CXone Guide

Guide allows you to create engagement rules that strategically offer proactive guidance as visitors navigate your website. By knowing the struggle points on your website, you can design engagement rules that reduce struggle scenarios, improve conversion rates, and achieve outstanding customer satisfaction.

Engagement rules display one of the following:

Akela Wolfe, the contact center administrator for The Jungle at Classics, wants visitors to easily find and access the variety of communication methods that her company uses. She uses Guide to create entry points for The Jungle's digital messaging channels, then creates an engagement rule to display the entry points on the home page of the company's website. Now there are icons on The Jungle website home page for WhatsApp Enterprise, Apple Messages for Business, and Chat that allow visitors to choose their preferred method of communication and go directly to the resource they need.

Akela also knows that visitors often have questions about shipping options. The Jungle at Classics recently licensed CXone Expert. Akela writes an article about all the shipping options. She then creates an engagement rule that displays the article in a proactive offer pop up. It appears whenever a visitor spends more than 60 seconds on the shipping preferences page.

Key Facts About Guide

  • Guide consists of the following components:

    • The administration pages where you configure entry points, templates, and engagement rules.

    • The web application implemented on your website that evaluates the engagement rules set in the administration pages and offers the entry points and digital guidance to visitors.

    • The reporting data that Guide collects as visitors interact with the engagement rules offered on your website.

  • Guide is always used in conjunction with other CXone products, like Digital Experience. It is not used standalone.

  • To offer helpful articles to your website visitors as part of your Guide implementation, you must license CXone Expert in addition to Guide.

Getting Started

These are the basic steps to take when integrating Guide into your website. Feel free to skip steps that are already completed or circle back and make changes to earlier steps as needed:

  1. Create an engagement strategy. Put together a plan for how to integrate Guide into your website. A best practice is to start with a limited number of engagements and fine tune those before fully implementing all engagements.

  2. Configure the appearance of the Guide widget that appears on your website. Add buttons for each digital channel you plan to offer. Set the default branding to determine the colors used for the Guide widget.

  3. Configure your entry points. Configure at least one entry point for each channelClosed A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on. that you plan to offer with Guide. If you are using CXone Expert with Guide, you may need to also write articles to offer in your engagements before you can finish configuring the entry point.

  4. Create templates. Add templates that determine the channelClosed A way for contacts to interact with agents or bots. A channel can be voice, email, chat, social media, and so on. or channels to offer on specific pages of your website.

  5. Create engagement rules. Create engagement rules that evaluate a visitor's behavior on your website to determine when to offer a Guide template or a proactive offer. You may also want to use the Engagement Mapper to map screen elements that can be used to determine when to offer the engagement.

  6. Integrate Guide into your website. Embed the Guide JavaScript code in every page of your website where Guide should be displayed.

  7. Review Guide performance. Once the engagement rules are created, integrated into your website, and your visitors have been interacting with them, track their success by viewing analytics. You can track conversions, engagements, and more.