Engage Digital | Intro to channel groups
Last updated on July 7, 2022
Channel groups allow administrators to assign different agent capacities — the number of conversations an agent can process simultaneously — to multiple channels at once. The platform uses channel groups and their configurations to route messages to agents in Routing mode.
Components of channel groups
After configuring your channels, you must assign each of them to a channel group to allow agents to use Routing mode. By default, the platform creates two channel groups when Routing mode is enabled: Async and Realtime. (You can change these names, along with the rest of the settings.) If you like, you can add more channel groups to your account.
A channel group defines the default capacity and maximum capacity of any agent who is processing conversations from the channels included in that group.
- Default capacity: The maximum number of conversations that an agent can process while still being able to manually request more messages.
- Max capacity: The maximum number of conversations that an agent can process at once.
The platform may still route messages to agents who are absent or disconnected at a given moment. To be more efficient and responsive, you can define an interaction timeout that applies to all messages from the channels included in a channel group. The interaction timeout tells the platform how long a message should stay in the queue of an agent who is absent or disconnected. If the interaction timeout expires and the agent is still away, the platform will route the message to another agent.
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