Configuring Call Queue
From the Web Portal, select menu Advanced > Call Queues and click Add button. Now fill in the necessary fields:
- Queue Number – Specify the queue number here. It should not be an existing extension number
- Queue Name – Enter a friendly name for the Queue
- Ring Duration – The timeout in seconds, i.e. for how long the phone keeps ringing before the call is considered unanswered by that agent
- Music on hold – The music that would be played when the caller is queued
- Polling strategy – This option allows you to choose how calls should be distributed to agents:
- Ring Simultaneous: All Ring Group members will ring at the same time.
- Prioritized Hunt: Ring each available member of the group in the configured order
- Cyclic Hunt: Ring each available member of the group by the order the member was added. The member who has not been ringing previously will take the priority
- Least worked Hunt: Ring each available member of the group by the order the member was added to the group. The member that hasn't answered a call from this group takes priority
- Skill Based Routing Prioritized Hunt: Ring each available agent in the queue serially in the configured order. Assign the call to agents in the highest level skill group first. If the call is not answered in the current skill group, move on to less experienced agents in subsequent skill groups.
- Skill Based Routing Cyclic Hunt: Ring each available agent in the queue serially. Ring the agent who hasn't been rung from a call from this queue in the longest amount of time first. Assign the call to agents in the highest level skill group first. If the call is not answered in the current skill group, move on to less experienced agents in subsequent skill groups.
- Skill Based Routing Least Worked Hunt: Ring each available agent in the queue serially. Ring the agent who hasn't answered a call from this queue in the longest amount of time first. Assign the call to agents in the highest level skill group first. If the call is not answered in the current skill group, move on to less experienced agents in subsequent skill groups.
- Keep waiting if there are no members online - If this option was checked, even if there is no agent online, the queue will still keep the caller in the queue until reached the maximum wait time
- Set agent to Ready automatically - If this option is enabled, once a queue agent (member) is registered to PBX, his status will be set to "Ready" automatically, and the queue will distribute calls to that agent; after the agent rings or completes a call, his status will be set to "Ready" automatically.If this option is disabled, once the queue agent is registered to PBX, his status is automatically set to "Logged Out". The agent must use REST API or dial a FAC to sign in to the queue first, then change his status to "Ready" by REST API or FAC, and the queue can distribute calls to him. After the agent rings (not answer the call) or completes a call, his status is automatically set to "Wrap up", and the PBX will do not distribute the call to that agent. To receive calls, the agent must manually change the status to "Ready" using REST API or dialing a FAC.
- Set agent status to Wrap Up after agent completes a Non ACD call - if an agent completed a Non ACD call, the PBX will set his status to Wrap Up automatically if this option is enabled. This option will be ignored if the "Set agent to Ready automatically" is enabled.
- Last Called Agent Routing - turn on this option to enable the Last Called Agent Routing feature. For more details please see Skills Based Routing.
- Destination if no answer - Define the maximum queue waiting time and the action to perform if the call remains unanswered. If no agent is logged into the queue and "Keep waiting if there are no members online" is disabled, this option gets triggered immediately.
- Announce queue position to the caller – Announce the caller position in the caller:
- Don't announce position: don't announce the position
- Periodically announce position: announce the position every interval time in seconds
- Announce position once caller connected: Once the caller is connected to the queue, the position will be announced immediately, and then every interval time in seconds
- Play intro prompt before calling agents - You can specify a custom introduction prompt and a custom music on hold file. You can now choose whether to play the full intro prompt before the system starts to call queue agents
- Maximum Queue Wait Time. Once the caller stayed in the call queue longer than this time, it will be processed as the "Destination if no answer " settings, and treated as an "Abandoned Call".
- SLA time. SLA refers to service level agreement. Calls remaining unanswered in the queue for more than the number of seconds set in this field are considered as breaching the SLA time limit in relevant reports and statistics. Once it’s set, you will get a notification every time when a call stays in the queue longer than the specified SLA time.SLA is used to make sure that your callers are queuing no longer than the time you have specified. For example, if you declare that all calls within your organization are answered within 3 minutes, you need to set the SLA in the queue to 180 seconds. Once that time is reached the queue manager will receive an alert notifying that a call has breached the SLA.
By clicking the “Members” tab, you can select the agents for the call queue. To change the order of the agents, drag and drop them.
You can set one or more extensions as the queue manager(s) to receive email notifications if the call exceeds the SLA time or is lost.
In order to send the notification email to the queue managers, the SMTP server must be configured, and the notification option must be enabled.
Select the menu "Advanced > Notifications."
If you set an external number (PSTN) number in the "Destination if no answer", the call will be forwarded to the trunk by a matched outbound rule, and you can specify the outbound caller ID here for this scenario, the outbound caller ID could be a replacement for certain SIP field. For more details, please refer to Outbound parameters and Inbound parameters and Handle Outbound Calls Through SIP Trunk.
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