We’re wrapping up summer and preparing for fall with some brand new integrations.

Whether it’s answering a ticket, responding to live chats, picking up the phone, writing a knowledge base article, or telling customers about a new feature… communicating is what support teams do. We live and breath communication, and the stronger we communicate, the better we do our job. A big part of communication in customer support is knowing when and how to follow-up with customers.

This round-up of Marketplace apps features apps that in addition to making your work-life simpler also help in garnering customer loyalty and retention in equal measure. There’s an app that can blast thousands of text messages to your customers and help you earn their loyalty for life through your quick responses. There’s also a chatbot building app that redefines AI and helps in gathering customer data with hardly any human intervention.

Can you truly tell how a customer feels about your business? There are many different tactics that attempt to acquire this information, such as customer reviews and NPS (net promoter score), which may or may not provide an accurate assessment of overall satisfaction. Did you catch them on a bad day when they left an NPS rating? Did they write an odd review as someone was looking over their shoulder?

Customers today are more demanding than ever. They are more inclined to share their dissatisfaction with others in the form of reviews on social media platforms. 39% of consumers actively provide feedback to organizations online while 31% make pre-sales enquiries. This can have a far-reaching impact on a business.

In 2019, customer support is no longer about simply monitoring and responding to messages from your customers through channels you choose. Even if those channels are Twitter, Facebook, and live chat, it’s no longer enough. More and more people are turning to social media to complain and ask for solutions, outside of direct messages to the actual companies.

Our development team identified a security issue affecting all previous versions of the Matrix Android SDK and, by extension, any Android clients which use the Matrix Android SDK. This includes Riot Android (Google Play and F-Droid) and mini Vector. The issue has been fixed in version 0.9.27 of the Matrix Android SDK and Riot Android 0.9.4. RiotX is not affected, nor are any Matrix clients on any other platform.

For companies struggling to leverage digital transformation, there is new hero in town, and it’s called intelligent automation. Intelligent automation is definitely much more than hype. But before companies carried away, they must understand and focus more on the “why”, “where” and importantly “how” they want to use intelligent automation.

There’s no doubt about it — the expectation and demand for personalized customer service is growing every day. In fact, our survey found that 42% of consumers would rather wait for an agent with the right knowledge than get a fast answer. But what does personalized service actually mean, and how can you deliver it? Let’s dive in.