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AWEBDESK LIVE CHAT SOFTWARE
Version 6.1.0
AwebDesk Softwares
Administrator Guide
Edition 1.2 January 2014
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction...……….………....…...…4
Sign In as Admin………...5
Admin Dashboard Overview……….……6
Create Department……….………….….….7
Create Operator……….…………..8
Assign Operators to Departments………...………..9
Upload Logo………..10
Customize Chat icons………..……….11
HTML Code……….……….12
Automatic Initiate Chat………13
GeoIP and GeoMap Settings……….……14
Setting Up Social Media Marketing……….15
Chat Footer Marquee………17
Click Tracking……….18
View Chat Transcripts………...19
Operators online Activity……….……….21
Online Status Monitor……….22
Reports……….23
Settings Excluded IPs……….………..25
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Admin/Operator Skin
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Chat Window Skin……….28
External Services……….………..………..29
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Introduction
AwebDesk Live Chat Software allows operators to interactively chat to web site visitors that are currently browsing your web site. It enables AwebDesk Live Chat Software operators to communicate with currently browsing site visitors via chat window. With a single click, your website visitors will be redirected to your support team for live assistance with this amazing live-chat system.
AwebDesk Live Chat Software provides an added advantage that your website visitors will get the chance to interact with you in the way they prefer. Your visitors and agents will have the same interface to the web page in real time hence a visitor can ask contextual question, at the same time your agent can respond to the exact point. Both the visitor and agent have the access to multitask while chatting, in order to get efficient performance which is today’s most vital workplace demands.
New version-6.1.0 is power packed with awesome features including widgetized window, social tool bar, powerful reporting and real time reliable statistics, Desktop notifications, SMS Alert, GEOIP integrated, Typing Status Alert and many more. Providing live support to customer was never to easy and quick. Provide live support to multiple customers same time, Reduce Customer Support and Sales Costs and Drift Your Business Sales Dramatically.
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Sign-In – Administration
Fig 1: Login Screen Admin Panel
Once the AwebDesk Live Chat Software Installation has been completed, you will be able to sign-in to admin panel and configure your live chat software and begin chatting with your site visitors. In order for you to begin supporting visitors on your web site we will explain several of the administration features within AwebDesk Live Chat Software.
Open http://yourdomain.com/<ALS_directory>/manage/ into browser then provide username and password and click on “Login as Admin”.
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Admin Dashboard Overview
Fig 2: Admin Dashboard
After login as admin you will be redirected to Admin Dashboard where you will see all the available features of Awebdesk Live Chat Software. You can view Current Month Chats Report and overview, get details of total chat requests, offline emails, chats accepted, chats initiated, initiates taken. You can view footprints/Chat Statistics in graphical representation.
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Fig 3: Steps to get started
Create Department
Fig 4: Create Departments
Add new department according to your preference with providing department name, department email Id. You can also set specific language for this department so that every agent and visitor choose to chat with this department will have interaction with specified language. You can set here the personalized Offline message for each department you created, edit transcript email message, update visitor and support department chat transcript email settings, Add/Edit Canned messages and more.
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Create Operator
Fig 5: Create Operator
Here you can create new live chat operator/Agent who can interact with your website visitors and accept chat requests from them. Just provide the operator name, email id, login credentials and set access level for operator then click on submit.
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Assign Operators to Departments
Fig 6: Assign Operators to department/s
Here you can assign your newly created operator to any particular department or to multiple departments. When an online visitor requests chat with any specific department (eg. Support) then the operator you assigned under that department only can respond to that chat request. You can set global operator who can chat with having privileges to all departments just by assigning it to multiple/All departments.
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Upload Logo
Fig 7: Upload Logo
Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Designs> Logo. Now upload your company logo here and do your branding in live chat software. This logo will be visible in admin/operator panel and live chat windows.
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Customize Chat Icons
Fig 8: Customize Chat Icons
Go to Left Side Navigation Menu>Designs>Chat icons. Now upload the online and offline status images (icons) that you want to show on your website. There is option to set department specific icons and global default icons. You can set online/offline icons according to your preferences.
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HTML Code
Copy/Paste the HTML Code onto your webpages to display the online/offline chat icon. It is recommended that you place the HTML Code on all of your webpages.
Fig 8: HTML Code
HTML Code can be generated to display all departments or just one. "All Departments" HTML Code will allow the visitor to select a department on the visitor chat window. For the department only HTML Code, the department selection is not available because the visitor is automatically routed to one department.
You have option to paste Standard Html code or Text only code or plain html with no JavaScript code, just choose according to your preference and paste into every webpage so that it will work onto your whole website.
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Automatic Initiate Chat
Fig 9: Automatic Initiate Chat
Through this feature you can put an automatic chat initiate icon on webpage on which your visitor is available. You have options to set time interval after which the initiate icon appears on the page where visitor is available. There are some more advanced settings which you can set according to your preferences.
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GeoIP and GeoMap Settings
Fig 10: GeoIP &GeoMap Settings Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Settings>GeoIP &GeoMap.
Now simply follow the steps prescribed here and activate GeoIP & GeoMap feature, through which you can locate the visitor in Map and also get correct IP with more details.
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Setting Up Social Media Marketing
Fig 11: Setting up Social Media Marketing Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Marketing>Social Media.
We integrated the new social media marketing features in Awebdesk Live Chat Software V6.1.0. The social media icons will be visible on the visitor chat window. Each department can have its own social media profile links.
You just need to enable the social media and provide links of Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Skype, and so on respectively, after doing that click on Update
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Look how your social media icons will be available in visitor chat window below:
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Chat Footer Marquee
Fig 13: Activating Chat Footer Marquee Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Marketing>Chat Footer Marquee.
You can display your latest offers and discount coupons and more such announcements on the visitor chat window footer. The messages will cycle every 10 seconds. Short and impressive messages are always preferred.
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Click Tracking
Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Marketing>Click Tracking.
Click Tracking will track URL click-through rates. Simply append the auto generated query key to the marketing campaign URL. Marketing campaign URL is the URL that the visitors will arrive at after clicking on the ad campaign. The landing page must have the status icon HTML code to capture the query key for tracking.
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View Chat Transcripts
Previous site visitors chat transcripts can be viewed from the Reports option on the Left Side Menu. An operator can simply click on Transcript and then chat transcripts list are then loaded and displayed.
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You can view detailed chat transcript by clicking on “View Transcript” Icon beside any chat detail.
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Operators online Activity
Fig 17: Operator Online Activity Go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Operators>Online Activity.
Here you can check overall online presence of your each operator. Check at what time your operator being online and know there efficiency.
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Online Status Monitor
Fig 18: Operator Online Status Monitor
Go to Left Side Navigation Menu>Operators>Online Status Monitor then click on “Launch
Operator Status Widget Window”.
Monitor the operator's online/offline status and chat activity within a tiny widget window that updates automatically. The widget window can be left open on the desktop for quick access to online/offline status information and real-time chat sessions.
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Reports
Go to Left Side Navigation Menu>Reports>Traffic Footprints, you will get options to view reports on traffic, chats, active chat details and more.
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Fig 20: Refer Urls Report
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Settings Excluded IPs
To avoid misleading page views when developing a site, you can exclude an IP from being counted towards the overall footprint report.
Excluded IPs will not be visible on the traffic monitor, thus initiate chat and other features will not be available for Excluded IPs.
URL Footprints of excluded IPs will not be stored in the database and will not count towards the overall footprint report.
Just go to Left Side Navigation Menu>Settings>Excluded IPs, from here you can save the IPs which should be added in exclusion list.
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Manage Spam IPs
Spam IPs will always see an OFFLINE status icon and will not be able to reach an operator, even if an operator is online. Operators can specify a spam IP during a chat session or you can provide an IP address here.
Just go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Settings>Spam IPs, add any IP address you want to show
offline status icon.
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Admin/Operator Skin
Just go to Left Side Navigation Menu >Designs>Admin/Operator Skin, you can change your
Admin Menu Background, Admin Link Color and Admin Menu Link Color etc.
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Chat Window Skin
Just go to Left Side Navigation Menu>Designs>Chat Widget Skin, with this option you can set
the color of Embedded Widget Window to match your site colors.
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External Services
Integrate with your favorite online services and software easily. Just go to Left Side Navigation
Menu>Integrations>External Services Integration, then click on the external service icon which
you want to activate and then update the required information to activate the service.
