Managing Zendesk Talk numbers

This article describes how to manage general settings for Zendesk Talk numbers.

For details about managing number-specific settings, see Managing individual number settings.

For details about adding new numbers, see Adding Zendesk Talk numbers.

Important: If you are using the Zendesk Talk Lite plan, you are limited to adding only one Zendesk Talk number.

This article contains the following sections:

• Deleting a number
• Recovering a number
• Adding a failover number (Talk Team, Professional, and Enterprise)
• Setting number priority

Deleting a number

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

To delete a number

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Select the Numbers 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.

Recovering a number

Your Zendesk Talk number is removed from your account when your trial expires, your Zendesk 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.

To recover your Talk number

• Contact Zendesk Customer Support.

Adding a failover number (Talk 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.

Calls are sent to your failover number when Zendesk detects that your Talk number is unresponsive because Zendesk Support is completely down. It is an automated process. When the outage is resolved, calls automatically revert back to your Talk number. You can view if your 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 calling Zendesk Support. Zendesk will manually initiate failover for you once a month.

Important: Failover can be enabled for a maximum of 24 Hours. After 24 hours, we must disable it.

The failover number you choose:

• Must be a non-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 do not have the ability to use the failover number.

To add a failover number

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Select the Numbers tab.
3. Next to the number you want to add a failover number for, click the menu icon, then select Edit.
4. Enter the number in the Failover number field on the Settings tab.

   

   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.
5. Click Save changes.

Setting number priority

You can set certain phone numbers to be priority numbers, meaning calls received at these numbers will be sent to the front of the queue of available agents. For example, you might want to prioritize calls from actively subscribed customers over calls from trial users.

Note: The priority numbers feature is only available for Talk Professional and Enterprise.

The list of phone numbers is sorted into Priority numbers and All other numbers. You can also filter this list to show only priority numbers or other numbers.

To filter the list of numbers

• Click the drop-down list next to All phone numbers at the top of the list.

  

  Select Priority numbers or All other numbers to filter the list accordingly.

To set number priority

1. Click the Admin icon () in the sidebar, then select Channels > Talk.
2. Select the Numbers tab.
3. Hover over the number you want to edit and select the check box that appears.

   

4. Click Set number priority at the top of the list of numbers. Select either Set as priority number or Remove priority, depending on the change you're making.

   

   The list of numbers automatically refreshes with your changes.