Organizing conversations
ConnectWiz gives your team four tools to keep a busy inbox under control: departments, tags, internal notes and saved replies. All four belong to your workspace and are never visible to another.
This page covers the organizing tools. For the threads themselves — statuses, assignment, messages and read receipts — see Conversations & statuses.
Departments
A department is a routing group — for example Sales, Billing or Support. You can assign a conversation to a department so the right team picks it up.
- Administrators and supervisors create, rename and delete departments.
- Agents can see the department list and pick one when handling a conversation, but cannot manage the list itself.
- A department has a name, an optional colour and an optional image.
Tags
A tag is a lightweight label you apply to a conversation — VIP, Refund, Bug report, and so on. A conversation can carry any number of tags.
- Tag names are unique within your workspace.
- You can mark a tag as starred to pin it to the top of the list.
- Administrators and supervisors manage the tag vocabulary; agents apply existing tags to the conversations they handle.
Attaching the same tag twice has no effect — it is already there.
Internal notes
An internal note is a private message attached to a conversation that only your team can see. Use it to leave context for a colleague ("customer already refunded once") without the contact ever seeing it.
- Notes are append-only: once written they are not edited.
- Anyone who can work the conversation can add a note.
- You can delete your own note. Supervisors and administrators can delete any note.
Saved replies
A saved reply is a reusable canned response — a greeting, a refund policy, troubleshooting steps. Agents insert them into a conversation to answer common questions quickly.
- Each saved reply has a name and a body, plus optional attachments.
- Names are unique within your workspace.
- Administrators and supervisors curate the library; agents use the replies when chatting.
Who can do what
| Action | Agent | Supervisor | Admin |
|---|---|---|---|
| View departments / tags / replies | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Manage departments / tags / replies | — | ✅ | ✅ |
| Apply / remove a tag on a conversation | ✅ (own) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Add an internal note | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Delete any internal note | own only | ✅ | ✅ |