Working with Apple Messages for Business in the Agent Workspace




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In the Agent Workspace, you can handle customer conversations via Apple Messages for Business. Use rich templates to enhance responses with the Interactive Messaging Templates app. If a customer leaves a conversation, it closes immediately, blocking further messages. You can still communicate through other channels if contact details are available. Reopened conversations start as new tickets.



In Agent Workspace, agents can converse with customers who come in through their Apple
Messages for Business channel. They can accept conversations and compose messages like any other
messaging conversation. Some additional features are available to agents to enhance
customer conversations through the Apple Messages for Business channel and impact their
communication flow.
This article includes the following sections:


Applying rich templates to agent responses
Working with closed conversations


For information on setting up the Apple Messages for Business channel in Admin Center,
see Adding and configuring the Apple Messages for
Business channel.


Applying rich templates to agent responses

Accounts using Zendesk Suite Professional or higher can install the Interactive Messaging Templates app,
created by our partner, Zenplates. Using this app, agents can preview rich messages
in the ticket sidebar before sending the message to the end user.

After sending, the conversation history reflects the template, though it won't be a
replica. Quick replies will show buttons, and rich links will show the text and
link, for example.
To apply a rich template to a response

In a ticket, click the Apps icon ( ) in the context panel and locate the Interactive
Messaging Template app.
Select the template you want to apply to the conversation. Use the available
filters to find the template, if needed.
Click Use this template. The template is added as a comment in the
conversation.




Working with closed conversations

With Apple Messages for Business, end users can choose to block a business from
sending additional messages to them at any point.
When an end user leaves a conversation while talking to a live agent, the messaging
session will immediately close, the agent will no longer be able to send messages
over Apple Messages for Business, the conversation history will display a system
message that the user left the conversation, and the message composer will be
disabled for the Apple Messages for Business channel.
Agents can continue to communicate with the end user through other channels if the
end user's email or phone number is available and can leave internal notes on the
conversation.
If the end user re-opens the conversation with the business, a new ticket and new
conversation is initiated.
If an end user leaves a conversation while talking to an AI Agent, the AI Agent is
blocked from sending further messages.



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