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How do you measure inbound call completions vs inbound calls?

  • October 24, 2023
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Steve25

Do you simply divide the number of completed inbound calls by total inbound calls?

Or do you exclude unanswerable calls such as calls that abandon while in the IVR or holding to transfer into the call queue? You know, the calls that are not offered to agents.  What about calls that are outside of business hours where it goes directly to voicemail? Or callback requests that expire? What about calls that disconnect within, say, 15 seconds of entering the call queue? Most agents can’t react and hit the answer button fast enough. Should it still count against them? How do you account for what I call panic callers,  they call and hang up like 10 times in just a few minutes and have multiple callback requests, voicemails, and abandons?

 

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  • October 26, 2023

Hi Steve,

Completed means that the call was successful and the end user was connected with the agent or the call was directed to voicemail or forwarded to an external number.

There are other reporting attributes that you can use like Abandoned in IVRAbandoned in queueAbandoned in voicemailAbandoned in on-hold, and Not answered.

Not answered means that the call wasn’t successful. An example of an inbound not answered call is when the end user wasn’t connected with the agent, or the customer left the call in a transition stage that is not included in the abandoned statuses.

Hope this helps.