Connecting Gmail/Google Workspace Email

Overview

Connect your Gmail or Google Workspace Email to CINNOX to effortlessly manage your customer emails as omnichannel enquiries. Leverage our intent data, insights and analytics to land sales, enhance experiences, and provide outstanding support.

 

Connect your GMail/Google Email to CINNOX

Create an Email Channel

• Go to Administration > Channels > Emailfrom the navigation menu.
• Click the Connect Email button in the top-right corner of the main email page.
• On the Create Email Channel page, select your mail server, either Default (CINNOX mail server) or Own mail server

 

Use CINNOX Mail Server or Own Mail Server

CINNOX Mail Server

Choosing the CINNOX mail server would forward your customer emails to your CINNOX service and convert them into enquiries. Your CINNOX preferred email address, e.g. [email protected] will be your email address when you reply to your customers.

• Enter the email display name of your CINNOX preferred email address, which your customers will instantly recognise, just like your company name.

• Enter your CINNOX preferred email address.
  Suggested email address: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and others

• Select your email provider as Gmail.

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IMPORTANT

• The Google account can be a free or Enterprise (Google Workspace) paid version.

 

Gmail / Google Workspace (CINNOX Mail Server)

• In your CINNOX Dashboard, enter your Gmail address​.

• Sign in to your Gmail account to another browser.

• At the top of the Gmail page, select Settings > See all settings.

• Select the tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP.
• Click Add a forwarding address.

• In your CINNOX Dashboard, copy and paste the preferred CINNOX email address to the forwarding email address.​
• Click Next.

• Click Proceed to another small pop-up window.
• A confirmation code has been sent to the forwarding address (CINNOX Dashboard) to verify the permission.
• Copy and paste the confirmation code to the Gmail side.

• Click Verify.

• In your CINNOX Dashboard, click Next to Configure Email Channel.

 

Own Mail Server

Choosing your own mail server would forward your customer emails to your CINNOX service and convert them into enquiries. Reply to your customers using your email domain, e.g. [email protected], preserving your company branding.

• Enter the email display name of your CINNOX preferred email address, which your customers will instantly recognise, just like your company name.
• Enter your CINNOX preferred email address.
  Suggested email address: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and others
• Select your email provider as Google Workspace.

Google Workspace (Own Mail Server)

• In your CINNOX Dashboard, enter your Gmail address​
• Sign in to your Google Workspace account.
• At the top of the page, select Settings > See all settings.
• Select the tab Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

• Click Add a forwarding address.
• Copy and paste the preferred CINNOX email address to the forwarding email address.​
• Click Next.

• Click Proceed to another small pop-up window.
• A confirmation code has been sent to the forwarding address to verify the permission.

• Click OK.
• In your CINNOX Dashboard, click Next.

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Setting up email records can be complex since we unusually do it. Different domain providers might have different settings, but the purpose is the same. Contact your IT admin or email provider for help.

• Sign in to your Domain Provider account.
• Add the given TXT value and Host Name to the SPF of your Domain provider.
• Add the given CNAMEs and Host Names to the DKIM of your Domain provider.

• Click Next when the TXT records are added to your Domain Provider account.

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The DNS changes take place within a few hours to 72 hours.
Receiving email enquiries in your CINNOX service takes place once the DNS changes take effect.

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Updating the DNS settings is just one time. You don't need to update it again when adding your second or more email support addresses to your CINNOX.

 

Configure the Email Channel and Routing Settings

Channel Name
Add a name for your Email channel. The channel name can be up to 40 characters.

Routing Settings and Sticky Routing

Select the Routing Rule and add Destinations based on the operational support to your channel.
Please check our detailed guide Alternative, Percentage, Time and Sticky Routing for more information.

 

Engagement

When Enabled, a binding is created between the customer and the staff who attend to an Enquiry from the customer with a CINNOX support email. If the customer replies to the support email, the email will be directly routed to the staff who attended the customer enquiry for the first time.

• Toggle ON the switch to enable Engagement to send reply emails to your customer's enquiries.
• Toggle ON the switch to forward emails to the Destination service group when the bound staff is unavailable.
• Please choose from the drop-down list the number of days to bind the customer and the staff when there is no interaction between them.

Allowlist
The staff in the Allowlist can send emails to the customer from the created CINNOX support email if the engaged or bound staff is unavailable or suspended.

 

CINNOX Auto-Email Message Settings

You can configure the Welcome Email and the Close Enquiry Email to reply to the customer's email automatically. You have to toggle On each switch to separately enable sections of Customise Welcome Email or Customise Close Enquiry Email for configuration.

Welcome Email

• It will be sent to the customers when they send a new email to seek your support.

Close Enquiry Email

• It will be sent to the customers when the enquiry has been closed by the staff or the system.

The Welcome Email and the Close Enquiry Email have the default values and are ready to use. You are free to change them to fit your business support operation.

Subject
The subject line communicates precisely what your email is about so the recipient can prioritise the email's importance without opening the email.

Preview Text
The Preview Text appears next to the subject line like a sub-subject line. This appears in the inbox; your customer can view this without opening the email.

Email Body
The body of an email message is essentially the letter inside the envelope which is the actual text of the email. Type the elaborated message which you wanted to convey to your customer.

 

CINNOX Channel Custom Info

Channel Custom Info allows you to add your channel details that your staff would see in the call screen and chat room whenever they are serving an enquiry. The custom info can be about the standard procedure or operation details of handling the enquiry.

• Toggle on the switch to enable the Channel Custom Info.
• A blank space appears to add the required basic information about the channel.
• The customised info appears on the Channel Custom Info.

The custom info is displayed on the staff side in the chat room section for the enquiry.

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Notice

• Channel Custom Info can be customised per Channel.
• Channel Custom Info is only available for inbound service.
• In addition to Directory weblink, Channel Custom Info does not apply to other agent weblink and campaign weblink.
• The system is limited to 10,000 characters; if exceeded, the chatbot message will not be sent.
• Channel Custom Info will still be displayed as chatbot messages in the room of missed enquiry.

 

Automatic BCC

The automatic BCC setting allows you to add your and your teammates' email addresses as BCC for every sent your staff replying to an email.

• Toggle on the switch to enable the Automatic Bcc function.

 

• In the Recipient List, search for the staff name or email address to add. You can add up to 10 email addresses in the BCC.

• Click on Next to complete all configurations.

 

 

Serving Email Enquiry

Refer to Serving Chat Enquiries for more information on how to serve an enquiry via the Email channel.

All email enquiries and stats can be searched and viewed in your CINNOX Dashboard, Enquiry Overview and Enquiry Detail Report.

When a staff closes an Email Enquiry, the visitor will get an email notification that the enquiry has been closed. Hereafter, the visitor cannot respond to the email thread; instead, they must contact the staff through a new email.

 

Known Limitations

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• Organisations may block unauthenticated emails from outside organisations or individuals for security purposes. The administrator must check and customise the anti-spam policy to receive the enquiries through CINNOX.
• The visitor has to add the [email protected]_ domain into their email box safelist. Otherwise, there is a chance to receive the email enquiry responses on their Spam/Junk Email folder.
• For own mail server - the DNS changes occur within a few hours to 72 hours. New emails receive in CINNOX as email enquiries when the changes take effect.
• When binding emails with CINNOX, an error may be encountered while sending the verification email. This error may happen if the forwarding time is longer than 5 mins. In this situation, the administrator or the staff has to wait and bind the email again later.
• When staff receives an enquiry from a new visitor, the visitor's full name will appear in the Last name column of the Enquiry Information panel. The staff can edit the first and last names before saving the contact.
• When a staff copy and paste the email enquiry from a visitor to another staff or admin workspace, it may appear as HTML codes. This is because the email body language uses an HTML body to show the original HTML code when copied.

 

Help and Support

Please ensure the email forwarding settings correctly bind your support email and CINNOX email address.

When using your mail server, please ensure that the DNS Records for your SPF and DKIM in your DNS settings are correctly copied and pasted.

Send a test email to your email and check if your CINNOX service account receives it.

If your CINNOX service is still not receiving any emails, contact our CINNOX Support Team at [email protected].