As part of your routing strategy, Urgency determines which queued chats will be assigned first.
Urgency can be applied in two ways:
- At the department level as part of Automatic Distribution (AD)
- At the chat level as part of the Chat Rules Engine (this prevails over department-level urgency)
Here is how to set Urgency for a department.
- Create or edit a department, as follows:
- In the Web Admin Center, go to . The Department Management page is displayed.
- Select an existing department or click Create New.
Result: The New/Edit Department page is displayed.
- On the Automatic Distribution tab, choose a channel and click Override account-level distribution settings.
- Set urgency for this department under Messages queued for assignment.
Incoming chats for a department with a higher urgency setting are distributed before those for a department with a lower setting. When departmental urgency is the same for multiple chats in the queue, agents receive the chat from the department for which they have the highest priority. Chat-level urgency prevails over department-level urgency.
- Save your changes.