This article provides some guidelines to help you determine if your account is ready to migrate from live chat to messaging. Companies we surveyed found these improvements after moving over:
- Improved team productivity and efficiency
- Faster ticket resolution times and in less touches
If you see any issues of concern for migration, we recommend you contact your account representative or Zendesk Customer Support before migration.
Your account must meet the following requirements to use messaging:
- Zendesk Suite OR Support + Chat (Team plan or higher) with the Agent Workspace activated.
We recommend that you review the following articles to learn more about messaging:
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Self assessment questions
| Questions | Checklist |
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| Have you built your own chat widget using the Chat Web SDK? |
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Do you use authentication to identify your customers? |
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| Do you use conversion tracking? |
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| Do you use incremental APIs and/or real-time APIs? |
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| Messaging at scale | |
| Do you expect to have over 1000 messaging agents online at the same time? |
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| Do you have more than 500 configured integrations? |
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| Do you anticipate more than 8,000 concurrent conversations/with 200,000 total conversations per day? |
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Next steps
If you answered Yes to any of these questions, contact your account representative or Zendesk Customer Support to help you further evaluate your account and provide assistance with the migration.
If all your answers were No, you are ready to migrate. See Migrating from live chat to messaging.