Transfer to a person
When a real person is needed, the call gets through instead of getting lost.
When a person is needed
Two out of ten calls need somebody on the team. That part is not the problem: how they arrive is.
- The call goes from hand to hand until it finds someone who can help.
- The customer repeats what they have already said at every hop.
- The call gets passed on without knowing whether that person is in.
- If they are not, the call dies in a voicemail nobody listens to.
- Every wait is a chance that they hang up.
- The call goes straight to whoever handles that matter.
- The reason arrives explained before the customer opens their mouth.
- It checks that somebody is there before transferring.
- If they are not, the message is taken and gets through right away.
- There are no waits: either it connects or it takes the message.
Routing properly from day one
No change of switchboard and no new number: it sits in front of the one you have.
Filtering and handing over
Transferring well starts before the call moves: you have to know what it is about and who is on the line.
Everybody has somebody behind
What changes is who that person is and how hard they are to find. Go into your sector.
The owner decides on a long treatment or a complaint.
The manager handles the party of thirty or the private event.
The workshop foreman is the only one who can explain a repair quote.
The professional treating the patient is the one who has to speak to them.
The agent handling that flat knows what can be negotiated and what cannot.
What changes when nobody gets lost in a handover
These numbers come from businesses where half a call went on finding the right person.
It tells an emergency from a routine question. That was exactly what worried us.
What everybody asks
Five quick answers to get the doubts out of the way.
Try it with your switchboard
It sits in front of the one you already have and starts routing this very afternoon.
The phone causes more trouble
If this one rings a bell, these three will too. Each is solved on its own.