Live Chat - Settings

A detailed explanation of your TOMIS Live Chat settings (desktop & mobile app).

Live Chat Availability

  • Your availability to receive chats. Does NOT affect the availability of other employees.

  • You will only receive notifications when you are online

Your Display Name

  • The name you want customers to see when you join the chat

Push Notifications (mobile only)

  • It's very important to allow push notifications for TOMIS
  • If you manage several sites in the TOMIS App, toggle on/off notifications per site

Browser Notifications (desktop only)

  • It’s very important to turn this setting ON, otherwise you’ll miss new chats!

  • You MUST allow your browser to send notification.

  • To receive notifications, you MUST keep your browser open and set your availability to “online”.

  • You do NOT need to keep app.tomis.tech as an open tab. 

Straight to Live Chat - bypass AI chatbot

  • Enables Live Chat!
  • Requires all Chatbot users to enter their name & email address. 
  • Will send notifications to all available support agents. 

Time To Accept Chat

  • How much time will support agents be given to accept a new chat. 
  • Options range from 10 seconds to 5 minutes.

  • If time expires and no one has accepted the chat, the AI Chatbot will respond with your company contact information & answer the customer's question. 

Chatbot Name

  • Name to be displayed to customers when Chatbot is in charge of the conversation.

  • It is paired with a robot icon. The robot icon cannot be customized at this time.

Chatbot Color

  • Must be dark enough for white text to appear

  • Should be color hex like "#f3941e"

Hide New Messages Previews

  • Hides the TOMIS Chatbot welcome message preview.

  • Consider enabling this feature if the Chatbot is hiding valuable content on your website.

Live Chat Timeframe (mobile only)

  • The mobile app does NOT show a history of ALL chats. To view a history of all chats, please visit app.tomis.tech on desktop.
  • Edit the timeframe of chats to display in the mobile app.