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Message Your Brands

Use the Messages feature to quickly and easily communicate with both your potential brands and brands you're already partnered with. The feature offers you a range of uses, such as streamlining your onboarding with a brand, contacting a brand about special arrangements, resolving issues, and more.

Important

Refer to the Messaging Terms of Use in your account profile window to ensure that you stay within impact.com’s messaging guidelines:

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Find messages

Messages can be found in 2 places:

  • In the bottom-right corner of your screen, select comment-regular.svg [Chat].

    • A slide-up will appear, letting you Start Conversation with any brand you select.

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  • From the left navigation bar, select comment-regular.svg [Chat].

    • On the Inbox screen, select New Message and use the search-solid.svg [Search] option on the right to find the brand with which you want to chat.

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View received messages

  • Messages you receive will appear in both your comment-regular.svg [Chat] widget and your Inbox.

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  • Continue the conversations you've left off by clicking into an existing message thread.

  • To start a thread with a different brand, select pencil-alt-solid__2_.svg [Edit] and search for the brand.

  • You can also attach files to your messages by selecting paperclip-solid.svg [Attach]. The following file types are supported:

    • CSV

    • PDF

    • JPEG

    • PNG

    • GIF

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Set message thread status

You can manually mark a message thread as Unread or Spam:

  • On the comment-regular.svg [Chat] widget, open up a thread and select ellipsis-h-solid__1_.svg [More].

    • Select Mark as unread to reset the message notification.

    • Select Move to spam to no longer receive notifications from the message thread.

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  • On the Inbox screen, open up a thread and, from the top of the screen:

    • Select email.svg [Mail] to mark the message as unread and reset the message notification.

    • Select exclamation-circle-solid.svg [Exclamation] to mark the message as spam and no longer receive notifications from the thread.

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Search for message threads

  • On the comment-regular.svg [Chat] widget, search for a specific message thread by inputting a keyword from the brand/program's name in the search bar:

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  • On the Inbox screen:

    • You can search for a specific message thread by inputting a keyword from the brand/program's name in the search bar on the left.

    • Alternatively, use the sliders-h-solid.svg [Filters] to surface programs based on your Relationship status with the brand and the thread's message Status.

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Make your account appear offline

To configure business hours or set yourself as offline, you need to work on the Inbox screen.

  1. In the upper-left of your inbox screen, select cog-solid.svg [Settings].

  2. Select toggle-on-solid.svg [Toggle on] Business Hours.

  3. Use the drop-downs to set your business hours, outside of which your account will appear Offline.

    • By default, your account will appear Online 24/7.

    • Optionally, input an Away Message to inform brands when you'll be back.

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Note

Learn more about setting priority messages.

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