In Understanding Talk Embedded voice, you learned the basics about how Talk digital lines can help you improve the experience for your customers, wherever they are.
In this article, you’ll learn how to set up a new digital line and where to find the information you’ll need to integrate a call button in either your mobile app or the Zendesk Web Widget (Classic) that uses the digital line you've set up. If you're looking for information about how to add a Talk phone number, see Adding Talk phone numbers. For SIP-IN lines, see Adding a Talk SIP-IN line.
This article contains the following sections:
Adding a digital line
In this section, you’ll learn how to set up and configure a digital line.
To add a digital line
- In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- On the Talk settings page, click the Lines tab. On the
Lines tab you can review your existing phone numbers and digital
lines and add new lines. On the Lines page, click Add Line >
Add digital line.
- On the Settings tab for your new digital line, configure the
following setting:
- Nickname: Enter a unique name for the digital line. You'll need this to identify the line in reports, integrate it with your apps, and to let your agents know the digital line they are being called from.
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On each tab of the line settings page, configure the settings you want using the following articles as a reference:
- General Settings tab: See Managing Talk line settings.
- Voicemail tab: See Configuring voicemail options.
- Routing tab: See Routing incoming calls to groups of agents.
- Overflow tab: See Managing overflow calls and after-hours routing.
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Call recording tab: See Managing call recording options in
Talk.Note: Not all of the available settings will be available for your digital line.
- When you are finished, click Save.
Your digital line is now set up. Next, you’ll learn about resources to help you integrate a call button that uses a digital line into your apps or Web Widget (Classic).
Configuring a call button
Now that you've set up your digital line, you can go ahead and configure a call button for your mobile app or the Web Widget (Classic). For more information see the following articles:
Editing and deleting digital lines
After you’ve created a digital line, you can edit its settings or delete it if you no longer need it.
To edit a digital line
- In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- From the list of Talk lines, click the gear icon (
) next to the digital line you want to edit, and then select Edit.
- Edit the settings using the instructions in the Adding a digital line section.
- When you are finished, click Save changes.
To delete a digital line
When you delete a digital line, it will no longer be connected to your Web Widget (Classic) or mobile apps. To reconfigure these, you must add a new digital line to your Web Widget (Classic) or mobile app settings.
- In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- From the list of Talk lines, click the gear icon (
) next to the digital line you want to delete, and then select Delete.
- Click Ok to confirm you want to delete the digital line.Note: If anyone deletes a digital line that’s being used by the Web Widget (Classic) or a mobile app, you’ll see a warning message on the Talk settings page.
6 comments
Pet Partner Mon
Does Digital Line also incur charges with phone calls inbound and outbound?
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Shannon Kertis
Hey Pet Partner!
There is no cost associated with the digital line itself- but there will be costs associated with call usage. Also, note that you still need a standard Talk number to make outbound calls. A digital line by itself will only be able to support browser to browser inbound calls or call transfers to another agent. So for any outbound calling, there will be costs for the Talk number per month, plus usage.
For more information see the following resources:
Hope that helps!
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Raphaël Péguet - Officers.fr
Digital lines are super nice but how to ask the customer to fill his number before allowing him to call ? Would be nice such has the pre-form on the chat
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Anne Ronalter
Thank you for your Feedback.
"Natively it's not possible to add additional fields to the pre-chat form."
Here you can find more details about this topic:
- Can I add additional fields on my pre-chat form?
- How do I customize the pre-chat form?
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Chad Susa (Gravity CX - Zendesk Partner)
Hi All
Do Zendesk Talk digital lines support some way to identify the caller? EG: Via page/site login etc?
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Dane
Unfortunately, there's no direct way to identify the source of the call fro digital lines. Unlike chats, you cannot use tags for it. The only available workaround is just to designate a specific brand for digital lines and embed the widget of that brand to a specific URL.
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