Transfer email interactions
Transfer an email interaction routed by AWA or CCaaS to another agent or queue when the interaction needs to be handled by a different team or individual.
Before you begin
Role required: sn_customerservice_agent
About this task
- For AWA -routed interactions routed by AWA, only available agents and AWA queues appear in the transfer options. When transferring to a queue, AWA routing rules apply to assign the interaction to an eligible agent. When transferring to a specific agent, the interaction is directly assigned.
- For CCaaS-routed interactions, only queues and agents configured in the external queues section appear in the transfer options.
- The full email thread and interaction history are preserved on transfer.
- The transferring agent's capacity is released on transfer. The receiving agent's capacity is blocked on assignment.
Procedure
- Navigate to .
-
Select the List icon (
).
- In the Interactions section, select My Interactions.
- Open an email interaction routed by AWA or CCaaS.
- Select Transfer email from the options.
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In the Transfer Email window, select one of the following:
- To transfer to a queue, select the Queues tab, search for the target queue, and select the arrow (
) icon.
- To transfer to an agent, select the Agents tab, search for the target agent, and select the arrow (
) icon.
- To transfer to a queue, select the Queues tab, search for the target queue, and select the arrow (
Result
- A message confirms the transfer (for example, This email has been transferred to Queue name).
- For interactions routed by AWA, the interaction is assigned to the target agent or routed to the target queue according to AWA routing rules.
- For CCaaS-routed interactions, the interaction record is updated in both CCaaS and the instance.
- The transferring agent's ownership and capacity are released. The receiving agent's capacity is blocked on assignment. Transfer details including source, target, and timestamp are logged in the Work Item table.