Message help center

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Set up your workspace, connect a channel or help your team find its flow. Start with a question.

64 guides

Getting started

Create your workspace

Create an account, name your workspace and prepare your first channel.

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Install the chat widget on your site

Choose the supported plugin, store-app or embed setup for your website.

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Invite your team and set roles

Invite teammates with the roles and visibility their work needs.

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Handle your first conversation

Receive a website chat, reply from Inbox, and close it when the customer is helped.

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Set business hours

Create reusable schedules and choose where they apply.

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Getting started

Migrate from Intercom

Preview supported Intercom records, map your team and review the import before switching traffic.

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Inbox

Keyboard controls in Inbox

Use the shortcuts supported by the chat and ticket composers.

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Inbox

Create and use saved replies

Save reusable chat text for yourself or your workspace.

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Inbox

Saved replies, routing and AI tasks

Choose the right tool for a repeated support action.

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Inbox

Route conversations to your team

Configure the destination and assignment strategy for incoming work.

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Inbox

Tag conversations

Use consistent labels to organize customer requests.

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Inbox

Filter Inbox and save report views

Focus the Inbox and bookmark report filters for later.

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Chat widget

Customize your chat widget

Set the widget appearance and preview the visitor experience.

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Chat widget

Configure the pre-chat form

Collect useful details before a visitor starts a chat.

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Chat widget

Recognize returning visitors

Understand browser continuity and the limits of widget identification.

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Chat widget

The widget is not loading

Check installation, connection and visibility settings.

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Chat widget

Use the widget with Content Security Policy

Allow the widget resources your site actually loads.

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Tickets

Turn support email into tickets

Connect a mailbox or forward support mail into the unified Inbox.

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Tickets

Set response expectations for your team

Use business hours and reports while formal SLA automation is unavailable.

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Tickets

Prioritize ticket follow-ups

Keep urgent requests visible and assigned to the right teammate.

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Tickets

Handle requests outside business hours

Set the chat offline experience and phone fallback separately.

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Tickets

Find chats, tickets and calls in one Inbox

Work across connected channels without opening a separate support queue for each.

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Phones

Buy or port a phone number

Search available numbers or submit a port request.

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Phones

Route inbound calls

Choose who answers and what happens when no one is available.

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Phones

Set up and review voicemail

Configure greetings and find recorded messages.

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Phones

Call recording

Review recording settings, access and your business requirements before enabling recording.

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Phones

Configure call transcription

Choose off, live or post-call transcription and verify the result.

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AI

Configure Message AI for support

Build knowledge, choose reply behavior and test before enabling customer replies.

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AI

Choose knowledge sources for Message AI

Give AI approved business information and controlled access to connected data.

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AI

Control when AI hands off

Choose how Message AI involves a teammate.

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AI

Override an AI reply

Correct an answer, review its source and hand the conversation to a person when needed.

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AI

Use AI while callers wait

Understand Smart Hold and AI Receptionist before choosing a call route.

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Knowledge base

Build knowledge from a website or interview

Generate draft answers, review them, then publish approved knowledge.

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Knowledge base

Edit and publish a knowledge article

Save a working draft without immediately replacing the live answer.

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Knowledge base

Publish your help center and custom domain

Use your workspace address or connect a branded help subdomain.

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Knowledge base

Find answers and review knowledge suggestions

Search published help content and improve knowledge from support conversations.

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Knowledge base

Support customers in different languages

Review translated answers and maintain language-specific knowledge carefully.

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Integrations

Install an integration

Connect a supported provider and test the specific workflow you need.

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Integrations

Shopify data mapping

Understand public store knowledge and verified order lookup.

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Integrations

Verify outgoing webhook signatures

Authenticate Message webhook requests before processing them.

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Integrations

Webhook retries and duplicate events

Handle delayed or repeated webhook delivery safely.

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Integrations

Shopify integration troubleshooting

Check installation, source selection and order-verification behavior.

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Billing

Plans and what is included

Compare Inbox products, included support agents and separately billed services.

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Billing

Upgrade, downgrade, or cancel

Review a plan change and its effective date before confirming.

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Billing

Find your invoices

Review invoices and use the billing provider that manages your subscription.

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Billing

Update your payment method

Open the secure billing portal from your workspace.

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Billing

Understand add-ons and usage charges

Separate your subscription, AI agents and metered services.

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Team management

Create departments and assign work

Group teammates by the support work they handle.

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Team management

SAML SSO setup

Confirm identity-provider support and account requirements before planning SSO.

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Team management

Manage agent access

Use roles, departments and channel access to control who can do what.

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Team management

Workspace audit records

Understand the audit API and its scope.

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Reports

Find the right support report

Review chats, tickets, calls, agents and AI with the same date range.

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Reports

Save a filtered report

Bookmark existing reports with the filters your team needs.

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Reports

Export conversations as CSV

Download conversation rows from the selected report period.

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Mobile app

Use Message on mobile

Use Message in your phone browser and check available app installation options.

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Mobile app

Set up notifications on your device

Check application preferences and operating-system permission.

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Mobile app

Answer phone calls from your mobile

Check device support, permissions and call behavior before relying on mobile calling.

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot a missed notification

Check permission, routing and muted conversations before retrying.

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Troubleshooting

Check service status

See the monitored systems and report a problem with useful details.

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshoot an incorrect AI answer

Check published knowledge, connected sources and the conversation’s AI state.

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Troubleshooting

Find a missing call transcript or summary

Check the recorded call and processing result before expecting an AI summary.

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Settings

Set workspace, widget and help-center branding

Update the right surface without assuming every product shares one setting.

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Settings

Configure outgoing webhooks

Choose the product’s supported events and register a secure receiver.

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Settings

API keys

Choose the right credential for the API or product you are connecting.

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Building something
with Message?

Find API endpoints, widget configuration and integration guides in the developer documentation.

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