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Horizon Contact Agent
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Horizon Contact Agent

Agent Portal and Setup

  • Getting started
    • Your Inbox
    • Agent Portal Overview
    • What I can see on my screen after I log in
    • Changing my password
    • What to do if I forget my login password
    • Agent Setup Guide
      • How to log in
      • Portal walk through
      • Status Settings
      • Making an internal call to another agent or group
      • Selecting how I receive calls
  • Communication
    • Configuring audio settings
    • Changing my contact method
    • Contacting a customer
    • Searching a queue
  • Status management
    • Using the status bar
    • Changing my current status
    • Indicating if I’m available or on a break
    • Making myself available on specific channels and/or queues only
    • Viewing the status of other agents and queues
  • Recent activity
    • Recent activity summary
    • Viewing detailed statistics
    • Viewing summary information for queues in my group(s)

Handling Calls

  • Inbound Calls
    • Answering a call
    • Having calls delivered to me automatically
    • Pick up a call that is ringing on another agent’s phone
    • Troubleshooting issues with receiving calls
  • Outbound Calls
    • Calling from the Outbound panel
    • Calling from the Quick Dial panel
    • Calling from your saved contacts
    • Calling from your recent calls list
  • Call Management
    • What I can see on my screen when I’m on a call
    • Using the call control buttons
    • Tasks to complete when your call ends
    • Recording a call
    • Transferring a call to a third party
    • Viewing recent calls
    • Receiving desktop notifications
    • Agent Scripts for calls

Handling Emails

  • Logging into your email server
  • Handling emails
  • Responding to an email
  • Sending an ad-hoc email
  • Activating an email
  • Forwarding an email
  • Parking an email
  • Classifying an email
  • Inserting text blocks
  • Selecting email attachments
  • Viewing and taking pending emails from queues
  • Deciding which queue’s items to take first
  • Returning or transferring an item to a queue
  • Viewing the history of an email
  • Viewing the activity timeline of an email

Handling SMS Messages

  • Sending an SMS message
  • Sending SMS messages during webchats

Handling webchats

  • Handling webchats
  • Responding to a webchat
  • Using the chat control buttons
  • Activate a webchat
  • Pausing a webchat
  • Inserting a template
  • Classifying a webchat
  • Extending or ending my wrapup time
  • Contacting a customer via the current chat session
  • Deciding which queue’s items to take first
  • Viewing pending webchats and taking webchats from queue(s)
  • Returning or transferring an item to a queue
  • Sending a chat history to the webclient
  • Flagging a webchat as abusive

Handling Payments

  • Managing Live Payments
  • Taking, sending or refunding a payment
  • Taking pending payment transactions from queues
  • Viewing payment transactions

Scheduled calls

  • Scheduled calls
  • Scheduling a callback for the current call
  • Scheduling a callback between calls
  • Viewing and changing times for scheduled callbacks
  • Making a scheduled callback

Contacts

  • Confirming a customer’s contact record
  • Managing contacts
  • Viewing a customer’s contact history
  • Contacting a customer by email or social media
  • Updating a customer’s details
  • Looking up a customer’s contact record
  • Creating a new contact record

Third-party CRM Platforms

  • Third-party CRM platforms overview
  • Using the Contact softphone within Salesforce
  • Using the Contact softphone within MS Dynamics
  • Using the Contact softphone within Zendesk
  • Troubleshooting
  • Care Connect
    • Care Connect introduction
    • Making outbound calls to patients
    • Receiving patient’s calls
    • Searching for patient’s details
  • ConConnect
    • Logging into ConConnect
    • Making an Outbound call using ConConnect
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Answering a call

When you are available to answer calls, you will either be delivered calls automatically or be configured to pick up pending calls from the queue(s) to which you are assigned.

Click play to watch a video overview on answering a call.

Answering calls from a queue #

You can only pick up calls from a queue if you are not currently handling a call.

  1. On the sidebar menu, click Call Queues ()
  2. Select the relevant call queue from the dropdown list to see pending calls
  3. Click the appropriate call and Contact will attempt to match the call to a contact record
  4. To pick up the call, click the pick up button ()
  5. To answer the call, click the answer button ()
  6. To decline the call, click the decline button ()
Note: If you are configured to receive calls automatically, you do not need to pick up the call from the queue. See Having calls delivered to me automatically.

WebRTC issues #

WebRTC users may receive reports from contacts of audio problems/artifacts/glitches at the start of the call. This has frequently been seen during the first 5 seconds of a call whilst the Automatic Gain Control logic provided by the browser “warms up”/”settles down”. For example Firefox has sometimes made the WebRTC user very quiet for the first 5 seconds, and Chrome has sometimes made the WebRTC user loud for the first 5 seconds.

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Table of Contents
  • Answering calls from a queue
  • WebRTC issues

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