Working your Needs You queue

Last updated: October 4, 2026

When a family needs a real person, they show up on Needs You. It's your to-do list: answer each family, or hand them to someone who can. Try to clear it every day.

What's on the page

Go to Needs You. Each row is a family waiting on you: who they are, what kind of help they need, what they said, and how long they've been waiting. The family who has waited longest is at the top.

The Needs You page with three families waiting

Answer a family

Click Reply on the row.

The list of families, with Reply ringed on the first

The family's conversation opens. A box above the reply area says what they need. Type your answer at the bottom and click send.

What Maria needs above the reply box, with an answer typed and the send button ringed

Once you reply, Movo usually closes it for you. If your reply asks the family something or promises to follow up, it stays open with your name on it, and Movo stays quiet with that family. When you're done, click Hand back to Movo.

Assigned to you, with Hand back to Movo ringed

If you've already sorted it another way, like a phone call, click Mark as complete instead. Movo carries on with the family.

Mark as complete ringed

A row with the type Knowledge gap is a question Movo couldn't answer. Click Answer on the row instead. See Answering knowledge gaps.

Hand it to someone else

Can't help with this one? Click the plus in the Assign column.

The plus in the Assign column ringed

Click Assign to member and pick a teammate. If your organization has levels, like branches and locations, you can also send it to the level above you.

The assign menu with Assign to Branch ringed, and Assign to member below it

The family stays in your list, so you can see what happens. If nobody replies to the family for two days, Movo takes it back and asks the next person in line. See Setting up escalation routing and timers.

See only yours

Click All assignees and choose Mine to see just the families assigned to you. Unassigned shows the ones nobody has picked up yet.

The assignee filter open with Mine ringed