Manage who can start a conversation via Chats Follow

Salesmate Messenger now gives you full control over who can start a new conversation.

You can now choose and allow all visitors to start a new conversation or you can choose to let only specific visitors or customers start a new conversation.

For example, if you only operate for the customers of the United States then you can now configure the settings such that the start new chat button will be visible to only those visitors who are located in the United States.

Configuring settings for conversations

• Navigate to Conversations Icon on the left menu bar
• Click on Chats
• Head to Chat Settings on bottom left.

• Click Set up Messenger in the left sidebar.
• Now select the Conversations tab
• Choose Visitor or Customer tab for configuring their setting respectively.
• The option “Allow starting the new conversation” is enabled by default for all

• The settings as shown in the above image will enable everyone to start a new conversation who visits the website.
  
  
• Select “Allow who matches the condition” to allow only specific people who can start a conversation.
  • Add any number of conditions by clicking on Add condition button
  • Choose AND or OR operator to link the conditions together
  • Click on Add Group button to add another set of conditions that can be linked with the previous set.

• • The settings shown in the above image will enable all the visitors to start a new chat whose location is United States (as per their browser).
    
    
• Hit Update to save your changes for the tab you selected i.e. Visitor or Customer.

These settings are applied asap the widget is loaded on the website. To know about full control over conversations refer to this article Prevent replies to a closed conversation

What visitors will see on your Messenger?

When visitors will come to your website and if they don't match with the conditions to start new conversations then they will not see the button to start a new chat. But they will see the list of their previous conversations if it exists and can reply to their previous conversations (if allowed).