Help & Support
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The Knowledge Base: the Sales Approach AI Drafts Follow
The AB Sales Knowledge base holds your sales approach, and AI drafts to leads follow the article you link: the lead's campaign's article, else the workspace default. Covers setting the default, the 4,000-character limit, links by path, the starter playbook, and the five MCP tools.
The Team Tab: Is the Team's Approach Working?
The Team tab on an AB Sales workspace's Dashboard: the verdict on the last 30 days, progress and pace against your goals, orders by product, lead sources and outreach, the funnel, what gets replies, and each person's own work. Why a dash means not measured, never zero.
Employee documents
How AB Talent stores employee documents, who can read each document type, how expiry reminders work, and why documents are archived rather than deleted.
Troubleshooting AB Talent
What the messages in AB Talent mean and how to fix them, from missing access and empty balances to candidate mail, the directory and calendar bookings.
Writing to candidates, retention and erasure
How AB Talent emails candidates from your own mailbox, how long applications are kept, and how an HR admin keeps one longer or erases an applicant.
Interviews and scorecards
Arrange interviews in AB Talent, understand how the panel grants access to a candidate, book meetings in Outlook, and write scorecards without seeing anyone else's first.
The HR Help Desk
Employees ask HR questions in a personal Teams chat with AB Talent and get an answer from their own record and your company handbook, with sources, or the question goes to HR. What it can read, what HR sees, and how to set up the handbook safely.
Time Off in AB Talent
How time off works in AB Talent: why everyone starts with zero days until HR grants them, how to request and cancel, how managers approve or decline, and how HR sets up kinds of time off and grants days.
AB Talent: Overview
AB Talent runs hiring and people operations in one place: open roles and candidates, the roster, time off, attendance and an HR help desk. What each tab does, what the AI does and doesn't do, and what AB Talent leaves to other systems. The hub for every AB Talent help page.
Setting Up AB Talent
How to set up AB Talent for your company: create the workspace, import your team from Microsoft 365, give people access, set up time off, choose the handbook, connect candidate mail, and what each colleague sees the first time they open it.
Using AB in Microsoft 365 Copilot
AB Projects, AB Sales and AB Support each come with an agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot. How to open one, what to ask, why every change asks you to confirm first, and what to do when an agent seems to be missing something.
Outreach: Every Time You Reached a Lead, and When to Follow Up
Outreach records every time a lead was reached: emails from AB Sales record themselves, and you log web forms, outside emails, meetings and calls. Covers results and which ones end a campaign, the follow-up date suggested from a campaign, the Leads list columns and Follow-up due filter, and fixing a mistake.
Approving an ActionBridge app for your organization (for IT administrators)
For IT administrators: what approving AB Projects, AB Sales, AB Support or AB Talent for your organization grants, permission by permission, who can approve it, and how to undo it.
Customer Satisfaction Surveys
After a ticket is resolved, AB Support can ask the customer how the support went — a 1–5 score and an optional comment, by email and in the chat widget. How to send one by hand or automatically, what customers see, and how to read CSAT on the dashboard.
Leads from Your Website Form or API
Point your website's download, demo or contact form at AB Sales and every submission becomes a lead — no sign-in, no backend. Covers the intake key, the HTML form snippet, the JSON API, what a repeat submission does, and what your visitor sees.
The AB Support Bot
The AB Support bot is for your team, not your customers — ask it a question and it answers from your desk's knowledge base with sources, check open tickets, see what is assigned to you, and pick the channel escalations land in.
Your Monthly Allowance: Transactions and AI Credits
AB Support meters two things each month — customer transactions and AI credits. What each one counts, where to watch what is left, the warning Home shows you at 80%, what happens when either runs out, and how Usage Packs add capacity.
Where an Escalated Ticket Goes
When the AI can't answer, it routes the ticket to CS, Tech or Product with a one-line reason and a draft reply. What routing is, what it isn't, and why a routed ticket still needs someone to claim it.
Filtering Tasks and Saved Filters
How task filters work in AB Projects: every condition the filter panel offers, saving a filter set you reuse, sharing a filtered view as a link, and why filters stick between visits.
Task Dependencies: Blocked By and Blocks
How task dependencies work in AB Projects: add predecessors from the task that is waiting, read the automatic Blocks mirror, understand why an unmet predecessor warns rather than blocks, and how an AI assistant can set dependencies over MCP.
Campaigns: Multi-Step Email Sequences
A campaign is an ordered sequence of emails the Agent sends a lead over time, stopping the moment they reply. Covers entry filters, steps and wait days, priority, what ends a sequence (including answers recorded in Outreach), the confirmation before a campaign emails existing leads, and why nothing sends until a campaign exists.
Plans, Pricing, and Your Lead Allowance
AB Sales is priced by how many new leads you add, not by how many people use it. Your first 100 leads are free, a plan adds 1,000 new leads a month, and the allowance is shared across every workspace in your organization.
The AB Sales Bot: Chat Commands
Ask the AB Sales bot for your leads, pipeline, or customers — or create a lead — right from a Teams chat. All commands work in English and Japanese.
Importing and Exporting Leads (CSV)
Bring leads into AB Sales from a CSV file or export your whole lead list — including labels, funnel stage, and AI research. Covers the template, duplicate detection, and which columns import.
Your Personal Settings
Your personal AB Support settings — profile, language, timezone, and the opt-in ticket digest email — how they differ from a desk's admin-only settings, and why the digest has its own Save button.
Working the Ticket Queue
How to scan, filter, and work the AB Support ticket queue: new tickets appearing on their own, the inbox row signals, compact rows, long queues, quick filters and sort, saved filters, keyboard triage, Next ticket after resolving, and bulk actions.
Who Can See Your Tickets and Customers
Who has access to an AB Support desk's tickets and customers — desk membership is the rule, how you join depends on whether the desk is channel-linked or standalone, and one desk (or another AB product) can never see another's data.
Installing AB Support
How to install AB Support from the Microsoft Teams store and create your first support desk — from the Home tab in seconds, or as a channel tab — then work that same desk in Teams, Outlook or a browser. Your customers never install anything.
AB Support Troubleshooting
Fixes for the most common AB Support snags — replies stopping altogether, no inquiry cards, email not syncing, the AI answering wrong, the web-chat widget not appearing, WhatsApp and SMS not arriving, and signing in on the web.
Your Customer Store
Everyone who contacts your AB Support desk becomes a customer record, matched by email or phone number depending on the channel, so returning people bring their history. When one person arrives as two records, an agent can merge them. It's AB Support's own store, separate from the AB Sales CRM.
Assigning Tickets to Your Team
How to assign a support ticket to a teammate so a real team can divide the work, and how a ticket passes from the AI, which holds it while it answers, to a person.
The AB Support Dashboard
A desk opens on an interactive dashboard — in Teams or the web app. Its metric tiles open the ticket list filtered to exactly those tickets, and its Who did the work section puts what the AI did beside what your team did. How to read every number.
Turning Support Email into Tickets
Connect your support mailbox so email becomes tickets and replies go back by email. Needs a one-time Microsoft 365 admin consent — here's the setup, and why mail takes a few minutes to appear.
Knowledge Sources: How the AI Answers
The AI answers customers directly from the knowledge sources you point it at — this desk's own knowledge base, another workspace's wiki, or your own public help center — and cites them. It finds articles by meaning, so customers can ask in any language and still be answered from what you wrote.
AB Support Settings
Two things are called settings in AB Support: your personal settings (language, timezone, ticket digest) and a desk's admin-only settings (its name and icon, members, channels, statuses, knowledge sources, and its desk ID), reached from the gear inside the desk.
Support Desks: Your AB Support Workspace
A desk is your AB Support workspace — its own tickets, customers and settings, independent of AB Projects and AB Sales. The two ways to create one, how to choose, and how to open it from Teams, Outlook or the web.
How a Support Ticket Works
How an AB Support ticket works: the AI answers first and holds the ticket until it hands off to a human; plus the Needs a reply / Waiting on customer / Finished status categories, the suggested reply (including drafts from AI assistants), internal notes, the activity timeline, resolve reasons and Next ticket, and undelivered replies.
AB Support: Overview
AB Support is AI-assisted customer service your team works from Microsoft Teams, Outlook or a web browser — customers reach you by web chat, email, forms, WhatsApp and SMS; tickets land in one queue. The hub for every AB Support help page.
Who Can See What? (AB Sales)
Visibility in AB Sales is workspace-based: every workspace member sees that workspace's whole pipeline, each workspace's data is isolated, and roles (Owner/Admin/Member) control management, not visibility.
AB Sales Troubleshooting
Answers to the most common AB Sales questions — an empty Contacts tab, being unable to add leads, missing workspaces, email that won't send, sample data, and sign-in issues.
Labels: Tagging and Segmenting Leads
Labels are colored tags you attach to leads to segment your pipeline by temperature, size, or industry. Every workspace ships with a default set, the AI can auto-apply them, and you can filter and group by label.
My Pipeline and the Workspace Dashboard
AB Sales has two overview screens — My Pipeline (your personal cross-workspace cockpit in the Home tab) and the per-workspace Dashboard, whose Overview and Team tabs show what the workspace holds and how the team is doing.
The Channel Tab and Notifications
The AB Sales channel tab gives your whole team one shared pipeline, and posts notifications to the channel when leads and customers are created. What everyone sees, and why it's the same for all members.
Research with AI
Research with AI enriches a lead — finds its website, reads the homepage, and fills in a company summary, contact email, and suggested labels. It does not move the lead through the funnel.
Sending Email from AB Sales
How AB Sales sends email — in plain terms. It sends from your own company mailbox through Microsoft 365, set up once by your admin. Covers the sending identity, choosing a mailbox, templates, campaigns, AI-drafted replies, and deliverability.
Sales Workspaces: Channel-Linked vs Standalone
A workspace is one self-contained CRM. AB Sales has two kinds — channel-linked (shared with a Teams channel) and standalone (yours in the personal app). How to create and switch between them.
Installing the AB Sales Teams App
How to install AB Sales in Microsoft Teams — as a personal app for your own pipeline and as a channel tab for a pipeline your whole team shares.
How the AB Sales Funnel Works
How a lead moves through the AB Sales funnel — Lead → Contact → Opportunity → Customer — what advances each stage, and why AI research enriches a lead without moving it.
Agents: CRM Automation
The Agent is the automation engine that finds missing websites, extracts contact emails, sends your campaign emails, and drafts AI replies when leads respond — on a 5-minute timer, with strict verification, human review, and daily caps. This article covers each stage, how to pause, and how to opt out a single lead.