Introducing: Customer-Facing Journey Timelines

We recently launched a powerful enhancement to our Customer Journey Orchestration tool: shareable, customer-facing journey timelines.

You already rely on our platform to design and manage complex customer experiences across your internal teams and systems. You meticulously map out every step, ensuring smooth transitions and coordinated efforts. But until now, sharing that journey overview with your customer often involved manual summaries or static documents.

Bring Your Customers Into the Journey

With this update, you can now generate a dedicated, customer-friendly view of the journey timeline directly from the internal timeline. This dynamic timeline provides transparency and keeps your customers informed about their progress, key milestones, and what to expect next.

Key Features & Benefits:

1. One-Click Sharing: Generate a unique, shareable link for a specific customer journey timeline with just a single click. Easily paste this link into emails, support cases, or customer portals.
2. Controlled Visibility: You have complete control over what the customer sees. Use the familiar journey builder interface to select which Stages, Steps, and Actions are included in the customer-facing view. Keep internal actions internal while sharing relevant progress updates.
3. Customizable Language: Tailor the terminology used in the customer timeline. Adjust Stage, Step, and Action names within the journey builder to ensure they are clear, concise, and speak your customer's language, avoiding internal jargon.
4. Enhanced Transparency & Trust: Proactively share progress and upcoming steps, building trust and managing expectations effectively.
5. Improved Alignment: Ensure both your internal teams and your customers are perfectly aligned on the journey status and next actions.
6. Streamlined Communication: Reduce back-and-forth questions by providing customers with a self-serve way to check their journey status.

How it Works:

1. Navigate to the Journey in the builder where you want to enable customer-facing timelines
2. Update the Public Name for all Stages and Steps that you want to share with your customers
3. Optionally toggle the Visibility on Steps and Actions to ensure you share exactly what you want.
4. Set the Journey Visibility to ‘Customer’ under Options > Edit Journey
5. Once the Journey is published and added to a Case, navigate to the Journeys tab on the Case and click the menu in the top right and select “Copy Public URL”
6. The URL will be copied to your clipboard so you can easily share it directly with your customer for them to follow along or take action as needed

We believe this feature will significantly enhance collaboration and communication between you and your customers, leading to stronger relationships and improved overall experiences.

Dive in and start sharing your journey timelines today! As always, we welcome your feedback. Please don't hesitate to reach out to our team with any questions.