Contents
- Introduction
- General Information
- Contact Center Configuration Process
- Initial General Configuration
- Inbound Voice and Chat Service Configuration
- Outbound Campaign Configuration
- Email Service Configuration
- Users and Teams
- Overview
- Users
- Forwarding and Voicemail Operation
- Teams
- Agent Dashboard Metrics
- Roles
- Privileges
- Skill Levels
- Help Screens
- Directory
- Scenario Entries
- Scenarios
- Services and Campaigns
- Services and Campaigns Overview
- Properties Tab
- Assignments Tab
- Lists Tab
- Dispositions Tab
- Activity Tab
- Numbers Tab
- Service Level Tab
- Outbound Tab
- Results Tab
- Archive Tab
- Canned Tab
- Email Tab
- Pre-defined Dispositions
- Outbound - General
- Outbound - Calling Hours
- Outbound - Dial Rules
- Outbound - DNC
- Outbound - Diagnostics
- Activity Forms
- Lists
- Tasks
- Call Center Configuration
- General Settings
- Integration Accounts
- Knowledge Base
- Calendars
- Hours of Operation
- 1 State Calling Hours
- Auxiliary Skills
- Audio Treatments
- Shared Voice Segments
- Voicemail
- Omni-Channel Routing
- Chat Settings
- Email Settings
- Quality Management
- Reporting
- Security
- Appendices
State Calling Hours
Many countries regulate the hours during which businesses are allowed to contact consumers by phone. In some countries, such calling hours may also be regulated at the state level. To be compliant with such regulations during your outbound campaigns, you can define calling hours at the country level, and if necessary, for each state separately. Note that after you have configured the country and state calling hours, you must explicitly enable the Comply with State calling hours function in the calling hours of the campaigns that are supposed to be compliant.
- Note: The system provides a number of pre-defined entries for the US federal calling hours and state calling hours where they are known to be different (more restrictive) than the federal hours. This information is current as of the release of version 3.6 of the ServicePattern system (June of 2014). It is recommended that you periodically check the federal and state legislation regarding calling hours and update these entries as may be necessary.
To define calling hours, select the State Calling Hours option from the Call Center Configuration menu.
The State Calling Hours screen properties are described in the following table:
| State Calling Hours screen properties | |
|---|---|
| Country code | The code of the country to which this restriction applies. To define a restriction that will apply country-wide, specify the country code and leave the State name fields for this entry blank. |
| State name (as in calling records) | Name of the state/province to which the given restriction applies as defined in the records of your calling lists. At campaign run time, the calling hours will be checked against the calling record state information using this name. |
| State display name | Name of the state/province to which the given restriction applies as displayed in the title and the list view of the State Calling Hours screen. Note that you can only enter this name if you defined the State name (as in calling record) property. |
| Calling hours | Calling hours are configured in the same way as they are configured in Hours of Operation. The same rules apply in case of possible duplicates. If there is a gap in the definition of calling hours, the system will default to the country-wide setting for the corresponding days. |