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Release Notes > Engage Voice > April 2020

Release Notes

RingCentral Engage Voice | April 2020

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes for RingCentral Engage Voice.

VERSION 20.2.1

Release Date: April 2020

This article lists the updates for the RingCentral Engage Voice release for April 2020. RingCentral may update these Release Notes to document additional resolved and known issues.

The following Features are being released as part of 20.2.1. Please see tables below on how to enable them and full description with screenshots further below.

High-Quality Recording
Admin UI
IVR Studio Enhancements
Scripting Studio Enhancements
Engineering Improvements

These features are available to all customers. All customers are encouraged to start using engage.ringcentral.com.

Additionally, starting on 4/23/2020, you can benefit fully from the new RingCentral Office Integration with Engage Voice. Simply send an email to [email protected] and ask to be upgraded.

If you do not upgrade

Platform

URL*

V.ACD (AWS 80)

Old

portal.vacd.biz

portal.vacd.biz/agent

New

https://engage.ringcentral.com/login/admin?plat=aws80

https://engage.ringcentral.com/login/agent?plat=aws80

Virtual ACD (AWS 82)

Old

Portal.virtualacd.biz

portal.virtualacd.biz/agent

New

https://engage.ringcentral.com/login/admin?plat=aws82

https://engage.ringcentral.com/login/agent?plat=aws82

Features Updates you receive

High quality recording
Engineering Improvements

High quality recording
Engineering Improvements
Admin UI
IVR Studio enhancements
Scripting Studio enhancements
RingCentral-style UX

High quality recording
Engineering Improvements

High quality recording
Engineering Improvements
Admin UI
IVR Studio enhancements
Scripting Studio enhancements
RingCentral-style UX

Known Limitations

RingCentral-style UX not Available to white label customers

If you do not upgrade

You will benefit from the full range of features provided by the new RingCentral Office Integration with Engage Voice as shown in the table below:

Platform

New Engage Voice Platform (GA) integrated with RingCentral Office

URL

New (with an Office account and at least 1 Digital Line).

Engage.ringcentral.com

Feature Updates you receive

High quality recording
Engineering Improvements
Admin UI
IVR Studio enhancements
Scripting Studio enhancements
RingCentral-style UX
Login with RingCentral
User Import and Linking
Self-service phone number procurement and import to Engage Voice
Agents with RingCentral devices
On-net telephony

Known Limitations

RingCentral-style UX not Available to white label customers
PCI not available on New Engage Voice platform with Office account

General Availability: Starting 4/23/20, RingCentral Office integration with Engage Voice Platform is available for all customers, regardless of which platform version is currently being used.

To benefit from the Office integration, simply follow these steps:

1. Send an email to [email protected] and ask to be migrated.

If you want to learn more about RingCentral Office functionality (SaaS PBX, Video Meeting, Team Messaging), please indicate so in your email.

2. RingCentral Support will reach out to you and help you with the following:

RingCentral Support will set-up a new Office Account for you (1 Digital Line needs to be purchased)
Note that your agents can either use Virtual Extensions, or you can purchase full Digital Lines for them as well.
And if you already have a RingCentral Office account, it will be linked to your Engage Voice account.
Your Office account number will be associated with your Engage Voice account.
Your Engage Voice users will be imported to your Office account, and linked to your existing Engage Voice users to keep them in sync. Any further users can be added directly to your Office account.
Optional: Port the existing phone numbers to RingCentral Office and configure Office to use them with Engage Voice.

What's New

20.2.1 Feature Update

High-Quality Recording
Admin UI
IVR Studio Enhancements
Scripting Studio Enhancements
Engineering Improvements

20.1.2. Engage Voice Integration with RingCentral Office Feature Update

RingCentral-style User Experience
Login with RingCentral
Consistent URL for all users
User Import and Linking
Self-service phone number procurement and import to Engage Voice
Agents with RingCentral devices
On-net telephony

High-Quality Recording

Removed compression from audio files, while maintaining the same Bit Rate.
Improved quality recording is specifically useful for further post-call speech analytics (via partners).
This will be made available to customers only through support request

Admin UI

Updates to common terminology.

OLD

User Rights

NEW

User Roles

Schedule

Business Hours

Number Manager

Phone Numbers

IVR Studio Enhancements

OLD

NEW

Scripting Studio Enhancements

OLD

NEW

Engineering Improvements

The 20.2.1 Release includes bug fixes and improvements to Engage Voice software.

RingCentral-style User Experience

Agent and Admin UI have both been redesigned making it more modern and intuitive.
Admin menus have been moved to a left navigation bar. Agent call control iconography has been modernized and brought up-to-date.
Make navigating through the UI easier, and more natural across RingCentral products.
If you want to preview the UI changes, you may check them here: User Experience Updates – March 2020

Leverage RingCentral Office credentials (email and password) to log in to Engage Voice (Agents and Admins). For users with dual persona (Agent and Admins), offer a choice for which persona they wish to use to log in.
Increase usability for all users by consolidating a single set of credentials, and simplifying administration of credentials for Admins.

Consistent URL for all users

Utilize a single, consistent URL for all users within the organization (Agents or Admin) to log in. Offering users with dual persona the choice of whether they want to log in as an Agent or as an Admin.
Simplify the login process, and improve usability

User Import and Linking

Enable Admins to search and import RingCentral Office users as Agents in Engage Voice.
Guided import process with bulk operation allows Admins to keep information consistent and eliminate errors.
Simplify management of agents, and save Admins time when adding new Agents to Engage Voice.

Self-service phone number procurement and import to Engage Voice

Select and purchase 800 and local numbers online using RingCentral Office and automatically activate them for use with Engage Voice. Enable Admins to import phone numbers to Engage Voice, assign them and make use of them immediately.
Save time and simplify the process for Admins.

Agents with RingCentral devices

Allow Agents to take Engage Voice calls on all supported RingCentral Office devices. During login, agents can select the “Use my RingCentral Office extension” option to automatically recognize the extension, enabling agents to use any of their RingCentral supported hard phone or softphone devices to receive and place Engage Voice calls.
Improve usability during login.

On-net telephony

Allow Agents to take Engage Voice calls on all supported RingCentral Office devices. During login, agents can select the “Use my RingCentral Office extension” option to automatically recognize the extension, enabling agents to use any of their RingCentral supported hard phone or softphone devices to receive and place Engage Voice calls.
Improve usability during login.