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.
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
- In Admin Center, click Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- Click the Lines tab.
- Click the line you want to view or change settings for.
- Make any changes you want using the Available settings for Talk lines list below for help.
- 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 |
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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 |
Enable overflow and agent forwarding for this line |
If the digital line needs to support overflow and agent
forwarding: Select this option so that you can add an outbound
number to your digital line setup. With digital lines, the Overflow
tab will only become available after you select this option (see Managing overflow calls and after-hours
routing with Talk). If the digital line doesn’t need to support overflow and agent forwarding: Leave this option disabled. You can create a truly digital call experience with a call button connected to a digital line and no need to include (or worry about) regular phone numbers. Digital lines that don’t include an outbound number can only be used for browser-to-browser and transfer-to-agent-through-browser calls. |
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:
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.
Note: This
setting is not available if you’re using omnichannel routing. With
omnichannel routing, tickets are always created for abandoned calls.
If needed, you can create a workflow to
automatically close these tickets.
|
Phone lines and digital lines |
Average wait time message? |
(Talk Professional and Enterprise) When this setting is enabled, a message is played when a caller is waiting in the queue informing them of the current average wait time.
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 |
Enable for Text | 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
- In Admin Center, click Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- Click the Lines tab.
- For each line you want to select, click the country flag next to the number. A check mark is displayed.
- 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.
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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 a number as a priority number, any
incoming calls to that number are moved to the head of the queue to be
answered before other incoming calls.Note: If you’re using omnichannel routing to route calls, call tickets from priority phone numbers are given High priority instead of going to the head of the queue. Calls to non-priority numbers are assigned a Normal priority.
- 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. You can't delete your phone number while you're on a suite trial.
To delete a line
- In Admin Center, click Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
- Select the Lines tab.
- Next to the number you want edit settings for, click the menu icon, then select Delete.
- 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.