A conference bridge joins more than two parties on one call. In a contact centre its most common use is the warm transfer: the agent brings in a specialist, introduces the context, and leaves. The customer explains their problem once. A cold transfer, by contrast, drops them into a new queue to start again.
No hardware
Browser-based agents
API included
Bring a third party onto a live call, so a handover happens with the customer present rather than as a cold transfer.
The customer repeats nothing
Context is handed over verbally by the agent who already has it, which is the single most common complaint about transfers.
Specialists join without owning the queue
A product or credit specialist can be pulled in for two minutes without sitting in the contact centre all day.
Conference state is tracked
The platform reports on conference status, so multi-party calls are not a blind spot in reporting.
Escalation without a callback
A manager can be added to a live call instead of promising to ring back.
End to end, in the order it actually happens.
The agent puts the customer on hold and dials the third party.
Agent and third party speak privately to hand over context.
The customer is brought into the conference bridge.
The original agent drops off, or stays, as needed.
Conference status is reported back to the platform throughout.
Worth knowing before you build a process around it.
Warm transfers
Specialist consultation
Manager escalation
Three-way verification
Agent Status & Availability
Track who is available, who is on a call and who is unavailable, and control the caller ID each agent dials out on.
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Record calls, retrieve them through the dashboard or API, stream them in the browser, and share a specific recording by link.
Learn moreA conference bridge joins more than two parties on one call. In a contact centre its most common use is the warm transfer: the agent brings in a specialist, introduces the context, and leaves. The customer explains their problem once. A cold transfer, by contrast, drops them into a new queue to start again.
1. The agent puts the customer on hold and dials the third party. 2. Agent and third party speak privately to hand over context. 3. The customer is brought into the conference bridge. 4. The original agent drops off, or stays, as needed. 5. Conference status is reported back to the platform throughout.
Verify the maximum number of concurrent participants for your configuration before designing a workflow that assumes large conferences. This is in-call conferencing for contact centre handovers, not a scheduled meeting product with dial-in PINs and calendar invites.
Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare, Real Estate. Typical uses are warm transfers, specialist consultation, manager escalation, three-way verification.
A cloud contact center is a customer service platform hosted in the cloud that allows businesses to manage customer interactions across multiple channels (phone, email, chat, social media) without on-premise hardware. It provides features like automatic call distribution (ACD), IVR, call recording, and analytics.
CCaaS (Contact Center as a Service) is cloud-based, requiring no hardware investment, offering pay-per-use pricing, automatic updates, and easy scalability. Traditional call centers require significant upfront investment in hardware, ongoing maintenance, and are harder to scale.
Self-serve platform. No hardware, no long procurement cycle.