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Here at Contivio, we believe that a company is only as strong as its team. We’ve made updates to our user interface that will increase your team’s efficiency and productivity.
With a new user interface comes advanced chat functionality, support for SMS/MMS, and more. These improved functionalities in your contact management software also come with the option to have your interface show up as a floating window or in a fixed toolbar.
The floating application will appear as a small popup window on your screen. Here you will find missed calls, voicemails, sign-in information, scheduling, and more. The floating application also gives you the flexibility to move the window around as you please.
Your users can also choose to have their interface in the toolbar allowing them to keep their screen focused on the CRM and tasks at hand.
With a fixed toolbar, you can navigate and select tasks through drop-down menus.
Simplifying the customer-service journey for your users and your customers, Contivio’s contact management software team has rolled out a new user interface app.
With this app, you will be able to create a collection of pre-written "Chat Answers" to help reps quickly respond to questions or concerns that customers frequently have. This screen pop can have its own custom tab so that you can display multiple conversations on one screen. You won’t need to expand or toggle.
If you find yourself experiencing a call malfunction with the contact management software, you can easily submit a customer support ticket to your Contivio customer support team.
With Contivio’s customer management software, your team will be able to efficiently manage their workload with our system’s improved functionality and your customers will be taken care of. Contivio can integrate seamlessly with your current CRM software. Book a demo now to see how we can bring your business to the next level.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/automated-customer-retention-made-simple-with-contivio-0-0-0
Publish Date: September 16, 2021 |
With Contivio’s Call Center Software, you can find satisfaction in knowing that your customers will be met with ease and accessibility when it comes to navigating your site and interacting with your representatives.
Contivio’s call center software gives your customers more ways to interact with you. With expanded functionality to handle SMS/MMS, and intelligent live chat, customers have more flexibility and an easy-to-use format.
We’ve improved the customer experience with Contivio’s call center software. Now, when a customer chats with one of your customer service representatives, they can communicate via SMS/MMS. Customers can text and send photos instead of calling or emailing your representatives. All back-and-forth messages, including images, are conveniently logged into your NetSuite for future use.
The Chat Bot feature included with your call center software will assist your customers with questions they may have until a customer service representative is needed.
The chat bot will preemptively ask customers questions to connect them to the information they’re looking for or to the most qualified representative for the situation. This saves both customers and representatives time.
The Chat Bot feature also learns when a customer is returning to the site and will ping them with the appropriate “Welcome Back” message. If they need more assistance, it can connect them with the rep they have been in contact with previously.
When a user has completed their conversation, they can rate their experience with the site and with the communication overall, through the bot itself.
The flexibility of the customer journey through Contivio’s call center software is revolutionary. Questions are answered in less time, giving the customer a quicker and more enjoyable experience.
With Contivio, satisfaction and ease of use are ensured all the way from the customer to the account executive. Contivio extends your CRM’s functionality to increase agent efficiency and create a personalized customer experience. Book a demo today to see how Contivio can be integrated with your current CRM.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/automated-customer-retention-made-simple-with-contivio-0
Publish Date: September 16, 2021 |
Contivio is leveling up, and we have a new admin portal for our contact center software. Easily manageable through your browser of choice, Contivio’s new admin portal gives you access to everything you need to manage multiple people and departments on the same screen.
With stats right at your fingertips, you’ll never miss a beat with our contact center software. Contivio’s new admin portal is not only browser friendly, but also provides you with a view of your staff by role, routing, scheduling, and activity reports right on your home page.
Your Staff by Role feature allows you to manage and assign roles at every department level. You can view and make changes to specific staff members (e.g., clock out or change responsibilities), as well as easily access a detailed look at their roles and levels of access through a convenient drop-down menu. Call center users and PBX users can be easily switched around to provide more or less responsibility to each employee.
The best part? You can manage multiple people from the same screen!
Manage operating hours and holidays through the Routing Rules feature and the Routing Wizard. In Contivio’s contact center software admin portal, you can see operating hours, holiday hours, performance, and wait time for your staff members and their callers. This allows your team to effectively manage queues and keep your customers satisfied.
Routing rules define what happens after hours, during hours, during holidays, and more. Here you are able to drag and drop call queues to meet the needs of your staff and your company hours.
The Routing Wizard shows you a view of all departments and their hours with ease.
From your home page, you can use the Schedules feature to pick a person who’s in a call center and predefine their scheduling.
The Staff by Queue feature on the Contivio contact center software’s admin portal is revolutionary. We’ve made it possible for you to manage each queue with simplicity on our innovative and browser-friendly interface.
At Contivio, we’re dedicated to providing you and your team with an all-inclusive cloud contact center software solution to drive success and customer satisfaction. Our admin portal will provide a fresh look and game-changing productivity.
Contivio integrates directly into your existing CRM seamlessly to give both your agents and customers the tools they need to have a great experience every time. Click below to schedule a free demo to learn more about Contivo’s IVR system for business, or contact us with any questions.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/automated-customer-retention-made-simple-with-contivio-0-0
Publish Date: September 16, 2021 |
With Contivio, customer service can be in the palm of your customer’s hand. Our Chat features simplify customer service and make it easier for customers to reach out if they need help.
You can customize your chat interface to match your branding. Contivio’s Live Chat comes with the option to pick your own colors, themes, and icons. Additionally, you can add and change your logo on the chat and add or remove parts of the chat that you may or may not want to be visible.
With the Eye Capture feature, you can enable different forms to pop up on different pages based on certain criteria and behaviors of the user. For example, if a prospect is on a certain page for over 10 seconds, or if they’ve been there before, the automated bot system will present messages to increase engagement and user activity based on what it knows about the user.
With Contivio’s Live Chat updates, you no longer need to worry about tricky coding. We’ve pre-built a variety of forms for you like this satisfaction survey. All you need to do is choose your customizations.
Contivio’s Live Chat features also provide preferred-agent routing capabilities. When a customer is in need of assistance, we match the information to a CRM record and send it to the correct agent for the task. If that agent cannot take the chat, it will be transferred to the next-best agent for the task.
With our Live Chat features and admin portal, Contivio has the power to bring your business productivity to the next level. Book a demo with us to see how we can improve your customer experience and improve your team’s productivity.
Check out how different businesses use Contivio’s Live Chat feature across their platforms. Each business customized the look and feel of the chat to better suit their brand. While all of the chats are placed in the bottom right corner, each has a unique way to capture your attention.
Regina Andrew, a website powered by NetSuite, set up their Contivio chat as a full text box, making it easy for any interested customer to find a way to communicate with the business.
Taking a different approach, GC Supply places their Contivio chat in the right bottom corner with a chat icon. The bright green color pops off the page, making itself noticeable for customers with any questions or concerns.
Contivio makes customer service simple. With chats available and apparent on any page, it is easy for customers to reach out if they need help. See just how Contivio’s Live Chat improves your business’ productivity by booking a demo.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/live-chat-updates-to-contivios-call-center-software
Publish Date: September 16, 2021 |
Automatic Dialers are used to improve agent efficiency in outbound or blended contact centers. If your Sales or Customer Service team has hundreds - or thousands - of numbers to dial, automatic dialing maximizes productivity and saves hours of valuable agent time. With the extra time savings, agents are able to focus on what they do best: speaking to prospects and customers.
In this article, we’ll walk you through the various types of automatic dialing options so you can make an informed decision on what’s best for your contact center.
What is an Automatic Dialer (Auto Dialer)?
An Automatic Dialer (Auto Dialer) is a piece of technology or software that automatically dials a list of phone numbers so agents don’t have to dial manually. Depending on the type of dialer you use and what your goals are, an Auto Dialer will automatically broadcast a message, or connect the line to a live agent. There are several types of Auto Dialers including: Preview Dialer, Progressive Dialer and Predictive Dialer.
What is a Preview Dialer?
A Preview Dialer is an Auto Dialer that allows agents to “preview” or view information about the contact before dialing. With a Preview Dialer, calls in the campaign list will be offered to agents and only dialed if the agent confirms the dialing (or “accepts” the call).
The benefit of a Preview Dialer campaign is that it gives more power and control to agents, and helps ensure they are fully prepared before speaking to the contact. This approach typically leads to more personalized conversations. If this is the solution for you, we’d recommend choosing a contact center solution that integrates with your CRM so you can screen pop the contact’s information and keep track of post-call activities directly within the CRM.
If you’re looking for an even quicker way to connect with customers, Predictive or Progressive dialing might be worth exploring.
What is a Predictive Dialer?
A Predictive Dialer is an Auto Dialer that dials several contact numbers simultaneously if it predicts there will be enough agents to handle them. Once a call is answered, the Predictive Dialer will automatically connect the contact to a live agent.
Unlike the Preview Dialer where the agent has control over the dialing, the Predictive Dialer places more calls than available agents as it predicts that some of the calls won’t be answered due to invalid numbers, or busy lines. In this mode, the contact center administrator or team supervisor can choose to speed up or slow down the dialer to control the number of parallel calls it attempts per agent.
The benefit of a Predictive Dialer is that it places many calls at once, making it faster for you to get in touch with a live contact. However, when using a Predictive Dialer keep in mind that it could lead to a poor user experience if there are no agents available to handle the call after the contact answered - also known as a Call Abandon. To prevent companies from taking advantage of customers, several countries have passed Abandon Rate regulations. For example, the United States has a 3% abandon rate threshold, and considers a call abandoned if the contact isn’t connected within 2.6 seconds of answering the call. To avoid any issues, we recommend starting on the conservative side and increasing the dialer speed after reviewing performance.
If this is the solution for you, we’d recommend choosing a contact center solution that allows you to control the speed of dialing, and provides reporting that shows your abandon rates at all times. To start, we find it’s best to set the dialer at 2 calls per agent and adjusting based on performance.
What is Voice Broadcasting?
Voice Broadcasting, used in conjunction with Predictive campaigns, allows you to automatically transmit a message to contacts who answer the phone instead of connecting them to a live agent right away.
A Voice Broadcast can be a simple greeting, promotional message, or a complex series of questions and actions where the final result would determine whether the call should be routed to a live agent, or disconnected. At Contivio, many of our clients use Voice Broadcasting to send alerts or notifications to customers, or survey customers on how their last call went.
Though this is a less personal approach, Voice Broadcasting is a powerful tool that allows you to reach many customers with minimal effort.
What is a Progressive Dialer?
A Progressive Dialer is similar to a Predictive Dialer, but only dials when there is an agent available, thereby eliminating some of the risks associated with Predictive Dialing. After the contact answers the call, the Progressive Dialer automatically connects the contact to an agent and the agent does not have the option of rejecting the call.
The benefit of a Progressive Dialer is that it ensures you’ll always have an agent on hand before dialing a contact, which keeps your organization ahead of abandon rate regulations and helps provide better experiences for customers. The downside of Progressive Dialing is that unlike Preview Dialing, your agents won’t be able to read up on their contacts before speaking to them, and you won’t be dialing as many contacts as you would if you used Predictive Dialing.
The Bottom Line
Now that you’ve learned about each type of Auto-Dialer, your next step is to search for the right software that can support your needs.
Regardless of your Dialer choice, we recommend that you choose a solution that integrates with your CRM to:
Additionally, if you’re placing a lot of cold calls and connection rates are important to you, we recommend that your contact center solution enables you to have local presence, which dynamically uses an outbound caller ID that matches your customers’ area codes.
From a management perspective, you will profit from an abundance of benefits brought forth by a contact center software. Not only will you increase efficiency, but your overall customer satisfaction rates will steadily improve. Your sales and marketing teams will also be adequately equipped to reach target prospects, convert those quicker to opportunities, and close more deals in the process. The technology of today is unlike anything ever developed, so it is your turn to select a solution quickly to deploy - Chances are your competitors already are, and have been profiting off the functionality for years.
At Contivio, we recognize the value in Auto Dialing, therefore we bundle our dialer with our standard contact center product offering at no additional cost. We also provide advanced CRM integration, so your agents will be able to build their dialer campaigns from within the CRM and benefit from screen popping, and post-call activity logging (dispositions, notes, call duration, call recording etc.). Here’s a video that shows how our Preview Dialer works with NetSuite:
To learn more, feel free to contact us at 800-282-8105 or book a demo with one of our Customer Success Managers.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/automatic-dialers-101
Publish Date: February 26, 2018 |
A lot of clients ask us about NetSuite’s case management capabilities, and want to learn how they can integrate cases with their call center. We connected with our partners at NetSuite and our in-house CRM experts to give you the run-down on Case Management, and how you can take your NetSuite cases a step further with Contivio’s Omnichannel contact center solution.
NetSuite “Case Management,” part of NetSuite CRM, is a ticketing system for organizing, routing and responding to customer inquiries or support issues that arise via email, or any other media channel.
Cases are automatically created from emails sent from leads, prospects or customers. These emails are usually sent to group email addresses (for example: sales@contivio.com or support@contivio.com). From there the case is routed to a rep, who can either resolve it, or escalate it to a more appropriate rep. When the customer receives the response from the rep, he or she can reply to the message, which will be added to the original case record and emailed directly to the previous support rep, or the next available agent. Once the case has been tagged ‘resolved’, the support rep can close it and move on to the next one.
Though email is the most common method, cases can also be created manually for other channels, real-time from calls or live chat using Contivio’s Built For NetSuite (“BFN”) offering. For example, if a customer calls or chats your customer care team about an issue, the customer care specialist is able to manually create a case under the customer’s record.
NetSuite’s case management is beneficial for almost any business because it helps automate and organize the business processes associated with customer inquiries & issues. Because NetSuite provides a 360-degree view of the customer, it’s easy to track your support cases by product, issues, case type, rep and customer, and then tie that information back to your bottom line (in terms of renewals, revenue and customer satisfaction). They also have self-servicing capabilities so that customers can track the status of their cases, or access a knowledge-base to get the answers they need without intervening with your team.
We all know that NetSuite’s Case Management product works well… but how can we take it a step further? Since Case Management goes hand-in-hand with customer service & support, Contivio has developed seamless integration with cases across all channels.
The benefit of tying Contivio into your NetSuite case management workflow is that Contivio can apply more advanced routing rules, offers additional self-servicing capabilities, and automatically screen pops cases through any channel including Phone, Email and Live Chat.
In addition to that, Contivio also provides holistic reporting with real-time dashboards so you can have a true sense of all of the customer interactions taking place in your Call Center at once. Learn more about how Contivio works with each channel using the links below:
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/netsuite-case-management-benefits
Publish Date: January 29, 2018 |
Since NetSuite Case Management goes hand-in-hand with customer service & support, Contivio has developed seamless integration with cases across all channels - including live chat.
With Contivio’s NetSuite integration, when a customer submits a live chat, Contivio can query NetSuite to find the customer’s record, all the way down to the case level. If the customer wants to chat about a specific case, he or she can type in the Case ID# into the chat form. From there Contivio finds the case in NetSuite and screen pops it. Here’s an example from one of our customers. In the screenshot you’ll notice that they have an optional field specifically for Ticket Number.
If the customer doesn’t include a case #, but requests to speak to the support team, Contivio can screen-pop a new case for the agent and link it to the customer’s record based on email address.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/how-can-you-incorporate-netsuite-cases-into-live-chat
Publish Date: January 29, 2018 |
Since NetSuite Case Management goes hand-in-hand with customer service & support, Contivio has developed seamless integration with cases across all channels - including phone.
Many of our clients have an option in their IVR to reach customer service. With Contivio, it’s a best practice to give the caller a choice to either:
When the rep is offered the call, he or she will get a NetSuite screen pop with either a new case (if the user selected option 1), or an existing case record (if the user selected option 2).
Contivio can also add specific routing rules so that the caller is routed to the agent that was assigned to the case, or the customer’s dedicated Sales rep in NetSuite. After the call ends, you can configure Contivio to automatically push notes, dispositions and call recording URLs within NetSuite as an activity attached to the case or customer record - so you can reference it in the future.
In addition to screen popping and routing, Contivio also has IVR self-servicing capabilities. This means that Contivio can reference NetSuite to feed information back to the customer, without any agent involvement. For example, if the customer presses “2” for an existing case, the IVR can prompt them for their case # and return the latest status (i.e. Escalated, Completed, In-Progress). From there, if the customer wants to speak to the representative anyway, all they would need to do is stay on the line. When the rep gets offered the call, they’ll have the case screen pop for quick review.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/integrate-netsuite-cases-into-your-call-center
Publish Date: January 29, 2018 |
Whether you’re using Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) or Net Promoter Score (NPS) methodologies, Customer Surveys are an integral part of contact center management as they help bring to light any issues - or strengths - that are arising in your contact center.
Collecting feedback from your customers post-communication allows you to get insights on:
There are a few different ways to administer post-communication Customer Surveys. Based on what we’ve seen with our customers, contact center managers typically offer surveys through their IVR (Interactive Voice Response), or ask for feedback after the call via SMS or email. Contivio takes our survey capabilities one step further than most contact center solutions by offering the ability to store survey responses within most CRMs, including NetSuite.
Collecting survey results over the phone is beneficial because your customer is engaged and has the conversation fresh in their mind, meaning you’ll see higher response rates with the most accurate information. On the phone you also have the ability to connect your customer with a live agent to collect further feedback if necessary, and hear your customer’s responses verbatim.
Another benefit is that you’ll be able to collect survey results quickly, opposed to other methods like Email, which may take longer to get feedback.
If your call center has a large volume of calls, it can be more costly to collect feedback over the phone. Additionally, keep in mind that your customer likely won’t want to be on the phone for a long period of time, so you’ll want to keep your survey questions short and sweet.
For those who prefer to take customer feedback over the phone, Contivio offers 2 options:
As consumers’ email inboxes continue to fill up, many contact center managers are turning to SMS to capture the attention of their customers. SMS response rates tend to be higher than other methods like email and online surveys, and the feedback is often given quickly.
If you’re texting your customers, you need to ensure you have their cell phone numbers on file, which might not work for some businesses. You’ll also need to make sure your survey is mobile friendly and keep your questions limited so that your customers don’t get bored or distracted.
Contivio offers 2 survey options for SMS, but keep in mind to use these features you need to work with an SMS gateway provider like SMS Global.
Email is one of the most cost-effective ways to collect feedback from your customers, and there are many tools available that you can leverage to track the responses back to each customer. With email, you can also get more creative with your survey questions (i.e. you can show visuals) and you can afford to include a few more questions than you can on phone and SMS.
While they’re easy to deliver, emails may get lost in your customer’s inbox, which may lead to lower response rates. If your survey email does get noticed, it’s likely that your customer will wait to fill it out, which could impact the accuracy of the responses. To get the most success with email, we recommend incentivizing the user to participate, creating a sense of urgency (i.e. enforcing a short time frame, sending a reminder), and personalizing the email to make the customer feel like their feedback matters.
There are several ways email surveys can be sent out, but a couple of common ways include:
For more information on how to add survey collection to your Contact Center with Contivio, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@contivio.com or book a free demo.
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/best-ways-to-survey-your-customers-from-your-call-center
Publish Date: November 27, 2017 |
The Contivio team is back on the road and headed east for the annual Oracle+NetSuite SDN Partner Roadshow! The first stop is Chicago on 11/6, followed by Boston 11/8, and then finally Toronto on 11/9. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the SDN Roadshow, it’s an event designed to connect partners with the Oracle+NetSuite Sales team to generate awareness about their solutions.
During the event, our team will be demonstrating some of our newly released features such as:
If you’re attending the event or in the surrounding area, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@contivio.com to schedule a meeting with us, or stop by our booth to learn more.
Look forward to seeing you all there and don’t forget to pack your warm clothes!
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/contivio-joins-the-oraclenetsuite-sdn-partner-roadshow-2017
Publish Date: November 1, 2017 |
Some of you may have noticed that Contivio.com recently got a makeover! With the launch of our new website, we've also revamped our Live Chat to match - and - the best news of all is that the new enhancements are now available to our clients as well!
With Version 4.0, Contivio Chat customers have access to new functionality and sample styles to further optimize their chat conversations just in time for the holiday season.
Below is a list of all the new chat enhancements that can now be implemented, and we've also created a new Live Chat Setup Guide & API Integration Document to guide you through the process step by step. Current customers can contact us at support@contivio.com to receive a copy of the new document.
We understand that some of our clients may not have the resources to implement all of the customizations they want, so with this new update we're also offering:
If you're a current client and you'd like our help redesigning your chat, please reach out to us at sales@contivio.com for a quote.
If you're new to Live Chat and you'd like to add it to your Contact Center, contact us at sales@contivio.com and we'll send you the steps to get started.
All of the new features can be referenced in our new API Integration Guide. Please contact us for a copy of the new guide at support@contivio.com.
Again, please feel free to reach out to us at sales@contivio.com if any questions arise.
Happy Chatting!
Source: https://go.contivio.com/blog/new-live-chat-features-released-october-2017
Publish Date: October 17, 2017 |
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