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Customer guide

Get around Answering Agent without guessing where everything lives.

A simple first-pass guide for owners, managers, and front-desk teams. Learn where to see customer conversations, handle tasks, configure the AI, and turn on the channels your team uses.

Start here

The dashboard is your home base.

When you sign in, use the left navigation to move between conversations, tasks, reports, contacts, phone numbers, and team settings. Most teams live in Tasks and Conversations day to day.

Answering Agent dashboard screenshot

Daily dashboard

The four views most teams use first.

These pages cover the important operating loop: see what happened, handle what needs a person, improve missing answers, and check the trend.

Tasks

Tasks are the things your team needs to do next.

The AI creates tasks when a conversation needs human follow-up: refunds, callbacks, complaints, membership issues, urgent escalations, or anything your setup says should not be handled automatically.

  • Use status to keep work moving: new, in progress, on hold, completed.
  • Assign a task when one person owns the follow-up.
  • Open the linked conversation before replying so the customer context is clear.
Open Tasks
Answering Agent task dashboard screenshot

Conversations

Every channel lands in one conversation history.

Use Conversations when you need the actual call, chat, text, or email thread. Filter by channel, read the summary, scan the transcript, and follow any tasks created from that conversation.

Phone calls

Website chat

SMS

Email

Quick rule

If you want to understand what happened, open Conversations. If you want to know what to do next, open Tasks.

Configure the AI

Most AI behavior lives under Team Settings.

Owners and admins can update what the AI knows, how it sounds, when it creates work, and when it transfers to a person. Start with Knowledge before tuning anything else.

Knowledge

Team Settings -> AI Configuration -> Knowledge

Add hours, pricing, memberships, policies, service rules, and anything the AI should know before answering.

Voice

Team Settings -> AI Configuration -> Voice

Choose the voice, greeting, and speaking style callers hear when the AI answers the phone.

Tasks

Team Settings -> AI Configuration -> Tasks

Tune what should become a follow-up task, which details to capture, and when a human should step in.

Forwarding

Team Settings -> AI Configuration -> Forwarding

Control transfers and escalation rules for calls that should reach a person immediately.

Channels

Turn on the ways customers reach you.

Phone is the core experience. Website Chat, SMS, and Email each have their own setup screen so you can activate the channel, confirm the customer-facing details, and test that conversations land in the dashboard.

Website Chat

Team Settings -> Website Chat

Customize the greeting and quick replies, copy the install snippet, and confirm chats appear in Conversations.

Answering Agent Website Chat settings screenshot

SMS Texting

Team Settings -> SMS Texting

Submit carrier registration, choose the sender number, and turn on AI text responses when ready.

Answering Agent SMS settings screenshot

Email

Team Settings -> Email

Verify your sending domain, forward inbound mail, enable locations, and turn on AI email responses.

Answering Agent Email settings screenshot

Team setup

Invite people, control alerts, and check phone numbers.

Use Team Settings for admin setup and Account Settings for your own notification preferences. Keep phone number assignments current so people only see the work they should handle.

Members

Invite teammates, choose roles, and assign phone numbers or locations.

Notifications

Choose who receives task, conversation, question, and team alerts.

Phone Numbers

Review numbers, location labels, assignments, and routing setup.

Daily rhythm

A simple routine for launch week.

  1. 1Open Tasks and clear anything urgent first.
  2. 2Review Conversations for calls or messages that need context.
  3. 3Check Questions for missing pricing, policy, or location details.
  4. 4Update AI Knowledge when the same issue repeats.
  5. 5Use Reports weekly to see volume, categories, and follow-up trends.