You can reply to discussions directly from an email or through Current RMS if you’re a user. Discussions come with a range of tools to help see who has received a message and control who’s involved in a discussion.

The “Unread discussions” tile on the dashboard is a count of any discussions that you’re a participant of that you’ve not yet read across your system. Click it to see a list.

When you’re a participant in a discussion, you’ll also receive an email notification of new replies.

The fastest way to reply a discussion is to reply to the email notification. This is the primary way that your customers and any other people who aren’t users in your Current RMS system will reply to discussions.

Any replies come back in to the discussion thread in Current RMS, so everyone is kept in the loop. 

As a user of Current RMS, you can reply to a discussion through Current RMS too. Just click into a discussion and use the editor to send your reply. 

One of the benefits of using discussions is that Current RMS records when a user has opened an email. This is a good indicator that your customer has seen or read a message.

You can see how many people have read a message by clicking into a discussion – the read count is listed underneath your message in gray.

Click for more details.

Current RMS embeds a tiny image in emails that are sent as a discussion. Images in emails are generally downloaded when someone opens an email, so as soon as that image is downloaded our servers know that it’s been opened. 

While this works most of the time, keep in mind that some people might use email clients that don’t download images automatically. In this case, Current RMS can’t tell if they’ve opened a message.

From Current RMS, add new participants to a discussion by clicking the plus tile next to the last participant at the top of a discussion page.

Participants added receive new messages, but won’t receive messages that have previously been sent.

Stop participants from receiving new messages by muting them, handy for times when you need to discuss what a customer has said with your colleagues before you get back to them.

Participants who have opted out of receiving updates to a discussion will be shown as muted. 

When an email to a participant is bounced or otherwise rejected, a comment is added to the discussion to let you know.

This is very helpful in spotting misspelled email addresses or invalid email accounts.

For security reasons, it is not possible to add participants to a discussion whilst you’re in a trial account. Once you move into a paid subscription, you will have full access to this functionality.