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VIP Priority Routing

Every other setting on a queue applies to everyone in it. This one applies to a single contact record, and suspends the rest: no greeting, no hold music, no length cap, no ceiling on how long they are allowed to wait.

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Queue: Support - EMEA

5 waiting of 5
Contact record
Marisa Vaughn+44 7700 900112VIP
Welcome file skippedRingback, not hold musicMarked on the inviteNo ceiling on the wait
  • 1Jonah Pikeringing agents03:16
  • 2Marta Ruiz01:52
  • 3Kwesi Adjei00:56
  • 4Ada Nwosu00:35
  • 5Theo Lange00:13
Matched as it lands

Her number is matched digit for digit against the VIP field on the contact record. Nothing was tagged on the call and no separate number was handed out.

Priority ordering needs the queue's own turn-taking setting on. Without it, waiters ring agents independently and the flag changes nothing about the order.
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things that stop happening to a VIP caller
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aging credit, so ordinary callers still move
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switches that must both be on: the contact, the queue

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

The mechanism

How it works.

01

Matched as the call lands

VIP is a field on a CRM contact. The arriving number is matched digit for digit against it as the call lands, so nothing has to be tagged on the call and no separate number has to be handed out.

02

Four switches, each on its own

Skip the welcome file. Ring back instead of hold music, so it sounds like somebody is being fetched rather than like a wait. Mark the call for the agent. Lift the ceiling on how long they may wait.

03

Ahead in line, not past it

With turn-taking on, waiting callers ring agents one at a time and a VIP arrives credited with sixty seconds already waited. Anyone who has genuinely waited longer than that is still served first.

04

The agent knows before answering

A header on the invite marks the leg, so the softphone shows the call as VIP on the incoming card rather than the rep finding out after they have already said hello.

Where it sits

Two moments in every call.

Every call passes through the same seven. VIP Priority Routing 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
Match
The contact's VIP field, matched on the digits of the caller's number
Queue switch
Per queue. A VIP ringing a queue without it on is treated as any other caller
Behaviors
Skip welcome, ringback instead of hold music, agent badge, bypass the wait ceiling
Where set
Those four are platform-wide switches, not per queue and not per contact
Length cap
A VIP is never turned away at max length, and that bypass is not one of the four
Aging
60 seconds credited on arrival, so a longer-waiting ordinary caller still goes first
No preemption
A caller already ringing agents is never cut in on; priority decides the next turn
Turn-taking
Needs the queue's priority setting on. Without it, waiters ring agents independently

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.

Skills-Based Routing

A caller reaches somebody who can actually help. Agents short of the skill a queue asks for never see the call, and a failover catches what nobody can take.

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.

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 vip priority routing on your own floor.

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

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