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Chapter 17

Examples of Call Center configurations

There are many ways to set up Call Center in your company. Here are three examples of how one business configured Call Center to meet its changing needs:

•“Basic Call Center” on page 217

•“Professional Call Center with Reporting” on page 223

•“Multimedia Call Center” on page 236

Basic Call Center

Mosaic Hardwood Flooring is a business that receives many calls each day. Most of the calls are for sales or installation and service. Calls are answered by whomever is available, and often callers must wait on hold while the employee answers another call. Calls are transferred to other telephones where, if they are not answered, they can return to the original answer point. The employee then puts the current call on hold and asks the first caller who they are waiting for. Because Mosaic does not have a strategy for how calls are answered, they have had many complaints from customers and employees, and lost business.

Mosaic decides to implement a Call Center solution to distribute calls to the appropriate staff members. Mosaic wants a Call Center that directs calls according to whether they are for sales, or for installation and service.

Mosaic has 14 employees, including four full-time staff members in the showroom, one employee who books installations and takes service requests, and a team of nine installers. Although all of the employees are able to answer sales and service calls, Mosaic prefers that only the showroom staff receive sales calls, and answer service calls only if a caller has been waiting for more than 15 minutes. Although there is an employee who handles service and installation calls, Mosaic wants the installers to be able to answer service questions when they are in the office.

Mosaic has four PSTN lines. Telephones are distributed throughout their offices and showroom.

Here is how Mosaic configured their Basic Call Center:

“General Configuration” on page 218

“Skillset 1 properties” on page 218

•“Routing Tables” on page 219

•“Service Mode” on page 220

•“Overflow” on page 220 “Skillset 2 properties” on page 221

•“Routing Tables” on page 221

•“Service Mode” on page 222

•“Overflow” on page 222

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