doesn't repeat questions your team already answered.

Tip
Automatic hand-back
A chat a teammate took over in Zymbler stays with them until they hand it back. Separately, if someone on your team answers from the WhatsApp Business app on the phone, you can let the agent pick the chat back up once your side has been quiet for 1 to 24 hours and the customer writes again. You set this in Settings → Workspace, under WhatsApp.

The "ready lead" email

Separately from handover, the owner gets an email whenever the agent marks a lead ready. This doesn't take the agent out of the conversation — it keeps chatting normally until someone actually steps in.

"Stop" is respected

If a customer says stop, Zymbler respects that — they aren't messaged again.


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