Notes:
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With Talkdesk Agent Workspace generally available, we announced — on February 21, 2022 — the End of Life to Talkdesk Callbar. Access the full Announcement here. You may continue to use Callbar until the EoL date. However, upon the End of Support date, Talkdesk will no longer provide fixes or enhancements to the products, so we recommend upgrading to Talkdesk Agent Workspace to start leveraging Conversations.
- Effective June 21, 2021, Talkdesk Classic Inbound Routing will no longer be available to sell to new customers. New customer accounts will only be able to configure inbound routing behavior through Studio.
Auto-Answer provides your agents with a faster way to answer calls. When this feature is enabled and a call is routed to an agent, the agent will receive audible and visual cues and the call will automatically be answered. The agent will no longer have to press the Accept button to answer the call. By enabling Auto-Answer, you will improve your agents’ efficiency, lower your average wait time, and increase your service level.
How can you configure Auto-Answer?
Phone numbers assigned to Studio flows
You will have to add the Auto-Answer component to your call flow(s) in Studio. This way you can choose which flows use the feature. You can also configure a timeout time in seconds, according to your preference. To learn more about the Auto-Answer component, please visit our Studio Advanced Documentation.
Notes:
- The Auto-Answer account-level setting (see below) does not affect your phone numbers assigned to Studio flows.
- If a ringing timeout and an Auto-Answer timeout have been simultaneously configured, Studio will overlook the ringing timeout value and will use only the Auto-Answer component’s timeout settings to route the call to the agent.
- This feature is unavailable for call transfers and conference calls.
Phone numbers not assigned to Studio flows
Auto-Answer is configured at the account level under the Admin section. Once you enable it, the “Number of Agents to Ring” setting (Admin > Preferences) at both account and number level will be ignored and disabled. Only one agent is called because Auto-Answer and ringing multiple agents are mutually exclusive.
Once the configuration is complete, all agents in your account with these specific phone numbers will have their calls answered automatically (with the visual and audible notifications as stated above).
Talkdesk will keep improving this feature so that you can have a more granular configuration.