Learn how to manage Campaign replies in YakChat and understand how Campaign context helps you identify which Campaign message prompted each response.
When someone replies to a Campaign message, YakChat routes the message to the recipient’s 1:1 conversation in the inbox used to send the Campaign. If the reply is received within the configured Reply Window, YakChat also displays the original Campaign message as context.
The Reply Window defines how long the system monitors and tracks incoming messages from Campaign recipients. Messages received during this period are treated as Campaign replies and include a reference to the original Campaign message, making the conversation’s context easy to identify.
You configure the Reply Window individually for each message in a Campaign. See how it’s done here.
When a recipient replies within the Reply Window, you can view the Campaign context directly in the conversation.
The Campaign context includes:
If you need more information than the displayed context provides, you can navigate back to the original Campaign message by clicking Go to Campaign.
For example, if your Reply Window is 72 hours and a recipient replies after that time, their message still arrives but is not associated with the Campaign.
This same behavior applies when “Don’t track replies” is selected.
Campaign replies follow YakChat’s standard messaging behavior: