You’re doing great! The next step is getting your team up and running with their accounts. With our onboarding guides, your sales teams will be able to get started and begin to crush the metrics that matter to them most. 

For a complete sales-rep onboarding guide, click here. 

Intended Audience:

• Admin
• Sales Manager

In this doc we'll cover:

• To Set Up Account
• Meeting Types
• Conversation Overview
• Drift Desktop App
• Your Availability
• Next Steps

To set up Account: 

1. Locate the email invite and activate your account
2. Enter your name and upload a photo
3. Set a password for your account 
4. Connect your Gmail or Office 365 Calendar (learn more about connecting here) 
5. Install Drift Chrome extension (learn more about Chrome extension here)   

Meeting Types 

After you’ve connected your calendar, you can customize the types of meetings visitors book on your calendar. To learn more on how to set up and edit meetings with Drift, click here. 

To customize meetings: 

1. Click on the Meetings tab.
2. Click the button labeled “New meeting type” 
3. Follow the steps to setting up a new meeting 

Conversation Overview 

Now that your account is set-up, it’s important to understand the Drift platform. To start conversations with customers in real time, Drift has both the conversation view in the platform and a desktop application. 

Depending on your account permissions (set by your admin), you’ll either see all conversations or just those that you’re a participant in. If you’re looking for more support, check out the Drift Chat user guide here. 

 

Drift Desktop App  

The Drift Desktop App is an application for your desktop device which will allow you to quickly access your Drift conversations! When using this app, messaging prospects via Drift live chat will be faster, easier, and more reliable than ever. To understand the Desktop App further, click here. 

Your Availability

Rep status is important to understand as a team, in order to organize who's responsible for new conversations coming in. 

To change your status, click your avatar and flip the toggle there. 

 

Next Steps 

To ensure that you’ve properly set up your account, please follow along the steps outlined here. 

Alright, now let's take a look at Step 8, Setting Roles