Attended Transfers
After checking the main Ai agent platforms none seem to have the functionality for a receptionist agent to, take a call, screen it (ask who is calling, why Etc) then put them on hold and give a synopsis to the intended recipient of the call, ( up to this point all the platforms I have used can do this) but then ask the recipient if they would like to take the call and if not it will take the person off of hold and tell them the caller is unavailable, if they want to accept it, it will put the call straight through.
So far all the services I have used are able to do a warm transfer where they give a rundown of the caller to the recipient and then transfer it straight through, none that can take people back off of hold and tell the caller the person they were trying to reach was unavailable after conversing with the recipient.
For example if someone needs to reach the account handlers it will ring through to that department, if someone picks up the phone from that departmentand says that they are busy after the agent telling them who is calling (its low priority, no time, meeting soon etc) then the agent goes back to the person they had on hold to tell them the account handling department is not available.
If anyone has managed to work a solution for this please contact me but as far as I know this functionality isn’t possible yet.
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chris.harris
Nov 6, 2025
We really need our agent to announce the call and our staff member to reject it or if the transfer fails, or a voice message is on that the call between the agent and the client is not transferred. That is a conditional transfer. We act in professional services and this is common in our sector and something we need to resolve quick urgently
worker
May 19, 2025
We’ve had a devasting effect to our business the last week with SIP transfers going into production on V2 and calls continuing to be transcribed/recorded after the transfer completes. I can’t think of any use cases where that would ever be wanted and breaks almost every compliance regulation in the book. We had to move agents back to V1 to counteract….lost a few clients and scared a few potentials away because of this surprise change in how transfers were managed.
logan
May 20, 2025
That is unfortunate, I also can’t think of any reason for the calls continuing to be recorded post transfer, if there is some reason they have implemented it, there should at least be an opt-out. Thank you for the warning, I don’t think we’ll be using V2 agents on our system until this is resolved.
logan
May 16, 2025
Any alternative solutions to this problem would also be appreciated 🙂🫡