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Live Chat for Specific Companies

Related products:Freshdesk
  • December 21, 2016
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It would be nice if there was an option to enable Live Chat only for certain organizations. As certain companies pay for preferential treatment, why not allow us to market certain aspects to different clients?

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  • October 2, 2017

Hi! I don't know if it is too late for an answer, i'm a customer like you and i've done my workaround for it. As you, i have some companies that pay for a preferential treatment and i needed to show the chat only to this type of customers. I've resolved adding a custom field on the companies (a checkbox that identifies this special customers), and i've setup the portal in this manner:

* i've shutted down the "Chat for your support portal"

* i've copied and pasted the widget code into the footer of my portal page (i have the Estate plan, so i have the fully customization of the portal)

* i've surrounded the widget code with a conditional statement like this {% if {{portal.user.company.YOUR_CUSTOM_FIELD}} %}


NOTE: it works if the default company of the user has the checkbox checked, or if you users can't have multiple companies.


That's a workaround that works, while waiting for an official solution from Freshdesk. My next step is to retrieve that information with the API to have the same behaviour on my website.