A department in Zoho SalesIQ is a logical grouping of operators used to route incoming chats to the correct team. Common departments include Sales, Technical Support, Billing, and General Enquiries. Visitors can select their department in a pre-chat form, or chats can be automatically routed based on the page they are on.<\/p>\n
Each department can have its own chat widget configuration, proactive trigger rules, bot assignments, and offline message handling. This allows the Sales department’s widget to focus on lead qualification while the Support department’s widget focuses on issue resolution, even if both are embedded on the same website.<\/p>\n
When a chat comes in, Zoho SalesIQ routes it to available operators in the selected department. If no operators are available in that department, the chat can fall back to a bot, be queued until an operator becomes available, or prompt the visitor to leave an offline message.<\/p>\n
Departments isolate operators, bots, and routing rules so each team handles only their relevant chats. A visitor contacting sales is routed to the Sales Department queue, while technical support queries go to the Tech Support Department. This prevents cross-contamination of queues and ensures each team sees only the metrics relevant to their function.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Yes. An operator can be assigned to multiple Departments simultaneously. When they are online, they receive chats routed to any of their assigned departments. Their concurrent chat limit applies across all departments combined, so being in multiple departments does not multiply the number of simultaneous chats they can handle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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