Shared Drafts: reply to a conversation together
If more than one teammate can reply to a conversation, you can now write that reply together, at the same time, instead of one person owning it alone.
The instructions below apply to SMS, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp and Email conversations on the web dashboard.
The instructions below apply to SMS, Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp and Email conversations on the web dashboard.
How shared drafts work
- Open a conversation that more than one teammate can reply to.
- Start typing a reply, the same way you always have.
- If a teammate opens the same conversation and starts typing too, you're both now editing the same draft - there's only ever one reply in progress per conversation, so nobody sends a duplicate.
- Keep typing. You'll see exactly where your teammate is typing, with their name attached to their cursor, and everyone's changes merge live - nothing is overwritten, even if you type at the same moment.
- Send the reply when it's ready. Any teammate can send it.
- A credit line appears on the sent reply, showing who worked on it - for example, "Ada and Marcus have worked on this reply."
- Shared recipients and attachments, where the channel has them - for Email, To/Cc/Bcc and any attached files are shared the same way the reply text is; add one and your teammate sees it instantly.
- If a teammate sends or discards the draft, you're told immediately, so the conversation never changes under you without warning.
- Starting a brand-new outbound message works the same way - from the moment you start typing, it's a shared draft a teammate can join before you send it.
On Email specifically - two things are Email-only today:
- Two checks before sending - confirm if a teammate is still typing, or the customer just replied.
- Cancel a send - a short window to pull it back after hitting Send. Stay on the page until it finishes - closing early can mean it doesn't go out.
Discarding a shared draft — works exactly as it already does, on every channel: permanent for everyone.
What's different about undo — your own typing undoes normally; undoing a teammate's specific edit isn't available yet.
Troubleshooting
Additional considerations
Private replies aren't possible on a shared conversation Once a conversation is shared with your team, its draft is too. There's no way to keep a personal, private draft on a conversation other teammates can also reply to.
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