Conversation assignment
Free on every planEveryone knows who has got it.
Assign a conversation to a person, a team, or both, so it is clear who owns the reply, or leave it unassigned as a queue anyone can pick from. Either way, nobody doubles up and nothing sits there unowned.
The problem
A shared inbox with no owner is just a pile
When nobody is named on a conversation, everyone assumes someone else has it, or two people answer at once and the customer gets contradicting replies.
- Two teammates reply to the same customer minutes apart
- Hard questions get skipped because no one owns them
- "I thought you had that one" after the customer chases
- No record of who was handling what when it went wrong
Why teams love it
Clear ownership, without a manager assigning everything
Assignment gives a shared inbox the one thing it is usually missing: a name against every conversation that needs one.
- No more double replies
- The moment a conversation is assigned, everyone can see who is on it, so nobody starts writing the same answer twice.
- A queue anyone can pull from
- Leave conversations unassigned and let the team pick up what they can handle. Unassigned is its own state you can filter on.
- Nothing falls between people
- A named owner means a named follow-up. Hard or slow conversations stay with someone instead of drifting.
- A full trail of who had it
- Every assignment change is saved in the conversation history, so you can always see how a case moved through the team.
What’s inside
Assign one, assign a hundred
Everything you need to keep ownership clear as your queue grows and your team shifts around it.
- Assign to a person, a team, or both
- Give the reply to one teammate, a whole team, or both at once: straight from the conversation or the list view.
- Leave it unassigned on purpose
- Unassigned is a real, filterable state: a shared queue, not a gap in your process.
- Change assignment in bulk
- Select a batch of conversations and move them all to one person at once, when someone is off or a backlog builds.
- Saved in the history
- Each change of owner is written to the conversation history with who did it and when.
- Filter by assignee
- See just your own conversations, one teammate’s queue, or everything that still has no owner.
- Assign automatically with rules
- Let the rules engine route conversations to the right person as they arrive, so triage happens without you.
Pricing
Free on every planFree, on every plan
Conversation assignment is part of the shared inbox from day one: including the Free plan, with no card and no time limit.
Included free on every plan, forever.
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Pricing
Choose the plan that fits your needs
Alongside a free version with a selection of features, you can choose from three Herodesk plans. Then add a separate AI agent plan to suit your usage. Right now, you can try Pro free for 14 days.
Herodesk Free
For working on your own
$0
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Bring your team together
$34per user / month
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Spend less time on routine work
$57per user / month
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Keep service consistent as you grow
$80per user / month
Conversation assignment: one clear owner per customer
Assignment is what turns a shared inbox from a shared pile into a working queue. Each conversation can be given to one person, to a team, or to both so it is obvious who owns the reply, or left unassigned so anyone on the team can pick it up. Because unassigned is its own filterable state rather than an accident, a team can run a genuine pull-based queue without a manager handing out work. Every change of owner is written to the conversation history, so you can always reconstruct who had what.
It works with the rest of the inbox: tags, internal notes, snooze, and AI agents that assign and route conversations automatically as they arrive. With more than 30 integrations, the customer’s order data is right next to the conversation whoever picks it up.
Conversation assignment is included on every Herodesk plan, including Free, and used by webshops, B2B companies and SaaS companies across Europe. Herodesk is built and hosted in Scandinavia and 100% GDPR compliant. See pricing for what each plan includes.
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