Customer Mashes Up Phonetag, OnSIP, and Zendesk: Turns Voicemail to Text Support Tickets

This is a guest blog by LiveAir Networks

The Background: LiveAir Networks Provides Cutting-Edge IT Solutions

When LiveAir Networks of Smithville, Texas wanted to improve their client call handling experience for both new and existing clients, they engineered a custom call routing solution to integrate calls into their digital workflow, powered by OnSIP.

Since 2004, LiveAir Networks has provided cutting edge Internet and data solutions to homes and businesses throughout 2,400 square miles of Bastrop, Fayette, and Lee counties of Texas over their privately owned and operated Metro Ethernet network. They have recently launched business class local telephone services, powered by the OnSIP Hosted PBX platform, in conjunction with their own inbound services (due to their rurality).

The Problem: Sifting Through Support Voicemail

The problem for LiveAir was that their busy or no answer calls were coming into a central voicemail box. And, it took staff time to triage through voicemail, transcribe the voicemail by hand, save as a ticket, and route it to the appropriate personnel. In many cases, it took multiple hours for an employee to complete this process, and many calls weren’t even discovered by the appropriate personnel until the next day after they came in.

“As we grow, it is imperative that we take care of our clients in the most efficient method possible,” said James W. Breeden, CEO of LiveAir. “Clients submitting service requests online were being served rapidly, but clients that were calling us on the phone were falling through the cracks, a situation that was just unacceptable.”

The Solution: Add OnSIP + Phonetag + Zendesk

To solve this problem, LiveAir integrated OnSIP’s hosted PBX system applications for custom call routing, attendant menus, and conferencing, with voicemail transcription services by Phonetag. These transcriptions are then automatically directed into the appropriate technician groups in Zendesk, LiveAir’s service request tracking system.

“The new system is going to ensure that when a client leaves us a request via phone that our technicians and client service agents are able to handle the call quickly and efficiently. We no longer have to wait for human intervention to check voicemail and route the request.” Breeden said.

LiveAir Networks is an OnSIP partner/agent and provides their own inbound SIP trunking and DID services in locales/rate centers where OnSIP does not provide native porting and inbound trunking services to allow its clients to take advantage of the innovative OnSIP PBX feature set and platform. You can check out LiveAir’s portfolio of products and services at www.liveair.net.

OnSIP Note: As you may know, we've recently announced an integration with Phonetag and OnSIP. As mentioned in this blog, Zendesk is a hosted customer support application that's very useful in organizing customer support tickets. If you're interested in the integration mentioned in this blog, stay tuned for an upcoming "How-To" series where we'll tell you step-by-step how to set this up.

About LiveAir Networks

LiveAir Networks is one of the Central Texas region’s leading technical services providers. Since 2003, LiveAir has invested almost $750,000 in its Central Texas infrastructure covering over 2400 square miles of Bastrop, Fayette and Lee counties of Texas including the towns of Smithville, Giddings, and La Grange. LiveAir’s privately owned and operated Metro Ethernet network delivers rural customers unparalleled client service and connectivity that ensures speed, reliability, and performance. With LiveAir, businesses and residents alike can count on robust broadband, voice, information technology, and Internet-based solutions created and supporting by uncompromising technical experts.