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Chat list and conversations

For: Everyone who answers WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok Shop and live chat messagesRequires: The Chats permission; the AI summary and the AI rewrites need AI switched onScreenshots show sample data

The Chats screen is where your team answers instant messages: WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok Shop messages and the conversations from your live chat widget, all in one list. Open it from Chats in the sidebar and pick My Chats, Open or Closed. The list sits on the left; selecting a chat opens the conversation in the middle and a side panel on the right with the assignees, the status, the AI summary, the customer, notes, order search and the customer’s tickets. A chat is not a ticket: it has its own lists, templates and auto-responses, and your replies go straight back to the customer on the channel they wrote on.

The Open list under Chats in Replyco, with no chat selected. At the top are the heading Open, a Search box and the Filter by Account and Filter by User selects. Below, six chats are listed with the customer's name, the start of the latest message, a blue unread badge, the channel icon with the account name and, in colour, the time without response: Ethan Price on WhatsApp (Northwind Support, green, 2 minutes), Grace Mitchell on the Northwind Live Chat (yellow, 7 minutes), Sophie Turner on Instagram (red, 28 minutes), Ryan Cooper on Messenger with a blue tick for a reply already sent, Hannah Wright on Telegram (red, 1 hour) and James Walker on WhatsApp, also with a blue tick. The live chat row is highlighted; selecting a row opens that conversation.
Open lists every open chat you are responsible for, newest first, with its channel and how long the customer has been waiting.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Open (/chats/open)
Highlighted
button “”, chat-list, unread. opens the conversation
Also visible
heading Open; Search, Filter by Account, Filter by User; 6 chats on WhatsApp, live chat, Instagram, Messenger and Telegram; unread badges, reply ticks, time without response in green, yellow and red
Purpose
the chat list as it opens
RegionWhat it showsWhat you do there
Header, leftThe name of the list: My Chats, Open or ClosedCheck which list you are in
Header, rightSearch, Filter by Account and, except on My Chats, Filter by UserNarrow the list
Chat list, leftOne row per chat, newest message first, ten at a time; scroll for moreSelect a chat to open it
Conversation, middleThe messages of the open chat, oldest at the top, with the reply box at the bottomRead and reply
Side panel, rightThe chat’s title, Assigned, the status, AI Summary, Customer Details, Notes, Order Details and TicketsAssign, close, catch up, work with the customer

The sidebar shows three counters. Next to Open is the number of unread messages in the open chats you are responsible for or assigned to, next to My Chats the unread messages in chats assigned to you, and next to Chats itself the number of open chats with unread messages. You can switch that last counter to unread messages with Chat badge in the menu in Account Settings.

Chats has three lists, and a chat is in exactly one of the open or closed ones:

ListWhich chats it holds
My ChatsOpen chats assigned to you
OpenOpen chats of the accounts and live chat widgets you are responsible for, plus every open chat assigned to you
ClosedClosed chats, by the same rule as Open

You are responsible for an account’s or widget’s chats when an admin has given you access to that account or widget; see Invite users and set what they can do. The newest message decides the order: the chat with the latest message is at the top. The list loads ten chats and adds more as you scroll down.

Each row shows, from top to bottom:

  • the customer’s name; for a live chat, the name followed by the email address in brackets, as the customer typed them into the widget;
  • the start of the latest message, or File when it was only a file, with a blue badge counting the unread messages;
  • the channel’s icon and the name of the account or live chat widget;
  • while the latest message is the customer’s, Time without response: and how long ago it arrived, in green under 5 minutes, yellow under 10 minutes and red from 10 minutes.

When the latest message is yours, the row has a blue tick before the text and a blue line on its left edge, and the waiting time disappears. For example, a customer who wrote 7 minutes ago shows a yellow line reading 7 minutes; once you reply, the line goes and the tick appears.

On Open, opening the list also fetches new conversations from connected Instagram and TikTok Shop accounts; the top of the list shows Sync from marketplaces with a spinner meanwhile. The other channels deliver their messages to Replyco as they arrive. A list with no chats shows No chats were found..

The Open chat list in Replyco with the Filter by Account select open at the top right. The highlighted select lists Select all, then the chat accounts: Northwind Support (WhatsApp), Northwind Electronics (Facebook Messenger), northwind.electronics (Instagram), Northwind Electronics Bot (Telegram), Northwind TikTok Shop and, further down, the Northwind Live Chat widget. Behind it the six open chats stay listed. Choosing one or more accounts reloads the list with only their chats and closes any conversation that is open.
Filter by Account narrows the list to chosen chat accounts and live chat widgets.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Open (/chats/open)
Highlighted
combobox “Filter by Account”, list-toolbar, open. filters the list by account or widget
Also visible
Select all; 5 chat accounts and the Northwind Live Chat widget; the open chats behind the drop-down
Purpose
filter the chat list
  1. Type part of the customer’s name into Search and press Enter or select the magnifier. Replyco searches the chat titles, which hold the customer’s name and, for live chats, their email address; it does not search the text of the messages.
  2. Open Filter by Account and pick one or more chat accounts or live chat widgets, or Select all.
  3. On Open and Closed, open Filter by User and pick one or more colleagues to see the chats assigned to them.

A second after you change a filter, the list reloads and any open conversation closes, so choose your filters before you open a chat. The filters stay while you switch between the lists and reset when you leave Chats or reload the page.

For example, pick Northwind Support in Filter by Account to work through only the WhatsApp chats, or pick a colleague in Filter by User to take over their chats while they are away.

A WhatsApp chat with Ethan Price open under Chats, Open. His row is highlighted at the top of the list. In the middle, the conversation runs from the oldest message: his question about the USB-C Hub 7-in-1 and a 4K monitor at 30 Hz, Henry Clarke's first reply and his answer, a PDF quick guide, and the customer's new question about charging, each with date and time; WhatsApp chats get no auto-responses. The side panel on the right shows the Assigned select with Henry Clarke, the status Open, the AI Summary with a badge 1, Customer Details with his phone number, Notes (1), Order Details and his earlier ticket. The text box at the bottom reads Type your message.
Selecting a chat opens the conversation in the middle and everything about the chat in the side panel.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Open (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
button “”, chat-list, selected. shows the conversation
Also visible
5 messages: 2 replies by Henry Clarke, a PDF, 2 customer messages; Assigned: Henry Clarke; Status: Open; AI Summary with badge 1; Customer Details, Notes (1), Order Details, Tickets; text box and composer icons
Purpose
an open conversation

Select a row and the conversation opens in the middle; the address of the page now ends in the chat’s ID, so you can bookmark it or send it to a colleague. The oldest message is at the top and the screen scrolls to the newest; scroll up to load older messages, ten at a time.

The customer’s messages are on the left in white, with their initials and name; your team’s replies are on the right in blue, with the colleague’s name. Every message shows its date and time to the second. A message from a live chat also shows from the page and the address of the page the customer was on, so you know which product they were looking at.

What you seeWhat it is
A picture, sticker or animationShown in the message; right-click for Download
A video or a voice messagePlayed in the message
A document with its file nameSelect it to open or download the file
An Instagram story reply or mentionLabelled You have received reply to the story: or You were mentioned in the story: with the story
A quoted message above a messageThe message it replies to; Message not found! when that message is no longer in Replyco
Unsupported message type on a yellow bubbleA message type Replyco cannot show, such as a location
A reply with the Replyco logo and as auto-response “{{autoresponse}}”An auto-response, with the name of the rule that sent it
Sending is scheduled for and a timeAn auto-response waiting to be sent; the red x cancels it after Are you sure to cancel this message?
Red text Error Sending under a replyA reply the channel refused, with the reason
Someone is typing now... or a name with “is typing” under the last messageA colleague writing in this chat, or the live chat customer typing

Auto-responses are set up under Chat ToolsAutomation; how their rules decide when to answer is in Auto-responses for chats. They answer Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok Shop chats and live chats; WhatsApp chats never get an auto-response, so there the first answer is always your team’s. When you or a colleague sends a reply, auto-responses still waiting in that chat are cancelled.

Opening a chat marks its messages as read for your whole team, not only for you: the badges go down for everyone. On WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, Replyco also marks the messages as read for the customer, so they see that you have read them; on Instagram, Telegram, TikTok Shop and live chat it does not.

The side panel of a WhatsApp chat in Replyco, below the customer's name Ethan Price. The Assigned select at the top is open and highlighted: Henry Clarke is already chosen as a tag with an x, and the list below shows the team, Chloe Osborne, Simon Wagner, Laura Graf, Theo Rowe, Joseph Walker and Henry Clarke with a tick. Selecting a name adds that colleague to the chat at once; the x on a tag removes them. A chat can have several assignees.
Assign colleagues to the chat in the side panel; each choice is saved at once.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Assigned (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
combobox “Assigned”, side-panel-top, open. assigns or unassigns users
Also visible
Henry Clarke assigned; 6 team members in the list
Purpose
assign a chat

The top of the side panel shows the chat’s title and two selects.

  1. To assign the chat, open Assigned and pick a colleague. The chat is assigned at once and appears in their My Chats. Pick more colleagues to share the chat; select the x on a name to remove them.
  2. To close the chat, open the status select and pick Closed. The chat leaves Open and My Chats, moves to Closed, and all its messages count as read.
  3. To reopen a closed chat, pick Open in the same select.

Sending a reply assigns you to the chat if you were not assigned yet, so a chat you answer shows up in your My Chats. Any new message reopens a closed chat: when the customer writes again, the chat is back in Open, with the same assignees. A reply you send from a closed chat reopens it too.

For example, Laura answers a live chat about a delivery address, the customer thanks her, and she closes the chat. Next week the same customer writes “Where is my parcel?” through the widget: the chat reopens, still assigned to Laura, and she gets the notification.

The side panel of a WhatsApp chat with Ethan Price in Replyco. Under the Assigned select (Henry Clarke) and the status select Open, the AI Summary heading is highlighted, with a blue badge 1 for one message the summary does not cover yet. The summary box lists two points: the customer received the USB-C Hub 7-in-1 and the monitor runs at 30 Hz only; the agent explained 4K at 30 Hz and sent the quick guide. Below are Customer Details with Email N/A and a phone number, Notes (1), Order Details and Tickets with his earlier ticket about the hub.
The side panel sums up the chat and shows the customer, notes, order search and the customer's tickets.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
AI Summary (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
heading “AI Summary”, side-panel, summary shown. none; the badge counts uncovered messages
Also visible
Assigned and status selects; AI Summary with 2 points and badge 1; Customer Details: Email N/A, phone; Notes (1); Order Details; Tickets: 1 earlier ticket
Purpose
the side panel of a chat

The AI Summary panel sums up the chat in a few bullet points, for example Customer received the USB-C Hub 7-in-1; their 4K monitor runs at 30 Hz only. The blue badge next to the heading counts the messages the summary does not cover yet; its tooltip reads Uncovered Messages.

  • A chat that has no summary shows Generate Summary.
  • Once five or more messages are newer than the summary, the panel shows Regenerate Summary.
  • Chats are never summarised by themselves; a summary is written only when someone selects one of these buttons.

Replyco writes the summary from the chat’s 15 most recent messages and keeps one summary per chat, which your whole team sees. The panel appears when AI summaries are switched on with Thread Summary in AI Settings. Which language the summary is written in, and how it counts towards AI usage, is in AI summaries.

Work with the customer, notes, order and tickets

Section titled “Work with the customer, notes, order and tickets”

Below the summary, the side panel holds four parts.

Customer Details shows the customer’s name, email and phone, or N/A for what the channel does not provide; WhatsApp gives a phone number, the live chat an email address. Select the name to open the customer in Customers. Replyco links a chat to its customer by itself. For a live chat, it looks for customers with the same email address: with one match it links the chat, with several it shows Select customer so you choose. To link the chat to another customer, for example the shop customer with this person’s orders, select the bin icon, confirm Are you sure you want to delete this customer? and pick the right one in Select customer, which searches your marketplace and shop customers. Until a customer is linked, you cannot reply: the reply box is disabled and shows Select the recipient to send the message to....

Notes holds internal notes on the chat, collapsed with their number in the heading. The customer never sees them. They work as notes on a ticket; see The ticket screen.

Order Details and Tickets appear once a customer is linked. The order part lists the customer’s orders, or offers fields to find one: Enter Marketplace Order# on a TikTok Shop chat, and one field per connected order-management system. The tickets part lists the customer’s tickets, five at a time; select one to open it.

A WhatsApp chat with Ethan Price in Replyco with the template popover open above the composer, opened from the template icon next to the paper clip. Its select is open, with a search field and a list of four chat templates: Order status, Pass-through charging, Returns and Anything else?; Pass-through charging is highlighted. The conversation with the customer's question about charging is visible behind it, and the side panel with the AI Summary on the right. Choosing a template replaces the text in the box with the template's text.
The template icon lists your chat templates; picking one fills the text box.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Select Template (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
option “”, composer, highlighted. puts the template text into the text box
Also visible
popover Select Template; 4 chat templates; the conversation behind
Purpose
reply with a chat template

The reply box is at the bottom of the conversation. Type your reply and press Enter to send it; Shift+Enter starts a new line. The icons to the right of the box:

IconWhat it does
Form, Select templateOpens Select Template with your chat templates; choosing one replaces the text in the box with the template’s text
Paper clip, Add attachmentPicks a file and sends it at once, together with any text in the box
Sparkle with an arrow, AI HelpRewrites the text in the box in one of nine ways, from Make Shorter to Correct Spelling
Blue arrowSends the reply

Chat templates are plain text with a name, written under Chat ToolsAutomation; they have no placeholders, so personalise the text before you send it. To write or change them, see Chat templates. The chat reply box has no snippets and no emoji picker; the ticket editor’s snippets do not work here.

Files can be up to 20 MB; a larger one is refused with File size is more than 20MB.. On Instagram you can send only pictures (.bmp, .ico, .jpg, .jpeg, .png). On WhatsApp, Replyco sends .jpg and .png as pictures, .mp4 and .3gp as videos, .webp as stickers, .mp3, .mpeg, .amr and .ogg as audio, and everything else as a document.

While you type, colleagues who have the chat open see that someone is typing. Your reply appears in the conversation at once; if the connection drops, the box shows Connection unstable. Retrying (attempt {{attempt}}/{{max}})... while Replyco tries again up to three times. The channel still decides whether it delivers your reply: WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram accept an ordinary reply only within 24 hours of the customer’s last message. The whole routine, and what to do when a channel refuses a reply, is in Answer a chat.

A live chat with Grace Mitchell from the Northwind Live Chat widget, open under Chats, Open. Her first message shows the date and "from the page" with the product page it was sent from; below it the welcome auto-response, with the Replyco logo and as auto-response “Welcome message”. A right-click on Laura Graf's reply has opened a small menu with two entries, Edit and Delete; Edit is highlighted. The side panel shows the chat title with a three-dot icon, Assigned Laura Graf, the status Open, a Generate Summary button, Customer Details with her email address and a ticket of hers. Edit puts the reply back into the text box to change it.
Right-click a message for its actions; which ones appear depends on the channel.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Open (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
menuitem “Edit”, conversation, menu open. puts the message into the text box for editing
Also visible
context menu: Edit, Delete; from the page link under the customer's message; the welcome auto-response; three-dot icon next to the chat title; Generate Summary button
Purpose
act on one message

Right-click a message to see what you can do with it. What the menu offers depends on the channel and on who sent the message:

ActionWhere it appearsWhat it does
Reply to MessageTelegram chatsQuotes the message above your next reply
EditYour team’s messages in live chat and Telegram chatsPuts the text back into the reply box with a pencil bar above it; sending saves the change
DeleteYour team’s messages in live chat, Telegram and TikTok Shop chatsDeletes the message after Are you sure you want to delete the message?
DownloadPictures, stickers, animations and Instagram storiesSaves the file

A reply or edit in progress shows a grey bar above the box with the message’s text; the x on the bar cancels it. On Telegram, a deleted message is also removed from the customer’s Telegram, and an edit changes it there. On live chat, the customer’s widget shows the change. On TikTok Shop you can delete your team’s messages but not edit them, and a deleted message is removed only in Replyco. WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram messages cannot be edited or deleted from Replyco.

The Transcript dialog of a live chat in Replyco, opened from the three-dot icon next to the chat title. Under the heading Transcript and the line Choose Transcript to Send, the select shows the transcript Chat transcript. At the bottom right the blue Send Transcript button is highlighted; the arrow beside it opens a second choice, Transform Into a Ticket. Send Transcript emails the whole chat to the customer as a new ticket and notes it in the chat.
On a live chat, send the customer a transcript of the conversation by email.
What this screenshot shows
Screen
Transcript (/chats/:type/:chatId)
Highlighted
button “Send Transcript”, dialog-bottom-right, enabled. sends the transcript as a ticket by email
Also visible
heading Transcript; Choose Transcript to Send; select with Chat transcript; arrow for Transform Into a Ticket
Purpose
send a chat transcript

On a live chat, a three-dot icon next to the chat’s title opens the Transcript dialog. The icon appears only on live chats, and only when your company has at least one active transcript.

  1. Select the three-dot icon next to the chat’s title.
  2. Under Choose Transcript to Send, pick a transcript in Select a Transcript.
  3. Select Send Transcript, or the arrow next to it and Transform Into a Ticket.

Send Transcript emails the whole conversation to the customer as a new ticket, from the account and with the subject the transcript names, and assigns that ticket to you. The chat gets the note Chat Transcript was successfully sent. Transform Into a Ticket opens Create Ticket with the conversation filled in, so you can change it before sending. Without a transcript picked, Replyco shows Please select a Transcript.. To create transcripts and choose their email account, see Transcripts.

The controls of the Chats screen, from the header across the list and the conversation to the side panel.

Where

Sidebar, under Chats. The header of the screen repeats the list’s name.

What

The three lists of chats: open chats assigned to you; open chats you are responsible for or assigned to; closed chats by the same rule. Newest message first, ten at a time.

Why

Work your own queue first, then help with the team’s open chats.

Where

Header, right. Runs when you press Enter or select the magnifier.

What

Finds chats whose title contains the text: the customer’s name, and for live chats their email address. Message text is not searched.

Why

Find a customer’s chat when they call or email about it.

Where

Header, right. Filter by User is not on My Chats.

What

Filter by Account lists your WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok Shop accounts and your live chat widgets, with Select all. Filter by User lists your colleagues and shows chats assigned to any of them. Both reload the list a second after a change and close the open chat.

Why

Split the work by channel or cover a colleague’s chats.

PartWhat it showsWhy
NameThe customer; for live chat, name and email in brackets (hover the avatar for the email)Know who is waiting
Latest messageThe start of the newest message, or FileSee what the chat is about without opening it
Blue badgeUnread messagesSpot new messages
Blue tick and left lineThe newest message is your team’sSee which chats are answered
Channel icon and accountWhere the chat came inKnow which channel’s rules apply
Time without response:How long the customer’s newest message has waited: green under 5 minutes, yellow under 10, red from 10Answer the longest wait first
Where

Middle of the screen. Right-click a message for its menu.

What

The chat’s messages with sender, date and time, files, auto-responses and delivery errors. The menu offers Reply to Message, Edit, Delete and Download where the channel allows them.

Why

Read the whole conversation and correct a message you sent, where the channel lets you.

Where

Under a reply, in red.

What

The reply did not reach the customer; the text after the colon is the reason. Retry appears when your own connection failed while sending; it sends the same reply again. A refusal by the channel, such as WhatsApp’s 24-hour rule, has no Retry.

Why

Know which replies the customer never received.

Where

Bottom of the conversation. Enter sends, Shift+Enter adds a line.

What

Holds your reply, one to four lines high. It is disabled while a reply is being sent, while the connection to Replyco’s chat service is down, and when the chat has no customer (Select the recipient to send the message to...).

Why

Answer in the channel the customer used, without leaving Replyco.

Where

Right of the reply box, the form icon with the tooltip Select template.

What

Opens Select Template with a searchable list of your chat templates. The chosen template’s text replaces what is in the box.

Why

Give the same good answer to a common question in seconds; see Chat templates.

Where

Right of the reply box, the paper clip.

What

Opens your computer’s file picker and sends the chosen file at once, with the text in the box. Up to 20 MB; pictures only on Instagram.

Why

Send a manual, a photo or an invoice where the customer is.

Where

Right of the reply box, the sparkle with an arrow. Only with AI switched on for your company.

What

Nine rewrites of the text in the box: Make Shorter, Make Longer, Improve Writing, Simplify Writing, Make Formal, Make Informal, Make Professional, Make Friendly and Correct Spelling. The result replaces your text. With an empty box it does nothing.

Why

Turn a quick note into a friendly, correct reply.

Where

Right end of the reply box, the blue circle.

What

Sends the text, or saves an edit. Pale while the box is empty.

Why

Send with the mouse instead of Enter.

Where

Side panel, top. Saves on each choice.

What

The colleagues assigned to the chat, any number of them. Adding someone puts the chat into their My Chats; the x removes them.

Why

Make clear who answers, or hand a chat over.

Where

Side panel, under Assigned. Saves on choice.

What

Open or Closed. Closing moves the chat to Closed and marks its messages read; a new message reopens it.

Why

Keep the open lists to the chats that still need something.

Where

Side panel, next to the chat’s title. Live chats only, when an active transcript exists.

What

Opens the Transcript dialog with Send Transcript and Transform Into a Ticket.

Why

Give the customer a written record of the chat; see Transcripts.

Where

Side panel, under the status. Only when AI summaries are on in AI Settings.

What

The stored summary as bullet points, a badge with the messages it does not cover, and Generate Summary or Regenerate Summary (from five newer messages). Never written automatically for chats.

Why

Catch up on a long chat before you answer; see AI summaries.

Where

Side panel. Bin icon at the panel’s right to remove the customer.

What

The linked customer’s name, email and phone, with Select customer when no customer or several candidates are found.

Why

Know who you are talking to and connect the chat to their orders and tickets.

Where

Side panel, collapsed; the number of notes is in the heading.

What

Internal notes on the chat, never shown to the customer.

Why

Leave context for the colleague who takes the chat over.

Where

Side panel, bottom. Only with a linked customer.

What

The customer’s orders or the fields to find one, and the customer’s tickets, five at a time.

Why

Answer order questions and see earlier conversations by email or marketplace.

These personal settings change only your own Chats screen and alerts.

SettingWhereWhat it changes
New Chat Message (All)NotificationsA pop-up for new messages in all chats you are responsible for or assigned to
New Chat Message (Personal)NotificationsA pop-up only for new chats with nobody assigned and for messages in chats assigned to you
Pop-up Chat SoundsNotificationsA sound with the chat pop-up
Chat badge in the menuAccount SettingsThe counter next to Chats: Unread Chats or Unread Chat Messages

Pop-ups never appear for the chat you have open.

Part of the screenWhat decides whether you see it
Chats in the sidebarThe Chats permission, set per user by an admin, and a plan with chats (every plan); see User permissions and roles
Chats in Open and ClosedThe accounts and live chat widgets an admin gave you access to, plus chats assigned to you
AI SummaryAI (every plan) and AI summaries switched on in AI Settings
AI HelpAI (every plan)
The three-dot transcript iconLive chats, when your company has an active transcript
EditYour team’s messages on live chat and Telegram
DeleteYour team’s messages on live chat, Telegram and TikTok Shop
Reply to MessageTelegram chats
Order Details, TicketsA customer linked to the chat
Filter by UserOpen and Closed

Chats, WhatsApp and the live chat widget are part of every plan. See What each plan includes.

TopicFact
OrderNewest message first; ten chats per page, more as you scroll
Read stateShared by the team: opening a chat marks it read for everyone; WhatsApp and Messenger customers see a read receipt
AssigneesAny number per chat; replying assigns you
ReopeningAny new message, from the customer or your team, reopens a closed chat
Auto-responsesMessenger, Instagram, Telegram, TikTok Shop and live chat; never WhatsApp
Waiting timeGreen under 5 minutes, yellow under 10, red from 10; only while the customer’s message is the newest
SummaryOn request only; renew from five newer messages; one per chat
FilesUp to 20 MB; pictures only on Instagram
Reply windowWhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram accept ordinary replies within 24 hours of the customer’s last message
FiltersKept while you switch lists, reset when you reload; changing one closes the open chat
Live updatesNew messages and assignments arrive without reloading while you are connected

Open under Chats shows the open chats of the accounts and live chat widgets an admin gave you access to, plus open chats assigned to you. If the chat’s account is not yours and nobody assigned it to you, it is not listed; ask an admin to give you the account, or a colleague to assign you. A closed chat is in Closed.

What is the difference between my list and the Open list?

Section titled “What is the difference between my list and the Open list?”

My Chats lists only the open chats assigned to you. Open lists every open chat you are responsible for through your accounts and live chat widgets, assigned to you or not. Use My Chats as your queue and Open to pick up unassigned chats.

No. Search at the top of the Chats screen matches the chat title, which is the customer’s name and, for live chats, their email address. To find a chat by what was said, search for the customer’s name, or use Filter by Account to narrow the list to one account first.

Why did the conversation I had open disappear when I changed a filter?

Section titled “Why did the conversation I had open disappear when I changed a filter?”

Changing Filter by Account or Filter by User reloads the chat list a second later and closes any open conversation, because the chat might not be in the filtered list. Set your filters first, then open the chat you want to answer.

What do the green, yellow and red lines in the list mean?

Section titled “What do the green, yellow and red lines in the list mean?”

The line Time without response: shows how long the customer’s newest message has waited: green under 5 minutes, yellow under 10 minutes, red from 10 minutes. It appears only while the newest message is the customer’s; your reply removes it and adds a blue tick instead.

Where do new Instagram and TikTok Shop messages come from?

Section titled “Where do new Instagram and TikTok Shop messages come from?”

Opening Open fetches new conversations from your connected Instagram and TikTok Shop accounts, showing Sync from marketplaces meanwhile. Opening a chat on those channels fetches its latest messages too. WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and live chat messages reach Replyco as they arrive.

Does opening a chat mark it as read for my colleagues too?

Section titled “Does opening a chat mark it as read for my colleagues too?”

Yes. Read or unread belongs to the message, not to each user, so when anyone opens a chat on the Chats screen, its unread badge and the sidebar counters go down for the whole team. On WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger the customer also sees that the messages were read.

Can more than one person be assigned to a chat?

Section titled “Can more than one person be assigned to a chat?”

Yes. In the side panel of the chat, open Assigned and pick as many colleagues as you need; each of them sees the chat in My Chats. Replying to a chat also adds you as an assignee if you were not one already.

What happens when a customer writes to a closed chat?

Section titled “What happens when a customer writes to a closed chat?”

The chat reopens by itself: it leaves Closed, returns to Open and to the My Chats list of its assignees, and the new message is unread. A reply sent by your team in a closed chat reopens it in the same way.

Why did a WhatsApp chat get no auto-response?

Section titled “Why did a WhatsApp chat get no auto-response?”

Chat auto-responses answer Messenger, Instagram, Telegram and TikTok Shop chats and live chats from your website widget, but never WhatsApp chats; the rules under Chat ToolsAutomation cannot select a WhatsApp account. Answer WhatsApp chats yourself, quickly, because WhatsApp accepts ordinary replies only within 24 hours of the customer’s last message.

Why can I not edit or delete a message I sent on WhatsApp?

Section titled “Why can I not edit or delete a message I sent on WhatsApp?”

Replyco offers Edit in the right-click menu only on live chat and Telegram chats, and Delete on those and on TikTok Shop chats, in both cases only on your team’s messages. WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram messages cannot be changed from Replyco; send a correction as a new message instead.

The reply box on the Chats screen is disabled while a reply is being sent, while your browser has lost its connection to Replyco’s chat service, and when no customer is linked to the chat. In the last case it shows Select the recipient to send the message to...; pick the customer in Select customer in the side panel. For a lost connection, reload the page.

Can I use snippets, placeholders or emojis in a chat reply?

Section titled “Can I use snippets, placeholders or emojis in a chat reply?”

The chat reply box has chat templates, files and AI Help, but no snippets, no placeholders such as a customer’s first name and no emoji picker. Chat templates are plain text, so edit the text in the box before sending when it needs the customer’s name.

Chats are never summarised automatically. Select Generate Summary in the AI Summary panel of the chat’s side panel. If the panel is missing, AI summaries are switched off with Thread Summary in AI Settings.

Why is there no Regenerate button although new messages arrived?

Section titled “Why is there no Regenerate button although new messages arrived?”

Regenerate Summary appears in a chat’s side panel once five or more messages are newer than the summary. Until then, the badge next to AI Summary counts the messages the summary does not cover. The summary is always written from the chat’s 15 most recent messages.

Why is there no transcript icon in my chat?

Section titled “Why is there no transcript icon in my chat?”

The three-dot icon next to the chat’s title, which opens Transcript, appears only on live chats from your website widget, and only when your company has at least one active transcript. WhatsApp and other messenger chats have no transcripts. Transcripts are created under Transcripts.

In your Notifications, switch on New Chat Message (All) for every message in chats you are responsible for or assigned to, or New Chat Message (Personal) for new unassigned chats and your own chats only, and Pop-up Chat Sounds for a sound. The pop-up does not appear for the chat you have open.

SymptomWhat to check
Chats is not in the sidebarYour user needs the Chats permission; an admin sets it in AdminUsers. See Invite users and set what they can do.
No chats were found.Clear Search, Filter by Account and Filter by User; check Closed; check that you have access to the chat accounts and widgets.
A colleague sees a chat that you do notThey are responsible for its account or widget, or assigned. Ask to be assigned, or for access to the account.
The reply box is greyed out with Select the recipient to send the message to...No customer is linked: pick one in Select customer under Customer Details.
The reply box is greyed out without a tooltip, or Connection unstable. Retrying (attempt {{attempt}}/{{max}})...Your connection to Replyco’s chat service dropped. Check your internet connection and reload the page.
Failed to send message. Please check your connection. and Error Sending with RetryYour connection failed while sending. Select Retry once the connection is back.
Error Sending with “Re-engagement message” on WhatsAppThe customer’s last message is more than 24 hours old; WhatsApp refuses ordinary replies. See Answer a chat.
An error pop-up starting “2018278” on Messenger or InstagramThe customer has not written for more than 24 hours; Meta refuses the reply, and it is not saved.
File size is more than 20MB.The file is over 20 MB. Send a smaller file or a link.
A WhatsApp chat got no auto-responseExpected: auto-responses never answer WhatsApp chats. Answer them yourself; see Auto-responses for chats.
No AI Summary panelAI summaries are off in AI Settings.
We cannot find this Chat.The link points to a chat Replyco cannot load, for example one that no longer exists. Open the chat from the list instead.