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Ring Strategies

Same members, same queue, six different answers to who gets asked first. The choice is a load question rather than a matching one: everybody at once, strictly down the list, or spread so the same two people are not carrying the floor.

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Queue: Support - EMEA

offer 2 of 6
Strategy
Priya Raman
Tom Alvarez
Nadia Okafor
Ben Osei
Aisha Khan
Marcus Bell
ringing now already offered not yet
Down the list in order, one at a time, always starting at the top.
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answers to who gets asked first
0s
default ring attempt before the round repeats
0s
default pause between rounds, jittered

Product figures from the platform’s own defaults - not customer averages

The mechanism

How it works.

01

Together, or one at a time

Ring all fires every member's phone in the same instant and the first to pick up keeps the call while the rest are hung up. The other five walk the list a member at a time, which is where the order starts to matter.

02

What each one sorts on

Hunt takes the list as written. Fewest calls sorts on how many each member has answered. Random shuffles per call. Round robin resumes after whoever last won. Priority sorts on rank.

03

The rotation survives a restart

Round robin's pointer to the last member who won is written through to Redis per queue. A dispatcher restart picks the rotation back up rather than starting everyone from the top of the list again.

04

Rank widens the ring each round

Members carry a rank, all equal by default. Under ring all the first round rings the top rank only and each round after adds the next one down, so a call spreads outward instead of ringing the whole floor at once.

Where it sits

Two moments in every call.

Every call passes through the same seven. Ring Strategies is the lit ones, and everything either side of it is a different page in this category.

  1. 01
    Number

    the line it arrives on or leaves from

  2. 02
    Route

    where the call is sent and to whom

  3. 03
    Dial

    placing it, and how many at once

  4. 04
    Connect

    the moment a person picks up

  5. 05
    Talk

    while the conversation is happening

  6. 06
    Wrap

    the code, the notes, the next step

  7. 07
    Record

    what is kept, and where it is kept

The specifics.

8 facts
Options
Ring all, hunt, fewest calls, random, round robin, priority; ring all is the default
Ring all
Every member originates in parallel, first answer wins, losing legs are hung up
Rounds
Ring attempt defaults to 30 seconds, then the round repeats after about 2 seconds
Fewest calls
Sorts on calls answered, rank tier first, list position as the tiebreak
Round robin
Last-winner pointer stored per queue in Redis, so it survives a restart
Rank
Per-member penalty, 0 for everyone by default; ring all adds a tier per round
Wrap-up
Members who hung up inside the queue's wrap-up seconds sit the round out; defaults to 0
Not offered
Longest-idle-first is a legacy value, not one of the six. No ordering reads talk time

More in Contact Center

21 capabilities

Flows, queues, oversight and compliance screening on lines we run ourselves.

Call Flow Builder

Decide what happens when your number rings, then walk a test call through it before a customer does. Thirty-nine nodes, nine categories, one canvas.

Listen, Whisper & Barge

Coach a rep mid-call without the customer hearing it, then join outright if it turns. Moving between the three never drops the call or rings anyone again.

Predictive Dialer

Reps stop sitting through ring-outs. More lines open than you have people, paced off your live answer rate, and the abandonment cap you set is a ceiling.

Power & Preview Dialing

Hand the tempo to the rep on one campaign and take it back on the next. Preview waits for them to read the record; power opens lines the moment they are free.

Answering-Machine Detection

Reps stop greeting voicemail. The line is judged person or machine before a headset is involved, so what lands in one is somebody who said hello.

IVR & Auto-Attendant

Decide what callers hear in the first ten seconds, and where the ones who press nothing end up. Fifteen starting templates, built as a step in the flow.

Queue Callbacks

A caller presses a digit, hangs up and keeps their place in line. Repeat requests merge, so nobody rings the same person twice about one problem.

Transfer & Three-Way

Nobody re-explains themselves to the next person. Send the call straight on, or speak privately first, or merge to three and walk out without ending it.

Call Recording

When a call is disputed, who said the line is read off its own channel rather than argued out of the wording. Both sides captured, merged into one file.

Dispositions & Wrap-Up

One code is the whole of a rep's paperwork. Twenty-six behaviors hang off it, so the task, the callback and the do-not-call mark happen on their own.

Smart Caller ID

A rep never has to choose which of your numbers to call from. Every one they may use is scored against the person being dialed, and they can still override.

Compliance Screening

The check runs before the number is dialed, not as a report on Monday. Federal DNC, known TCPA litigators and your own list, each block written down.

Phone Numbers

Buy the number and it already knows where to send its calls. Search live carrier inventory, filter by country or by the digits it ends with, then claim it.

Toll-Free Numbers

One number reaches a whole country and the caller pays nothing for it. Toll-free routes through the same flows and bills from the same wallet as local lines.

International Numbers

Selling into a country you have no office in still means a number that looks local. Four carrier providers, so a new market is a purchase, not a project.

Extensions & Webphone

The extension is the person, not the device. One number reaches your rep, and a live call walks from browser tab to desk phone without either side noticing.

Voicemail Boxes

A call nobody was going to answer still lands somewhere. Organization, team and personal boxes each decide who may listen, and every message is transcribed.

Business Hours & Holidays

Closed is a fact about the clock, not something each flow decides alone. Write the week and the holidays once and every queue and campaign shuts with you.

Live Call Monitoring

Where a supervisor picks which call to join. Every conversation currently up, who is on it, the queue it came through and how long it has run, changing live.

SMS & Text Conversations

Text from the numbers you already call on. The thread sits beside the calls to that contact rather than in a second app nobody on the floor ever opens.

Media Library & Voices

Everything a caller hears that is not a person. Before you replace a prompt, the page names the menus, queues and mailboxes still playing the one you have.

Contact Center

See ring strategies on your own floor.

Thirty minutes, your numbers and your data. We will set ring strategies up live and you can decide from the thing itself rather than from this page.

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