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Priority Chats

Wojciech Pollok
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updated: Sep 19, 2024

You can flag chats as “priority” to quickly inform your teammates about urgent issues, keep track of high-value chats during rush hours, or distinguish your bottom-line conversations in archives and reports.

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You can prioritize active chats in the Chats and Traffic sections. This applies to:

  • Active chats
  • Queued chats
  • Supervised chats
  • Unassigned chats

Visibility: Prioritized chats are publicly visible to all users in the Traffic section or during supervision. 

Order: Prioritized active chats ignore the current chats order and move up to the top of the chats list. They will stay on top until they turn idle or get closed.

Active chats only: Closed chats cannot be marked as a priority. If you’re looking for a way to mark chats when they’re inactive, see Tags.

Search: Prioritized chats can be searched for in the Archives thanks to the new priority filter.

Reports: Prioritized chats can be filtered in the Reports section:

  • Total chats
  • Chat satisfaction
  • Chat response times

Restrictions based on a user role and chat status:

👤 Agent - can mark and unmark all of chats assigned to them, queued chats, and unassigned chats (they can’t do that with chats assigned to other agents or bots).

🚫 Agent - cannot unmark chats that were prioritized by Admin/Owner.

⭐️ Owner and Admin - can prioritize and deprioritize all chats.

Priority Chats are available in the Enterprise plan. Check LiveChat pricing for more details.
Priority Chats are available in the Enterprise plan. Check LiveChat pricing for more details.

How to prioritize chats in the Chats sectionLink icon

1
Enter the Chats section.
2
Select the ellipsis button on a chosen chat on the list.
3
Select Prioritize. Alternatively, you can select the flag icon on the top-right part of the chat that is displayed on your screen.
You can also use a keyboard shortcut to prioritize / deprioritize active chats: (Mac OS) ⌃ + ⌥ + i and (Windows) ctrl + alt + i.
You can also use a keyboard shortcut to prioritize / deprioritize active chats: (Mac OS) ⌃ + ⌥ + i and (Windows) ctrl + alt + i.

To deprioritize a chat, select a purple flag icon on the chats list, expanded ellipsis button, or at the top-right corner of a chat.

How to prioritize chats in the Traffic sectionLink icon

1
Enter the Traffic section.
2
Find the chat you’d like to prioritize. Navigate to the Priority column.
3
Hover your mouse cursor over the Priority column field in your chosen chat’s row.
4
Select the flag icon.

To deprioritize a chat, select a purple flag icon on the Priority column.

How to set a priority filter in the Reports sectionLink icon

1
Enter the Reports section, and select one of the applicable reports: Total chats, Chat satisfaction, or Chat response times. Learn more about these reports here.
2
Select + Add filter, and then select Priority.

How to set a priority filter in the Archives sectionLink icon

1
Enter the Archives section.
2
Select + Add filter, and then select Priority.

Archived chats that you prioritized display a flag icon in the Details column.

If you’re looking for a more advanced way to categorize your chats, reports, archives, and other elements of the LiveChat app, visit the tags tutorial.

And if you’re looking to assign agents to departments and route chats to different teams, our groups tutorial will help you achieve that.

In case of any questions or troubles with LiveChat solutions, start a chat with our support heroes team. We’re here 24/7!

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