Test legacy SMS and chat
Flex includes built-in Voice, SMS, and Chat channels out of the box. When you launch your instance, the phone number Twilio provisions for your account can accept voice calls and SMS. This guide walks through testing the SMS and Chat channels. To test voice, see Test the sample voice experience.
Before you start, make sure you are available to accept tasks in Flex ("Available" is a good status, unless you have customized the Activities for your Flex account).
If you haven't yet, make a note of the phone number assigned to your Flex instance. You can find it on the Admin panel.
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Send an SMS from your cell phone to your Flex phone number.
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Inside Flex navigate back to the Agent Desktop, or click the "Stack" button on the left sidebar as you've done with your incoming call.
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Accept the incoming request by clicking the green Accept button:
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Send a message back to your phone by typing in the chat interface and sending your well-crafted response:
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Verify you received the message you just sent from the Flex application to your phone.
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Click End Chat to finish the SMS session.
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Click Complete to wrap up the task.
Chat is a native channel within your Flex instance. Because it isn't integrated with your application by default, Flex includes a chat demo for your instance. You can find the customer side of chat inside the Admin panel.
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Navigate to the Admin panel.
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Click Launch under the Webchat heading in the Test Drive section to open up a web chat session.
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A chat modal should load in a new tab, or you can click 'Chat With Us' on the lower right corner of the window.
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Enter a name and anything in the text field.
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Back on the Agent Desktop in your Flex Instance, accept the chat request:
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Respond to the customer chat message and notice the read receipts on the agent side:
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Click End Chat to end the chat session.
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Click Complete to end the agent wrapup.