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Customer handoffs vs. Lameda support

Support and growth·4 min read

Two support relationships exist inside Lameda, and they solve completely different problems. Getting them mixed up is a common early confusion worth clearing up.

Handoffs: you supporting your customer

A Handoff happens when your assistant flags one specific customer conversation for a human, either because the assistant was not confident enough to answer on its own, or because the customer directly asked to speak to a person. It shows up in your dashboard’s Handoffs section, and it is you, or a team member with the right permissions, who steps in and replies.

  • Scope: one customer, one conversation.
  • Who acts: you or your Team.
  • Example: a customer wants a custom bulk order priced outside your standard catalogue.

Lameda support: Lameda supporting you

Lameda support is for problems with the platform itself: your account, your billing, a feature not behaving as expected, or a question about how something in the dashboard works. This is not routed through Handoffs at all; it goes directly to the Lameda team at onboarding@lameda.com.ng.

  • Scope: your account or the platform.
  • Who acts: the Lameda team.
  • Example: your Billing page shows an incorrect renewal date, or a channel connection stopped working.
A simple test.If the question is about your customer’s order, product, or conversation, it is a Handoff. If the question is about your Lameda account, subscription, or the dashboard itself, it is a support matter for the Lameda team, not something to route to a customer-facing Handoff.

Why keeping them separate matters

Handoffs are meant to move fast, since a customer is mid-conversation and waiting on you. Platform issues are a different kind of problem and deserve a direct line to the people who built the system, rather than getting tangled into a live sales conversation. Keeping the two apart means neither one waits behind the other.

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