Note: To route calls based on business hours, you must have Zendesk Support Professional or
Enterprise.
You can configure when calls are routed to available agents based on your scheduled business hours.
Before you can assign a schedule to a number, you need to create your schedule in Support. On Support's Professional plan, you can set only one schedule. On Support's Enterprise plan, you can set multiple schedules. For details, see Setting your business hours and holidays.
To set routing for a Talk number
- Click the Admin icon (
) in the sidebar, then select Channels >
Talk. - Select the Lines tab.
- Click the number you want to set a schedule for.
- Click the Routing tab.
- Next to the Schedule field, select a schedule from the drop-down field:
- Business hours: Route calls to this number only within your scheduled business hours.
- Always route calls: Always route calls to this number, regardless of your scheduled business hours.
Note: When calls are still in the queue at the end of business hours and no agents are online, calls will remain in the queue for the maximum wait time you've configured. - When you are finished, click Save changes.
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You may want to proofread this as you've stated the same thing twice....
With Advanced Talk and Zendesk Support's Enterprise plan, you can configure each number to use individual schedules. This might be helpful if you have multiple numbers used in multiple offices with different time zones or working hours.
However, you can also configure each number to use individual schedules. This might be helpful if you have multiple numbers used in multiple offices with different time zones or working hours.
What I'd like to know is if you can configure the same number to use different schedules?
Hi Matt,
Thanks for letting me know! All fixed. :)
You can assign one schedule to each number. Can you elaborate more on your use case/what you're trying to achieve?
Hi Nora,
I've sent in a request directly for support as I've hit a dead end and in this case, don't have the enterprise solution. Not sure if this is the right place for this but I'll throw it out there anyway.
What I'd like to do is 1 of 2 things.
Utilize voice (now "Talk") with business hours in order to:
1. Disable voice mail after hours with a different message than business hours indicating to callers that we are closed and that they should write directly to us at our support email address.
2. If #1 is not possible then simply allow me to set up a different IVR tree, portion of a tree or just a different message after hours doing the same. E.g. stating that we are closed and that they should write to us directly.
Elsewhere in your forums someone suggested simply leaving a long pause after the greeting's end to discourage callers from leaving a voice mail.
I'd be more than happy to do this as long as the "greeting" changed automatically outside of business hours. Changing the "greeting" manually makes little to no sense to me even though that has been suggested elsewhere.
So in case #2, voice mail would stay active but I'd sort of "hack" it to discourage callers from leaving a message and simply the greeting would change after hours.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks for elaborating, Matt! One of our advocates will follow up with you in your ticket. I'd also recommend checking out the Community for advice and thoughts from other customers who might have the same situation.
I also was looking at whether we could have a different voicemail for out of hours as the one we have in hours. Is there an update on this?
Hi,
I'd like to reiterate everything Matt Flowitt said. We would love to set up multiple schedules per number or even just different messages. We certainly don't need a brand new IVR flow for holidays or after hours, but we do have dedicated messages (and preferably not voicemails) for these instances (as well as being able to turn on a technical difficulties message actually).
Manually changing after hours/and changing back at the top of the day or in preparation for upcoming holidays doesn't make a lot of sense to us either, and this is available to set up beforehand in the settings of all other telephony plans we've been involved with.
Is there any update on these changes being available coming up on the road map?
Thank you very much!
Hello,
I would like to know if there is a way to have the phone roll to a user since we are open 24/7? What I mean by this is when the agent logs off the phone at 10 PM is there a way in ZD to set the phone up to automatically roll to another phone without someone logging in to their phone at 10? Is there a setting I can put in place for that? I have researched many topics regarding IVR, but these options do not seem to fit for our organization.
Thank you,
Hi Nikki! Welcome to the Community!
This should be possible, provided you have the right Talk subscription for it. One of my colleagues wrote up an article about this very thing: Using Zendesk Talk Advanced IVR after hours. That should get you set up!
I would love to have the option to choose an IVR based on Schedule. The Menu in Talk-Numbers-Voicemail could be used but give us the option to choose. The ability to choose an IVR per inside/outside schedule would add a ton of flexibility. I put my use case below.
1 Voicemail
2 IVR
3 Disconnect
I would like to have calls going to a group during buisness hours but outside of buisness hours I would like a message that explains that they are calling outside buisness hours and give the the option to choose to leave a high priority voicemail which would be assigned to the On-call group or a low priority (also the default) which would be assigned to the standard group. I know the likelyhood of someone not choosing that every call is an emergency is low but we can all dream, can't we?
Thanks for the feedback, Ryan, and welcome to the Zendesk Community!
Product Managers don't usually make their way into documentation comments, but I've included a link to your post in a roundup I'm working on for them, so hopefully they'll take a look. Otherwise, you're welcome to post in the Product Feedback Community, which they do read on a regular basis.
You say these features are available on Team Talk, but I don't see any of these options on the Team trial. Did you decide to remove this feature from Team?
Hey Ted -
You also need to have Support Professional or Enterprise - do you have that as well?
I am so frustrated with Zendesk talk. I want to speak with someone to help me figure out. 1) When a customer gets routed to my cellphone, they actually hear a bit of my voicemail for some reason. It's showing up in the voice recording as a ticket (My voicemail is answering the call).
2) I can't set business hours because this "Schedule" thing does not appear in anywhere in my dashboard, settings, talk/routing areas.
Can someone from Zendesk please call me? I am so frustrated with this software!
Hi Sonya! Welcome to the Community!
I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with Talk. I see that you were able to call in earlier and spoke with Ben in Advocacy. He's made extensive notes on your ticket and moved it up to our Tier 2 support team. They should be in touch with you soon!
Hi all,
Posting here because I can't seem to find an answer to this through my browsing. I would like to know if Zendesk has implemented any features to turn off voicemail but allow for the call back feature.
We would like to have a greeting play during off-hours that prompts the users to leave a call back number instead of a voicemail.
Thanks!
What happens to the calls that aren´t routed to any number? Do they receive a message asking them to call on business hours?
Hi, great questions!
@Danilyn Nguyen
Unfortunately using the callback feature will require an agent be online at the time. There would not be a way for an end-user to enter a queue for callback if there are no online agents currently working through the queue. I can see the potential for a use case here, but you will need to use Voicemail after hours.
@Jorge Eduardo Villarreal
I am having a hard time imagining a scenario in which an end-user would not be routed to a talk number. Initiating the call itself requires that the end user contact a Talk Number on your account. The message your customer's hear is dictated on a number by number basis, and can be pulled from a pool of default greetings or from custom uploads. More information on these greetings can be found here: Managing Outgoing Greetings
Thanks both!
Hi -
I don't see "schedules" under routing or really anywhere to adjust business hours. Is the guide above now outdated? Please help
Hi Romel,
You'll need to be on Support Professional as well as Talk Team to have this option available. Can you confirm you're on the correct plan level on your end?
You can take a look at our Support Plan Comparison and Talk Plan Comparison page for more information.
Hope this helps!
Yes we have the professional plan.
Hi Romel,
If you're on Support Professional and Talk Team then you will first need to set up business hours under Admin>Settings>Schedule. Screenshot for you below:
After this is set up, if you still don't see the option under Talk then it's possible you're not on Talk Team.
Let me know if you continue to experience issues!
I need to have talk team and professional??? I don’t understand. What’s talk team? The articles I’m reading seems to state that it’s a cheaper plan under professional.
Hi Romel,
To clarify, you'll need to be subscribed to Support Professional to gain access to the Business Hours feature. Talk Professional is what you'll need to have the ability to route calls based on business hours you've set up with Support.
Zendesk Support is your ticketing system you're using to communicate with your users. Zendesk Talk is the product you're using to accept/receive calls from your users. Each product has it's own plan level where some features are only available on specific plan levels.
The two links I provided in my previous response go over the different features available on each plan level.
Hope this clears up any confusion :)
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