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What Is Salesforce Call Center Software?

Salesforce call center software runs a call center's phone operations inside Salesforce. It handles inbound routing, IVR, queues, outbound dialing, call monitoring, recording and reporting, with every call tied to a Salesforce record, so agents and managers work from one system instead of a separate phone platform.

How it works in Salesforce

Call center software for Salesforce usually covers:

  • Inbound: IVR, skill-based and sticky agent routing, queues and callbacks.
  • Outbound: click to dial, power and predictive dialers, campaigns.
  • Agent experience: softphone, screen pops, dispositions and automatic logging.
  • Supervision: live monitoring, whisper and barge, recordings and dashboards.
  • AI: transcription, sentiment, summaries and AI voice agents.

Teams choose between Salesforce's own options, such as Service Cloud Voice, and AppExchange call center apps. Compare them on the features above, setup effort, country coverage and total cost per agent.

Example

A 60-agent contact center moves its phones into Salesforce. Calls route by skill and Case owner, supervisors coach live from a dashboard, and every call appears on the customer's record.

How 360 CTI handles it

360 CTI provides a cloud contact center inside Salesforce with routing, IVR, monitoring, recording, AI and dialers. See Cloud Contact Center.

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Follow-up questions

Does Salesforce have built-in call center software?

Salesforce offers Service Cloud Voice. Many teams also use AppExchange call center apps, depending on features, coverage and cost.

Can call center software handle inbound and outbound calls?

Yes. Most Salesforce call center software covers both.

Do agents need training to use it?

Some, but less than a separate phone system, because agents work in the Salesforce screens they already know.

See how 360 CTI handles this in your Salesforce org.

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