Gorgias Voice Integration

How it works

The Gorgias Voice integration allows you to make and receive phone calls directly from your Gorgias dashboard.

This integration was previously named 'Phone', but as we have prepared many special updates for you in the near future, this naming convention is a bit more fitting!

Setup instructions

To install a new phone number and voice integration in your Gorgias helpdesk please follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Voice.

   

2. Click 'Add Voice Integration'.

   

3. Find the location and area code that you would like to create a new number in, or add an existing phone number.

   

   Please note that at this stage, you can only create US, Canadian, UK, French, and Australian phone numbers, however, more regions will be added soon!
4. Feel free to give your new voice integration a title now and choose its function (this can be a standard phone number or an IVR for example).
5. Once you are done with your setup, click 'Add Voice Integration'.

You now have a new Gorgias voice integration! It will be automatically associated with your phone number.

Your new phone number can now be managed from the page shown below:

Customization

You can customize the way the Gorgias voice integration behaves including call recording, redirects outside business hours, and more.

To do this you'll need to make changes to your Preferences:

1. Click on your voice integration, as this will take your 'Preferences' menu.
2. Use the tick boxes to enable/disable:
   1. Inbound Call - Start recording automatically
   2. Inbound Call - Send calls to voicemail outside business hours
   3. Outbound Call - Start recording automatically
3. If you click on 'Manage Phone Number' the button will take you to a new settings page for that specific number.
4. Click 'Save changes'once you're happy with your setup.

   

Call Recording

The calls are automatically recorded based on the settings from (phone) integration. The user will have the UI button to start/pause the call recording for ongoing calls.

 

Managing Live Call Recordings

• After 6 months, call recordings will be automatically deleted.
• Once deleted, the Call ended event should show the following message:

Auto-created elements

Each time a new phone number is created in Gorgias a number of additional elements are automatically created in your account.

• View: Phone - (xxx) xxx-xxxx

  

• Rule: Routing rule - (xxx) xxx-xxxx
  If you wish to set up round-robin assignment within a team please follow these steps.

  
  

• Team: Phone team - (xxx) xxx-xxxx

  

By default, this team will include the user who created the phone number. Please remember to add any agents who will be handling phone calls to this team in order for calls to be successfully routed to them.

Team-based routing (round-robin assignment)

1. Navigate to Settings > Ticket Assignment.
2. Ensure auto-assignment is enabled.
3. Ensure 'phone' is added as a channel for this setting.

   

Forwarding

If you have an existing phone number you wish to keep, you may wish to set up call forwarding.

This requires you to create a phone number in Gorgias and forward calls to this number. You can currently only create US, Canadian, UK, France, and Australian phone numbers in Gorgias so you would need to use one of those numbers for forwarding. To set this up please contact your current service provider and forward calls to this number.

Please follow your providers' instructions on how to set up call forwarding correctly:

• Aircall

• RingCentral
• Zendesk Talk
• Google Voice
• CloudTalk
• Grasshopper
• Nextiva
• Dialpad
• GoToConnect
• AT&T Business
• Microsoft 365 Business

For known limitations with forwarding, please refer to this guide here.

UK, Australian, and French numbers

You can now create United Kingdom, Australian, or French phone numbers as well.

UK/Australian numbers

To acquire a UK/Australian number please follow the instructions:

1. Visit Settings → Integrations → Phone → Create a phone number.
2. Then select your desired country, fill out your address information and click Add phone number.

France

1. To request a French number, please submit an international phone number request.
2. Once you have submitted the request, our team will manually purchase the number for you. Once done, you will receive an email notification confirming that the number has been acquired.

Numbers supported

For now, we support Local for Australia, Local/Mobile/National for the United Kingdom, and Local/Mobile numbers for France.

We will iteratively be adding other countries based on demand. If you are interested in creating a number for other countries, please submit it as feedback to our public roadmap.

Voicemail

Voicemail is a pre-determined message that will play when an agent is not available. This could be either when the number rings out, all agents are busy or if it's outside your business hours.

To set up voicemail:

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Voice.
2. Click on your voice integration.
3. Select 'Voicemail' from the menu bar.

There are currently 2 options to set your voicemail greeting: uploading a recording or using text to speech.

To use a recording:

1. Select 'Insert Voice Recording'.
2. Click 'Select file'.
3. Select the file from your device.
   1. (Optional) Select 'Allow caller to leave voicemail'.
4. Click 'Save changes'.

Or, to use text to speech:

1. Select 'Text to Speech'.
2. Type out your greeting.
   1. (Optional) Select 'Allow caller to leave voicemail'.
3. Click 'Save changes'.

Greeting Message

The greeting message is a pre-determined message that will play before making the connection to the agent. The message is going to be played only for inbound calls.

To set up a greeting message:

1. Navigate to Settings > Integrations > Voice.
2. Click on your voice integration.
3. Select 'Greeting Message' from the menu bar.

There are currently 2 options to set your voicemail greeting: uploading a recording or using text to speech.

To use a recording:

1. Select 'Insert Voice Recording'.
2. Click 'Select file'.
3. Select the file from your device.
4. Click 'Save changes'.

Or, to use text to speech:

1. Select 'Text to Speech'.
2. Type out your greeting.
3. Click 'Save changes'.

Using Voice

Receiving calls

To receive calls in Gorgias, agents must be available. This means that their availability status must be toggled to on.

This is the interface you will see when receiving calls from a client as well as when you answer the call:

Making outbound calls

Calling from the customer's profile

The easiest way to make a call is by clicking on the phone number on the customer profile:

• Once you click on the phone, Gorgias starts an outbound call and redirect to a new phone ticket Outgoing call
• This will automatically create a new ticket with the outbound call regardless of the current screen that the agent is on

Customer phone number can be accessed both via ticket and/or customer page

Calling any number

You can also call any number, it does not have to be linked to the customer profile.

In order to do that, please create a new ticket → change the ticket channel to outbound call → Enter the desired number → Click on Call.

You can also find a quick video explaining how to do this here:

Setting up an Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Gorgias IVR is a separate phone number, which provides the caller with a menu of customizable options to either forward the call to a specific phone number or play a message. Callers can respond to IVR menus by selecting the 0-9 keys on their phone's dial pad, which will trigger an action.

1. If you've set up your new voice integration as an IVR, you will find it as shown below:

1. In the IVR settings page, you can add a greeting and then an IVR Menu message (text-to-speech/mp3).
2. You can create up to 10 (0-9) responses, of which you can select one of the actions listed above via dropdown.

1. Click on 'Save Changes' to activate your IVR.

IVR for non-Gorgias numbers

If an IVR phone call does not get forwarded to a Gorgias number, it will need to create a ticket in the app.

• If voicemail is left, then create a standard voicemail ticket
• If message is played, then show the following events (on left = text-to-speech, on-right = audio recording)

  

Number formatting

The phone number needs to be in the format +1 234-235-3455 in order for Gorgias to locate the ticket in the customer search. When entering phone numbers, please make sure to add the number in the following format, otherwise it will not be possible to make a call:

Forward incoming calls to agents' phone numbers

Using call forwarding, you can take Gorgias calls on any physical device, including mobile phones or landlines.

• Call forwarding works on an agent-by-agent basis. This means that each individual agent can add a specific number to forward calls to. When they are rung in the helpdesk, rather than calling them in the browser, the agent will receive the call on the number they added.
• If the call is assigned to a team and an agent declines or misses the call on their mobile device, the call will continue to be forwarded to the next agent

Activating call forwarding

1. Go to your profile page:

1. In Forward calls to an external number section, please enable the toggle Enable call forwarding and specify the desired number, then press Save preferences.

1. Now all calls for tickets where this agent is assigned are gonna be forwarded to this physical phone number, regardless if it was assigned manually or with auto-assignment.

Managing tickets

Phone tickets do not have messages, they only have actions. Therefore, to order your views, please use `Ticket created` and `Ticket updated`.

Additional features

Available now:

• Create a local or toll-free phone number in Gorgias (USA, Canada)
• Create a phone number in Gorgias for France, UK and Australia - see more here
• Make and receive calls in Gorgias
• Receive and listen to voicemails
• Voicemail (customer recording and text to speech)
• Automatically recognize Shopify customers
• Round-robin incoming calls for agents within a team
• Accept forwarded calls from Aircall
• Record and listen to calls
• Porting (Pro+)
• IVR
• Customer greetings

Future releases

• Call queueing
• Call holding
• Call transferring
• Custom voicemail for outside business hours
• Multi-language text-to-speech
• Wrap-up time
• Advanced phone statistics
• SMS

Keep up to date with product releases in our public ProductBoard!

FAQs

Phone integration FAQs can be found in this guide here.

Of course, our Support Team is also here to answer any questions that you may have about our native phone integration both via live chat and email at [email protected]