Managing Talk line settings

This article describes the settings you can apply to individual Zendesk Talk lines. For details about managing general Talk line settings, see Managing Zendesk Talk lines. For details about adding new lines, see Adding Zendesk Talk lines.

This article contains the following topics:

• Accessing individual line settings
• Available settings for Talk lines
• Changing settings for multiple Talk lines
• Deleting and recovering lines

Accessing individual line settings

The settings that you can apply to individual Talk lines can be found on the Talk lines properties page.

To access settings for a Talk line

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Click the Lines tab.
3. Click the line you want to view or change settings for.
4. Make any changes you want using the Available settings for Talk lines list below for help.
5. Once you are finished, click Save changes.

If you have many Talk lines, you can use the filter to restrict the numbers that are shown.

Available settings for Talk lines

The following settings can be configured on the Settings tab of the Talk line properties page. The available settings will differ depending on your Talk plan and the line type you've added:

Setting	Description	Line type
Nickname	Enter a nickname for the line that will be displayed when you receive an incoming call. The nickname is required for digital lines.	Phone lines and digital lines
Outbound number	The outbound number is required by digital lines to support making overflow calls and for forwarding calls to agents. You must choose an outbound number to complete setup of a digital line. Important: If you delete or disable the outbound number, this will disable your digital line and the associated widget configuration. You'll need to recreate or reconfigure the number to continue.	Digital lines only
Failover number (Team, Professional, and Enterprise)	In the event that Zendesk Support is unavailable, the failover feature will route all incoming calls to a pre-designated number so you can help your customers with minimal disruption. Failover is an automated process. When the outage is resolved, calls automatically revert back to your Talk number. You can find out if Zendesk Support is experiencing an issue on the Zendesk status page. For customers on the Talk Enterprise plan, if Zendesk Support is available to your end-users but you are unable to access it (you’re experiencing a localized internet outage, for instance), you can request to have failover manually initiated by contacting customer support. Zendesk will manually initiate failover for you once a month. Important: Failover can be enabled for a maximum of 24 hours. The failover number you choose: Must not be a Zendesk Talk number. Must be able to handle your support call volume, as all incoming calls are routed to it. Is not restricted based on the location of your Talk number. Works only for incoming calls; outgoing calls cannot use the failover number. Note: Failover numbers must be entered in e.164 format. For more information, see What are the accepted phone number formats for Talk? in our Support tech notes.	Phone lines only
Allow outbound calls?	Determines whether agents can place outbound calls to customers from this number. By default, this setting is enabled. Numbers that have this setting disabled won't appear in the call console as an option when agents try to make an outbound call.	Phone lines only
Brand (Professional (add-on) and Enterprise)	If you support multiple brands, you can add and assign phone numbers for each brand. Calls to and from those numbers will have the associated brand value on the resulting tickets. For more information, see Setting up Talk numbers for multiple brands.	Phone lines only
Agent wrap-up after calls? Wrap-up time limit	For each number, you can enable or disable agent wrap-up. When wrap-up is enabled, Talk agents have time after each call to finish adding details to the ticket. With Talk Professional or Enterprise, you can also limit the amount of time agents have to wrap up calls for each number from 10 seconds to 20 minutes. If you select No limit, agents must manually leave wrap-up mode before they are available for another call. The wrap-up time in the call console shows the wrap up time left for the agent. If you changed the wrap-up time setting to No limit, it shows the amount of wrap-up time used by the agent instead.	Phone lines and digital lines
Call offering time limit (Enterprise only)	Enables you to choose the amount of time that each agent gets to answer a call before it is placed back in the queue. The amount of time left to answer the call is displayed in the Talk console. The time limit is, by default, 30 seconds. You can click the setting to choose a duration between 15 seconds and 2 minutes. The maximum queue wait time you configure on the Settings page takes precedence over the call offering time limit.	Phone lines and digital lines
Create ticket for abandoned calls? (Professional and Enterprise)	By default, tickets aren't created for abandoned calls. However, you can choose to enable ticket creation for abandoned calls for each of your individual numbers. When this setting is enabled, calls that are abandoned in the queue, in voicemail, or in IVR result in a created ticket, as long as a callback number is available. In cases where the caller is identified as "unknown", no ticket is created.	Phone lines and digital lines
Average wait time message?	Enable this option to play a message to callers on hold or, for Talk Professional and Enterprise, requesting a callback from queue, informing them of the current average wait time. This message plays only when the average wait time is over two minutes long. Note: The average wait time message is available in English only.	Phone lines and digital lines
Available agents greeting (voicemail on) Available agents greeting (voicemail off) Hold greeting Wait greeting	Configures various greetings that will be associated with this number. For more information about greetings, see Managing outgoing greetings.	Phone lines and digital lines
Phone lines and digital lines	If this number is SMS capable, you can enable it for Zendesk Text, allowing you to provide both SMS and phone support from the same number. For details about providing SMS support with Zendesk Text, see Getting started with Text.	Phone lines only

Changing settings for multiple Talk lines

From the Lines tab of the Talk settings page, you can change some settings for multiple lines simultaneously.

To change the settings for multiple lines

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Click the Lines tab.
3. For each line you want to select, click the country flag next to the number. A check mark is displayed.

   

4. From the "…" drop-down list, choose one of the following actions:
   • Enable outbound calls: Allow agents to make outbound calls from the numbers you select.
   • Disable outbound calls: Stops agents from using the numbers you select to make outbound calls.
   • Set as priority number: With priority numbers you can provide differentiated service to your VIP customers and prioritize urgent or emergency calls. When you assign number as a priority number, any incoming calls to that number will be moved to the head of the queue to be answered before other incoming calls.
   • Remove priority: Removes any previously assigned priority from the selected numbers.

   

Deleting and recovering lines

You can delete an existing number or digital line if you don't want to use it anymore.

To delete a line

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Select the Lines tab.
3. Next to the number you want edit settings for, click the menu icon, then select Delete.
4. Click Delete in the window that appears.

Zendesk Talk numbers are removed from your account when your trial expires, your Talk subscription is canceled, or your account is suspended or deleted. Within 72 hours, you can contact our customer service team to reinstate your Talk number if you have resolved the issue with your account.