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Our customers are saying that we already have a deep integration with Zendesk, but today we are happy to release an even tighter integration:

Now every time that one of your Zendesk contact starts a live chat from your website, SnapAbug automatically retrieves up to date contact information from your Zendesk help desk.

Your customers will love the personal touch when you call them by their real name or remember the last time they contacted your help desk. And it will also be easier for your agents to retrieve previous tickets.

See our updated Zendesk integration page for more details.

And as always, let us know how we can make SnapABug better for you.

In other words, SnapABug now integrates with Lighthouse.

You can receive directly in Lighthouse detailed feedback and debug information from your website visitors.

No programming required, just enter your Lighthouse system address, select a project and you are ready to go.

Give it a try…

By integrating SnapABug with Basecamp, you can receive detailed feedback and debug information from your clients, along with a screen capture of the problem, directly in Basecamp.

No programming is required to use this interface, simply enter your Basecamp system address, your Basecamp API key and select a project and you are ready to go.

Basecamp message generated by SnapABug:

Give it a try…

It is now possible to assign Zendesk tag values while in a chat.
Imaging that you are chatting with one of your website visitor and you want to flag this specific request as a lead in Zendesk for later follow-up. You can now type “/tag = lead” in your preferred instant messaging client and the Zendesk ticket will automatically be tagged with the “lead” keyword.
Now if you couple this capability with Zendesk custom Triggers, you get a very flexible system…

Here is the generic documentation:

To assign Zendesk tags during a chat, support agents can type: /tag = {tagValues}.
e.g.: /tag = sales, or to assign multiple tags at once: /tag = tag1 tag2 tag3
The tag assignment command can be used multiple times during the same chat session.

And a bonus:

We’ve also added the ability to send arbitrary data to Zendesk the same way. Simply substitute tag by any other word you want and it will be added to the ticket message (Zendesk can have rules setup based on the ticket content).
e.g.: /SnapABug = awesome

Enjoy,
and please keep letting us know how we can make SnapABug better for you!

Several SnapABug for Salesforce users asked us for the ability to manually update leads and contacts information while chatting with website visitors.

While the ability to automatically map any SnapABug data to a Salesforce standard or custom field is very useful, sometime the information is not available before starting the chat. In this case, while on the phone (using the “Call Me” button) or in a chat, you can directly record important information provided by your visitor, to his profile by using one of the commands bellow. Simply provide the data you want to record after the ‘=’ (equal) sign and SnapABug will assign it to the Lead or Contact it will create for you in Salesforce CRM.

Command	Available in
	Sales mode (Leads)	Support mode (Contacts)
/name =	X	X
/phone =	X	X
/fax =	X	X
/mobilephone =	X	X
/description =	X	X
/title =	X	X
/company =	X
/website =	X
/department =		X

example:
/phone = (555) 444-6666
/name = first last

Please let us know if we overlooked a field that is important for you, and will be glad to add it.

Cheers,

Thanks to the new Pivotal Tracker API, SnapABug can now automatically upload web page snapshots to your Pivotal stories.

Check out the screen capture:

We also took advantage of this upgrade to add more debug information such as OS and Browser version to the Pivotal Tracker Story.

Pivotal Tracker is a great agile project management solution that enables real time collaboration around a shared, prioritized backlog.
Streamline your QA reporting process today by combined SnapABug with Pivotal Tracker.

Give it a try now!

Since we’ve introduced SnapABug Salesforce CRM integration last month, we’ve been working hard to get Salesforce certified.

We are proud to announce that SnapABug is now a Salesforce certified application partner

It means that you can trust SnapABug to meet the highest standards set by Salesforce.com for information security and operating policies.

We’ve made several improvements to meet Salesforce.com security requirements. All our existing customers already benefits from those improvements automatically. We also hope that it will make new customers more confident knowing that our system is backed by one of the world’s premier on-demand platform provider.

We are working on new functionalities to make our Salesforce CRM integration even more powerful. Watch this blog and Follow-us on twitter (@snapabug) to learn more.

ZenDesk is a help desk platform that simplies the customer support management process for both the enterprise and the customer.

Using SnapABug with Zendesk, you can now receive the remote screenshot and detailed information captured by SnapABug in your Zendesk support requests directly and help your customers faster.

Here is how a support request generated by SnapABug looks like in Zendesk:

Configuring SnapABug for Zendesk:

1. Sign Up at http://snapabug.com

2. Define how you want the button to look like, grab the javascript code from the configurator and place it on your website

3. In the “configuration” tab, select the action “create a Zendesk support request”


That’s it. You are all set to start seeing what you visitors are seeing from Zendesk.

FogBugz is a great issue and customer request tracking system.
We’ve launched a couple of weeks ago our initial integration with FogBugz and we are happy to announce today the release of an even better integration between SnapABug and FogBugz, Making it easier to record customer support actions in FogBugz from your SnapABug help widget.

Here is an example of a FogBugz bug generated by SnapABug.
From one place, you get all the information you need to support your customer effectively.

The problem along with all the debug information such as location, url where the user was when he/she requested support, the operating environment and browser versions, language and additional plugins installed on the user machine) are in the FogBugz Support Request.
Both OS and Browser are automatically added as tags to the ticket, letting you easily find all problems experienced on Internet Explorer 6 for example.
But more importantly, the snapshot of the webpage as seen by the user is directly available in FogBugz.

Go ahead, give it a try.

Here is how to configure your SnapABug widget to report support requests to FogBugz.

- In the SnapABug configurator, select “create a FogBugz case” from the action list

- Enter your FogBugz url and a valid user credential, then click “Validate Connection”. Don’t worry, we do not keep the password, it is only used once to generate a token that will allow SnapABug t talk to your FogBugz system.

- Select a project and an area where new support requests will be directed

- Click “Save”

That’s it!
You are now all set to receive your SnapABug requests directly in FogBugz.