By sending out customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys, you enable your customers to rate their experience with your service. In this article, we’ll show you how to set up a CSAT survey.

Adding a CSAT survey

Follow the steps below to add a customer satisfaction survey to your Trengo account.

1. Navigate to Settings > Automation > Customer Satisfaction;

2. Click ‘Add new survey’, give your survey an internal name, and further set it up.

Survey text

First, you’ll configure what the actual message looks like that customers receive, wherein you ask them to review their experience with your company.

Follow the steps below to set up your survey text.

1. Your company / Brand name: Add the name of your company, which will be displayed on top of your survey, and in the signature.

2. Survey title: Give your survey a title.

3. Question: Add the question that you’d like to ask your customer, which will be displayed in bold text above the emojis.

4. Button text: The text in the button your customers click to be redirected to the actual survey.

Follow up question

When your customer clicked the button in your first message, they’ll be redirected to the follow-up, where they can leave their actual review.

Add the follow-up question and move on to the next step.

Thank you message

After giving their review, customers are redirected to your ‘thank you’ message, to which you can also add a button with an URL attached to it.

Set up your ‘thank you’ message as stated below.

1. Thank you message: Add the text your customer will see after filling out their survey.

2. Enable button below text field: Enable this feature to add a button to the page.

3. Button text: Add the text displayed on the button.

4. Button URL: Add the URL your customers will be redirected to when clicking the button.

When you’ve set up all of the above, it’s time to set up a rule, that will trigger the CSAT to be sent out when the customer conversation has met your conditions. Please continue to the next page to learn how to set up this rule.

Adding a flowbot to Trengo

Let’s automate your customer communication flow, by adding a flowbot to your Trengo inbox. In case you’re not familiar with the use of flowbots, feel free to read more about the anatomy of a flowbot in Trengo.

Add a flowbot

If you like to add a flowbot to Trengo, feel free to follow the steps below.

1. Navigate to Settings > Automation > Flowbots and click the ‘plus’ icon or ‘Add flowbot’;

2. Design your flowbot;

1. Steps overview: Here you’ll find an overview of all the steps you added.

2. Add step: Click this button to add a step to your flowbot.

3. Step #: The name of the selected step.

4. Copy step: With this button, you can duplicate the step.

5. Delete step: Delete your selected step.

1. Add content: Here you can add content to your step.

2. Buttons to steps: Add buttons to the selected step.

3. Actions: Click here to add actions to your flowbot step.

4. Step overview: Here you’ll find an overview of the buttons or actions you’ve added to the step.

When you’re done designing your flowbot, including content, buttons, and actions, it’s time to configure your flowbot.

Adding a greeting to your widget

After adding a web widget to your Trengo inbox, adding channels to it, and adding the web widget to your website, you’re able to set up a ‘greeting’ for it. In this article, we’ll show you how to do this.

Add a greeting to your widget

Follow the steps below to set up a greeting for your web widget.

1. Navigate to Settings > Automation > Widget automation;

2. Select ‘Add automation’ and click ‘Greet the website visitor’;

3. Set up your greeting;

1. From: Choose who will greet your customers. You can choose ‘Team’, ‘User’, ‘Random user from team’, or set up a custom greeting.

2. Select team/user: Select your team or user, or set up your custom greeting.

3. Compose greeting: Add the text your customer will see when the greeting shows.

After setting up your greeting, continue by clicking ‘Ready? Choose audience’.

Choose the target audience for your web widget greeting. You can choose to show the greeting to all customers, or choose a specific audience using different conditions.

After choosing your target audience, click ‘Ready? Set page targeting’ to continue setting up your page targeting.

1. Delivery method: Choose if you’d like the greeting to show up immediately, or after a specific amount of time.

2. Page selection: Select which pages you’d like to show the widget greeting on.

After choosing your page targeting, click ‘Ready? Go to next step’ to publish your widget automation.

1. Start date: Choose when you’d like the greeting to start showing on your website.

2. End date: Select if there is an end date to your widget greeting.

3. Select widget: Choose the web widget on which the greeting will be active.

4. Active: Toggle this button to activate your widget greeting.

Click ‘Save’ to publish your greeting.

Adding a help centre to search results

After creating your own help centre via Trengo and adding content to it, you’re able to have your articles show up in Google and Bing search results. In this article, we’ll show you how to do this.

Enable search results

Follow the instructions below to have your articles show up as Google and Bing search results.

1. Navigate to Help Centre and select your help centre;

2. Select ‘Settings’ and scroll down to ‘Advanced settings’;

3. Set ‘Disable search indexing’ to ‘No’;

Don’t forget to click ‘Save changes’.

Adding a help centre to your Trengo account

With Trengo, you’re able to host your own help centre to help your customers find answers to their questions quickly, and with that take pressure off your customer support team so that they can focus more on incoming queries. In this article, we’ll show you how to add a help centre to your Trengo account.

Add a help centre to your Trengo account

Follow the instructions below to add a help centre.

1. Navigate to Help Centre and click the ‘plus’ icon or ‘Add Help Centre’;

2. Create your help centre;

1. Company name: Add your company’s name.

2. Languages: Choose the language(s) you’d like your help centre in. Do note that articles will not be translated automatically.

3. Default language: In case you added multiple languages, choose the default language of your help centre.

Click ‘Create help centre’ to add the help centre to your account.

Adding a help centre to your web widget

By adding your help centre to your web widget, you're allowing your site visitors to quickly find the answers they are looking for, before reaching out to you. In this article, we’ll show you how to do this.

Add a help centre to your web widget

You can add your Trengo help centre to your web widget by following the steps below.

1. Navigate to Settings > Settings > Web widgets and select your web widget;

2. Click ‘Help centre’ from the list of possible channels you can add;

3. Set up your help centre;

1. Enabled: Enable your help centre for the web widget here.

2. Channel: Select the help centre you want to connect to your web widget.

ℹ️ In case you’re hosting your help centre on a custom domain, make sure to send us an email to get your SSL certificate. Help centres without one won't appear in your widget.

Don’t forget to update your widget, by clicking ‘Update widget’.

TikTok messaging limits

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Why you sometimes can't reply

Above the composer on a TikTok conversation, you may see a small pill telling you that you can't send a message, or counting down how many replies you have left. This isn't a Trengo restriction — it's TikTok's own messaging policy, and it applies to every business account on the platform.

How the limits work

There are two things happening at once: a clock, and a message limit.

The clock. TikTok gives you 48 hours from the customer's most recent message. Every new message the customer sends restarts this 48-hour window.

The message limit inside that clock depends on whether the customer has replied to you yet:

Before the customer has replied: you can send up to 10 messages. This resets whenever the clock resets.
Once the customer has replied: there's no limit on how many messages you can send.

A "reply" specifically means a message the customer sends after you've responded to them. If the customer sends several messages before you've answered any of them, none of those count as a reply.

When the 48-hour clock runs out:

If the customer had already replied at some point, you get 3 more messages to send before the conversation closes again.
If the customer never replied, you get no extra messages — sending stops as soon as the clock runs out.

What you'll see on the composer

The pill above the composer will show one of four messages:

The last two use the same label. Clicking the pill shows which one you are in: either the 48 hours have run out, or the three follow-ups are spent. Either way the action is the same — wait for the customer to write again.

What to do when you're blocked

There is nothing you can do to reopen the conversation except wait for the customer to send a new message. Unlike WhatsApp, TikTok has no message template system and no fallback channel (like SMS) to switch to. Once a conversation is blocked, it stays blocked until the customer writes in.

Photos with text count as two messages

TikTok has no caption field on an image, so a photo sent together with text arrives as two separate messages and uses two of your allowance. The composer won't let an agent send both at once, but a journey, rule or AI agent still can — so on a conversation an automation has touched, the count can drop by two at a time.

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A note on TikTok's own documentation

If you check TikTok's messaging limits documentation directly, be aware that their send message endpoint page only describes the 10-message limit and doesn't mention that the limit is lifted once the customer replies. That page only covers the period before a customer has answered — it isn't describing a different or conflicting rule.

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