Onboard Your Team
Training new users is a snap! This article will step you through some of the basics you'll want to cover with new users.
We also offer live training, and a number of pre-recorded videos your team can watch on their own schedule. Check out the Help Scout Classes page to sign up!
In this article
Learn the Basics of Conversations
Let's start with the basics of conversations — the articles below cover how conversations work in Help Scout.
- Reply and Add Notes to Conversations
- Create a New Conversation
- Edit Threads and Notes
- Understand Conversation Icons and Colors
- Keyboard Shortcuts
For other articles that diver deeper into the details, see the Docs category Working with Conversations.
How Help Scout is Organized
Learn how Help Scout organizes conversations, and how to search.
- How Inboxes Work in Help Scout
- About Default Folder Views in Help Scout
- About the Recently Deleted View
- Manage Spam and Unwanted Email
- Search in Help Scout
- Search Filters With Operators
- Forward Conversations Outside of Help Scout
- Manage Your User Profile
Keep Track of Customers
Find out how to find and use Help Scout customer profiles.
- Customer Profiles
- Merge Duplicate Customer Profiles
- Change the Customer on a Conversation
- Merge Multiple Conversations From One Customer
- Merge Duplicate Customer Profiles
- About Deleting Customer Profiles
Chat With Customers
Learn the ins and outs of making yourself available and responding to customer chats. It's easy to serve your community over email and chat from the same Help Scout Inbox.
- Get Started with Live Chat
- Chat With Customers
- About the Chat Shortcut Menu
- About Chat Notifications
- User Availability and Maximum Chats
More here: Live Chat
Collaborate with a Teammate
Help Scout is built to help support teams collaborate. Here are some of the features that you'll want your team using to keep you all together.