Benefits of an IVR system

Below are some reasons why enterprises all around the world are using Interactive voice response technology and why you should consider it too.

Paint yourself a professional image with IVR

Unlike large business enterprises, small businesses do not have the leverage to hire big sales team or support staff to offer assistance. Instead, they could use this smart technology to pitch in the image of a big enterprise to their audience.

Empowering your customer service representatives

This smart technology enhances the experiences of your target audience by routing calls to the most efficient agents. You indirectly empower your agents to solve customer queries and gain confidence. They provide solutions and perform better when they receive great feedback from their customers. Also, the self-service option provided by Interactive voice response technology allows customers to solve half of their issues. Like for e.g. if a customer wants to get his last transaction details, the self-service menu equips the caller to gain information on the same. This is done via the system and without agent interference. This, on the other hand, frees up your agent’s time and doesn’t bother them to work on monotonous queries raised by customers.

Reduction in operational costs

Being one of the smartest cloud-supported means of communication, this conversational technology doesn’t need a human receptionist. It has the power and ability to answer, direct and transfer calls automatically. This ensures that you do not waste your important budgets on hiring a receptionist to do the job. It is easy to use, affordable and smart technology which will reap you a higher ROI for sure.

Seamless communication

Longer call queue and hold time could irritate any customer. They call for support and rather get stuck unnecessarily. This increases the tension and leads to frustration. With IVR, your callers can get support via self-help options or immediate call routing.

Fewer errors with IVR

Unlike traditional systems, where a receptionist will pick up the call and then transfer calls manually to a department could lead to more errors. During high call volumes, the whole process is comparatively more prone to mistakes, call miss and mishandling. All this result in lowering customer experience to a great extent. IVR, on the other hand, automates the entire process, makes call handling smooth and routes callers to the right agent according to their information input.

Multiple uses of IVR

So coming on straight to the ingenious uses of IVR, this technology is helpful in several cases. It equips enterprises to collect and gather useful insights, take feedback, run campaigns, send reminders and pass on other information to users.

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This blog will decode what is IVR and how you can use it to communicate.

Defining Interactive voice response(IVR)?

We all have called on customer support numbers to get help for the issues we face. Press 1(one) for Hindi, press 2(two) for English. This is a computerised voice which helps callers make a selection and then get their call diverted to the right department. This is what we call as Interactive voice response(IVR).

In other words, IVR is a self-service technology offered by Cloud telephony which allows incoming customer calls to navigate through a phone menu. Based on the selection made on the phone menu, the system then redirects the call to a human agent for further problem-solving.

There are 2 types of IVR’s used by companies.

• Inbound IVR: When any incoming customer call comes and the IVR then greets the caller.
• Outbound IVR: This is typically used to collect feedback, computerised calls made to offer information and promotions, call blasts etc.

How does IVR benefit businesses?

So it’s quite clear that an IVR technology solves communication hassles and helps customer connect with the right agent. Let’s look at some more impactful reasons for a business to invest in IVR Technology.

• Immediate support:
  An efficient IVR system assists callers to get immediate support/first call resolution. This results in increased customer satisfaction and happy customers.

• Cost-Saving:
  IVR helps in cost reduction by effectively interacting with callers on the beginner level and then diverting their calls to agents if necessary. Callers can solve their problems with the self-help menu options that IVR provides. Moreover, it makes calls to a list of customer in one go to offer information which is hard to do for a human agent. It saves company cost by working standalone for the more monotonous work and only passing the more tedious tasks to human agents.

• Offers scalability:
  Unlike traditional phone systems, IVR technology allows enterprises to scale and descale according to customer demands and market trends. So Interactive voice response offers flexibility to work accordingly. Indirectly it allows spending budgets only when required.

Implementing an Interactive Voice Response system right away.

The interactive voice response system gets implemented in a plethora of ways which serve a variety of purposes. IVR brings many benefits to enterprises, its customer service representatives and its customers. Here’s how you can create an IVR experience which your customers will love.

• Your first impression will always be your last impression. Make sure you always greet your incoming callers with a pleasant welcome message.

• Speaking of an IVR menu, it should be clearly defined, simple to understand and short. Use simplistic & few menu options which could guide your customers.

• Make sure your IVR connects the customer with the right agent. The process should be simpler without any hassle. Hassles provide customers with bad experience.

• Always consider the caller’s preferences. For instance, a customer chooses English as his preferred language. Make sure the customer hears only the language preferred in his following calls.

• Use a soft pleasant hold music/ tone. Along with the hold music, appreciate your callers for giving their important time.

• If there is a new promotion going on and you want to promote it during the hold time, be careful while doing it. Always do it in a non-intrusive way.

Personalise your customer’s experience when they call you for inquiries and support. IVR is a modern yet classic way to communicate and interact with your callers seamlessly.
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