Can the custom bot recognize if the team is available and answer accordingly?

Question

Hi! I am using custom bot to map customer questions before reaching the support team. Some of the questions can be solved with custom bot and some of them needs the agent. When the customer wants to talk to a human would it be possible for custom bot to recognize whether the team is online or not and answer accordingly? It would help a lot to manage customer expectations! Hope you can see what I am after! &#128513;

Daniel M15 · Accepted Answer

Hey @pia​! Daniel from Customer Support Engineering here &#128295;For this, you'll want to set up two bots: one for during office hours, and one for outside of office hours. You can set the bots to only reply during/outside office hours under the Frequency and Scheduling section while editing your bot &#128071;So bot one here will only send during office hours and will have its unique paths, and the same for bot two that replies outside of office hours!Hope this helps &#128513;

User1046 · Answer

@daniel Hey team. I have a similar situation and use case however, I want the bot to know when the 1 agent is set as away during office hours i.e there's no agent available. Can the bot detect that and provide an answer that sets the expectation?

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