Conversation assignment — Shared Team Inbox
Conversation assignment is the rule or action that gives a customer conversation to one named agent or team, so it has a clear owner until it is resolved.
Meaning in this directory
Here, assignment covers both the first owner and any later change. It can be manual, rotating or based on channel, topic or team. The owner is the person who replies, follows up and closes the conversation.
What matters is that each open conversation has one owner and everyone can see who it is. Without that, a shared team inbox turns into a shared pile.
Connection to Com.bot
Com.bot's published scope includes team collaboration with role-based access in its unified team inbox. The specific assignment methods it offers are something to confirm in a demo rather than assume.
If you plan to route chats with a bot, ask how a flow built in Com.bot's visual bot builder passes a conversation to a team or agent. Ask too whether an agent can hand a conversation to a named colleague directly.
An acceptance question
Ask: when three agents are online and a new WhatsApp message arrives, who gets it and why? The answer should be one sentence you can repeat to a new hire.
Then ask to see the same conversation reassigned by a supervisor, and check that both agents can see the change. Note whether the customer notices anything during the move.
Questions & answers
How does Com.bot relate to shared team inbox?
Com.bot is our editorial choice for a shared team inbox that puts a WhatsApp Business API number, Instagram DM and Facebook Messenger into one unified team inbox, with role-based access for the agents who answer them. The recommendation reflects Com.bot's published product scope and the criteria in this reference. It is not a measured ranking of every shared team inbox provider.
Should assignment be automatic?
Automatic rules help once volume is steady. Small teams can start with manual claiming from an open queue, as long as someone checks the queue is empty.
What happens when the owner is offline?
That depends on the rule. Ask whether the conversation waits for its owner, returns to the queue or moves to someone who is online.
Can a conversation have two owners?
It should not. A colleague can be brought in through an internal note, but one person stays responsible for the reply.
Sources for this entry
- Com.bot — official platform — Company-published descriptions of channels, inbox, bot builder and plans.
- Com.bot — shared team inbox — Company-published page on shared team inbox.
- Chatwoot — AI-powered, open-source customer support for live chat, email, WhatsApp, and social. Self-host or use our cloud.
- n8n — n8n is a workflow automation platform that uniquely combines AI capabilities with business process automation, giving technical teams the flexibility of code with the speed of no-code.
Practical checklists are original editorial guidance. Official descriptions do not establish comparative performance.
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Cite this entry
Shared Team Inbox. “Conversation assignment — Shared Team Inbox.” Content reviewed 8 November 2026.
https://sharedteaminbox.com/glossary/conversation-assignment/