2.1.4 - Dialer Calls (Calls from Source Outbound Dialer)

We haven't introduced our automated dialer feature, yet. We'll have a full separate chapter on the topic, however, we are happy to get you started with the basics.

The automated dialer is a great feature for enabling your team to call customers efficiently. You can upload lists (manually or automatically) and have the dialer call the customer. Only if a connection is successful the agent will be connected to the call. That's the rough basics. 

What's important to understand is the following: babelforce initiates the calls for the agents only if a successful connection to the customer was established. This means, there will always be only one Parent call with the following parameters:

• type = outbound
• source = dialer
• domain = external

This makes things much easier. You can create very simple Triggers only referring to the source and you don't need to worry about the domain.

But let's look at two examples.

Create a ticket for Dialer calls

In our first scenario, we presume that your agents should receive a ticket for every dialer call they receive. So whenever the dialer successfully connects to a customer and forwards this call to an agent, there should be a ticket in the Helpdesk. They can see details about the customer, for instance, an ID, invoice number, etc.

That's the Trigger you are going to build (it's really easy):

Next, build an Automation that fires on "Call Bridged":

Done! You can also check the above-explained process in a form of a video:

Create tickets for specific campaigns

In the next scenario, you want to have campaign-specific information added to a ticket. Let's say that you are driving two major campaigns: one is a campaign informing current customers about a new product. Another campaign tries to win back old customers. In the first case, you want to have product-related information in the ticket while in the second case, you are interested in the reason why the customer cancelled the subscription.

To achieve this, you need to create a separate Trigger and Automation for each campaign. It is just as quickly implemented as the last case, all you need to add is one additional condition to the Trigger: 

In each Automation, you add the matching Trigger. From our list of expressions for the automated dialer, choose those that are relevant for your team and print the information to the ticket or log.

Follow these steps with our video guide:

Great, you've completed this section on call parameters and how to integrate them in your CRM or helpdesk - congratulations!

In our final section of this chapter, we'll give you an exciting task - a complex use case that will challenge your newly gained knowledge. Have fun!