CX Routing

Provides a unified media-blending queue for contact centers to allow the business to route voice and non-voice media to human agents in a contact center.

The Routing system handles the request via routing modes that are necessary to understand the routing capabilities provided in the system.

Routing Modes

Routing modes determine if a request should be pushed to an agent or published to a Subscription List.

There are two modes of routing in CX

As the system receives a request to route a conversation to a human agent, the Routing Engine looks for an available agent to serve the request. It searches the Routing-Queue (provided in the request) for available agents based on the Agents' current state and the Routing modes.

Each Routing-Queue has a group of agents associated with it concerning one or multiple Criteria which are compared to the Agents' Routing Attributes to make the association. The request can only be routed to available agents from the group of associated agents in a queue.

Let’s understand each routing logic and see how it works.

Routing Logic	Description
Precision Routing	Enables the business to make a routing decision of assigning requests to the most suitable agent, based on the agent selection criteria defined under the queue configurations.
Routing Attributes	This is a skill assigned to an Agent or a Supervisor. An agent can be assigned an unlimited number of unique Routing-attributes.
Queues	Are responsible for hosting new requests (tasks) generated by a customer.
Channel Categories	Is a collection of precision queues associated with a common media class. It organizes requests from each communication medium, such as voice and chat, and manages agent states in each channel category (MRD). This allows agents to manage their states separately on each channel category.
Agent-Queue Mapping	Each Routing-Queue has a group of agents associated with it concerning one or multiple Criteria also known as Steps. These Steps are compared to the Agents' Routing Attributes to make the association. The request can only be routed to available agents from the group of associated agents in a queue.
Maximum Task per Agent per Channel Category	Addresses with the capability of the system to manage maximum number of tasks, an agent can handle on each Channel Category (MRD)
Agent SLA	Indicates the time limit in seconds that the agent must respond to a customer’s message received in a certain Queue or List.
Task Priority	Priority is an attribute assigned to any task to route that task to an agent in an expedited manner. By default, all tasks in the system have a priority of 1 and are served on a FIFO (First In, First Out) basis.
Agent Task/Routing Task	Refers to the task created and assigned to the agent by the system.
Queue Wait Time and Position	This feature allows the customer to see wait time and the position in the queue.
Queue Flushing API	Acts as an API to clear all queues or a specific queue.
Task and Task States	The Routing Engine creates a new task for a human agent for each new request routed to an agent. When the agent closes the request, the task state is also closed.
Distribution Rules	Addresses with distribution rules of routing such as queues to agent mapping, multi-steps per queue, agent reservation, priority routing, queue priority (In progress)
PULL Mode Routing	Enables small-scale businesses to broadcast customer requests to a List. Agents can pull requests from the List whenever they are convenient to join the conversation.