Right. Outbound dialing campaigns route connected calls back to the queue for distribution to agents, so the In-Queue Call flow assigned to the queue takes effect if the agent does not answer immediately (even with auto-answer turned on, with remote agents on WebRTC there may be just a brief bit of the audio played from the In-Queue Call flow because it takes up to a couple of seconds sometimes to get connected).
For Progressive dialing, as Melissa pointed out, there should always be an agent available to take the outbound call; however, it is not guaranteed, and the person contacted may end up waiting in queue until an agent comes available (or they disconnect):
"With Progressive dialing, the system automatically dials one contact for each available agent. For example, if six agents are available, the system places six calls. In this mode, the system performs call analysis before it matches each call to an agent.
While the risk of call abandonment is lower with Progressive dialing, it is not eliminated entirely. For example, if the system factors a blended agent into the pool of available agents, and that agent takes an inbound call before connecting to the outbound contact, that call becomes abandoned."
Clarification on "...the call becomes abandoned." The system does not automatically disconnect calls that reach a live person...they can remain on hold waiting for an agent for a while (I'm not sure of the limit, but I have calls in my testbed that went over 17 minutes). After a bit of time (30 seconds or so) the call is marked as abandoned for the purposes of the dialing algorithm and stats, but that doesn't actually mean the person has disconnected.
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George Ganahl GCP (Genesys Cloud), ICCE
Principal Technology Consultant
Genesys
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Original Message:
Sent: 05-12-2020 09:31
From: Paul Reininger
Subject: outbound call : In-queue flows
I've experienced this, if agents are not in Auto Answer mode, there is a short period of InQueue treatment while the agent's phone is ringing. I created a specific inbound flow for the queue and set the audio to be Blank Audio and to repeat it, this prevents the default music from playing. Outbound call no longer hears in queue audio while agent phone is ringing.
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Paul Reininger
Avtex Solutions, LLC
Original Message:
Sent: 05-11-2020 03:17
From: Ragheb Gmira
Subject: outbound call : In-queue flows
I have outgoing calls in progressive mode. but before the agent receives the call an audio message is played for the clients. this message is defined in In-queue flows. I do not want this message to be played for the client.
- Should I delete it from the In-queue flows ?
- why Purecloud plays this flow while it is in progressive mode ?
Thank you
#ArchitectureandDesign
#Outbound
#Routing(ACD/IVR)
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Ragheb Gmira
Almavia
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