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Invite your team to join you in Front! Set up your team inboxes and workflows to get everyone off on the right foot.
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Front Quickstart Guide
Welcome to Front! If you are thinking about signing up to trial Front, or already have, here's the guide to getting started! 1️⃣ What is Front? Front is the shared inbox for teams that unifies all…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
5 mths ago
7,674
Inbox basics
Using Front Chat
Overview Front Chat is the simplest way for teams to manage live chat in Front. With the Front Chat application installed on your website, messages from your site visitors appear instantly in Front…
Front
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2 mths ago
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Jessye Levy
moderator
6 mths ago
Inbox basics
How to add a Gmail Account
Overview Follow these instructions to add your Gmail account to either your individual or team workspace in Front. A Gmail account is an email account that you and/or your team can log into using a…
Andersen Yu
admin
Andersen_Yu
yesterday
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Evan Ostroski
moderator
4 mths ago
Connecting Gmail Accounts
Adding and using team inboxes
Overview A team inbox is an organizational space where you can categorize or sort conversations. Team inboxes can have channels feeding messages into them such as email, Twitter, SMS;…
Front
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front
3 mths ago
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Urszula
2 yrs ago
Inbox basics
How to import your Gmail/Office365 inbox email history
Overview When you connect a Gmail or Office365 account as a team inbox or individual inbox in Front, the most recent 50,000 messages will be imported automatically.…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 mth ago
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Preston Tighe
3 yrs ago
Inbox basics
How to add a Gmail Alias
Overview Follow these instructions to add your Gmail Alias address to Front. An alias is an additional email address associated with a primary Gmail account.…
Andersen Yu
admin
Andersen_Yu
3 mths ago
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replies
5,754
Jason Dugdale
moderator
1 yr ago
Connecting Gmail Accounts
Status and tag sync between Front and Gmail/Office365
If you connect your Gmail or Office365 account in Front and utilize both tools alongside one another, you might experience a situation where you archive, delete, or tag a conversation within Front,…
Andersen Yu
admin
Andersen_Yu
3 mths ago
3,301
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Inbox basics
Plan your inbox structure
Before you create your first team inbox, it’s important to think about how you want them to work. Front’s very flexible, so you should build out the structure and workflow that suits your team.…
Front
admin
front
1 yr ago
2,809
Inbox basics
Smart merge reduces duplicate emails
Overview A common problem customers had before Front was that they would end up with duplicate copies of the same email in their inboxes, resulting in confusion and inefficiency.…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 mth ago
2,709
Inbox basics
How to remove a channel or delete an inbox
Overview When managing team or individual inboxes, you may need to delete inboxes or remove channels. Let's first understand the difference between the two:…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 mth ago
2,263
Inbox settings
How to choose between creating a Google Group or a Gmail user account
If you're using Google Apps and want to add a new shared inbox in Front, you have two options. See below for a comparison of features/benefits: Option 1 Add a real user account Setup is easy We can…
Front
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front
2 mths ago
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Front
admin
2 yrs ago
Inbox basics
Coming from Gmail?
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 yr ago
1,614
Inbox basics
How to convert a shared inbox to an individual inbox (or vice versa)
Both converting a shared inbox to an individual inbox and converting an individual inbox to a shared inbox is possible. You can simply delete the inbox and re-add it as individual or shared inbox,…
Front
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front
4 mths ago
1,318
Inbox basics
How to prioritize work in Front
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 yr ago
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User Guide
Front supports MMS
Front does support MMS (multimedia messaging service). Any Twilio number added as a shared inbox in Front can both send and receive short messages including multimedia attachments, like photos.…
Front
admin
front
1 yr ago
2
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1,158
Jessye Levy
moderator
5 mths ago
Inbox basics
Changing your domain name in Front
Overview Maybe your team is going through a rebrand or maybe you're just migrating providers for your email system. Either way, there are cases where you need to change email channel configuration…
Tony Pitkin
moderator
Implementation Engineer
Tony_Pitkin
2 mths ago
1,148
Individual inboxes
Coming from Outlook?
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
1 yr ago
758
Inbox basics
Shared inboxes merge duplicates by default
Overview When you have team inboxes added to Front within the same Team, emails that are addressed to multiple team inbox addresses will be automatically merged into one master copy to reduce the…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
4 mths ago
433
Inbox basics
How Front merges your duplicates
Overview Front wants to help your team reduce your workload and be more efficient. One of the main challenges we face in our inboxes is that we often get the same email sent to several different…
Helena Li
admin
Support Program Manager
Helena_Li
5 mths ago
223
Inbox basics
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