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Send a mass reply

Compose one message and send it as a real reply on every selected conversation at once, delivered individually on each conversation's own channel.

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Send a mass reply

To send a mass reply, select conversations in the conversation list, click Mass reply in the bulk action bar, compose one message, and click Send mass reply — every selected conversation receives it as a real reply on its own channel. Customers get it as a normal reply on whichever channel they originally used, and it lands on each conversation’s timeline like any other agent message.

Mass reply is high-blast-radius and cannot be recalled. If this is your first send, read When to use mass reply first — it covers the legitimate use cases and the situations where a mass reply will do damage.

Before you start

  • A role that can reply to conversations.
  • A filter that isolates the exact conversations you want to message. The filter is your record of what was sent, so make it specific (a tag, a date range, a channel, an assigned team).
  • The exact message text, ideally reviewed by someone else. There is no draft-and-approve workflow — what you paste in the editor is what goes out.

Steps

  1. Open the conversation list and apply a filter that narrows the list to your intended segment. A purpose-built tag (for example payment-issue-2026-05) is the cleanest record.
  2. Select the conversations:
    Tick individual rows for a small, hand-picked set, or
    Use Select all in the list header to grab the visible page, then click All matching in the bulk action bar to extend selection to every row that matches the current filter.
  3. In the bulk action bar at the top of the list, click Mass reply.
  4. The Mass Reply dialog opens. Confirm the count at the top — it shows exactly how many conversations will receive the message.
  5. Compose the message in the editor. Snippets and merge tags work the same as in a normal reply — /snippet expands inline and merge tags resolve per conversation when sending.
  6. (Optional) Tick Mark as Done to also flip every recipient’s status to Done in the same call.
  7. Click Send mass reply.

The dialog closes and the send runs server-side. You can navigate away — the batch keeps going.

What happens when you send

For each conversation in the selection:

  • The message is posted as a real outbound reply on the conversation’s timeline, attributed to you.
  • It is delivered via the conversation’s own channel (email reply, chat message, SMS, etc.). Delivery details and limits differ per channel — see Mass reply channel behaviour.
  • The conversation flips to Engaged (the ball is back in the customer’s court). See engagement state.
  • If you ticked Mark as Done, the status also flips to Done. Customer replies still reopen it automatically.
  • Any active automation rules that key off outbound messages run as they normally would.

A system note records that the message was sent as part of a mass reply, so a teammate reading the thread later can see it wasn’t a hand-written one-to-one response.

Verify it worked

  • The bulk action bar shows a confirmation with the number of conversations the message was dispatched to.
  • Spot-check a handful of conversations from the selection — each should show your message as the most recent outbound reply, attributed to you, with the mass-reply system note alongside it.
  • If you ticked Mark as Done, those conversations are now in the Done tab. Filter to your segment and confirm the count matches.
  • Engagement state on the spot-checked conversations should be Engaged.

If the button was missing, the count was off, or some customers didn’t receive the message, see Mass reply troubleshooting.

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