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How to set up rules

How to use rules to automate customer service workflows in Redo

Updated over a month ago

This guide will assist in creating rules in Redo.


Video guide: https://www.loom.com/share/1527041826f74817af65a4088aecd0fa?sid=0488918b-6fbf-41be-b479-162f55569875

To access rules, go to Settings > Support > Rules

How to manage existing rules:

In Settings > Support > Rules there will be a table of existing rules, including their name, their creator, the date they were created, the date they were last edited, and their status.


Published = Rule is live and affecting tickets
Draft = Rule is not live and not affecting tickets

To edit an existing ticket, click on that row

To publish or delete existing rules, click the three dots next to a rule.


How to create new rules:

To create new rules, click "Create new rule" in the top right of this view.

You are now in the rule editor imagine it as a flow where messages are dropped in the top and filter through the conditions.


Types of triggers: You'll first want to select when you want the rule to trigger. There are four types of triggers;

1) New Customer message → Every customer message, regardless if it Is the first or third in a message thread, will trigger this
2) Merchant message → This will be triggered by every message from you, the merchant

3) Ticket created → Only triggers once on the very first message on a thread
4) Ticket converted to email → Specific to when live chats convert to emails


You can access this by clicking the box that says "New customer message.":


Types of conditions: Next, you'll set a condition, which determines what actions are then taken.

  1. Customer contacted after hours

    1. This will be triggered by the hours set in the "customer widget." True = after hours, false = during hours

  2. Ticket Channel

    1. Makes it only apply to one integration channel, email, live chat etc

  3. Message topic

    1. Applies to one of several topics

  4. Email received at

  5. Email sent from

  6. Subject line

  7. Message body

Then to select the next step, click the "-" underneath either "If it matches" or "If it does not match."


Types of actions

  1. Set status

    1. Sets ticket by conditions to either open, closed, snoozed or in progress

  2. Apply tag

    1. Applies specified tags

  3. Send message

    1. Sends the specified message

  4. Assign to an agent

    1. Assigns to the specified agent

Saving a rule
Finally, to save and publish the rul,e you must give it a name;


Then click save, then click publish

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