Tag: Integration

Why Your Support Agents Hate Their Tech (And How Kustomer + Dialpad Can Change That)

Posted on by Kate Walsh, Product Marketing Manager, Dialpad

Why Your Support Agents Hate Their Tech Twitter

Here’s the most obvious statement of 2020: working in support isn’t for the faint of heart. Fielding the same issues over and over again (“did you try restarting your computer?”), playing therapist to an especially irate customer, juggling phone calls, chat, emails…can you really blame agents for feeling a bit worn out?

Of course not. And that’s why agent retention is such a tough thing to manage with up to 40% of agents end up leaving every year.

Your agents don’t expect you to solve all their problems—well, okay, the reasonable ones don’t—but what they do expect is that you’ll start to track the challenges they’re facing and that where you can, like in the case of the tech they use, re-evaluate the value it brings vs what it might be costing you.

Why Your Agents Hate Their Tech

  1. It’s not helping them get better at handling those tough moments

    2. 30% of agents spend an hour or more with unhappy customers each day. But how would a manager know that? How could they identify the calls where agents need some support? Or if they can’t be everywhere at once (who can?), how do they empower their agents to have the right answers at the right time?

  2. It’s making them jump through hoops to find answers

    3. Sure, not even the most seasoned agent is going to have the right answer every time. The point is that the answer is where they need it, one click away, so they can deliver it to your customer without having to put them on hold, transfer them to someone else, or even worse…send them in the wrong direction.

  3. It’s adding more steps rather than taking them away

    4. Today your tech should be working together to streamline data entry, number of clicks, number of windows, etc. Because every click, every toggle of a new screen, every scroll…that adds up. That means more time searching and less time listening to what your customers have to say, understanding the real reason they’re calling, and being able to give a thoughtful response at the right time.

How Kustomer + Dialpad built a better agent experience

Your agents are on the frontlines of your business. And while they’re responsible for knowing your product or service inside and out (already a hard enough feat) they’re also the ones that your customers judge the most; the way they answer questions or how quickly they’re able to get on the same page—all of this adds up towards whether or not that customer is going to keep doing business with you.

And that’s where our latest partnership aims to help: with Kustomer + Dialpad, your omnichannel platform now includes an entire phone system, too.

With the Kustomer + Dialpad integration, agents can answer calls straight from inside Kustomer, with automatic caller ID detection that pulls up customer conversations and past histories.

 

 

Other supported features include:
  • Click to call from Kustomer to launch Dialpad Everywhere widget
  • Includes call controls (mute, hang up, transfer, record)
  • Includes live transcriptions
  • Includes agent recommendation cards for FAQs
  • Automatic logging of placed calls, voicemails, and recordings

 

The Dialpad app is available to connect from the Kustomer Marketplace.

Learn more about the Kustomer+Dialpad integration, supported functionality, and get your FAQs answered.

 

Omnichannel Kustomer Platform Adds MessageBird and Twilio WhatsApp Business Integrations

Posted on by Doug Jarvis, Director of Product Marketing

The on-demand economy has made it imperative for businesses to provide service via the communication channels their customers use as part of their daily lives. As a truly omnichannel platform, Kustomer has enabled companies around the world to deliver personalized, efficient and effortless service experiences on the channels most convenient and popular with their customers.

We’re excited to announce that we have added MessageBird for WhatsApp Business and Twilio for WhatsApp Business integrations to the Kustomer platform, extending our omnichannel experience and ensuring brands can communicate with their customers wherever it’s most impactful. With over 1.6 billion global users, WhatsApp has grown into one of the world’s largest messaging applications and become an essential customer service engagement channel for businesses operating internationally.

The Kustomer platform provides an actionable timeline view of a customer’s conversations across channels, as well as their transaction history and other relevant data. Companies using MessageBird for WhatsApp Business or Twilio for WhatsApp Business with the Kustomer platform can access WhatsApp conversations directly on the customer’s timeline, where agents can leverage a customer’s data to resolve issues in real time, without ever having to leave the screen.

By maintaining all conversations through the timeline, Kustomer’s omnichannel platform provides a single threaded conversation with all of the relevant context. Agents and customers can switch between channels as needed, while continuing to progress conversations. Customers won’t need to repeat information and agent collision will never occur.

While other customer service solutions provide multiple channels, only Kustomer gives brands a true omnichannel experience by providing a complete picture of their customers, including real-time and historical conversations across all channels in a single location.

The new MessageBird for WhatsApp Business and Twilio for WhatsApp Business integrations are easily installed like other channels on the Kustomer platform. Once a company has inserted their MessageBird or Twilio API key, agents can begin exchanging messages, images, and other rich media with customers on the timeline.

Companies can track the impact of this service by using Kustomer’s native customer satisfaction solution to survey customers engaging via WhatsApp. In addition, WhatsApp Business is incorporated into the reporting and analytics of the platform to give brands complete insight into the performance of their customer service teams.

In addition to MessageBird for WhatsApp Business and Twilio for WhatsApp Business, the Kustomer platform supports e-mail, web and mobile chat, SMS, voice, Facebook Messenger and Twitter, enabling brands to communicate with today’s customers via the channels and applications they demand.

Learn more about Kustomer’s integrations with MessageBird for WhatsApp Business and Twilio for WhatsApp Business here.

 

3 Reasons Kustomer’s Amazon Connect Integration Will Revolutionize Your Contact Center

Posted on by Kustomer

Kustomer has just announced it’s newest integration with Amazon Web Services’ Amazon Connect to deliver next-level omnichannel support and experience for enterprises and contact centers.

Amazon Connect is the cloud-based contact center voice solution created by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and based on the same technology used by over 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world. Kustomer’s integration with Amazon Connect seamlessly pulls AWS’s robust technology into a single convenient timeline view.

Not only will this help contact centers and support teams deliver a more personal and memorable experience over all of their channels, but agents can stay in a single screen uninterrupted while answering calls.

The integrated solution is already live in enterprise-level contact centers in companies such as Ring, the global home security provider. As COO Jon Irwin noted, “Moving forward with Kustomer’s Amazon Connect integration was one of the best decisions we have made for our community support team as well as our end customers, or ‘neighbors’.”

“We’re excited to be using Kustomer’s robust platform, which is not only reliable, but increases service efficiency, giving us an edge in providing unparalleled neighbor experience.”

You can see our native Amazon Connect integration in the video below. To see more of our integration in action, register for our webinar on November 15th.

Personalized IVR Experience

 Customers expect more personal and convenient experiences, even when they get an automated response after calling your customer service number. With Kustomer’s Amazon Connect integration, IVR can become more responsive and personalized than your customers ever imagined. Because Amazon Connect’s IVR data-dips directly into Kustomer’s CRM database, contact centers of any size can easily customize their phone trees based on customer information. You can route customers based on their interaction history or previous issues, create a shortcut for VIPs or those affected by a specific outage, present different options for customers with open orders, and more.

Everything in a Single Screen

Consolidating all your platforms into one intuitive interface massively increases agent efficiency and improves the experience for your customers, because agents have all the information they need at their fingertips. Once agents accept a call from a customer, they can see the full timeline and history of whoever is calling in. Then the call recording and relevant data is automatically saved as part of the conversation, along with the agent’s notes, and agents can easily follow up over SMS, Email, Phone, Chat, and more.

Streamline Service with Multichannel Routing

Kustomer and Amazon Connect provide the modern features omnichannel team managers expect. Amazon Connect is the only voice integration that syncs with the Kustomer router, giving managers the utmost flexibility in building and monitoring their queues. Kustomer includes reports and live dashboards, providing managers with a real, live look into the performance of their contact centers. That makes it easy to ensure the right agents are handling the right customers at the right time based on your needs over every channel. Our integration even takes into account whether blended agents are or are not on a call, pausing incoming messages when they’re on the phone so that your workloads are always properly managed.

The Amazon Connect Enterprise Application is available today. For more information, visit our dedicated Amazon Connect integrations page, or sign up for our webinar on November 15th for a live demo with our product team.

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