in this tutorial, it will guide u how to broadcast your message in asterisk and astercrm.
1. add outbound context in asterisk
add the following content in your dialplan (like extensions.conf)
[for-outbound]
exten => _X.,1,Dial(SIP/yourtrunk/${EXTEN},45)
exten => _X.,n,Hangup
exten => h,1,NoOp(${DIALSTATUS})
exten => h,n,Hangup
here “yourtrunk” should be defined in your sip conf file, or you can use other trunk you have, like [...]
how to auto recycle in a outbound campaign
In a virtual office, you will have few receiption but they can answer calls for hundred company, in such case, they should know which number customer dialed so that they dont mess up the calls, now we introduce u how to build a virtual call center using astercrm & asterisk.
1. add extension for receiption
open your [...]
some customers find that they get a problem when import, it just gives a XML error, that’s because there’s too much data and no enough memory for php.
find the php.ini for your apache line: memory_limit
it could be like 16M or 20M, try change it bigger, say 64M
so it looks like
memory_limit = 64M
save and exit, remember [...]
The latest asterCRM has a great improvement in dialer, and with asterCRM, it’s quite easy to build a call center. Here’s a how-to for a outbound call center with Freepbx and astercrm. Following by this how-to, you can creat such a solution:
asterCRM dialer will call the numbers in your diallist, and when the call is [...]
In asterCRM, it provides a survey features, so you can set survey for your customers, here will give you a simple introducation for this:
first you need to add a survey, login as admin/group admin go manager interface and click survey icon, click “Add” button for a new survey, you can add several options for one [...]
In asterCRM config file: astercrm.conf.php, it provides a option, with the option, you can set the information displayed in the agent work page.
The parameter is “portal_display_type”, there’re two valid values, “customer” and “note”
When it’s “customer” mode, it would display all customers agent putted
When it’s “note” mode, it would display customers with “note” and priority is [...]
In asterCRM, we can set some description for a trunk or a DID, so that when customer dial in, we could know which number he dialed or which trunk he dialed from.
it’s very simple to set this, login as admin and go to management interface, select Trunkinfo, and then add the trunk or didnumber or [...]
Dynamic Agent mode is very useful in a outbound call center, agents login to a queue and hear some music we definied in the queue, then predictive dailer start works, it dials customer numbers and once it get connected the dialer will redirect the call to the queue, and agent in the queue could hear [...]
In July, 2007, we start a project, the aim is to provide a call center system for asterisk, which should be all web based and no rely on dialplan, also should have some simple CRM features. That’s how asterCRM came, we made it all open source and free to use so that it could grow [...]
