Contact settings

Contacts, are also sometimes referred to as customers. These are people you communicate with in conversations, and they may also log into Replypad and access their conversations in your workspace. Contacts may optionally be linked to an organization or a company, known as Accounts in Replypad.

Following are the Contact details and settings options.

Name

The contact’s name is displayed whenever choosing the contact as the To or Cc in a conversation.

To edit the contact’s Name, hover over the name, and click the Edit link that appears. Contact name should usually include first and last name.

Email Address

Each contact must have an email address, and may have more than a single address.

To edit the email address, hover over the email address, and click the Actions menu that pops up.

If you want to remove an email address, you first must add a new email address, and only then remove the old one.

Account

Account is the organization this contact belongs to, usually your customer’s company.

To link the contact to an Account, click Select Account.

Status

Possible statuses for contacts are Active and Inactive.

Inactive contacts cannot log in to the Replypad workspace and will not receive email notifications for conversations they are involved in.

To change the status of a contact:

1. Hover over the status click the Change link that appears.
   
2. Choose the status you want between the toggled options.
3. Click Save to save your changes.

Each active contact in your workspace has the option to register and log into Replypad and access their conversations in your workspace. Their Replypad profile and credentials are managed by the contact itself.

Possible statuses are:

• Can join workspace – Contact can now use Replypad to join this workspace as an end-user and participate in conversations related to them. They can join from the ‘Manage workspaces’ page and may need to register to Replypad first.
• Invitation to join workspace sent – Contact can now join this workspace and use Replypad as an end-user to participate in conversations related to them. They can join by following the link included in the invitation email or by using the ‘Manage workspaces’ page in Replypad. They may need to register to Replypad first.
• Has joined workspace – Contact has joined this workspace and can use Replypad as an end-user to participate in conversations related to them.

To send an invitation messages:

1. Hover over the invitation status and click the Actions menu that appears.
2. Choose the email address you want to send the invitation to.

Role

Role determines whether this is a user or end-user.

Possible roles are:

• User (also referred to as team-member or staff member) – User is a team member who can be assigned with conversations and add replies and comments.
• Contact (also referred to as end user or your customer) – is an end-user that can join your workspace to view their conversations.

Access rights

The access rights per contact determined which conversation this contact will be able to view when visiting the workspace in Replypad.

These settings will override the access rights that are defined in the account level

To update the contact access rights:

1. Click the Gear icon on the top-right corner and choose Contacts.
2. Click the contact you want to change
3. Hover over the Access Rights and click Change when it appears.
   
4. Choose between the options:
   • Use Account Default – Take the settings from the account (this is the default behavior)
   • All – All Conversations of the Account are accessible to this Contact
   • Restricted – Only Conversations of this Account that link to this Contact are accessible

Default Labels

Labels in Replypad let you add context to conversations and have them better organized. Each label has a name and a color, which influences the way the label will look like when it is displayed with the conversation.

Choosing a default label will automatically assign the conversation with this label when this contact is selected as the To-contact of the conversation. This way you can mark conversations that have special meaning to you according to the contact.

Conversations

Here you can view and access the latest conversations with this Contact.

From this section you can:

1. View the conversations that have been active lately.
2. Click a conversation’s subject to open the conversation’s detailed view.
3. Click Detailed view to open a detailed view of all the open conversations for the Contact. The detailed view opens a conversation list filtered by the Contact. Clicking Back will return to the Contact settings window.

Custom Fields

Custom Fields are additional fields you can add to Contacts to add more industry-specific information or information relevant to your workflow.

The Custom Fields section in the Contact details is where Replypad displays the custom fields that administrators added to Contacts.

To learn how to edit Custom Fields fields see Edit Custom Fields values.