How about assisting your visitors "face-to-face"? Thanks to video conversations, you can answer their questions in a more comforting and humanised approach.

You can set it up in three steps.

This tutorial summarizes how to integrate the video channel into your conversation strategy. The steps are detailed in the following article.

1. Set up users' account

You first need to define which agents are going to handle video chats.

Read our dedicated article and go to Team > Users > Accounts.

Open user profiles to which you wish to assign video chats and tick the appropriate option in the "Communication" area.

Switch the video channel to « ON ».

If several agents are going to handle video chats, you can choose to give priority to specific users by ticking the appropriate option.

2. Display video chat on your website

Once you have assigned video chats to users, you need to set up iAdvize so that this channel will be displayed on your website.

In your admin, create a video button.

Then create targeting rules to display your button wherever and whenever you want. Here is how you can set up your video strategy:

• option 1: if you wish to simultaneously display chat and video on the same page, you can select a chat + video notification.

It will be then available on the Engagement rule to be activated on your website.

You can now offer a notification chat + video notification to your visitors.

• option 2: if you wish to simultaneously display chat and video on the same page, you can create one floating button as well as one fixed button (one for chat + one for video). Please note: 
• when a visitor clicks on one of the two buttons, the scenario described in option 1 also applies.
• thanks to the floating button, you can still give more visibility to chat conversations and keep asynchronous/bot strategies. You will need to make the fixed video button disappear when no agent is available.

• option3: create a dedicated landing page for video chats. For instance, a bot can initiate a scenario and redirect the visitor to a specific landing page. Please note:
  • as mentioned above, two conversations will be taken into consideration (= two will be invoiced)
  • you will need to display specific information on the landing page as soon as no agent is available for you to avoid transferred visitor's dissatisfaction.
    
    
• option 4: create a dedicated landing page. A bot transfers the visitor to an agent who suggests video appointments and gives the landing page URL on which the video conversation will take place. This option does not however guarantee that the video conversation will take place. You first need to review routing groups to make sure the agent who suggested the appointment is going to be the one who is going to handle the video chat.
  
  
• option 5: display video chat on a restricted perimeter of your website. 
  

• option 6: Set up the video and if no agent is available, display the chat button.
  
  • A. If no agent is available for the video and you want to set up chat even if the agents are not available to answer in real-time (asynchronous chat), it is necessary to follow this configuration :
    • 1 distribution rule dedicated to video composed of an operator group that can do video and chat and that escalates visitor requests to 1 bot that returns 1 other distribution rule with a conversation queue threshold greater than 0
      
      
  • B. If no agent is available for the video and you want to set up a real-time chat, it is necessary to follow this configuration :
    • 1 distribution rule with no queue threshold, with 1 group of operators that can do video and chat

Make sure you set up a waiting queue to 0 for routing groups who are going to handle video conversations. 

3. Set up the chat to video

The chat to video escalation can be activated on the Admin for each agent. 

4. Disable the visitor's camera

One-way video experience allows you to fully disable the camera on the visitor side. Respondents will still be able to turn their camera on or off on their side.

It is also possible to only disable the default camera for the visitor. With this second option, the visitor begins the video experience with the camera disabled by default but can activate it along the way.

To enable either of these two features with the camera disabled, go to the chatbox builder section and then:

• Click on Customize

• Then, click on the video section

Once the option is selected go to the notification builder to explain on the notification that the camera will be disabled (customizable text)

Here is a summary of the possible options with or without camera:

	Lobby (before joining the video session)	Video session ongoing
Classic video session	Browser authorization to access  visitor’s camera Camera activated for visitor	Visitor can turn on/off their camera
Oneway video	No browser authorization to access  visitor’s camera No access to camera for visitor	Visitor cannot turn on/off their camera
Camera deactivated by default	No default browser authorization to access visitor’s camera Camera deactivated by default	Visitor can turn on/off their camera

5. Technical pre-requisites

A compatible browser is necessary as well as opening specific domains/protocols on your network. You will find more information in our dedicated article.

Also, read our article on how to handle video chats in the conversation panel.