Human Handoff
Allow AI to transfer a person to a live representative.
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Allow AI to transfer a person to a live representative.
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The Human Handoff action transfers a chat from the AI assistant to a live rep, who replies to chats from the helpdesk dashboard. Once a live rep is handling a chat, it's referred to as a .
Select a Human Handoff action from the tree to open its settings:
User availability check — when enabled, chats are only transferrable to a live rep who's .
Assign chat — determines where the chat gets transferred:
Assign to all users in the sub-company — all live reps in the same sub-company as the AI assistant will see the pending chat and be able to claim it.
Assign to specific users or teams — only the specified teams or live reps will see the chat.
Assign by language (optional) — if the AI assistant supports multiple languages defined in its , you can further concentrate the team/rep assignments by language.
See to configure how chats get assigned to specific live reps.
A chat is automatically returned from a live rep back to the AI assistant when the chat's status is marked as Closed. This initiates the trigger, and any enabled subsequent actions like will take place.
Then, the chat flow will immediately resume from the original Human Handoff action, running through any subsequent actions in the nested When live rep closes chat tree.