Glossary

Queue

A waiting line for inbound calls — VICIdial's in-group implements this.

Queue is the structure that holds inbound calls waiting for an agent. In VICIdial, queues are configured as In-Groups.

Each in-group has:

  • Routing strategy (round-robin, least-recent, skill-match)
  • Music on hold
  • Position announcements ("you are caller 3 in queue")
  • Maximum wait before fallback (overflow to voicemail / external)
  • Service level (e.g. 80% answered within 30 seconds)

Service level (SL)

Industry-standard metric: percentage of calls answered within X seconds. 80/30 = 80% answered within 30s.

VICIdial tracks SL per in-group + per shift.

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