A customer writes at nine in the evening. Nobody answers, by morning the message is buried under newer ones, and a day later they buy next door. The fix is a process, not another hire.
01The message arrivesDMs, comments, WhatsApp and Viber land in one queue instead of four apps
02An answer goes out at onceThe person gets an acknowledgement and knows they were seen — even outside hours
03The request is recognisedPrice, availability, booking or complaint — the scenario is chosen by meaning, not by menu buttons
04The customer is identifiedIf they have written or bought before, their history opens — nothing is asked twice
05An action or a personRoutine closes itself; complex goes to an employee together with the conversation
06The outcome in the CRMThe enquiry and its outcome are stored: how many arrived and how many closed without a human
THE MESSAGE'S PATH
What happens to a message once it is sent
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Enquiry from Instagram
OK
The message arrives
21:14 · Instagram
An answer goes out at once
8 seconds
The request is recognised
booking
The customer is identified
customer since 2024
An action or a person
booked for Thursday
The outcome in the CRM
logged
The message arrivesDMs, comments, WhatsApp and Viber land in one queue instead of four apps
An answer goes out at onceThe person gets an acknowledgement and knows they were seen — even outside hours
The request is recognisedPrice, availability, booking or complaint — the scenario is chosen by meaning, not by menu buttons
The customer is identifiedIf they have written or bought before, their history opens — nothing is asked twice
An action or a personRoutine closes itself; complex goes to an employee together with the conversation
The outcome in the CRMThe enquiry and its outcome are stored: how many arrived and how many closed without a human
WHAT USUALLY HAPPENS
Why social enquiries get lost
While the chats live everywhere
DMs are read from a personal phone, and nobody opens them while that person is away
One customer gets two different answers from two different employees
“How much is it?” is asked twenty times a day, and typed out fresh every time
The conversation history stays in the app and never reaches the CRM
Nobody knows how many enquiries came in this week or how many went unanswered
Once the process exists
Every channel in one window, with team access rather than one person's phone
A reply goes out instantly, even at night — in the morning a person sees the context and continues
Routine questions close themselves; staff handle what actually needs a person
The conversation and its outcome land in the customer record next to orders and calls
A report shows the load by channel, hour and employee
WHAT THE WORK INCLUDES
What the project covers
Connecting the channels
Instagram, WhatsApp and Viber connect through official interfaces — no logging in as someone else.
One shared queue
Conversations with status and owner, the customer's history alongside, search by content.
Reply scenarios
Common questions, confirmations and follow-ups — with a clear handover to a person at any point.
Booking and reminders
Appointments booked inside the chat, a reminder the day before and rescheduling without a call.
Assignment rules
Who receives an enquiry: by language, topic, workload and the employee's hours.
CRM link
An enquiry becomes a deal or a task, and the conversation is stored in the customer record.
Handling comments
A question under a post gets an answer and a move into DMs instead of hanging in public.
Reporting
How many enquiries, from which channels, first-response time and the share closed by a scenario.
TECHNOLOGY LANDSCAPE
What holds it together
Official APIsConnecting through the platforms' interfaces, not by emulating a login — accounts stay unblockedScenario engineConditions, waits and handover to a person with the context intactOne customer recordOne person's messages, calls and orders are linked togetherQueue and retriesA message is not lost when a platform is briefly unavailableConversation logA full history marked with what the scenario answered and what a person didMonitoringIf a channel drops, we know before customers stop getting answers
Accounts and business profiles stay yours; access is granted to the app and revocable at any time. We follow the platforms' rules: bulk messaging without consent gets a number or a page blocked.
QUESTIONS
What people usually ask
Will customers notice they are talking to automation?
We do not disguise a scenario as a live employee. A fast, relevant reply — a confirmation, a price, an available slot — reads as normal service. The moment a question falls outside the scenario a person steps in and sees the whole conversation, so the customer never starts over.
Will the account get blocked for automating?
Blocks come from breaking the platform's rules — messaging without consent, emulating a login, aggressive bulk sends — not from automation itself. We connect through official interfaces and stay inside the limits: we answer people who wrote first rather than blasting a list.
People write to us in three languages. Is that a problem?
No, in Serbia that is closer to the norm. The language is detected automatically, the reply goes back in the same one, and assignment accounts for which staff work in which language. Scenarios are written for all three from the start — otherwise some customers get an answer in the wrong language.
What if we only get ten messages a day?
Then a full automation project is overkill, and we will say so. At that volume it is usually enough to bring the channels into one window, set an out-of-hours acknowledgement and link conversations to the CRM. Scenarios come later, once patterns appear.
Can we send offers to customers?
In messengers, only to people who explicitly agreed, and within the platform's rules, which set separate requirements and time windows for promotional messages. We configure consent and opt-out so it does not lead to complaints and blocks; we do not do bulk sends without consent.
A customer writes at nine in the evening. Nobody answers, by morning the message is buried under newer ones, and a day later they buy next door. The fix is a process, not another hire.