Routing rules usually combine a few dimensions. Geography sends an enquiry to the office that can serve it. Product or service type sends it to the specialist. Size or value sends larger opportunities to senior people. Availability, often through round-robin assignment, spreads volume evenly and stops leads landing with someone on holiday. Sensible systems also include a fallback owner so nothing ever lands nowhere.
Bad routing is expensive in a quiet way. Leads sitting in a shared inbox that everyone assumes someone else is handling, enquiries reaching the wrong specialist and bouncing between colleagues, weekend enquiries with no owner until Monday. None of these look like failures on a report, but each adds hours to first response, which is the metric that most reliably predicts whether the lead converts.
Clerkzo routes at the point of capture. Because the widget asks the qualifying questions during the conversation, the enquiry arrives already labelled by service, location or whatever fields you defined, and notifications can be pushed by email, webhook or Telegram to the right person immediately rather than after someone triages a mailbox.
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Browse all 104 terms- Lead captureLead capture is the process of collecting a potential customer's contact details and what they need, so a business can follow up and turn interest into a booking or sale.
- Lead generationLead generation is the process of attracting potential customers and collecting their interest, so a business has people to follow up with and convert.
- Speed to leadSpeed to lead is how quickly a business responds to a new enquiry, and it's one of the strongest predictors of whether that enquiry becomes a customer.
- Lead qualificationLead qualification is the process of working out whether a new enquiry is a good fit for your business and worth your team's time, usually by collecting a few key details up front.