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Integrate Gladly With AfterShip Tracking

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Overview



Bring Gladly and AfterShip Tracking together to offer exceptional customer service and reduce WISMO calls. By integrating these two applications, your customer support team can quickly share tracking updates and resolve shipment-related issues.

What is Gladly?



Gladly is a customer service platform that prioritizes personal connections over traditional case management. Unlike conventional systems, Gladly centers around people, facilitating a continuous, lifelong conversation with customers across various channels, from voice to modern messaging. It empowers innovative brands like Warby Parker, JOANN, and TUMI to deliver outstanding customer experiences, transforming customer service into a significant competitive advantage.

How is Gladly’s integration with AfterShip beneficial?



Gladly's seamless integration with AfterShip Tracking sits at the core of quick response time and centralization of customer information. Without switching applications, support agents get the complete picture behind the prevalent customer issues within seconds. Gladly syncs tracking numbers associated with the ticket raiser's email address or phone number and displays the latest delivery updates of the related shipments from your AfterShip Tracking account. This gives your support team an upper hand on the whereabouts of customers' orders to answer their delivery issues in seconds.

Shipment tracking Information for agents



AfterShip Tracking’s integration with Gladly is established on Custom Lookup Adaptors. A Custom Lookup Adaptor is a tool that helps pull additional customer data into Gladly to allow customer service agents to have a more comprehensive view of the customer’s journey not covered by existing integrations (such as Shopify, Salesforce, etc.), with details about orders, transactions, and other relevant customer information displayed in Transaction Cards.

When agents first see the transaction data in Gladly, the orders are collapsed by default, making it easier to navigate. Agents can manually expand each order to view the details. In terms of how the data is laid out in the interface, the reserved keys (such as order number, customer info, items purchased, etc.) are mapped to specific sections of the card.

Order number (Current and past orders placed by a customer). If a customer has eight orders, the ORDER card label will say 8 Orders.
Tracking status (current delivery status)
Items under this shipment (list of items being shipped)
Tracking number (unique number to track the shipment)
Link to AfterShip public tracking page for further shipment details.



Find more information on how and what customer data is pulled and passed between Gladly and AfterShip Tracking here.

Gladly ticket view for agents

Integration setup for AfterShip and Gladly



Configuration in AfterShip Tracking admin

Step 1. Access AfterShip integration

Go to AfterShip Tracking and select Apps.
Click View more apps and choose Gladly from the list.
Click the Install app to access the integration authorization page.
Follow the integration instructions carefully to establish the connection between the apps.
Copy the URL in point 2 and keep it aside for later use.
Copy the AfterShip API Key and keep it aside for later use.

Step 2. Log into your Gladly account

Open Settings in your Gladly account.
Navigate to Apps and click on Add App.
Select Custom to add a new custom integration.

Configuration in Gladly admin

Step 3. Configure custom app

Provide a name for the app.
Paste the URL copied from AfterShip (Step 1, bullet 5) into the URL field.

Step 4. Add HTTP header

In the HTTP Headers section, add as-api-key as the header key.
(Make sure there is no space before or after the header key, otherwise it will show error when saving)

Paste your AfterShip API Key (Step 1, bullet 6) into the corresponding field.

Step 5. Add signing key

When saving the settings, you might encounter an error about an empty Signing Key. You can ignore this error and enter any value to proceed.

Step 6. Verify the integration

After saving, the new custom app should appear under Apps in your Gladly account.

Step 7. Confirm the integration

Go back to AfterShip Tracking and navigate to the Apps section. You should now see Gladly listed as successfully installed.

AfterShip Apps section

Updated on: 29/11/2024

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