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CUSTOMER SELF-SERVICE
By our News Team | 2022
To provide chat self-service effectively, businesses must spend time designing an exceptional user experience.
As consumers increasingly prefer digital communication with businesses instead of calls, more and more SA companies are trying out WhatsApp messaging. But just throwing a chatbot at it is not the answer.
A poor user experience will not only frustrate customers, but can stop them from ever engaging with a business in the channel again, says Joe de Wet, Product Director at Clickatell, the international chat commerce specialist.
“Helping customers achieve what they need through self-service options is a dream come true for organisations looking to drive efficiencies, but to provide chat self-service effectively, businesses must spend time designing an exceptional user experience,” he states.
De Wet lists a few best-practice tips that he believes will help companies get off to the right start.
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Know where your customers are
Firstly, a company needs to know where their users are. This means understanding which messaging or chat app they prefer to use – for example, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Apple Business Chat, or other chat apps. Not all customers are on the same chat channels.
What do you want to achieve?
Businesses need to identify what they want clients to do via a chat channel. Do they only want clients to authenticate in the chat channel, or do they want to provide chat commerce offerings? Understanding what customers want is key, and businesses need to determine what they hope to achieve through the channel.
Understand the technical constraints
Businesses must understand their technical constraints and back-end integration capabilities before they begin the process of integrating a chat ecosystem.
Optimise the user experience
Businesses need to ensure they have thought through an aligned, proven, conversation user experience. One of the first principles of creating a great chat experience is to break down the user journey into bitesize steps with the aim of gently guiding users.
Ensure there will be an outcome
Always ensure a customer outcome. If customers get stuck, they must have the option to be passed on to a human agent who can meet them in the chat channel.
Beware of the ‘dumb’ bot
Don’t settle for a ‘dumb’ bot. There are excellent technologies out there like Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and AI that can be used to build a digital assistant rather than a bot.
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