| Call | Any inbound or outbound call made or received, whether answered or not. | Internal calls (made between users within the same company) are excluded. |
| Inbound call | A call initiated by an external caller and received by a company-owned Aircall number. |
- Internal calls are excluded.
- When a call is transferred between agents, it is counted as a single call attributed to the last participant.
- When a call passes through an IVR and is transferred to another Aircall number, it is considered one call attributed to the final line.
- An outbound call that is successfully transferred to another agent is tracked as an inbound call.
- If the transfer is unsuccessful, it remains tracked as an outbound call.
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| Calls waiting | An inbound call that is waiting to be picked up by a user (when users are unavailable or ringing). |
- Calls still in the IVR or welcome message are excluded.
- This metric is used in Live Monitoring only.
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| Call status | The current stage of a call, such as ringing, in call, or in IVR. | Used in Live Monitoring. See the full list of call statuses in our article Call Statuses in Live Monitoring
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| Answered inbound call | An inbound call where a user or agent connected with the caller. | |
| Unanswered inbound call | An inbound call where a user or agent did not connect with the caller. | |
| Unanswered call handled by AI Voice Agent | An unanswered inbound call handled by the AI Voice Agent, either as a fallback or as the primary interaction. | |
| Time to Answer | For answered inbound calls, the time between when the caller starts ringing an agent or enters a queue and when the call is picked up. | Time spent in the welcome message, IVR menus, or with the AI Voice Agent is excluded. |
| Inbound calls within SLA | Answered inbound calls where the waiting time before connection did not exceed the SLA. |
- The SLA is determined by the SLA (in seconds) filter in Analytics, or by the SLA setting in Live Monitoring.
- In certain dashboards this is sometimes referred to as Inbound in SLA and Answered within SLA
- Calls outside of business hours are by default excluded in Live Monitoring dashboards. In Analytics dashboards that need to be specified using the available Hours filters.
- This metric uses the same Time to Answer definition in both Live Monitoring and Analytics.
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| Inbound calls breaching SLA | Answered inbound calls where the waiting time before connection exceeded the SLA. |
- The SLA is determined by the SLA (in seconds) filter in Analytics, or by the SLA setting in Live Monitoring.
- Uses the same Time to Answer definition in both Live Monitoring and Analytics.
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| Outbound call | A call made by an Aircall user to an external recipient, whether connected or not. |
- Internal calls are excluded.
- When an inbound call is transferred to an external number, it is counted as an outbound call to that number.
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| Connected outbound call | An outbound call that was successfully connected with the recipient or their automated responder. | In the User KPIs section of the Monitoring page and the Analytics+ dashboard, coaching sessions are included. When a user coaches another agent, it counts as a connected outbound call. |
| Subsequent call | A subsequent call is a call that was made to or from an external caller who previously made an unanswered call. |
- Only connected outbound calls are included.
- Unanswered inbound calls with a subsequent call are unanswered calls where the same caller has been connected with an agent within 24 hours. This connection may happen through an inbound call from the same caller, a callback, or any outbound call made to that caller. When this occurs, each unanswered call made by that caller within the 24 hour period is considered to have had a subsequent call.
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If there is more than one consecutive unanswered inbound call from the same caller, all unanswered calls made by that caller will be considered to have had a subsequent call if that caller is successfully connected to an agent later.
Examples:
A caller phones twice with no answer, then calls again 23 hours later and reaches an agent. Both unanswered calls are considered calls with a subsequent call.
A caller phones and receives no answer. An agent calls back successfully 23 hours later. The unanswered call is considered a call with a subsequent call.
A caller phones and receives no answer, then calls again after 25 hours and reaches an agent. The unanswered call is not considered a call with a subsequent call, since the connection happened after 24 hours.
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| Callback request | Occurs when a caller requests a callback after not reaching an agent. | The request may be completed (called back) or not. There is no time limit for a callback to be considered. |
| Unique callers | All inbound calls from the same phone number during a specific period are counted as one unique caller. |
If a single contact has multiple phone numbers, each number is counted as a separate unique caller.
Example: On September 12, two calls from +33 623 99 99 XX and three from +33 625 35 67 XX equal five calls but only two unique callers.
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