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Jean Varela 8x8 User posted 10-02-2024 08:58

Hello,

We have adopted 8x8 as our phone system,  Works well, however it misses an essential component:

"Warm Transfers to VCC Queues"

This feature is present in all phone systems, why not in 8x8?

We have multiple customer complaints as we have to drop the customer in a queue without giving a heads up to the agent , making the customer have to explain the case all over again.

Is there any way to warm transfer to improve the quality of customer service? 

Thank You
Jean

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Nick Braithwaite 8x8 User

Hi Jean,

This is a common complaint, and certainly one we had to work around when we implemented 8x8 VCC.

The way we have done it is to create a warm transfer channel for each of the queues where you would like to speak to an agent first before handing the customer's call over.

 For example, if you had a complaints queue, you could create a channel with a DDI that was called "Complaints - Warm Transfer" which would then show in your 8x8 VCC directory for your agents to call.

After that, you could create a simple script linked to the channel that forwards to the complaints queue. You could extend the script to include schedules etc, but it's a good way to resolve your issue.

Hope that helps. :-)