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The updated Saved Replies are here

Some call them Canned Responses or Email-Templates; we call them Saved Replies. Whatever you call them, you will be happy to know that we’ve overhauled them now and added grouping and other features. Besides, with today’s update to the new editor, you can search for saved

Updated editor for your emails

With today’s update, we are releasing a brand new version of our editor. The editor brings faster performance, an optimized interface, and our new saved replies search and grouping feature. The first thing you notice when you compose a new email the next time in Helpmonks is that

How to get the most out of your live chat support tool

We all know when a customer reaches your website, they’re going to do one of two things if and when they need help – Call your number, or search vigorously for your live chat tool. Some customers get a better understanding from a phone call, but your staff cannot

Find anything, go anywhere, with the new Jump menu

We are excited to introduce the new Jump menu to Helpmonks. With the new Jump menu, you can find anything quickly or go anywhere within your Helpmonks account with ease. For example, to search for anything, bring up the new Jump menu (with ctrl+/ or cmd+/ on macOS) and start

New in Helpmonks: Send later with Schedule send

You can now schedule your emails in Helpmonks to be sent at a later date and time. This feature is available to every user in Helpmonks and on every device, be it desktop or mobile. To schedule an email, write your email as you usually do, then schedule it to

How to make your emails less intrusive

Emails nowadays are addictive! We tend to check our work emails when we are relaxing at home, and we like to catch up on emails from the night before, the moment we wake up too. Many people fall to check their emails too often, only to find the emails are

Your security and privacy in Helpmonks

We are excited to announce additional security and privacy features for your Helpmonks account. In September 2017, we published a blog post about how we secure your emails in Helpmonks and pledged that we never scan emails, sell your data, or do anything mischievous with your data. I’m

The To-Dos just got more useful

Merely two weeks ago, we released the enhanced To-Dos, and we are already back with some more enhancements. A To-Do description, a new “Upcoming” list, and overall tweaks and improvements are now available. As with any other tool in Helpmonks, the team here is using it daily, and

How to stay motivated while working from home

Remote work is hard sometimes, let’s face it. The hardest thing in the world right now feels like trying to concentrate for 6, 7, 8 hours while working from your own home’s comfort. You might be struggling with the difference of having one less monitor, or

I’m getting too many emails at once! How to get your emails organized?

Whether you are a company director, a senior manager, or someone who has to deal with many emails in your day-to-day job, it can be a pain and often stressful trying to work your way around your inbox. Remembering that your email account isn’t just a single file line

Remote working is here to stay - How to keep your team together while working from home

Don’t be surprised if your country shuts down again, and you are required to work from home once more. We are in a new chapter now, where working from home/remote working is considered normal. The office is dead – If you rely on an office for all of

The updated and enhanced To-Dos are here

We’ve overhauled the To-Dos in Helpmonks entirely. The new To-Dos contain lists, groups, new notification settings, global shortcuts, a new design, and tighter integration into your shared inboxes in Helpmonks. Besides, the To-Dos are now available to all users of Helpmonks, independent of the plan level. The To-Do

The top 3 mistakes customer service teams make, and how to fix them

Nobody loves having to go through customer support, not really. Customer service teams have to adapt and make themselves as available as possible so that every customer has an experience that they are happy with. We like to think that the ongoing customer service is far more critical than

What you should look for in your customer service software

Being able to offer your customers help whenever they need it is vital to ensuring your customer service is the best that it can be. For many companies, building an outstanding customer support network involves a lot of manual work, often with support tickets being left behind, or not prioritized

Preview available now - Live-Chat in Helpmonks for your websites

As some of you might know, we’ve been working on new features for Helpmonks in the past few weeks. Live-Chat, part of Helpmonks Engage, is one of the upcoming options that will be available to our customers, independent of their plan. Enabling Live-Chat in your Helpmonks account will

How a shared inbox can help your business in a world shifting online

There’s no time like the present, and what a strange world it is we live in now, right?! – People are working from home, having to message each other instead of chatting in person, as it is now deemed a significant risk for companies to work from the office.

Here are a few updates you might have missed

Here at Helpmonks, we live and breathe our shared mailbox product daily, and as such, our team continues to improve and add features to the product. So much so, that we almost release something new weekly (you can check this on the Helpmonks RoadMap). Here are some enhancements you might

New in Helpmonks: Labels are now also folders

We are very excited to announce our latest new feature for your shared mailbox in Helpmonks – your labels are now also folders. Having labels act as folders means that you can move emails to a label and are no longer limited to the default folders. Moving one or many

New: Labels for your customer records

We are thrilled to announce the availability of labels for your customer records. Just as with emails, you are now able to filter customers by labels and organize them the way you want. While this might sound trivial at first, the benefit of labeling your customer records will show when

Looking for a Chromebook? Get this instead

The following is my personal opinion. I’m not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned below, nor did anyone pay me for this post. Are you currently looking for a Chromebook? Maybe the new Samsung Chromebook or the latest Pixelbook Go? Is the device you are looking at

New in Helpmonks: Workgroups

While many organizations have started to settle into having their teams work from home, we are releasing WORKGROUPS today. The Helpmonks Workgroup feature helps remote teams to work even more efficiently remotely within their shared mailboxes. With Workgroups, you can create groups for your users, which in turn get access

Review of the Pixelbook Go

I like to get my hands on the latest hardware and also check out as many alternatives to the established Windows and macOS “way of working.” Naturally, I was very interested in ChromeOS and what it has to offer. However, previous “low-cost” Chromebook offerings had little

Introducing a low-cost GDPR-compliant dedicated shared inbox server

In these trying economic times, it is of utmost importance that your team can rely on a partner that makes sure that your communication with your clients continues without a hitch. After all, the current situation is stressful enough for all of us. With that in mind, we are introducing

Non-profit organizations benefit significantly with a shared inbox

Since the launch of Helpmonks over five years ago, we have been supporting non-profit organizations with our shared mailbox service – Helpmonks. In case you don’t know, any non-profit organization receives a 50% discount on any Helpmonks plan. Today, we are proud and honored to say that many

Our no-nonsense approach to team email and a shared inbox

At Helpmonks, we think email is a great communication tool. I know that many proclaim “the end of emails.” However, I argue that we are far from it. For example, take Slack – one of many instant communication tools that try to replace email. Despite the high usage

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