What's new in Gist

Gist Messenger is used by thousands of businesses to connect with their website visitors, leads, and customers every day to build long-lasting customer relationships.

Today, we are excited to announce the Conversations API that gives you the ability to use the power of Gist Messenger for a huge range of needs beyond the scope of what we could ever build.

You can now automatically send messages from your team, leave notes on conversations in Inbox, and snooze conversations – all in code.

• Automatically send messages – automate messages from your team to your visitors and customers.
• Improve your workflows – automatically leave notes and snooze conversations.
• Strengthen security and compliance – export and store customer communications at scale.

This means your team can automate more workflows and efficiently handle sales and support conversations at scale.

We’re really excited to get more of the Gist platform in your hands to build on top of, and we welcome any feedback and requests around additional functionality.

Head over to our new and improved Developer Docs to learn more.

Now it's easier to see conversations that need a reply, by auto closing conversations started by Bots where visitors didn't reach a bot goal or were abandoned by the site-visitor overnight

This cleans up your inbox, allowing your team to work faster and focus on valuable conversations only.

By default this setting will be turned OFF, but you can turn it ON from the Settings > Messenger > Bot page.

For more information, visit our Help Center.

When bots handle conversations with your customers, it's a good idea to keep them out of your regular team inboxes. This means conversations aren't being 'double handled' and your team can focus on conversations that need a human touch.

This is esp. critical for customers with high website traffic, as the number of conversations created via chatbots can quickly get out of hands and incredibly hard to manage in the regular team inbox.

With this update, all bot conversations will be automatically assigned to the Gist bot until the conversation meets a goal step and the conversation is routed to a team or teammate.

You can access the conversations being handled by bots in the 'Bot' inbox or in the 'All' inbox.

Note: You cannot manually assign conversations to the bot inbox.

This update makes handling large number of bot conversations with your customers easy by keeping these conversations out of your regular team inboxes.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of version 2 of our JavaScript API client. It’s faster, smaller, more flexible - with a focus on design and code quality, security, documentation and usability.

Below is a list of notable changes in version 2:

• You can track pageviews in single page apps
• You can customize the width, height and position of the Messenger widget
• You can hide or show the Messenger widget
• You can open or close the Messenger widget
• You can hide or show the Messenger launcher bubble
• You can switch the Messenger to the new Sidebar layout
• You can clear session cookies for logged-out users
• You can listen to unread messages count changes and run custom JavaScript
• You can programmatically navigate to specific screens within the Messenger
• You can launch the Gist Messenger without the Gist launcher

We have pushed a lot of other features as well that aren't covered below and all features previously available in the first version are still available. To see the complete list of available methods, visit the latest Javascript API documentation.

One of the most influential factors for higher email engagement is the time the email is sent: studies show that 23% of all email opens occur within the first hour of delivery; within the second hour, opens drop by half.

Emails sent at the wrong time can derail the most well-crafted campaigns. As email marketers, we all want to deliver a great experience for our readers, and also want to get the best performance out of our email campaigns.

In the United States, the most popular reading time for email is the morning. About 7% of all opens happen between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., and 21% of all opens happen between 9 a.m. and noon.

So shouldn't your emails arrive in everyone's inbox based on their timezone?

Now you can do just that with Gist's Time Zone Sending - send email campaigns exactly at the right time based on your recipient's timezone.

We are thrilled to offer it as a way to drive even better engagement and results for your email campaigns.

Learn how to set it up here.

Gist now includes unlimited seats. We want you to focus on having great conversations and growing your business, not worrying about your bill each month and doing crazy things to try and remove part time or full time support staff like you have to do with Intercom. Intercom’s pricing is set up to penalize you for growing: the more teammates you add, the more you pay them. Yikes.

Our pricing is dead simple: you’ll know exactly what your bill will be every month and we won’t penalize you for actually doing your job as a business.

You can manage unlimited conversations with as many people as you can muster. Plus, you get custom bots, live view, routing rules, knowledge base, unlimited reports and unbranded Messenger.

You get it all for $99 a month, and there is no contract or commitment on your part. For a company with many employees, this can mean substantial cost savings.

We’ve got your back with unlimited seats. Now you go out there and bring your entire team on Gist already 😜

Learn more here.

This plan is completely opt-in and if you are happy with your current plan, this doesn't affect you in any way.