Who can use this feature?
System administrator
User administrator
Your organisation on Qwil Messenger is composed of two user types Staff and Clients with Contact Groups that are used to connect users to each other. You, as an administrator, are the one creating the contact book so that your clients know who they can start a chat with.
Client users are the external users that you invite to use the system to be provided services from you. As opposed to staff that can search for other staff, Client users can only see contacts you have defined in their contact group. This is why a contact group always has to be set up first and a staff included before an invitation is sent.
Do refer to our Guide to onboarding your users to Qwil Messenger for further details on how to replicate your coverage model in Qwil and understand the relationship between staff, contact groups and clients.
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What to expect?
- To import your clients you will first need to have created manually or imported Contact Groups to our system.
- A contact group per client or relationship has to be set up with at least one active Staff user in it. This means that the staff user must have accepted their invitation before you can invite a client.
- Once you've populated the excel template for all the Client users and assigned them to their contact groups, they will all be receiving an email invite on a daily basis until accepted. Details on how to check the status and amend details here.
- Once an invitation is accepted, the client member will see the staff members and other members of the Contact Group. The Staff covering the client will also receive a notification through the Butler.
You must wait until your staff users have accepted their invitation to join Qwil Messenger before you can invite your clients to the platform. This is because clients must belong to a group where there is at least one active staff user.
Populate and upload your clients' Excel (CSV) file.
- As an admin user, navigate to the administration menu and click on Clients.
- Click on the Import button.
- Download the client CSV template.
- Populate the CSV template as per the example below. Make sure you put the following values in each of the columns:
More explanation on each field is included below.
- Upload your populated CSV using the Select file button.
Note: You can select the checkbox "Ignore entries with identifiers already in use" to avoid creating duplicates. If you do not click this checkbox and you try to upload a duplicated record you will see an error. - If you do not wish to send the invitations, select the checkbox "Do not send the invitation email" However, please note that if you select the checkbox you will have to manually send out each invitation later on.
- Once you have uploaded your file click Import.
- Click Done. Your client invitations will be created.
Note: CSV templates do not keep the phone number formatting when the file is closed (i.e. the +44). You can use this formula in a separate spreadsheet ="+" & [cell ref] it will add the '+ to the cells its already in and paste it as value in the CSV column again.
Click on this article for a worked example:
Import your Users in 2 minutes (worked example)
What is next?
Uploading your users to the platform can be done as a combination of manual client invitations or import of your user data. You can upload your users in batches (this means you don't have to upload everyone at once) or even upload your clients by the staff member that covers them.
Because of the way Qwil Messenger replicates your client relationships, you need to follow a specific order when adding groups and users: