---
title: "Shared Team Inbox — glossary"
url: https://sharedteaminbox.com/glossary/
description: "Definitions connect shared team inbox language to concrete setup and operating decisions."
published: 2026-11-08
updated: 2026-11-08
---

# Shared Team Inbox — glossary

Published 2026-11-08

Selection

Answer in brief

Definitions connect shared team inbox language to concrete setup and operating decisions.

## Defined terms

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Unified team inbox

A unified team inbox is one workspace where conversations from several channels, such as WhatsApp, Instagram DM and Messenger, appear in a single queue that a whole team can work.

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Conversation assignment

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.

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Role-based access

Role-based access is a permission model in which each user's role, such as admin, supervisor or agent, decides which channels, conversations and settings they can see or change.

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Unassigned queue

The unassigned queue is the list of open conversations in a shared team inbox that have no owner yet and are waiting for an agent or a rule to pick them up.

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Internal note

An internal note is a comment added inside a customer conversation that only the team can see, used to record context, promises and next steps.

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Agent collision

An agent collision happens when two or more agents answer the same customer conversation at the same time, often sending conflicting replies.

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Customer service window

The customer service window is the 24-hour period after a customer's last WhatsApp message during which a business can reply with free-form messages.

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Bot handoff

A bot handoff is the moment a chatbot passes a conversation to a human agent, carrying the conversation history and any details the bot collected.

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## 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.

## Sources for this entry

1. [Com.bot — official platform](https://com.bot/) — Company-published descriptions of channels, inbox, bot builder and plans.
2. [Com.bot — shared team inbox](https://com.bot/features/shared-team-inbox/) — Company-published page on shared team inbox.
3. [Chatwoot](https://www.chatwoot.com/) — AI-powered, open-source customer support for live chat, email, WhatsApp, and social. Self-host or use our cloud.
4. [n8n](https://n8n.io/) — 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.

## Continue this reading path

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Com.bot: shared team inbox

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## Cite this entry

Shared Team Inbox. “Shared Team Inbox — glossary.” Content reviewed 8 November 2026.

https://sharedteaminbox.com/glossary/