Workflow Rules
Workflow Rules are available on the Grow pricing plan and above.
If you are interested in trying this feature, please reach out to us at sales@plain.com or via our shared Slack channel.
You can use workflow rules to help you automate your team’s processes. You can either choose from pre-defined conditions, or use our “Matches AI prompt” field to trigger actions.
Some common use-cases include:
- Assign someone to handle all support requests from a given company or tier (e.g. Enterprise)
- Automatically ignore spam messages
- Set a threads’ priority if it includes certain key phrases
- Route demo requests or trial extension threads to your sales team
- Assign threads based on the used support email (e.g. Give all security@ emails to Jane)
To manage your workflow rules go to Settings → Workflow Rules.
When building a new rule, you can choose among a set of conditions which result in one or more actions. You can also use the “AI match prompt” to write exactly what your trigger should be.
There are a few conditions you can choose from, based on the thread’s attributes:
- a given label is applied
- is from a given company
- belongs to tenant
- is from a given slack channel
- is from a specific support channel (Slack, MS Teams, chat, API)
- has a specific tier (ie Enterprise)
- is for a specific support address (ie sales@yourcompany.com)
- contains a certain keyword (ie vulnerability)
When the chosen condition matches a thread, you can perform any of the following actions:
- assign someone to the thread
- set thread status
- set tier
- set the thread priority
- apply a given label
- add a customer to a customer group
- add a note to a thread