Installing Campaign Dialer
Prerequisites
Licensing prerequisites
An Enterprise license or higher is required to access these features.
Your subscription may already include the required entitlements. Contact your AnywhereNow representative if you are unsure whether your subscription includes these features.
Installation
- Add A Unified Contact Center, or UCC, is a queue of interactions (voice, email, IM, etc.) that are handled by Agents. Each UCC has its own settings, IVR menus and Agents. Agents can belong to one or several UCCs and can have multiple skills (competencies). A UCC can be visualized as a contact center “micro service”. Customers can utilize one UCC (e.g. a global helpdesk), a few UCC’s (e.g. for each department or regional office) or hundreds of UCC’s (e.g. for each bed at a hospital). They are interconnected and can all be managed from one central location. setting
StartOutboundDialerOnStartupin the Settings list with value "True" to automatically start the Dialer engine during startup of the UCC. - Add UCC setting
EnableOutboundDialerin the Settings list with value "True" or "False" depending on whether the Dialer needs to run immediately or at a later moment. - The UCC Setting
OutboundDialerDeclineRetrycan be used to specified the number of retries - The UCC Setting
OutboundDialerDeclineRetryTimecan be used to specify the number of minutes between retries
Warning
Step 1 requires a restart of the UCC service to activate. Plan this setting ahead of time in a maintenance window to avoid unnecessary downtime of your UCC's.
Note
If used as an automated CallBack, an IVR menu feature for voice, enables the customer to confirm or leave an alternative phone number to be called back by an available agent during business hours. list, verify the following UCC settings to enable the correct dial formats for entered or recognized customer callback numbers:
Activating
Activating the Dialer to start processing Dialerlist entries can be done by changing the UCC Setting EnableOutboundDialer to "True". For stopping the Dialer, change the setting to "False".
Optional Dialer Settings
For the Campaign Dialer additional settings are available to tweak the system. More information can be found here.