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Applies to: Dynamics 365 Contact Center—embedded, Dynamics 365 Contact Center—standalone, and Dynamics 365 Customer Service
As new social networks and communication channels rapidly evolve, so do customer expectations on how to reach their favorite brands. Communication via many channels isn't only comfortable but expected, and businesses that seek to provide personalized services are rapidly working to enable support through the channels their customers want to use.
Adding channels to your business support offering is a powerful way to provide personalized service to customers on the channels of their choice. It's helpful to recognize a common pattern across all channels that are enabled through the application before diving into the implementation of a single channel.
The implementation pattern for the out-of-the-box channels is as follows:
An active subscription of Digital Messaging Add-in is required for SMS, social channels, Microsoft Teams, and custom messaging. Learn more in Dynamics 365 Licensing Guide.
You can get the Microsoft Teams channel with the following add-on license:
Apart from Dynamics 365 subscriptions, if you choose to use any non-Microsoft channels, you need to acquire subscriptions from those providers as well.
The following channels are currently available in the application:
If you want to help your customers using live chat, you can use the Chat for Dynamics 365 Customer Service channel.
To learn more, see Configure a chat channel.
To address customer issues, you can configure and use the voice channel. More information: Introduction to the voice channel
If you want to help your customers using SMS, you can use the following SMS channels:
If you want to help your customers using social media, you can use the following social channels:
If you want to help your customers using social channels that aren't supported as standard channels, such as Telegram, you can use the custom channels. To learn more, see Configure custom messaging application.
If you want to help your customers using your line-of-business messaging channels, you can use the Direct Line Bot Framework method.
If you want to help your customers using a standard collaboration channel, you can use the Microsoft Teams channel.
To learn more, see Configure Microsoft Teams.
If you want to help your customers using standard entity records such as incident, quote, campaign, and so on, you can use the entity records channel.
Events
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