Termination Types

This is a great chart showing the difference between Short Call, Abandoned Call, and Sudden Disconnect calls

You setup these thresholds in Control Hub | Contact Center | Voice

Short Call Threshold - this is the time from entering the EP/starting the call, and when the call drops. This time splits out Short Calls and Abandoned calls. If you select 5 seconds, this means anything less than 5 seconds is counted as a Short Call and anything more than 5 seconds is an Abandoned Call.

Sudden Disconnect Threshold - Time after being connected to an agent to identify a call that was likely disconnected suddenly. Anything greater than this time will be assumed to have terminated normally.

 

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The image below illustrates the possible termination types for two scenarios.

  • Top Example: The Short Call Threshold duration covers just the pre-queue/IVR experience

  • Bottom Example: The Short Call Threshold duration is greater than the time the caller spends in the pre-queue/IVR experience

 

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Reporting Tip: When it comes to reporting on queue metrics, the key is to either filter for only calls where there’s a queue in the queue variable (set filter for queue name using regular expression of “.+” - without quotation marks) because if it’s blank or filter for the specific queues being measured. That way the customer can interpret any short call with a queue associated with it as one that essentially abandoned.

 

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