The words, defined.
What we mean by a lead, a callback request, Take over and the rest, exactly as the agents and your console behave.
Words you will meet
- LeadA person who has given you a way to reach them: a phone number or an email.
- Callback requestOn website chat, when someone asks for a person outside your hours (or whenever callback requests are switched on), the agent takes the number to call and the time they would like, if they have one, and adds it to your callback list.
- Take overA button in a chat in your console.
- Interested replyA reply to outreach from someone who wants to talk.
ExampleAn interested reply
- From
- Owen Price, Northgate Freight
- Campaign
- Logistics firms, UK
- Flagged
- Interested
- Reason
- Asked for pricing for 12 depots and a call next week.
In your console
Leads. What a conversation turns into.
- Lead
A person who has given you a way to reach them: a phone number or an email. The lead is saved as soon as one of them is in, with everything else they said, and sent to the CRM or system you connect.
See also Qualified lead, Complete-only capture
- Qualified lead
A lead with answers to the questions you chose to ask, such as dates, budget or group size. You decide the questions, and which of them are required.
See also Lead, Required detail
- Required detail
A question you mark as one every lead should answer. The Qualifier asks it in the conversation, and with complete-only capture on, the lead waits until every required detail is in.
See also Qualified lead, Complete-only capture
- Complete-only capture
A setting you can switch on. With it, no lead is saved or sent until every required detail and a phone number or email are in. Without it, the lead is saved once there is a way to reach them, and fills in as the chat goes on.
See also Lead, Required detail
- CRM
The system where your team keeps customers and deals. The Handover sends each lead to the CRM or system you connect, so it stays your record.
See also Handover
Your team and the agents. Who answers, and when a person steps in.
- Handover
The agent that gets the lead to your team: it sends the lead to your CRM, lets your team take over a chat, transfers calls to a person and takes callback requests.
See also Take over, Call transfer, Callback request
- Take over
A button in a chat in your console. Anyone on your team who handles chats presses it, replies as themselves while the agent waits, then presses Hand back. It works when live handoff is switched on.
See also Live handoff, Handover
- Live handoff
Whether your team takes over chats live. Switched on, a request for a person in your hours is flagged for your team to take over. Switched off, the agent takes a callback request instead.
See also Take over, Your hours
- Call transfer
On a phone call, the agent puts the caller through to a person on your team.
See also Handover
- Your hours
The days and times your team is there to take over. Outside them the agents keep answering, and a request for a person becomes a callback request.
See also Night shift, Callback request
- Callback request
On website chat, when someone asks for a person outside your hours (or whenever callback requests are switched on), the agent takes the number to call and the time they would like, if they have one, and adds it to your callback list. On a call, a callback asked for stays in the call's transcript. Either way it is a request for your team to phone them, not a booked appointment.
See also Your hours, Night shift
- Night shift
The agent that covers the hours your team is not in. It keeps answering and taking leads, and takes callback requests for the morning.
See also Your hours, Callback request
- Front desk
The agent that answers first, on your website chat, phone line and WhatsApp, from the pages, documents and instructions you give it. On WhatsApp the customer writes first.
See also Qualifier
- Qualifier
The agent that asks your questions and takes a name and a phone number or email, in inbound conversations and in replies to outbound.
See also Qualified lead, Required detail
Conversations. What is kept, and what is written up.
- Conversation
One website chat, phone call or WhatsApp thread with one person, from their first message to the end.
See also Transcript
- Transcript
The full written record of a conversation, every message in order. Every conversation is saved with its transcript, so you can check what was said. Calls can also be recorded.
See also Summary
- Summary
A few plain sentences for a colleague who has not read the chat: who the person is, what they want, the facts they gave, and the next step. Written only when analysis is switched on.
See also Analysis, Transcript
- Analysis
A setting you can switch on. Once a chat goes quiet, it writes the summary and picks out the facts you ask for, such as dates or group size. It is off unless you switch it on.
See also Summary
- Console
Where your team works: conversations and their transcripts, leads, callback requests, and your outbound campaigns and replies. Access is set by role: Owner, Admin, Member or Viewer.
See also Take over
Outbound. Run with you by our team.
- ICP (ideal customer profile)
Who you should sell to: the kind of company, its size and place, and the people in it worth talking to. The Scout agrees it with you before anyone is contacted.
See also Prospect list
- Prospect list
The companies that fit your ICP, and the people in them. The Prospector finds them, and the Checker cleans the list before anyone is contacted.
See also ICP (ideal customer profile), Campaign
- Campaign
One run of outreach to a clean list, by email, LinkedIn, WhatsApp or phone. Our team sends, starts and stops it with you, and you see it and its replies in your console.
See also Interested reply
An interested reply, flagged. One example, with its reason.
When someone replies to outreach and wants to talk, the reply comes back to your console marked as interested, with the reason in one line. Your team knows who to call first, and why.
Example. The people and the company are fictional.
Thanks for getting in touch. We run 12 depots across the Midlands. Could you send pricing and set up a call next week?
- Flagged
- Interested
- Reason
- Asked for pricing for 12 depots and a call next week.
- Campaign
- Logistics firms, UK
See the words at work. On the agents and in your console.
- Meet the agentsEight agents, four for outbound and four for inbound, and what each one does.Meet the agents
- CompareHow we sit beside a chatbot, a new hire, an agency or your own tools, and four named products.See the comparisons
- Questions, answeredChannels and answers, leads and your team, trust and pricing.Read the FAQ