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Queue & Routing, Product Brief.

SLA management, skill-based routing, priority queues, overflow handling, and escalation logic, ensuring every conversation reaches the right agent at the right time.

What Queue & Routing does

Ephanti Queue & Routing ensures every inbound conversation, from any channel, is classified, prioritised, and sent to the right agent or AI handler without manual triage.

Routing decisions draw on conversation context, customer tier, channel, language, topic, and agent skill tags. SLA clocks start on arrival. When a conversation approaches breach, alerts fire and overflow rules kick in automatically. When AI confidence falls below your threshold, escalation to a human agent happens seamlessly, with full context transferred.

How it works

1. Classify

Intent, topic, language, and customer tier are detected automatically on arrival.

2. Route

Matched to the best available queue: AI handler, skill-matched agent, or priority lane.

3. Monitor

SLA clock runs. Dashboard shows live queue depth, wait times, and breach risk.

4. Escalate

Trigger-based escalation: sentiment, value, tier, or manual request, with full context handoff.

Key capabilities

Configuration options

Tier availability

CapabilityStarterProEnterprise
Basic queue management
SLA tracking
Skill-based routing,
Priority queues,
Overflow rules,
Custom escalation triggers, ,
Live operations dashboard,

FAQs

How does skill-based routing work?

Each agent is tagged with skills (language, product area, customer tier). Incoming conversations are classified and matched to the best available agent based on conversation context, customer tier, and agent skill profile.

Can I set different SLA targets per channel or customer tier?

Yes. SLA targets are configurable per queue, per channel, and per customer tier. Breach alerts fire when a conversation is approaching the limit, not after it has breached.

What triggers automatic escalation?

Escalation can be triggered by sentiment score, conversation value, customer tier, agent manual request, or SLA breach. Each trigger type and threshold is configurable.

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