What's New in GoTo Connect?
Stay up to date on the latest features and updates for GoTo Connect.
GoTo Customer Engagement - September 21, 2023
- MMS messaging is now available for Customer Engagement customers. Add multimedia messages (MMS) to your campaigns and share up to 10 MMS files in a single campaign with a generous 2MB size limit. Learn more!
Desktop App (v4.2.1) – September 20, 2023
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Contact Center - September 14, 2023
- Improved the missed contact reporting behavior in the Agent Summary analytics. A missed call occurs when an agent receives a call from a call queue and the call is not answered before the defined timeout. If the ring strategy is set to "All agents" and one of the agents answers the call before the defined timeout, the other agents will no longer present as "missed" in the Agent Summary reporting.
GoTo Contact Center - September 7, 2023
- Alerting for the Call Activity wallboard widget is available to configure. Enable hold time and talk time alerts to notify you when thresholds are met. Learn more!
GoTo Customer Engagement - September 5, 2023
- Admins now have the ability to enable and view Customer Engagement user licenses, assign user roles, assign the phone number used for sending campaigns and the shared inbox, and enable Message Assistant all from their GoTo Admin portal. Learn more!
GoTo Mobile App - August 30, 2023
- Improved SMS Experience: Private messaging has a new modern look and feel. When opening a text conversation, users can now enjoy the improved design where the use of directional text bubbles clearly distinguishes between the participants’ messages. Archived texts are now available by selecting the three dots from Messages.
- New Notification Management: Users now have the option to manage their notification preferences for all Voice, Messaging, Inbox and Meeting experiences from the app. Learn more!
- Advanced Presence: Users can now set their presence status in the mobile app just like they can from the desktop and web apps. Learn more!
- New Active Call Capabilities: In an incoming call (Android only), outgoing call and active call screens, we are now showing the business number used in the call as either a call received on or calling from format. Also, users can now simply tap on a call participant and directly access that participant’s contact information. This capability is supported on single, multiple and merged calls use cases.
- Improved Voicemails Notifications Clearing Behavior: Voicemail notifications are now cleared when a user accesses the voicemail rather than just viewing the voicemail from a list of voicemails.
GoTo Messaging Experience - August 24, 2023
- Shared Inbox: Added a new filter Assigned to Others that allows you to see what everyone in your shared inbox team is currently working on. Agents can re-assign the conversation to themselves and a notification will be sent to the original team member that the conversation was re-assigned.
- Shared Inbox: Improved conversation card. Shows the agent avatar on conversations to see who is who is assigned to each conversation.
GoTo Mobile App - August 8, 2023
- The GoTo mobile app has revamped the contacts categories to become the following:
- Company: Non-editable users added by your system admin.
- Private: Editable contacts added by the individual user, private to the user.
- Shared: Editable contacts added by a user and shared to all other users in the organization. Only available for Shared Inbox users.
- Local: Non-editable contacts retrieved from the user's mobile device, if permission was given by the user in the device's settings.
- Enhanced voicemail notifications: The user is now taken from the notification directly to the corresponding voicemail details screen where the voicemail can be played and the transcript can be read.
GoTo Messaging Experience (Desktop) - August 7, 2023
- Instant Response: Set up instant response in the desktop app and choose the time period and response frequency for your instant response. Learn more!
GoTo Contact Center- August 2, 2023
- Contact Center customers now have the ability to set their auto-queue callback caller wait time threshold to 0. This allows the callback option to always be offered to callers if there are no available agents in the queue. Learn more!
GoTo Contact Center- July 27, 2023
- Enable AI Analysis to produce a sentiment score on your chat queues so you gain a better understanding on how a chat went and overall customer emotion! Learn more on how to enable this feature on your chat queues and where sentiment scores can be found in the Contact Center Analytics!
Desktop App (v4.1.0) – July 26, 2023
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Contacts Experience (Desktop)- July 26, 2023
- Customer Engagement customers now have the ability to create contact groups! This new feature makes it easy to identify and organize contacts into groups to send campaigns to. Create groups of contacts by manually adding contacts from your contact list or through batch import. Learn more!
GoTo Contacts Experience (Desktop)- July 20, 2023
- Over the next couple of weeks (as of 7/20/2023), when you select Contacts in the GoTo app, you will view all contacts in the main window, as well as search from the main window instead of the side panel. This is the foundation for more bulk contacts management features to come!
GoTo Contact Center - July 19, 2023
- Conversation Review is a new feature in the Contact Center Analytics that will empower customers with a deeper understanding of their customer phone call interactions by offering the following:
- Call Recording Playback: Access call recordings directly from the Conversation Review.
- Overview Tab: The overview tab presents essential call details, including start time, end time, call duration, outcome, agent involvement, last agent engaged, disposition, and associated tags.
- Interaction Details Tab: Interaction Details tab showcases the complete call journey from start to finish, which includes call started, ringing/connecting to an agent, agent connection, hold placement, call resumption after hold, blind transfer, voicemail reached, and hang up. Each event is accompanied by a timestamp, duration, agent name, and extension.
- Notes Tab: The notes tab captures any relevant annotations made during the call, ensuring important details and observations are easily accessible and documented for future reference.
- Transcript Tab: View call transcripts between the caller and business.
- Export Button: Directly export the Interaction Details view as a .csv file.
- You can now activate SMS auto-reply in your call queue settings! This setting automatically sends an SMS to callers who have abandoned the call queue. Learn more!
GoTo Contacts Experience (Mobile)- July 10, 2023
- Shared contact conversation history is now available on mobile! Team members are now able to see the historical conversations of a shared contact, including private and shared inbox interactions. Learn More!
GoTo Messaging Experience - June 29, 2023
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- Shared Inbox: New conversations will be automatically linked to a shared contact if the phone number or email provided is a perfect 1 to 1 match to an existing contact. If there are multiple contacts with the same information, a list of contacts with matching information will be suggested to choose from.
- Shared Inbox: Added a new opt-out resolution reason that is automatically used when resolving a conversation because a customer opted out.
- Shared & Private Inbox: Changed the character limit of text messages to 2000 characters.
- Shared & Private Inbox: Added a new sorting option to see Newest or Oldest messages in the Shared Inbox.
- Shared Inbox: New conversations will be automatically linked to a shared contact if the phone number or email provided is a perfect 1 to 1 match to an existing contact. If there are multiple contacts with the same information, a list of contacts with matching information will be suggested to choose from.
Desktop App (v4.0.0) – June 26, 2023
- This version drops support for Windows versions 7, 8, and 8.1. The minimum required Windows version is now 10.
- The error page now contains a short error description.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Contact Center - June 20, 2023
- There are 2 new ring strategies available now in Contact Center! In addition, a few of the existing ring strategies have been renamed. Learn more!!
- All Agents
- Fewest Answered
- Fewest Sent to Agent
- Longest Call Wait
- Longest Inbound Wait
- Random Agent
- Enable call dispositions to allow agents describe the call outcome at the end of a call. Learn more!
Desktop App (v3.38.0) – June 7, 2023
- Fix for the green border sometimes being on the wrong monitor when sharing a screen on Windows.
- Fix for an empty action in the notifications shown on Mac.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Messaging Experience - June 1, 2023
- The Private and Shared Inbox experience has been merged together into a single experience where a user can see all messages from all sources in a single location to make prioritization and answering messages a lot easier. Available for Customer Engagement customers only. Learn more!
GoTo Contact Center - May 25, 2023
- Agents now have the ability to pause and resume call recording during a live call when using the softphone. This feature is available for Contact Center customers in a call queue and campaigns. Learn more!
GoTo Contact Center Analytics- May 18, 2023
- Enhanced data filters are now available to GoTo Contact Center Analytics. Utilize [AND / OR] compound data filters to customize data shown on default boards!
GoTo Desktop & Web App - May 18, 2023
- Users can now set their own E911 location in the desktop and web app. An E911 address is the address used to send to emergency services teams when a 911 call is placed through the GoTo app.
Desktop App (v3.37.0) – May 16, 2023
- Added an "about" box on Windows, which can be accessed from the Help menu or from the context menu of the system tray icon.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Messaging Experience - May 10, 2023
- Shared Inbox (Mobile): Ability to show new campaign events within the corresponding conversation, making sure team members are aware whenever a campaign is sent to a customer they are actively interacting with.
- Shared Inbox (Mobile): Added message read receipts to show when a customer has read a message during a webchat conversation.
- Shared Inbox (Mobile): Added message read receipts to show when team members read a message from a conversation on web/desktop or mobile.
- Shared Inbox (Mobile): Enhanced the notification experience by grouping message notifications by conversation and showing contextual information pertaining to the customer sending the message, removing any constrains for team members to open a conversation in order to retrieve that context.
GoTo Contact Center - May 3, 2023
- GoTo Contact Center provides configurable wallboards to give supervisors a realtime monitoring interface. Configure warning and alert thresholds for multiple metrics. Any thresholds that are breached are immediately color coded to draw attention, enabling you to rapidly take action to resolve anything impacting the contact center operation. Learn more!
Desktop App (v3.36.0) – April 26, 2023
- The Windows title bar now supports light and dark themes.
- Removed an invisible window on Mac, which sometimes was getting the focus.
- Fix for the mouse cursor sometimes being shared from the wrong monitor on Windows.
- The updates on Windows no longer invoke a PowerShell script for signature validation.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Mobile - April 21, 2023
- Users can now set their own E911 location in the mobile app. An E911 address is the address used to send to emergency services teams when a 911 call is placed through the GoTo app.
- Business numbers in International format. Previous to this release, business numbers were not accurately reflecting the user’s actual location, and were showing as local numbers whereas they were international. With this release, business numbers are now always displayed in International format no matter where the user is, avoiding any confusion.
- Dialling improvements – faster redial. Mimicking native dialler experiences on both Android and iOS, we are now showing the latest dialled number when a user taps on the call button, making it easier for users to redial the last number they called.
GoTo Messaging Experience (v0.297.1) - April 20, 2023
- Shared Inbox: Fixed the color of the Messaging Assistant when it is disabled.
- Shared Inbox: Updated emoji picker latest version.
- Private Inbox: Added new options for the SMS to email feature to receive an email for outbound messages.
- Private Inbox: Updated emoji picker latest version.
- Private Inbox: Fixed an issue where direct chat badging was inconsistent.
GoTo Customer Engagement - April 5, 2023
- You now have the ability to choose whether or not you would like to send a campaign to contacts with open conversations.
- Add URL links to your text campaigns and decide how the URL links are displayed and presented to recipients. Enable shorten track link to convert URL links into click-track links for click metrics.
- When sending a text campaign, there is a 12-second timer before it sends to your recipients. During this 12- second window, you have the option to pause the campaign from sending and either resume sending the campaign or cancel to put the campaign back into a draft to make edits before resending.
- All these changes are outlined in this article! Learn more!
Desktop App (v3.35.1) – March 31, 2023
- Windows: The app is brought to the front if it is running hidden and the user starts the app again (from the Start Menu, taskbar button, etc.)
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Connect Billing - March 30, 2023
- Admins and users with billing permissions can now view and download a .csv file of all SMS (text) credits reflected on their invoice. Learn more!
GoTo Messaging Experience v0.285.1 - March 30, 2023
- Shared Inbox: Improved the Flip to Call feature in the Shared Inbox to show all contacts phone numbers and an indicator on the current phone number used in the conversation (see screenshot in thread).
- Shared Inbox: Changed the number of attachment limit from 5 to 10 when sending a message to be inline with the Private Inbox experience.
- Shared Inbox: Added support to send new campaigns to customers with already open conversations.
GoTo Connect Desktop & Web - March 30, 2023
- The new softphone experience will allow users to manage their calls from a dedicated softphone window rather than the main desktop or web app. The window will stay on top of other windows, making it easy to find your call.Learn more!
Desktop App (v3.35.0) – March 24, 2023
- The main window is no longer brought to the front when clicking on a join link or a tel: link.
- Stability and performance improvements.
- Download Links:
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
GoTo Customer Engagement - March 22, 2023
- Admins can enable and set up an automated follow-up survey which consists of a question, positive response and negative response options. This survey will automatically send to customers when a chat conversation has ended and is marked as resolved. Learn more!
- Admins and managers have the option to send text campaigns to contacts with open conversations.
- Custom Survey now offers default questions to save users time while configuring surveys. Users can either use the default question or overwrite it.
GoTo Connect Desktop - March 17, 2023
- Users can change which phone number they're using to make outbound calls if you have access to multiple phone numbers. Learn more!
GoTo Messaging Experience v0.279.1 - March 15, 2023
Shared Inbox
- Released Message Assistant feature (OpenAI integration) in Inbox.
- Fixed an issue where creating a new SMS conversation was failing when we were also sending a campaign to a customer.
GoTo Customer Engagement - March 15, 2023
New!!
GoTo Customer Engagement’s AI-enabled Message Assistant preview feature is now available!
- For Campaigns: Simplify the SMS Campaign creation process by generating messages tailored to the campaign’s objective, target audience, and desired call to action. Learn More!
- For Shared Inbox: Suggest responses to incoming messages based on the customer’s previous interactions and generate new messages for outbound communications by entering a few words. Learn More!
Desktop App (v3.34.0) – March 8, 2023
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
Improved:
- Mac: Fixed the duplicate menu item (GoTo) after sign-in/sign-out.
- Human Interface Device: Enhanced call control of Jabra devices.
- Stability and performance improvements.
Contact Center - March 7, 2023
Input callback number is now an option to callers if they opt-in to auto-queue callback! This feature allows the caller to input the desired phone number they would like an agent to call them back. To learn how to set up auto-queue callback for your call queues, click here!
GoTo Connect Messaging v0.268.11 - February 16, 2023
- Fixed an issue where recent voice activity wasn’t loading properly if the user didn’t have texting permissions.
- Fixed an issue where users with a lot of phone numbers were not able to scroll though all their phone numbers in the phone number picker of the text message view.
Shared Inbox v2.202.12 - February 16, 2023
- Updated the side-car conversation card to show the number of attachments in the preview if no text message was sent. (Instead of the empty string).
- Updated the conversation history to show private phone number history even when a contact is still unknown (shared contact not linked yet).
- Updated snackbar notifications to be hidden for a conversation that you are currently viewing.
- Fixed an issue where a user would stop receiving notification updates from the notification channels, and the assigned and unassigned section were not updating in realtime.
Contact Center - January 31, 2023
Chat Assistant is now available in Contact Center! Create a chat box widget and pre-configure answers to frequently asked questions, freeing up the agent’s time. Learn More!
Contact Center customers now have access to create Custom Surveys! Learn More!
GoTo Customer Engagement - January 16, 2023
New!
Customer Engagement allows GoTo users to send custom text campaigns to customers in bulk. Team members can also interact and respond to customer's messages using a shared inbox. Learn More!
Use Custom Surveys in your text campaigns to assess your customer's experience! Learn More!
GoTo Mobile App - January 17, 2023
New!
- Caller ID Swap
- Users can change which phone number they're using to make outbound calls in the mobile app if you have access to multiple phone numbers. Learn more!
- Custom Caller ID Settings
- Manage your caller ID settings from the mobile app if you have access to multiple phone numbers. Learn more!
Desktop App (v3.33.0) – January 12, 2023
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
New
- The MSI for per-machine installation will fail with an error message if it detects a per-user installation in any user profile on the machine. This helps avoid mixed per-user and per-machine installations.
- Windows: The window icon now shows the status indicator (away, busy, disconnected, etc...).
Improved:
- Mac: Closing the main window while in full-screen no longer leads to a black screen.
GoTo Connect Shared Inbox (v2.197.4) - January 12, 2023
New!
- Added the ability to flag a contact as Opt-Out when they do not wish to be part of any future SMS campaigns.
- Added the ability to see the previous Private Inbox history in the Shared Inbox when a phone number is transitioned from private to shared. All conversations are now visible in the Contact Conversation History (old private conversations and new shared conversations).
GoTo Connect Messaging (v0.260.4) - December 16, 2022
- Messaging is now redirecting to the New Message screen by default when users open a new GoTo session (instead of a blank view)
- Added the ability to switch DID from and to while in an existing SMS conversation
Desktop App (v3.32.1) – December 8, 2022
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
Improved:
- Fix for the screen sharing selection dialog sometimes containing empty thumbnails
- Stability and performance improvements
GoTo Connect Messaging - December 1, 2022
Improved:
- Contact information is updated properly when adding or removing a contact from the Messaging experience.
PBX Administration - October 25, 2022
Improved:
- Call filters
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Call filters will now also block incoming faxes as well as calls. To learn more about call filters, refer to How do I filter incoming calls?
GoTo Desktop & Web - October 24, 2022
New!
- Voicemail greeting
- Users can now record and/or upload voicemail greetings from the desktop and web app.
Desktop App (v3.31.0) – October 20, 2022
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
Improved:
- Performance improvements when sharing a screen on Windows
- Redesigned and improved the error page which is shown if the app fails to load due to a network issue
- Stability and performance improvements
Contact Center - October 6, 2022
Improved:
- The remaining call queue parity settings, Ring Active Agents and Ignore Forwarded Devices, have been implemented and improved.
GoTo Mobile - September 2022 fix version
Android 2022.09.4/1777
Fixes:
- [Voice] Fixed call signalling of previous version
GoTo Mobile - September 20, 2022
Android 2022.09.1/1736
New!
- [Meeting] Recent meeting history now available in guest mode
- [Meeting] Organizers can disable video for participants
Improved:
- [Voice] Improved Phone and Notification Permission handling
- [Voice] Improved voicemails performance
- [Meeting] Improved performance in large meetings
Fixes:
- [Training] Various bug fixes
- [General] Fixed various minor user interface inconsistencies
iOS (2022.09.0/1248)
New!
- [Meeting] Recent meeting history now available in guest mode
- [Meeting] Organizers can disable video for participants
Improved:
- [Voice] Improved voicemails performance
- [Meeting] Improved performance in large meetings
Fixes:
- [Training] Various bug fixes
- [General] Fixed various minor user interface inconsistencies
GoTo Desktop & Web - September 15, 2022
New!
- Helpdesk ticketing
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Users can now submit a service ticket to request help from their admin for issues with hardware, software, networks, etc.
This feature is being released in a phased rollout and may not be available on your account yet.
This feature may not be available with your plan.
Content Center - September 12, 2022
New!
- Scheduled Report Sharing
- Contact Center admins and supervisors can now schedule their custom reports/boards to be shared with others in the company on a one-time or recurring basis.
Phones and Accessories - September 8, 2022
New!
- Deskphones
- We now support the upgraded Yealink CP935W conference phone.
Phones and Accessories - August 31, 2022
New!
- Deskphones
- We partnered with Poly for an early launch of their new cutting edge Poly Edge E and Edge B series phones! They are supported on our platform and available for sale.
Desktop App (v3.30.0) – August 29, 2022
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
Improved:
- Updates to the Hardware Acceleration prompts a confirmation dialog before the app restart
- Stability and performance improvements
Desktop App (v3.29.1) – August 25, 2022
- EXE for per-user installation – download here.
- MSI for per-machine installation – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- MSI for per-user installation during login – download here (64-bit) or here (32-bit).
- DMG – download here (Intel) or here (Apple).
Improved:
- Fixed a Windows issue where the app didn't start if the AutoConfigURL proxy setting was an empty string
- Fixed a Windows issue where the green "currently sharing" border didn't appear or appeared on the wrong monitor for presenters in a meeting
- Fixed an intermittent issue where the app froze or crashed due to GPU processing
- Stability and performance improvements