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Zoho Chat Preferences And History

Chat Preferences

Zoho Chat is very flexible and it offers a good set of options for customizing it to your tastes. Clicking on Chat Preferences at the right opens up a window which has lots of setup options. Let's see how to set your preferences in your Zoho Chat account.




Support for Multiple Instant Messaging Networks
Zoho Chat, other than allowing you to chat with your Zoho contacts (those who have registered with Zoho, i.e., have a Zoho ID) allows you to chat with your contacts in Yahoo, Google, MSN, AIM (AOL), ICQ & Jabber. What's so unique with this feature is that say you have friend in your Google contacts and another in Yahoo contacts, you three can chat together. Zoho Chat forwards the messages of Google's user to Yahoo's and Yahoo's to Google's on your behalf.



You can either click on the Add Account button or the IM platform icons at the left-bottom for adding one or more of your Yahoo/Google/MSN/AIM/Jabber accounts.


Yahoo! and Google IM accounts added to Zoho Chat


Embed Chat Options



The different types of chat embed options - Live Support, Shoutbox & Live Chat - are explained in detail here. The above screenshot shows the Shoutbox code generated for / associated with a Zoho Chat account.

Notifications

The chat Notifications configuration tab allow you to set your notification alert preferences. For example, if you would like to hear a sound when a new chat message arrives, should smileys be enabled in your chat window etc. The notifications are further divided into audio, visual and other categories. Screenshots of what the Notifications options look like







Contacts

You can also configure Zoho Chat of how you want your contacts to be displayed.


Background Image

Personalize the look & feel of your Zoho Chat account by having your own background. Zoho Chat offers a few images which you can choose from or you can upload any image from the web.



Chat History

Zoho Chat saves all of your chat transcripts. You can search through transcripts for future reference.




 


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