Smart Boards

The Hidden board

Contacts placed on the Hidden board are out of reach — never read, never answered, never used as knowledge.

Your WhatsApp number is probably also a number people you know message. The Hidden board is where those conversations go.

What Hidden means

A contact on the Hidden board is out of bounds:

  • The agent never reads the conversation.
  • The agent never answers it.
  • Nothing in it is used as knowledge.

It is not a quieter board or a lower priority — it is exclusion.

When to use it

  • Personal contacts on a number that is also your business number.
  • Anyone whose messages should never be processed automatically, for any reason.

When not to use it

Hidden is not a way to pause a customer conversation — take it over instead, which keeps the conversation workable by your team. And it is not a way to turn the agent off for a while; that is the board switch.

Moving a contact to Hidden stops future processing. It is a forward-looking control, so pair it with a look at Session logs if you need to know what happened before.