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# Chat - Explained

> Chatarmin guide: Chat - Explained

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# Chat

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In the sidebar, you can see a red dot icon if you have unread chats. A **"Chat"** is unread if your lead has written a personalized message - so sent messages by clicking buttons will not be marked as unread. A chat is marked as read once you **reply to the client** or **manually mark the conversation as read**.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1b9-76db-a545-e7666b0f0c19.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=6bdddedb76991ad49a02ab762d86ecaf" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1917" height="791" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1b9-76db-a545-e7666b0f0c19.png" />

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## My chats

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Under [**"My chats**"](https://chatarmin.com/dashboard/chat) you will only see chats specifically assigned to your login user. An account can have unlimited users of your company working on it. To see **"All Chats"** click on the icon next to my chats, there you will be able to see chats not assigned to your login/agent.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1aa-772f-a3ff-a0cd521a2854.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=7652ce4aa8ddb46c16caadbb7c6b7f3b" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1650" height="874" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1aa-772f-a3ff-a0cd521a2854.png" />

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## All Chats

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<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e233-71f4-973a-28d345b169e1.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=121af282d7319504ecf76b1295e5f90b" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1919" height="888" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e233-71f4-973a-28d345b169e1.png" />

By clicking **"All chats"** a pop-up will appear showing you all chats. As you can see in the picture above you can only reply by clicking **"Start a conversation"** here due to the chat [being older than 24 hours, this is due to META restrictions](/billing/meta-pricing)**.** This means you can **only reply** by **"Template"** and not by **"Send Message"** and thus have to start a **new conversation** window. If the chat was started less than 24 hours ago you can reply as usual as seen in the image below, you can also send **images, video, or PDF** files directly via the chat feature.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e19f-71fe-a5c9-6bf926fbaf1a.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=e60602d9c2e6a63fa8878c885b89559d" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="391" height="870" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e19f-71fe-a5c9-6bf926fbaf1a.png" />

You can save messages for later by clicking on the **"Save for later"** icon next to an incoming message.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1c3-71ac-9406-9742f04a2f3b.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=feed099ceeec1cdbc74bb8f101d1bc06" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="380" height="184" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1c3-71ac-9406-9742f04a2f3b.png" />

Select a user via the white checkmark box next to the user name and then **"Assign to Agent"**, **"Mark as read"** or **"Mark as unread"**.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1ab-75bb-88fe-e0dbd313cabe.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=276eb123bdbbac184e9831aaf1b890d9" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="879" height="840" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1ab-75bb-88fe-e0dbd313cabe.png" />

You can automatically assign all incoming messages to a user by clicking on your Profile on the bottom left, clicking **"Team"** and clicking **"Rules"**. You can then click the checkmark **"Auto-assign unread chats to specific agent"** and choose a user you want to auto-assign all incoming messages.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1b2-764b-9602-84413ba46b7a.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=39ed3a754b02390b4f6462391a4a0544" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1919" height="883" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1b2-764b-9602-84413ba46b7a.png" />

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## Chat: Filter

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On the top you have various filters you can use to find specific chats such as:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1a8-7418-9c80-bf1471b5f4e7.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=6d61482ff868d1ba55cbb3d280df594b" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="707" height="142" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1a8-7418-9c80-bf1471b5f4e7.png" />

**Unread**

**Tags**

**Filter for date**

**Saved for later**

**Assigned to**

**Flows**

Use these or the search bar to find the conversations you are looking for.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1af-7179-8ea6-1714b10e2189.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=22d7b43059907c441c32357936607bdc" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="883" height="59" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1af-7179-8ea6-1714b10e2189.png" />

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## Advanced Filters: Decentralised Support Features

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Watch this video to understand how you can

* enable your POS retail stores and partners to use WhatsApp-support locally
* enable your multiple countries to scale on WhatsApp, all from one number
* enable support & sales to do dezentralised support & marketing campaigns to their dedicated audience
* integrate with all our system partners like HubSpot, Salesforce, zendesk, Gorgias, Freshdesk, Intercom, Ominsend, Shopify, Shopware, WooCommerce and many, many more.
* and much, much more..

<iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/929a12345dc94bbba0773c7d895c73ef" title="Loom video" width="100%" height="420" allowFullScreen />

\*Source: Chatarmin, Q2 2024\
\*

Pair this with your integrations and Chatarmin's AI and use the most professional WhatsApp Franchise Setup in the world.

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## Customer Support: Trigger flows manually out of chats

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It is possible to manually trigger flows for individual users, when in chat. This is sometimes useful, if you want to send users into:

* AI-chat
* dedicated user-journeys
* more sophisticated flows
* multi-day-user-journeys
* standardized lead-enrichment-flows

Here's what it looks like to trigger flows manually from chat from a chat-perspective:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1c8-745a-9787-de2ff5f32781.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=9e5ed43528dd5537ce855e098d5f78d6" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1709" height="929" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1c8-745a-9787-de2ff5f32781.png" />

*Source: Chatarmin, Q3 2024*

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## Flows: Trigger flows out of other flows

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Here's what it looks like to trigger flows from within flows:

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/chatarmin-help-center/yL66zflq9rxpRjF_/images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1bc-70db-a3c4-a74c10363a76.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=yL66zflq9rxpRjF_&q=85&s=96cb888581678778f79b01785e715674" alt="Chatarmin help center image" width="1709" height="929" data-path="images/81862bbe-4404-4912-836f-e35a6299a304/019b9c80-e1bc-70db-a3c4-a74c10363a76.png" />

*Source: Chatarmin, Q3 2024*

This makes sense, if you

* don't always wanna work with buzzwords to enter flows
* build multiple flows for the same user journey
* don't wanna work with multiple flows to achieve the same
* don't wanna use separate flows to guide the user in the same automation
