Nextiva Contact Center: Creating Users

Administrators handle user management in Nextiva Contact Center. Different users have distinct roles, interactions with objects, and permissions within the system. The three primary roles in Nextiva Contact Center are Agents, Supervisors, and Administrators. 

  • Agents: Agents interact directly with customers and other users via various workitems such as Chat, Email, Phone, and SMS. They can be assigned to specific campaigns and queues, assisting customers with any inquiries or issues.
  • Supervisors: Supervisors oversee agents, manage queues, outbound lists, and workitems. They can monitor workitems in real time, assist agents on live workitems, and generate dashboards and reports for performance tracking.
  • Administrators: Administrators have the authority to create users, campaigns, queues, recordings, voicemail, and several other system settings.

Creating Users

Search for the User icon in the Options Menu. Click Plus (+) to the right of the Search field. Enter the required information under each tab.

Avatar Tab

The uploaded photo will be visible to other users in the company directory and the list of users. To upload a photo (less than 100KB), click the default Avatar and select the image.

Toggle Button

Description

Enabled

If enabled, the user can log in to Nextiva Contact Center.

Disable Email Notification

By default, an email will be sent once a user is created to create a password. If disabled, the email will not be sent.

Information Tab

Enter the user details under the information tab, including the option to reset the user’s password.

Field Name

Description

First Name

The first name of the user.

Last Name

The last name of the user.

Email

A valid email address for the user. The email address must be valid, as this address will be used to send the user a link for the creation process. The email address will also be used to send the user voicemails. 

Extension

The user’s phone extension. This is important if your call flow will allow callers to enter an extension number to reach a particular user.

User Profile Identifier

Assign the user a profile (Administrator, Agent, Supervisor). The profile determines the user’s access. You can only select one profile for each user. 

Language Identifier

The user’s preferred language (English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish).

Time zone

The user’s time zone. 

Password

Create the password for the user to log in to the system.

NOTE: An email is sent to the user to create a password, but a supervisor can use this field to overwrite that password.

Welcome Prompt

The welcome prompt is played to the agent when the user logs in. The prompt can be uploaded here manually or in the user profile.

Telephony Tab

The Telephony tab is where to configure how the system will communicate with the user.

Field Name

Description

Use Endpoint

If enabled and set up to use an endpoint, there will be a pop-up to select the phone device attached to their work area.

Phone Type

Where you configure the phone type (PSTN, SIP, and WebRTC), the user will use when making or receiving calls. 

Number

Your PSTN phone number so that the system knows where to reach you. 

 

NOTE: Users can use multiple devices, one being their PSTN.

Work Offhook

If enabled, the system will call you once and keep you active throughout the day. Available for SIP, WebRTC, and PSTN phone types. This is useful for predictive, so the user doesn’t need to be called repeatedly.

Confirm Dial

If enabled, Nextiva displays a “Confirm Dialing” pop-up with the phone number. Click inside the box to dial and click outside to cancel.

Twilio Edge ID

Allows you to choose the closest Twilio node to you from the drop-down list.

Edge Option Tab

Field Name

Description

Twilio Edge ID

For calls that do not go through Twilio, selecting a specific Edge closest to the agent’s physical location will improve the quality of their calls. On Twilio, it is detected automatically.

Region

The region assigned to the agent (if applicable).

ACD Tab

The ACD (Automatic Call Distributor) is an automatic workitem distributor offering workitems to agents.

Field Name/Toggle Button

Description

Allow ACD Changes

If users can change their ACD settings, they can enable or disable Auto Accept Workitem, Auto Login to ACD, and ACD Login Status. The user can also decide which queues to log into and which channels to log into. By default, Allow ACD Changes is disabled.

Auto Accept Workitem

If enabled, the user will no longer be required to accept ACD workitems. As soon as the work item is offered, the workitem will become active. A user working OffHook and has auto-accept enabled will connect to each subsequent call without having to accept or pick up the phone. 

Auto Login to ACD

If enabled, this user will be automatically logged into the ACD every time they log in to Nextiva Contact Center. If Auto Login To ACD is not enabled, the user must take the extra step to log in to the ACD and select a queue, channels, and status.

ACD Login Status

This allows you to choose the status of this user when they first log in to the ACD. For example, if you want the user to start receiving workitems immediately, you would select an available status. 

Ring Phone on ACD Offer

If enabled, users with this profile’s phone will ring when receiving ACD offers.

Disposition Tab

At the end of every workitem, a user can choose a disposition. The dispositions can be assigned by campaign and by workitem type. Dispositions allow the user to classify the workitem.

Field Name

Description

Disable Disposition

If enabled, the system will auto disposition every workitem.

Auto Disposition

Disposition workitems automatically from an agent’s screen when they are in wrap-up for an amount of time established in the “Wait time before Auto Disposition” option below.

Wait Time before Auto disposition

The time to wait before a terminated workitem is auto dispositioned.

Enable Disposition Notification

The pop-up warning notifies them they haven’t dispositioned a workitem.

Delay Notification after

How long to wait before providing the Disposition Notification.

Screen Recording Tab

If enabled, when an agent is on a call, and the call is being recorded, Nextiva will record the agent’s screen and keep a video recording of what was happening on the agent’s screen during the call.

Compliance Tab

The Compliance tab ensures compliance with company policy, tenant consent, and call hours.

Toggle Button

Description

Legal Hours

If enabled, every time this user attempts to make an outbound call, the system will verify if the area code is being dialed within the list of hours allowed to be called.

Tenant Consent

If enabled, the system will verify if the phone number exists in the local consent database. The system will warn the user if the consent type is set to DNC, Opt-out, or reassigned.

Verify Consent on SMS

If enabled, the phone number receiving the SMS must be explicitly created in the Consent table with opt-in or opt-in SMS. If Verify Consent on SMS is disabled, the SMS will be sent without verifying against the consent table.

Disable Start Recording

If enabled, the user cannot start recording a call.

Disable Stop Recording

If enabled, the user cannot stop recording a call.

Messaging Tab

Set up a pseudonym and custom message that will be displayed to customers via chat. 

Field Name

Description

Psuedonym

A fictitious name will be displayed to customers when they chat with this user. The system will display the user’s first name if no pseudonym is entered. 

Chat Welcome Message

A message will be displayed to customers when this user accepts a new chat. 

Shelf AI Agent Assist Tab

If you have an integration with Shelf AI, you need to have the ID of the user in the configuration that is using Shelf AI. If you have live transcription enabled, it gets passed to Shelf AI, which can pass recommendations on how to respond to the user. This can be done with any workitem with live transcription enabled.

Email Signature Tab

Add a signature that will automatically be added to outbound email workitems. 

Voicemail Tab

Field Name

Description

Voicemail Greeting

You can listen to the user’s voicemail greeting by selecting the Speaker icon. Click the ellipses to upload a voicemail greeting for this user.

Voicemail Drop

The default voicemail message. 

Default Disposition On Voicemail

The disposition is used when a customer reaches the agent’s voicemail.

Transcription Tab

Field Name

Description

Enable Realtime Transcription

Integration with third-party services like Deepgram and Google Generative AI can be enabled or disabled from here.

Percentage of the maximum minutes

Percentage of transcription minutes assigned to this user from the total tenant minutes.

Directory Tab

Choose to hide the user from the Auto Attendant so customers cannot find their direct line via IVR. You can also hide the user from the company directory, so they are not visible to other users on the account.

OAuth Sign-In Tab

OAuth allows Nextiva to grab roles and queues from an external system following the OAuth protocol. 

Field Name/Toggle Button

Description

Profile Assignment From External Role

The fieldname in the external system where the role of the user is found.

Queues Assignments

The fieldname in the external system where the list of queues the user is assigned to is found.

Tracing Tab

Enable logging for troubleshooting purposes. 

Toggle Button

Description

Enable Client Side Logging

If enabled, the browser will display more data in the JavaScript console. 

Enable Server Side Logging

The server logs will capture more data about this user’s transactions if enabled. 

Home Tabs Tab

Assign home tabs for the user to access quickly. Click Plus (+) and select the home tabs to assign. Click OK.  

Queues Tab

Assign the user to queues by clicking Plus (+) and selecting the queues to assign. Click OK.  

Skills Tab

Assign skills to the user by clicking Plus (+) and selecting the skills to assign. Click OK.  

Supervised Queues Tab

Select queues that a user will supervise by clicking Plus (+) and selecting the queues to manage. Click OK.  

Supervised Users in Queue Tab

To supervise all the users in a selected queue, click Plus (+) and select the queue. Click OK.  

Supervised Users Tab

To select individual users for the user to supervise, click Plus (+) and select the users. Click OK.  

Supervisors Tab

The Supervisor’s tab is a list of users that are supervising a user. Click Plus (+) and select the users you want to supervise the user. Click OK.  

Supervised Campaigns Tab

The Supervised Campaigns tab allows you to select campaigns for a user to supervise. Click Plus (+) and choose the campaigns. Click OK.  

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