Agent
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Introduction
uContact Agent is a module for the call centre agent as the total solution for integration with features relating to data capture, monitoring by states and integrated communications with the uContact platform.
Login
uContact Agent has a security control module to identify agents with a created profile allowing to have a strict control of the campaigns of each of the call centre agents.
uContact Agent login is the main page that lets you select the language and role (Agent in this case) in which the user will work and validate his credentials, entering the URL : https://IPSERVER
Once inside the agent portal we will find the following screen:
Inside the portal we can see the varied actions of the agent.
Telephone
Contacts
Allows to see every contact in the system, separated by online and offline users. A more specific contact search can be made by writing its username on the Search area.
Interactions
The user can interact with the contact on many ways, such as start a call, add to the favourite section and transfer an attended or blind call.
The chat allows the exchange of messages with other agents, mainly used to report actions or events among users when they are talking.
To initiate a chat, the agent selects from his phone the agent with whom you want to chat. Selecting the icon of chat on the contact, the conversation will open and there the agent can see the history of chats, send a receive messages.
When a new event reaches the agent, a beep sound will be heard and a notification with the name of the agent and his profile photo will be seen.
The chat also includes a feature that allows you to send a message to all active agents by broadcast.
The chat is located in the tab Unified Inbox, which contains other communication channels. See MultiChannel v6.
Group Chat
In addition to an agent-to-agent chat, there is also the possibility of group chat with members of the same campaign. This function can be accessed by selecting the desired campaign from the "contacts" section on the softphone.
Broadcast
Agents can send a general message to EVERY online user in the portal. Just write the message on the Broadcast area and press enter to deliver it.
History
Allows to see the call log of the current session of the agent, if the call was incoming or outgoing, the called phone and the talked time.
Also, if a call was not answered or was rejected is indicated with a red colour.
When clicking on the phone number, it redirects itself leaving ready to dial.
Phone
Allows interaction making external calls. Among the features that will be allowed is the selection of the campaign which will call (in case you have more than one assigned outbound campaign).
Moreover you can initiate a call (green button) cut a call (button red), indicate the number to call (text box) or by typing the phone number buttons to which you wish to call.
Other functionalities
Hold: Holds the call.
Conference: To start a conference follow the next steps.
If the agent is on an active call:
1. Press the conference button
2. The person at the other end of the phone will be transferred to the conference Room created and will be waiting for the speaker to arrive
3. The speaker can add more people to the conference Room by calling them. This can be done as many times as wanted
4. For the speaker to get in the conference Room, just click on the conference button and the conference will start.
If the agent is not on an active call:
1. Press the conference button
2. A conference Room will be created
3. the speaker, who started the conference, can add more poeple by calling them. This can be done as many times as wanted
4. For the speaker to get in the conference Room, just click on the conference button and the conference will start.
Mute: Put the Agent microphone in mute.
Video: Allow the video in the call, having the chance to video call a client.
Attended Transfer: When the call is Attended transferred, the one who transfers the call gets in contact with the person that wants to be transferred to and if he accepts the call is transferred.
Blind Transfer: When the call is Blind transferred, the call is transferred directly to the number dialed.
Transfer Window
Agents: Transfer to agent belonging to a user campaign.
Campaigns: Transfer to an inbound campaign. All are displayed, or those selected in the campaign settings.
External number: Transfer to a number outside of uContact.
Favourites
List of agents added to favourite.
Park
When the agent has an active call and presses Parking, the receiver will be put on hold and the agent will be without an active call to make others. When you want to return to the call, press the green phone button. Another way to return to the call is to dial the list number, which is displayed to the right of the number, in the case of the previous example would be 701.
Phone Book
Users can save contacts in the phone book, search for a contact by their username, start a call, transfer blind and attended calls and delete the contact from the user's personal phone book.
In order to save contacts, the user must click on the button "+", situated on the right top corner, and it will unfold the following:
Name and number of the contact must be detailed. To finish the process click on the green button.
Show phone
It's possible to show the tab on the right side by clicking the expand button which is located in the upper right corner or using the display button located in the right side of the screen.
Calls
Calls notification
When the agent has an incoming call, he will be notified with a sound alert as well as a pop up outside the browser, or at the deploy button on the top right corner as shown in the picture.
Talking calls
On an incoming call, at the left margin an icon appears that the agent can use to take the call.
The call can also be taken by clicking the pop up as well as deploying the right margin and using the phone.
The call can be rejected by clicking on the cross to close the notification or using the hang up button of the phone.
The system also has AutoAnswer if this is defined to automatically answer the call beep sound will be heard by the Agent to know that you have a call in progress.
Once the call was attended, on the top side of the screen a timer will appear, showing the time that passed with the call being active.
Unanswered calls
In case that the agent does not take the call , it will be referred to the next available agent.
The system also has AutoAnswer. If it is defined, when taking a call, a beep sound can be heard by the agent to know that he has a call in progress.
Ending calls
To end a call, the agent can click on the Cut button located on the left margin or from the agent's phone.
When a call ended by part of the agents or by client we will listen a double beep that indicates us that the call is finished.
Wrap-Up
When the call ends, the agent will be on the Wrap-Up state. This is to have a controlled time to end the appropriate management.
The time can be seen in the top right of the screen as shown in the image.
Unified Inbox
Break
Within we can assign different pause actions based on the agents needs.
Form
Dispositions Dashboard
When the Agent gets into the system will see a button called "Dispositions" below of "Break" button in the Left side of the screen.
Exit
Allows the agent to logoff from the system.