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.

List

Lists allow the system to park requests of certain channels. Agents then subscribe to the List and get notified about each incoming request being landed on the List.

To learn how to create new lists and assign them to certain channels, see Admin Guide -> Pull Mode

Request

A Request (a List entry or a new conversation in the list) can be in any one of the following states:

UNREAD - until no agent has joined the conversation
ACTIVE - when at least one agent has joined the conversation
INACTIVE - when there's no agent currently present in the conversation but, at least one agent had joined this request earlier and left without closing it. In this case, if a customer sends a message to request a new agent, no new notification is published on the List since the conversation is already listed there.
CLOSED - upon closure of the request when the request was removed, i.e. when the conversation is closed.

Agent-List Subscription

Agents subscribed to a List get real-time notifications of new conversations being landed on the List. Agents may subscribe to one or multiple Lists to answer requests published on those lists. One or more agents may Join a request simultaneously and may also choose to leave at any time.

To see how agents subscribe to Lists and join pull-based conversations, see Agent Capabilities -> Subscribe Lists

Workflow

Admin Configurations

The same level of configurations are done in Unified Admin, for this scenario as done for Push-based Routing, except for the following differences:

The admin creates an MRD to capture Social media requests from customers.
Adds a new Channel Type Face Page Comments.
The admin adds a new List L1.
Creates a new Channel C2, sets the Routing Mode as Pull (instead of Push), and, maps the Channel C2 to the List L1. This channel is supposed to receive all customer comments posted on the Facebook page. The channel should then publish all new requests on the List L1.

Example Chat.

A new comment is posted on the company's Facebook Page mentioned in the Service Identifier field of the channel configs. See the Administrator Guide to learn more.
The system publishes the request to the list associated with the channel, i.e. L1.
All agents subscribed to the List L1 get the new incoming request notification.
One or more agents try to join the Conversation.
The agent(s) who joined the chat are subscribed to the Conversation notifications such as, Agent joining, and Agent leaving notifications that are flown through during the conversation.

Flow Diagram