Triggers can be used to send automated events to the chatbox of your visitors & users. Triggers are activated upon events, and execute a given set of actions. You can configure as many Triggers as you wish for the same website on Crisp.
Triggers help you automate your marketing by triggering automated chatbox actions, based on events, on the screen of your visitors. You can, for instance, send automated messages based on what page your visitor is visiting.
This guide goes into explaining the general concepts of triggers, and how everything is linked together.
Triggers are available from the Crisp Pro plan
Video tutorial:
Create your first trigger
Go to the triggers plugin
Go to app.crisp.chat
Then go to plugins (in the sidebar)
Search for "triggers"
New trigger
Click on the new trigger button.
Then name your trigger. You can for instance name it My First Trigger,
An identifier will be required. It can be useful in the future. You can name it my-first-trigger
Then scrolldown and toggle Show a message
Once it's done, click Add a localized message
Set a custom message. You can style it bt using markdown
*Then scroll down a little bit and toggle on "On Pages"
Then select the page you want to target. For instance you can target mywebsite.com/pricing . If you want to target multiple pages, like all the pages that starts with the word article, you can use mywebsite.com/article*. You can have more information about how it works by going to the section Show on specific pages, in this article.
You should also consider adding a delay. Adding a delay allows to send your message after a certain time. A 10 second delay is great!
What is an action?
An action tells what to do on the visitor chatbox once a Trigger is executed.
The following actions are available:
Show a message
Play a sound
Open chatbox
What is an event?
An event tells when to execute a given Trigger, and thus, a given action.
The following events are available:
Delay (eg. after 20 seconds on website, trigger the action)
Leave intent (eg. when user intents to leave the website by moving the mouse out of the tab)
Click on link (eg. when the user clicks on a certain link)
Page (eg. when the user accesses a certain page)
User event (eg. when a certain user event is pushed using $crisp.push(["set", "session:event", ["your_event_text"]]))
User data (eg. when a certain user data is set using $crisp.push(["set", "session:data", ["your_key", "your_value"]]))
The events can be combined. For instance, we can have the following combinations (other non-listed combinations are possible, of course):
After 1 minute on a given page (Delay + Page)
When leave intent after 2 seconds (Leave + Delay)
Show on specific pages
To show triggers on a specific subset of pages, you can use wildcards. Here are few examples:
Tip: If the domain you are using is www.example.com, please provide www.example.com as URL. The Crisp match system is really strict. If you provide example.com and your website is in fact using www.example.com, it won't work
Simple Wildcard
https://example.com/*/pricing will show triggers on all pages like:
https://example.com/fr/pricing
https://example.com/en/pricing
https://example.com/es/pricing
Double Wildcard
Using a double wildcard such as https://example.com/product/**, it will send a trigger on all subdirectories such as
https://example.com/product/aaaaaa/bbbbbb
https://example.com/product/ccccccc/dddddd
Can I pause a specific Trigger?
It is possible to pause a specific Trigger by disabling it in the sidebar in the plugin options.
It will not remove the Trigger configuration; thus you can re-enable the Trigger anytime.
Why doesn't my Trigger work?
If a Trigger you created doesn't seem to work, consider the following:
Triggers are only executed when your website is set as online (support is online in chatbox)
Triggers are ignored if the chatbox is blocked for current user (eg. page blocked, or locale blocked in website settings)
Triggers are ignored if the chatbox already contains message (eg. for already active chat sessions)
Want to know more about Triggers? Subscribe to our free webinar below:
Subscribe to our free webinar on Triggers
Triggers help you automate your marketing by triggering automated chatbox actions, based on events, on the screen of your visitors. You can, for instance, send automated messages based on what page your visitor is visiting.
This guide goes into explaining the general concepts of triggers, and how everything is linked together.
Triggers are available from the Crisp Pro plan
Video tutorial:
Create your first trigger
Go to the triggers plugin
Go to app.crisp.chat
Then go to plugins (in the sidebar)
Search for "triggers"
New trigger
Click on the new trigger button.
Then name your trigger. You can for instance name it My First Trigger,
An identifier will be required. It can be useful in the future. You can name it my-first-trigger
Then scrolldown and toggle Show a message
Once it's done, click Add a localized message
Set a custom message. You can style it bt using markdown
*Then scroll down a little bit and toggle on "On Pages"
Then select the page you want to target. For instance you can target mywebsite.com/pricing . If you want to target multiple pages, like all the pages that starts with the word article, you can use mywebsite.com/article*. You can have more information about how it works by going to the section Show on specific pages, in this article.
You should also consider adding a delay. Adding a delay allows to send your message after a certain time. A 10 second delay is great!
What is an action?
An action tells what to do on the visitor chatbox once a Trigger is executed.
The following actions are available:
Show a message
Play a sound
Open chatbox
What is an event?
An event tells when to execute a given Trigger, and thus, a given action.
The following events are available:
Delay (eg. after 20 seconds on website, trigger the action)
Leave intent (eg. when user intents to leave the website by moving the mouse out of the tab)
Click on link (eg. when the user clicks on a certain link)
Page (eg. when the user accesses a certain page)
User event (eg. when a certain user event is pushed using $crisp.push(["set", "session:event", ["your_event_text"]]))
User data (eg. when a certain user data is set using $crisp.push(["set", "session:data", ["your_key", "your_value"]]))
The events can be combined. For instance, we can have the following combinations (other non-listed combinations are possible, of course):
After 1 minute on a given page (Delay + Page)
When leave intent after 2 seconds (Leave + Delay)
Show on specific pages
To show triggers on a specific subset of pages, you can use wildcards. Here are few examples:
Tip: If the domain you are using is www.example.com, please provide www.example.com as URL. The Crisp match system is really strict. If you provide example.com and your website is in fact using www.example.com, it won't work
Simple Wildcard
https://example.com/*/pricing will show triggers on all pages like:
https://example.com/fr/pricing
https://example.com/en/pricing
https://example.com/es/pricing
Double Wildcard
Using a double wildcard such as https://example.com/product/**, it will send a trigger on all subdirectories such as
https://example.com/product/aaaaaa/bbbbbb
https://example.com/product/ccccccc/dddddd
Can I pause a specific Trigger?
It is possible to pause a specific Trigger by disabling it in the sidebar in the plugin options.
It will not remove the Trigger configuration; thus you can re-enable the Trigger anytime.
Why doesn't my Trigger work?
If a Trigger you created doesn't seem to work, consider the following:
Triggers are only executed when your website is set as online (support is online in chatbox)
Triggers are ignored if the chatbox is blocked for current user (eg. page blocked, or locale blocked in website settings)
Triggers are ignored if the chatbox already contains message (eg. for already active chat sessions)
Want to know more about Triggers? Subscribe to our free webinar below:
Subscribe to our free webinar on Triggers
Published on: 03 / 11 / 2017