What is Omni-Channel Salesforce? Omni-Channel is a Salesforce feature designed for Customer Service and Console applications that automates the routing of various work items, such as Leads and Cases, to agents. It ensures that work items are assigned to agents based on their capacity, priority, skill set, and other criteria. Features of Omni-Channel Benefits Omni-Channel in Salesforce Enhanced Omni-Channel Setting Up and Using Omni-Channel Key Differences: Multichannel vs. Omni-Channel Route Work with Omni-Channel Omni-Channel is a flexible, customizable feature, and you can configure it declaratively—that is, without writing code. Use Omni-Channel to manage the priority of work items, which makes it a cinch to route important work items to agents quickly. Manage your agents’ capacity to take on work items so that they’re given only the number of assignments that they can handle. You can also define which agents can work on different types of assignments. For example, you can create one group of agents to respond to leads and sales inquiries, and another group that helps customers with support questions. Omni-Channel routes work requests to the most available and qualified support agents in the app. You can also provide real-time operational intelligence to support supervisors with Omni Supervisor. Agents no longer have to pick and choose work assignments manually from a queue, which saves everyone in your call center time, effort, and brainpower. Because it’s easier for agents to work on their assignments, they can assist your customers faster and more effectively and close assignments more quickly. Routing logic is applied when work is assigned to an owner. If field values on the work item are changed after the item is routed, the routing logic isn’t reapplied. Omni-Channel is supported in both Lightning Experience (recommended) and Salesforce Classic. You can run Omni-Channel in both standard and console apps. Route Work with Omni-Channel Use Omni-Channel to route work items to queues, agents, skills, and even Einstein Bots (on supported channels). Depending on your business needs, you can use different ways to route work, including Omni-Channel flows. Omni-Channel routes work based on the defined routing logic. When an agent is assigned a work item, they can accept it to begin working on it or decline it. When a work item is declined, Omni-Channel releases the agent’s capacity consumed by the work item. But the declined work item remains owned by the declining agent until the work is routed again. If the agent declines a work item or doesn’t accept the work item in the specified time period, Omni-Channel doesn’t try to route that work item to that agent again. If an agent accepts the work, they can transfer the work to another agent. NOTE We recommend using Enhanced Omni-Channel. Enhanced Omni-Channel features better and more extensive experiences for agents and supervisors than Standard Omni-Channel, and future Omni-Channel features are developed on Enhanced Omni-Channel. See Compare Standard and Enhanced Omni-Channel and Enable Omni-Channel. Set Up Omni-Channel Set up Omni-Channel to route any type of incoming work item to the most qualified, available support agents in your call center. Omni-Channel integrates seamlessly into both console and standard apps. NOTE We recommend using Enhanced Omni-Channel. Enhanced Omni-Channel features better and more extensive experiences for agents and supervisors than Standard Omni-Channel, and future Omni-Channel features are developed on Enhanced Omni-Channel. See Compare Standard and Enhanced Omni-Channel and Enable Omni-Channel. Test Your Omni-Channel Implementation Now that you’ve got Omni-Channel set up and enabled, test your implementation to make sure it’s working correctly. To test your implementation, route a work item to yourself. Sit back and relax. You’ll see an incoming request notification in Omni-Channel within a few seconds. Manage Agents, Queues, and Skills with Omni Supervisor Manage agents, queues, and skills in Omni Supervisor. Get to Know the Omni Supervisor TabsSupervisors can check the health of their call center in real time using the Agents, Queues Backlog, Assigned Work, and Skills Backlog tabs in Omni Supervisor. These tabs let supervisors see which work items are open and active, who’s assigned to what, and other details such as open capacities and average wait times for customers. Provide Customer Support for Real-Time Channels with Omni-Channel Service customers using their preferred means of real-time communication, including phone, messaging, or chat in standard and enhanced channels. You can accept and manage these types of support requests in Omni-Channel. If needed, while helping a customer, you can reach out to your supervisor to get support. Use the Omni-Channel Component to Work with CustomersTo begin receiving inbound requests from customers or to make outbound contacts, log in to the Omni-Channel component and update your status to indicate that you’re available. If you don’t see the Omni-Channel component in your app, check with your admin. Use the Omni-Channel Component to Work with Customers To begin receiving inbound requests from customers or to make outbound contacts, log in to the Omni-Channel component and update your status to indicate that you’re available. If you don’t see the Omni-Channel component in your app, check with your admin. When you mark your status as available in Omni-Channel, you begin receiving work requests, like phone calls. Work items assigned to you appear in Omni-Channel until you complete, transfer, or decline them. TIP By default, phone calls are taken through the same speakers and microphone your system device uses. To take calls through different audio devices, click the Settings icon on the Omni-Channel component and choose your preferred devices under Input and Output. The devices you choose are only set only for your current browser. For example, if you choose a device for Google Chrome, that device isn’t set for Mozilla Firefox. This feature isn’t available in Apple Safari browser. If you set up a service channel to use the tab-based capacity model, Omni-Channel determines agent capacity based on the open tabs. Each tab is a session for a specific work item. To close the work item and remove it from your Omni-Channel instance, close the tab for that item. The tab-based capacity model releases an agent’s capacity
