This document provides an overview of new features and enhancements to existing features of the LiveVox User Portal in the LiveVox U15 release.
New Features
This section describes the new features in the following product categories.
Controls
Data Management
Intelligent Forecasting in Agent Scheduling
A new tab is available in the Agent Scheduling section for forecasting schedules of agents. You can view the start time and end time of an agent's available work hours, to help auto-assign agents to shifts.
Agent Cost in Agent Scheduling
You can now configure the hourly cost of an agent in a new field in Agent Scheduling to calculate the cost of a shift for a client.
Export Format Editor
Export Format editor now supports Report Writer.
Insight
Non-Voice
Downloadable Knowledge Base (KB) Articles
Your customers can now download the KB articles through the web widget. In addition, as they scroll down the list of KB articles on the widget, the list expands to display more articles.
New Service Provider
A new service provider is now available to enable you to send SMS or MMS to landline and toll-free numbers.
Through this service provider, a maximum of two attachments can be sent per message, with a total maximum file size of 600 KB. Types of files that can be shared are GIF, JPEG/JPG, PNG, and TXT. In addition, this service provider does not have any message throughput limits.
Proactive Web Chat
You can now proactively initiate chat when someone visits your website based on certain conditions.
Quality
SpeechIQ under WFO Tab
New Speech Analytics options are available under WFO.
Reports
SMS Billing Report
You can run the SMS Billing Report to identify the count of SMS messages that you have launched in a specific duration.
The SMS Billing Report option is added in Review > Billing Reports > SMS Billing Report.
MMS Billing Report
You can run the MMS Billing Report to identify the count of MMS messages that you have launched in a specific duration.
The MMS Billing Report option is added in Review > Billing Reports > MMS Billing Report.
Voice
Emergency Services
You can add the physical location of your call center and assign a phone number that can be used in case of an emergency. With this feature, an agent can make an emergency 911 call from any manual service in the call center.
The Emergency Services tab is added in Configure > Services > Call centers.
Enhancements
This section describes the enhancements in the following product categories.
Controls
Agent Monitoring
You can now individually enable or disable the call monitoring options (monitor, coach, or barge) on the monitor dashboard at the client level.
Data Management
Snippets in Script Designer
In Script Designer, you can now create snippets from within your scripts that can be stored and reused. You can also copy and use the pre-set snippets already available in the Scripter.
Screen-pop in U-CRM
You can configure a new Screen-pop widget in the U-CRM that displays the Call Flow information.
Ticketing Workflow
The Ticketing Workflow has the following enhancements:
- The system triggers a Workflow only when a certain field within a Ticket is updated.
- You can view the labels as shown as in Fields editor, and not as db fields.
- The Date data types now have the following options:
- Today
- Pick A Date
- Date based on 'days from today'
- You can see Due Date and Due Time options in the Work Queue.
- CC and BCC fields are available in Email.
Advanced Filter in Ticketing
You can now filter the list of tickets using the System and Custom Ticket Fields, Relative Date, Boolean Fields, Number Fields, String Fields, and different conditional search such as all the tickets with a 'Status of Open AND Assigned to Agent Team X' AND 'with an Opened Date of 10 Days Before Today OR Date Due Today', etc.
Insight
Non-Voice
Agent Chat
The single chat configuration that enabled or disabled the agent-to-agent chat and supervisor-to-agent chat is now separated.
Messagebook
You can now define which email and SMS messages your agents can use for each Agent Desktop when they send a transactional message or respond to an inbound message. To facilitate this enhancement, the following changes are made in the Agent Desktop window:
The Messagebook Enabled checkbox is removed.
The Messagebook tab is added. This tab enables you to add, only the deployed messages that are assigned to the following types of standard contact flows (that is, standard contact flows whose names begin with the following text):
- Messagebook
- SMS
If an Agent Desktop is not assigned any messagebook, agents an still communicate with your customers using free-form text.
SMS Response Code
To improve tracking, an automated or manual SMS response to any inbound SMS is now sent from the short/long code associated with the inbound SMS (that is, the code to which your customer sent the SMS).
Quality
Reports
Call Recording Report
The file name convention has been changed for the screen and call recordings that you can download. The new naming convention helps you to match the downloaded call and screen recordings with the records in the generated report. Following is the format of the new naming convention:
- MMddyyyy_hhmmss_a_phone.mp3
Also, a new search field - Filename Search - has been added in the Call Recording Report window.
Voice
Secure Payment Capture
DTMF tones have been changed to flat sounds, so screen and call recordings are no longer paused when an agent enters Advanced Secure Payment Capture. The screen and call recordings pause as normal in basic secure payment capture.
Segmentation
The Segmentation Editor includes the following enhancements:
- Each Segmentation row in the main page now includes a Delete icon.
- The Add or Delete Segmentation window uses the tabular view only.
- When adding or editing a new segment, the segment query editor appears in place of the graph.
Work Force Optimization (WFO)
The WFO tab is now restructured to include Speech IQ integration.
Support
The following changes about LiveVox Support are made in the LiveVox Portal:
- The LiveVox Support option is renamed as LiveVox Customer Care.
- The LiveVox Support window is renamed as LiveVox Customer Care.
- The Customer Support section in the LiveVox Support window is renamed as Customer Care.
- The email address in the LiveVox Support window is changed to customercare@livevox.com.
- The Toll-Free Support Line in the LiveVox Support window is renamed as Toll-Free Customer Care Line.
- The Report Problem option is deprecated.
- The Corporate Headquarters address is updated.