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Pre-chat authentication using the Amazon Connect StartChatContact API - Amazon Connect

Pre-chat authentication using the Amazon Connect StartChatContact API

Customers who authenticate in your website or mobile application before starting a chat can be recognized as authenticated when a chat is initiated. You can do this by using the StartChatContact API.

After an authenticated customer starts a chat, set their status using the parameters in the StartChatContact API, as shown in the following code snippet:

"SegmentAttributes": { "connect:CustomerAuthentication" : { "ValueMap": { "Status": { "ValueString": "AUTHENTICATED" } } }, "CustomerId": "12345"

CustomerId is an optional field to identify the customer. This can be either an Amazon Connect Customer Profiles ID or a custom identifier from an external system, such as a CRM.

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