How conversations are assigned to agents? – BusinessChat | Help center

The assignment is handled automatically by BusinessChat platform.

Assignment of Bot conversations to users

BusinessChat Platform assigns the conversation to users as follow:

The team that the customer wants to talk to → conversations are assigned based on teams
The platform then check for logged in users → conversations are assigned to logged-in users only
The platform excludes users who have active watching mode → if the watching mode is active, no conversation will be automatically assigned to the agent.
The platform then checks for the users that did not exceed their assignment limit → if a user reached their assignment limit, conversations won't be assigned to them.
Then, the BusinessChat Platform will look for the user with the lowest number of open conversations and assign the conversation to him.

What will happen if the platform could not assign conversations to user?
in that case, conversations will be visible in the Team view in the unassigned view, the agent can manually take over these conversations if required. otherwise, BusinessChat platform will monitor the unassigned conversations until the next user is available to assign the conversation to him.

Other cases where conversations get assigned automatically to users

We have some cases where the conversation are automatically assigned to users:

if a user replies to a bot conversation: in this way, the platform assumes that the user wants to take over the conversation from the bot and accordingly, assigns the conversation to that user.
If a user reopened a conversation, the conversation will be re-assigned to him
if the user closed