The hustle and bustle of business mean that there is little time for waiting and no time for error, especially when you are running a support center and you do not want your customers to be affected by long queue times.
Taking advantage of Aircall's callback feature is a great way to boost your customer satisfaction and reduce the number of abandoned calls. By enabling this feature, your callers will be able to push the star * button during audio widgets and waiting times to request a callback. Your team members will be alerted through a notification created in the inbox section of your phone app.
✅ In order to make use of this feature, you must first be subscribed to the Professional Plan (formerly enterprise).
How to activate this feature
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Log in to the Dashboard.
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Select the Number you would like to configure. You can also search for the number in the search bar on the right side of the screen.
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Click the Settings tab.
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Under Settings, scroll down to Callback request.
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Select the toggle button to enable Callback Request.
- For numbers using Aircall's Smartflow routing system, a custom Callback Request message can be configured. More details on Smartflow Callback Request messages can be found here.
Finally, update your Welcome Message or add an audio widget to let your customers know that they can push the star * button during audio widgets and waiting times to receive a callback from a member of your team.
⚠️ Please take note that customers can request a callback via pressing the * button during the Welcome Message, Waiting Music, Unanswered Call Message, or After Hours Message. Requests coming in during IVR messages (IVR Keypad) will not be taken into account.
Callback requests in the To-Do Section
Once a customer pushes the star * button, it will automatically appear in the To-do list section of the phone app under the Callback request section:
⚠️ Please note that this will only appear in the To-Do section of the Aircall Phone for the users who are assigned to the specific phone line where the feature is enabled.
Within the Analytics, this will be shown as a Missed call, but with the tag Callback Request. Once you have called back the customer, the tag will change to Callback Request / Called Back.
⚠️ A call will only be removed from the To-do list after the agent makes an actual callback to the customer's number. If the customer doesn't wait for the callback and instead makes another inbound call that is answered by an agent, the call will remain in the To-do list.