Overview
8x8 Contact Center has APIs across a broad range of areas that allow for integration of 8x8 with other platforms and services allow for flexibility and to maximize investments in technology.
Use cases include:
- Making Realtime and Historical data available in other systems to drive business intelligence
- Enhancing workflows by embedding chat and or callbacks
- Integration with websites and bots allowing customized chat experiences and or integration with bots, including visibility into current workload and schedule status
- Ability for CRMs or other systems to make and manage calls on behalf of agents.
- Control campaigns and outreach, for ordered, efficient calls for renewals, expiration notices or other critical customer touch points.
- Reduced customer frustration by popping the caller’s account information to the agent as soon as the call comes in
8x8 representatives can assist in validating use cases and guiding customers in leveraging APIs.
8x8 Contact Center APIs
- Analytics For Contact Center
- Summary Historical Analytics - Historical Summary data (see glossary)
- Detailed Historical Analytics - Interaction Details and Agent Status Change data
- Realtime Analytics - Realtime metrics (see glossary)
- Customer Experience Post Call Survey - Post Call Survey results and data
- 8x8 CRM API - Create, Read, Update, Delete records in CC local CRM
- Chat Gateway - Allowing Bot/Conversational AI to pass conversations to queues/agents.
- Managing Agent Status - Read and Modify Agent status
- 8x8 Contact Center Recordings and Chat Transcripts API
- Call Related APIs
- 8x8 Contact Center Web Callback API - Add outbound call requests to queues, initiate outbound calls.
- 8x8 Contact Center Click-To-Dial API - Make call for agent from the context of the agents browser session
- Manage Agent Phone Calls - Make & Manage calls for an agent by agentId
- 8x8 Contact Center External IVR API
- 8x8 Contact Center Recording Control API - Pause and Resume in progress call (and screen) recording by browser session or agentId
- 8x8 Contact Center Tenant Schedule API - Evaluate current and future schedule condition to aid in routing decisions.
- Contact Center Embedded Chat API - Ability to customize the behavior and appearance of standard Web Chat capabilities.
- Campaign Related
- Managing Campaign Status - Start, Stop, Pause, Resume and Purge Campaigns
- Managing Campaign Records - Add and Remove records from Campaigns
- Streaming API - Event stream of Contact Center interaction and agent state changes via Websocket
- CC Reporting
Additional Information
For even more detailed guidance and use case application, see the 8x8 Developer Hub.