Escalating advanced AI agent conversations to Zendesk Support with Zendesk Chat (Legacy)

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Add-on | AI agents - Advanced

Configuring chat channels for advanced AI agents is no longer recommended. Instead, consider configuring messaging channels or configuring email channels.

To escalate chats that require further assistance from human agents but not immediate attention, the best approach is to utilize Zendesk tags and setup custom escalation in Dialogue Builder in the AI agents - Advanced Dashboard.

There are simple three steps to achieve this.

Turn automatic ticket creation on in Zendesk Chat

Set escalation block to Custom Escalation in Dialogue Builder

Test

Manage tickets in Zendesk Support

Step 1: Turn automatic ticket creation on in Zendesk Chat

By turning this on, every chat will be converted into a ticket and becomes easily manageable in Zendesk Support. Learn more.

Go to Zendesk Chat > Settings > Account > Zendesk Support (tab)

Under Ticket creation - chats, configure the settings as the example below:

Step 2: Set escalation block to Custom Escalation in Dialogue Builder

Since every chat is converted to a ticket automatically, it is crucial to add tags automatically for easy management in Zendesk Support.

To do so:

In the AI agents - Advanced Dashboard, locate the dialogue path for ticket escalation

Add an escalation block

Set the method to Custom Escalation

Custom Escalation doesn't actually escalate to an endpoint. It acts as a way to add a label for analytics purposes to mark escalation traffic to another location, such as webform, hotline.

Add two actions to the escalation block:

Add tag - this adds a tag to the ticket in Zendesk Support

Add label - this adds the tag in Conversation Logs in the AI agents - Advanced Dashboard

We suggest to add a generic tag, “ticket_escalation” to view all escalated tickets, and an intent/topic specific one like “payment_refund”.

Step 3: Test

Finally, after all is set up. Test it and see if everything matches the workflow/process of your customer support team. Monitor how this is working for your team. Add actions to add more tags or adjust the escalation flow to collect more information prior to escalation to adopt to the team and reduce average handling time.

Step 4: Manage tickets in Zendesk Support

✅  Success - Start managing tickets in Zendesk Support!

Tags is a powerful tool to manage tickets in Zendesk Support. To lear more, have a look at:

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