When you go available in the Email, Task, Voicemail {{glossary.Channel}}, you'll be automatically routed emails currently waiting in the queue and taken straight to the Customer's Profile. You can read their current email and previous interactions with your company there. You must click Next or Close & Next upon replying to receive the following Customer email.

Click ‘Next’ or ‘Close & Next’ to receive more emails
Gladly will only automatically route the first email waiting when you first log into Gladly for the day. You must then click Next or Close & Next while remaining avialble in the Mail + Tasks Channel to receive more. Subseuqent emails that are waiting are not automaticaly routed.

Start a new email

You can start a new email with a Customer even if they don't reach out to you first. You might also need to email a Customer at certain times, even when they've reached out to you through another Channel. For example, a Customer might reach out over the phone but need an email confirmation for their appointment.

Click .
Select Email. You'll see the Email Composer pop-up, ready for you to start writing your message.
- You can also use Answers to insert email response templates. Click to search Answers. Click to see Email Answers.
Click Send Email.

If an Inbox doesn't have a default From address configured or you're sending an email to a Customer you just created, you must initially select which email address you want your Customer to see the email is coming from.

Email interface showing a message about resending an invoice to a recipient.

Reply to an email (open Conversation)

Gladly automatically defaults to the last Channel a Customer reached out to you on. Since they reached out by email, you'll notice the reply bar defaults to "Reply with an email," but only if the Conversation is open.

Email conversation showing a thank you message and a reply option highlighted.

Click anywhere along the reply bar. The Email Composer will appear, ready for you to start writing your response. The reply should automatically include every person copied in the Customer's email.
Write your response to the Customer. You can also use Answers to insert email response templates. Click to search Answers. Click to see Email Answers.
Click Send Email.

Reply to an email (closed Conversation)

Closed Conversations will not have the "Reply with an email" option by default.

Conversation details showing topics and actions taken in a team management interface.

You’ll be asked if you want to either create a new Conversation (if you are replying about a different Topic than the previous Conversation) or reopen the previous Conversation if you’re reply is related to the recently closed Conversation.

Then, you can:

Reply from the last email – To respond to the Customer's last email, clickon the last email, then click Reply All. Continue to write your reply. When you send it, it will ask you to reopen the Conversation. Clicking Reopen sends the email and reopens the Conversation.

Create a new email – If you start a new email thread without including the previous thread, click , then click Email. This opens a new Composer where you can write a new email. When you send it, it will ask you to reopen the Conversation. Clicking Reopen sends the email and reopens the Conversation.

Reply to a previous email in a Conversation

Conversation threads can involve multiple people and issues. That's why Gladly lets you pick the exact email to reply from an entire thread of responses.

Scroll through the Conversation Timeline to the email you want to respond to.
Click on the top right of that email, and click Reply All from the drop-down list.
Write your response to the Customer. You can also use Answers to insert email response templates. Click to search Answers. Click to see Email Answers.
Click Send Email.

Forward an email

You can forward an email to reply or respond to anyone by doing the following.

Scroll through the Conversation Timeline to the specific email you want to forward.
Clickon the top right of the email, and click Forward from the drop-down list.
Enter the email address(es) to which you want to forward the email, along with your message (if any). Then click Send Email to send it.

Remove previous threads in the email

Whatever the reason, you may want to remove a previous email thread before replying to or forwarding it to another email address.

Forward or reply to the related email.
In the Email Composer, click the Remove Original button at the bottom of the email. This will remove the original email from your reply.

Edit an email address

Suppose you make a mistake while entering an email address in the "To," "Cc," or "Bcc" fields; double-click on the email address to edit the email address, then press Enter to save.

Automatic suggestion of frequently used email addresses

If you start typing an email address you frequently use in the To, Cc, or Bcc field, Gladly will predict and suggest the email address you use the most. Select the suggested email to complete the entry of the email address.

Email interface showing recipient addresses and highlighted email suggestions for selection.

Additional details to note about email auto-suggestion
Frequently used email addresses are tracked on a per Agent basis.
Gladly can suggest up to five of the most frequently used email addresses based on the characters entered.
The Customer's email address in the Customer Profile is not included.
Click X next to the suggestion to exclude the email address from the suggestion list. The email address could appear again as a suggestion if used as a To, Cc, or Bcc recipient.
Clearing browser cache or switching computers will erase frequently used email memory.

Format for long email threads

When there is a long email thread with a Customer, Gladly displays your emails without rich formatting in the Conversation Timeline. While you can't see the rich formatting in these long emails, the Customer will see a formatted email on their end. The Conversation Timeline will show a tip that says, "This email was sent with additional formatting," to inform you that even though they see emails without formatting, the Customer will continue to see rich formatting on emails they receive. This usually occurs if the email thread is over 30k characters.

Private Conversations

Sometimes, you might need external help to solve a Customer issue by emailing someone else. While you may want to keep those email threads in your overall email Conversation, you might not want your Customer to read those external email threads about them. To help guard against inadvertently leaving those threads in an email when reaching back out to a Customer, the Private Conversation notice appears to remind you of these previous threads when you add the Customer back into the Conversation.

Warning about including private conversations regarding Katie Cox in the message.

Click Remove Original Message to remove external email threads about the Customer when you add the Customer back to the email Conversation. Otherwise, click Keep Original Message.

Email size limits

Email threads can have a maximum size of 25MB. Email attachments are limited to 15MB.

Maximum Email Size Notice

An error will appear if an email reply is not delivered because it exceeds the allowed email size.

Email attachments

You can attach and receive any file type (jpeg,mp4, mp3, zip, etc.) in an email.

'Customer is not included in this message' notice

When sending an email from a Customer's Profile to a 3rd party — whose email is not part of the Customer's Profile — and without cc'ing the Customer's existing email attached to the Profile, the message "The customer is not included in this message, which may have been due to the customer's email address not yet existing on their Gladly Profile" may appear. This is simply a reminder that you're sending an email to an address not attached to the Profile. For example, if you send an email from the Profile to a shipping company to check a delivery status without cc'ing the Customer, then the notice appears.

Message indicating customer email was not included in Gladly profile communication. The notice won't appear if the Customer's email, as shown in their Profile, is cc'd with the email to the 3rd party.

Can we close a Conversation with a Topic?