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Foundations and the domain

A domain is the tenant. Campaigns come after skills, users, lists, dispositions, and a profile.

A contact center is not a phone system

A PBX connects extensions. A contact center adds queues, skills, lists, dispositions, and reports around those calls. Five9 Virtual Contact Center is that layer, hosted as a domain

The domain is the tenant

You sign into one domain. Skill groups, users, lists, prompts, scripts, and campaigns live there. Another domain does not inherit them.

Roles on the floor

The same person is not every role. Agents take contacts. Supervisors can sit in skill groups with agents. Administrators configure the domain. Reporting is its own permission: stan

Three campaign types

Public admin topics describe three campaign types: inbound, outbound, and autodial. Inbound answers a DNIS and runs the campaign IVR. Outbound uses the dialer and an agent. Autodia

Contacts, fields, and lists

A contact record is a row of fields. number1, number2, and number3 are the usual phone slots the dialer walks. Lists are sets of those rows attached to outbound and autodial campai

Dispositions are the dialer's memory

A disposition is the outcome stored on a record. System dispositions and custom dispositions both exist. The disposition topic says many system dispositions are redialed five times

One profile, many campaigns

A campaign profile overrides campaign defaults such as the ANI. You may create many profiles. A campaign uses one profile at a time. The same profile can be on more than one campai

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