Talisma Chat enables universities to communicate in real time with online visitors, providing a dynamic way to answer questions, offer immediate assistance, or engage visitors on the Web site. A cost-effective solution, staff members can proactively or reactively interact concurrently with multiple people while delivering personal and immediate attention to enhance the constituent’s experience.

Optimize communication with instant text dialogue and collaboration functionality
Web site visitors can initiate a chat session from a Web site link, or university employees can proactively initiate the chat request based on predetermined visitor actions. All chat session transcripts are automatically logged and added to the constituent’s unique contact record. For added security, Talisma encrypts sensitive information, such as credit card details and Social Security numbers.

Talisma Chat supports real-time text conversations and enables collaborative browsing to facilitate optimum communication, online Web form completion, and problem resolution.

Enhance staff productivity and improve constituent satisfaction
In addition to built-in routing and assignment strategies, staff have 24x7, single-click access to a unified view of all previous constituent interactions from any communication channel. Employees can quickly respond to inquiries using a knowledgebase of FAQs, response templates, Web links, and documents. As needed, employees can conference individual or multiple staff members into a chat conversation.

Chat using the constituent’s preferred language
Talisma is designed for multilingual interactions across all channels and products with unicode compliance, including those using double-byte characters.

Supervise employees for consistently high levels of service
Train and supervise staff by auditing chat sessions, seamlessly taking over a chat session if necessary, or “whispering” information to the employee that is invisible to the constituent. Supervisors have a special chat workspace to view current queue status and chat session reports to monitor employee performance and load levels.

Ensure constituents have a positive chat experience
Set expectations by displaying queue position and wait times. Encourage a continued connection by notifying each party when the other is typing information.