Solution/ChatSolutions

Genesys Cloud and Genesys Predictive Engagement offer advanced routing, auto-response, and AI capabilities that provide customized chat solutions to customers.

Solution overview

The advanced chat solution is a fully customizable and flexible solution that enables you to send targeted and tailored chat offers to your customers.

Highlights:

• Advanced routing capabilities
  • Make routing decisions based on the needs and profile of the customer.
  • Update routing decisions dynamically, even within a chat flow.
  • Define the circumstances, such as business hours and schedules, in which a chat is routed to either a chatbot or to a human agent.
• Auto-response capabilities
  • Send an automatic notification to the customer - Thanks for contacting us; we will be with you shortly.
  • Send a standard bot-generated message - Thanks for waiting. How can we help you today?
    

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  • Call on a chatbot to handle interactions.
  • Use the predictive engagement features to monitor engagements, predict behavior, and respond according to configured action maps.

How it works

To illustrate how these advanced chat features can enhance the customer journey, we'll walk through a typical customer journey. For the purposes of this article, let's say the customer is shopping online. We'll break the journey down into five stages:

• Stage 1 - The customer visits a website configured with Genesys Predictive Engagement
  • Tasks - Add the Genesys Predictive Engagement snippet to your website and configure web tracking in Predictive Engagement.
• Stage 2 - The customer receives a chat offer.
  • Tasks - Add a web chat widget to your website and configure Genesys Predictive Engagement.
• Stage 3 - The customer accepts the chat offer and receives a welcome message.
  • Tasks - Configure auto-responses.
• Stage 4 - The customer interacts with a chatbot.
  • Tasks - Configure the chat flow, link a chat flow to a web chat widget, and call on a chatbot.
• Stage 5 - The customer escalates to an agent.
  • Tasks - Define the routing strategy.

From this point on, the article is split into five sections, each detailing these pivotal stages of the journey, and it will reference the steps and procedures required to complete that stage of the journey.

Stage 1 - The customer visits the website

In the first stage of the customer journey, the customer visits the website, which is configured with Genesys Predictive Engagement. Predictive Engagement monitors the customer's engagement and decides how and when to engage the customer to achieve a defined desired outcome.

To allow Genesys Predictive Engagement to monitor the customer journey, follow the instructions in the following table.

Important: First ensure that you meet all Genesys Predictive Engagement prerequisites.

Task	Notes
Add the Genesys Predictive Engagement snippet to your website
Configure web tracking in Genesys Predictive Engagement

Stage 2 - The customer receives a chat offer

For this example, let's say your customer browses through the promotional offers on your website and eventually adds items to the cart. The customer then leaves the shopping cart and continues to browse the website. The browsing continues for several minutes, but nothing new is added to the shopping cart. The likelihood that the customer will abandon the shopping cart and leave the website increases, so a popup window appears on-screen, inviting the customer to chat with an agent.

For this scenario to happen, create a widget (Version 2) for web chat and configure Genesys Predictive Engagement, as outlined in the following tables.

Widget configuration

To add the widget for web chat (Version 2) to your website, follow the instructions below. Click the links to see detailed procedures and samples.

Task	Notes
Create the widget and route it to a chat flow	Follow the Version 2 widget procedures to complete this task.
Add the deployment key to your website

Genesys Predictive Engagement configuration

To configure Genesys Predictive Engagement, complete the following instructions. Pay attention to the Notes column for special instructions or configuration notes. The links take you to the documented procedures in the Genesys Predictive Engagement documentation.

Task	Notes
Create a segment in Genesys Predictive Engagement
Create an outcome in Genesys Predictive Engagement
Build an action map in Genesys Predictive Engagement	Important: Make sure to select web chat as the engagement method.
Apply an action map to your website
Route to a target queue	Important: If chatbots will handle interactions, do not enable Route if agents available.
Design the chat offer and chat window

Resources

• About Genesys Predictive Engagement
• Widgets feature comparison
• About widgets for web chat
• Work with web chat interactions
• Genesys Predictive Engagement quick start guide

Stage 3 - The customer accepts the chat offer and receives a welcome message.

The customer accepts the chat offer, the chat window opens, and the customer sees the following message: Hello, we will be with you shortly. This is an example of an auto-response notice. This type of response appears as a system message to the customer.

A few seconds later, the following message appears: Thanks for waiting - how can we help you today? This time, a bot avatar appears next to the message. This is a standard auto-response and is bot-generated. The purpose is to extract preliminary information from the customer.

You can send responses from the chat flow, with the content coming from Genesys Cloud's canned responses. Alternatively, the response can be written directly into the flow.

Refer to the Resources section below to learn more about these options and their associated procedures.

Resources

• Inbound chat flows overview
• About canned responses
• Send Response action

Stage 4 - The customer interacts with a chatbot

In this stage of the journey, the customer begins interacting with a chatbot.

• Chatbot: Thanks for waiting - how can we help you today?
• Customer: I'm wondering about the return policy on these shoes in my shopping cart. I can't find the information on your website.
• Chatbot: You have 30 days from the purchase date to return any item purchased on our website.
• Customer: OK. Thanks. One more question - I want to purchase a loyalty card. Can you help me with that?
• Chatbot: Please hold while I transfer you to an agent.

To enable this type of interaction, complete tasks outlined in the table below.

Task	Notes
Create a flow in Architect	Ensure that the flow is linked to the widget for web chat. See Stage 2.
Call on a chatbot for a supported chatbot integration

Resources

• About Architect
• Inbound chat flows overview
• Task and state editor actions

Stage 5 - The customer escalates to an agent

The chatbot explained the return policy and then asked the customer if there were any more questions:

• Chatbot: Do you have any further questions?
• Customer: Yes, I want to speak to an adviser about purchasing a loyalty card.
• Chatbot: Please hold for a customer service associate.

At this point, you can decide which queue you want to route the customer to. You have two general options: use the suggested queue or define a queue.

Use suggested queue

For this option, you can use the queue defined in the Genesys Predictive Engagement Route to a target option. If no queue is specified in Predictive Engagement, you can use the default queue specified in the website configuration.

Define a queue

If you don't want to use the suggested queue, you can use data actions to do the following:

• Perform a detail visitor lookup in Genesys Predictive Engagement and then suggest a queue based on the search results. For example, if the lookup shows the customer is likely ready to buy something, then it would suggest you route to a live agent in a sales queue.
  
• Choose a queue based on some other pre-defined criteria:
  • Data dips allow customers to gather specific metrics about a given queue before making a decision.
  • Use schedules to determine which queue to route to.

The tasks required to complete this section depend on your routing choices. See the Resources section below to learn more about routing and queue configuration.

Resources

• Interaction routing configuration
• About routing
• Create and configure queues
• Schedules