Personnel and team management

AlterCPA Moe allows you to conduct all the work yourself. However, it is much more pleasant to add the entire friendly team of your company to CRM. You can grant access to your employees, divide them into teams with appointed leaders, distribute offers between teams and collect team statistics.

User creation

Work with employee accounts is carried out in the "Personnel" subsection of the "Control" section. To add an employee you should enter his name in the form at the top of the page and click "Add". On the next page you can specify the email and the password for the user, his internal phone number and access rights.

The employee can log in either using the email and the password that were specified by you, or using a special login link. The second option is much more convenient because the user will be able to set the email and password himself. To get a login link you should save the employee's settings and click on the "Login" button in the list.

User access rights are determined by several parameters:

• The "Ban" checkbox completely prohibits user access to CRM both at the interface level and at the API level. It is recommended to get rid of former employees using this checkbox instead of deleting the user.
• The checkbox "Company Administrator" gives the user access to the sections of company management, order analytics and warehouse accounting.
• The user team defines the extended access rights which are described below.
• The "Team Leader" checkbox allows the user to analyze the statistics of his team and manage the users who belong to it, including adding them, changing passwords and blocking.

Managing teams

Work with teams is carried out from the "Teams" subsection of the "Control" section. In this section, you can create access teams for your users. To add a team you should enter its name in the form and click "Add".

We strongly recommend to create at least one call center team with "Calling mode" and access to orders in the new-recall-hold priority. Users without a team will have access to a complete list of all company orders.

Team settings

The team determines the level of user access to company orders. Access to call center orders works in two main modes: priority of statuses and only one status. The "Read-only" option will hide the orders in the "calling" mode. These orders are unavaliable for work.

Working in a single status mode the operator will receive only new orders, recalls (awaiting for callback) or hold. It is extremely convenient when you create the commands which efficiently pull out missed calls, quickly respond to new orders, or process only the "second call".

Working in a priority mode the operator firstly receives orders in one status, and if they are absent, he proceeds to service the next status. Orders that the operator served earlier are always in priority.

Please note that the order is not linked to the operator. It is only given him as a priority if it has already been processed earlier. This means if the operator is absent at the workplace, the other free operator will work with this order.

Access to orders on packaging, shipping or delivery works in three modes:

• Read-only access in standard mode or not available in calling mode
• Access to change orders, but exclude orders from automatic selection
• Full access to orders and their inclusion in the automation of the Big Green Button

You can limit the list of offers that the team will have access to. In this case, orders of other offers won't be available for editing. This is extremely useful if you are separating professionals who can work with all offers from newbies with training offers.

Restriction on the list of countries allows you to configure the automatic distribution of orders for teams that work in different languages. Please note that this setting affects exactly the distribution of orders with the Big Green Button, but does not restrict access to orders. This is done for the convenience of correcting country definition errors.

The checkbox for order moderation gives operators the ability to return previously canceled orders for processing and cancel accidentally approved ones. It is recommended to provide such access only to responsible employees working in the standard mode.

The time zone allows you to tie the work of the entire team to a specific time that differs from the standard time of the company. This is useful if you have to deal with a country that includes many time zones.

It is recommended to disable notifications about new orders, since it is desirable for operators to work in automatic mode and not be distracted annoying notifications. In case the setting for some reason remains active, when an available order appears, the operator will see a pop-up message and hear an interesting sound.

The team access to the interface can be limited by the IP address. You can set limits with the following methods:

• Whole IPv4 address, like: 12.34.56.78
• IPv4 network, like: 12.34.56. ended by dot will allow access from all addresses in the range 12.34.56.0-12.34.56.255
• An IPv6 address in full or abbreviated form will allow access to the entire specified subnet.

Order processing modes

Default (classic, standard) mode shows the operator both a magic Big Green Button and a complete list of all orders. In this mode all orders of the company are visible to the operator and are available to him at least for reading. The operator can manually find and select the order he is interested in. This mode is recommended for use only by executives.

The optimal operating mode of the call center is the calling mode. When it is activated, the operator sees only the Big Green Button which automatically selects the optimal processing order for the operator. In this mode the list of orders is not available. If you try to open an unavailable order using a direct link, an error will occur.

The automation of taking orders is provided for the convenience of the operator. The operator can click on the "Get on line" button and new orders will be opened when they appear and when they are available.

The latter mode of operation allows you to automate the call center and route calls to operators directly, making a call in the background. You can find more detailed information about this mode in the "Call Center Automation" section.

Hiding phone number

If it is necessary, you can hide your customers' phone numbers from operators. This option is highly questionable. If you have a problem with that, the first step is to disperse your call center and hire normal employees.

Hiding phone numbers can work in three modes. By default, the phone number is fully shown and is available for editing.

The second mode of hiding numbers removes the value of the number itself, but leaves the call link. This link is generated based on the "Call URL" value, which is specified in the main settings of the company.

In this URL you can use two macros:

• [phone] will be replaced by a phone number, only numbers without a plus sign.
• [id] will be replaced with an order identifier and can be useful for receiving an order via API and generating an incoming call using your PBX.

By default, the URL is tel:+[phone], which corresponds to the generic phone links, which are analyzed by any soft-background and recognized directly on mobile devices.

In the last mode, the phone number is completely hidden, even the call button is not shown. You will not be interested in this mode because it is useful only for incoming calls mode.

Salary calculation

Salary accounting in the current version is a crutch which is left over from ancient times. It is not particularly applicable for normal full-featured work. Nevertheless, you can use it to calculate the salaries of your employees in the main call center.

The salary can be set at the company level in the "Company Settings" subsection of the "Control" section or at the level of the team to which the user is linked. If the "Special settings" checkbox is not checked in the team's salary calculation settings, we calculate it according to the company settings.

An employee's salary consists of three parts:

• Pay per shift
• Bonus for confirmed orders
• Upsell and cross-sell bonus

The employee has two work shifts. An employee is considered to have been on a shift if at least one editing of the order was made by him during the specified period — from 10:00 to 18:00 for the day shift and from midnight to 7:00 for the night shift.

The bonus is charged for each confirmed order. In this case, we are talking about the confirmation of orders. That means, transfer to the hold, the end of packaging, sending or buy-out of the order does not apply to this. The amount of money is indicated for one approval.

Upsell and cross-sell rewards are tricky to set up. It is assumed that you are agree to pay your operators only for the availability of upsell or cross in the order. In this case, you should set the amount of surcharge for orders containing upsell and cross. If you want to pay more for two upsells, you should specify the price separated by commas for two or more upsells. Not for the second upsell, but the total amount for two. If, for some unknown reason, you are ready to pay extra for the third upsell, you can add it, separated by commas. And so on to the infinity of your wallet.

Obviously, the salary calculation is extremely disgusting. We believe that this option is the least suitable for your business. So don't use it, calculate everything manually.