Live Chat - Odoo 17 Community Book

Live Chat Management

You can establish a connection with website visitors with the live chat plugin in order to communicate directly, which improves the relationship between clients and staff personnel. You are given fresh leads through the use of the live chat module, which you can then turn into opportunities. A dialogue box, sometimes known as a chat box, appears at the bottom of the website when a consumer arrives, helping the sales team start a conversation. You may answer all of the client's questions through the live chat feature, giving them immediate assistance with rhythm. We shall go over the live chat's functionalities under this model.

The screenshot below illustrates what the live chat module's home screen will look like.

Odoo 17 live-chat

As seen in the screenshot, you will see the pre-existing conversation on the live chat page. If necessary, you can utilize the group by, favorites, and filters. Additionally, you can use the search tab appropriately. A live chat channel of a similar nature can also be created using the new option. The creation page, as seen in the image below, will appear when you select the New option.

Odoo 17 live-chat

You can enter the channel name in the designated field on the creation page. You have a few tabs behind it, including channel rules, widgets, operators, and preferences. Using the ADD icon, you may add the operators under the operator's choice. As seen in the screenshot below, you will see a page after choosing the ADD option.

Odoo 17 live-chat

Here, you can use the provided list to choose the necessary operator, and you can add additional operators by using the New icon. The screenshot below illustrates the page where new operators can be created.

Odoo 17 live-chat

The creation page requires you to enter the operator's name at the top, followed by the company name, phone number, email address, and cellphone number, in that order. The generate employ option is now also activated. Once you have finished entering all the information, save the newly generated operator by selecting the save and close icon.

The Options tab is the next tab, and it will look like the screenshot below.

Odoo 17 live-chat

This page contains the button text option, which allows you to customize the default text displayed in the live chat support symbol. The default backdrop color of live chat can be found by selecting the "Live Chat Button Color" option under that.

You can set a welcome message for visitors to the live chat window that will appear when a conversation starts by selecting the welcome message option. You may now set the text that prompts users to start a chat by using the placeholder option for the chat field. The channel header color option will supply the default backdrop color of the channel header.

You may set up the various rules for the live chat under the Channel Rules tab. You can keep up communication only with the designated nations by doing this. The chat box might be hidden for website users from specific countries if the company's sales team is having trouble understanding them in their native tongue. As seen in the screenshot below, different actions can be implemented for a certain URL and per nation with the aid of the ‘add a line’ option.

Odoo 17 live-chat

On selecting the add a line option, you will obtain a page, as seen in the image below.

Odoo 17 live-chat

The live chat button on this rule creation page has four options: Show, Show with notification, Open automatically, and Hide. Regular expressions mentioning the web pages covered by this rule can be provided using the URL rejects option. You can specify which country the regulations should be implemented in the country field. You can use the save icon once you have completed all the fields.

You must post the channel on the website in order to use it as a means of communication with those visitors. Visit the website option to do that.

Odoo 17 live-chat

To publish the channel to the website, go to this page on the website and change its unpublished status to publish. All of those discussions can be viewed as direct messages in the discuss module since the live chat and discuss modules are connected.

Visitors

As seen in the screenshot below, the visitor's menu, located beneath the live chat module, offers a list of website visitors.

Odoo 17 live-chat

The page is displayed graphically and in a Kanban list accordingly. If the visitor's name is stored in the database, you will see their name on the page. You will also receive the email details in addition to that. Additionally, you can display the number of visits, last action, number of pages visited, number of leads or chances, and number of chats in that order.

Users can send the visitor an email by using the Email button.

Odoo 17 live-chat

Users can text visitors with an SMS message by using the SMS button.

Odoo 17 live-chat

Canned Responses

The operation of "Canned Responses" retrieves the pre-written questions or answers to frequently requested questions. Time and effort are saved with these kinds of answers. Additionally, you have the ability to compose these kinds of responses via the Odoo live chat menu. As seen in the screenshot below, the setup menu will provide options for canned answers.

Odoo 17 live-chat

You may find the information, including shortcuts and substitutions, on the canned responses page. The filters, group by, and favorites features are available for use and can be applied appropriately. To generate a canned response of a similar nature, utilize the New option. You can see the answers in the chat box after inserting the“:” expression. The new line, where you may quickly add a new response, will be shown when you want to write a new one.

Chat Bot

Odoo's chatbot feature may be tailored to perform a variety of activities, deliver information, and raise user satisfaction levels. The created chatbot can be shown under the Configuration menu.

Odoo 17 live-chat

Add the chatbot's name inside of it. Inside the script, the users can specify the message, step type, and corresponding responses for the questions.

Odoo 17 live-chat

The chatbot collects information from the website visitors as per the scripts we configured and redirects to the operator if required. The chat is redirected to the operator who is online, and whoever has the least communication in the last 30 minutes will be considered and assigned. This will create a feeling of hassle-free communication between the operators and visitors. All such collected details will be recorded so that the operator can see all the collected details.

The chat displays the chatbot within the chat window when you click the Test button.

Odoo 17 live-chat

Reporting

You can access many sub-options, including operator analysis, customer rating, session statistics, and session history, under the Live Chat module's reporting menu. The snapshot below will display this session history.

Odoo 17 live-chat

This is where you will find all the information, including the session date, participants, messages, and ratings. The statistics for the session will display the various activities that were captured in the live chat module.

Odoo 17 live-chat

You can apply the required modifications to the reports with the aid of measures. The pivot view also displays the page. The analytical form will be provided by the pivot view. As you can see in the screenshot below, you now have Operator Analysis.

Odoo 17 live-chat

As seen in the above figure, the report will be updated in light of the operations. The graph can be displayed as a bar, line, or pie, as appropriate. The customer rating is the last item, as seen in the screenshot below.

Odoo 17 live-chat

The ratings aid in bringing about the desired progress in the relevant field.

All in all, the module assists you in controlling and directing client communication, allowing you to make the necessary enhancements to their offerings.

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