Skip to content

Bring support, sales, and team workflows into one customer conversation workspace. Explore the platform

Chat Routing

Get every customer to the right agent, automatically

Stop manually assigning chats. Set up intelligent routing rules that send each conversation to the most qualified available agent in seconds. Reduce wait times, improve first-contact resolution, and match customers with the right expertise every time.
Illustration for Chat Routing

How Chat Routing drives efficiency

Intelligent auto-assignment

Automatically route every incoming conversation to the best available agent based on skills, workload, and availability — no manual triage needed.

Flexible routing rules

Create routing rules based on agent skills, language, department, visitor source, keyword triggers, or any custom criteria your business needs.

Scalable queue management

Handle growing chat volumes with overflow handling, department routing, and time-based rules that keep service levels consistent around the clock.

ROUTING

Smart distribution, faster resolutions

Reduce wait times and improve first-contact resolution by matching customers with the right expertise every time. Intelligent routing ensures no conversation is left unattended.

Round-Robin Assignment

Distribute conversations evenly across available agents to balance workload fairly and prevent burnout.

Skill-Based Routing

Match customers to agents with the specific product knowledge or language skills needed to resolve their issue.

Overflow Handling

Set fallback rules so conversations are never left unattended when your primary agents are busy or offline.

EFFICIENCY

An incoming conversation is matched automatically to an agent with the right product knowledge, so the customer reaches someone who can help on the first try.

Use case · Support teams

RULES

Route by any criteria you choose

Create routing rules based on agent skills, language, department, visitor source, keyword triggers, or any custom criteria your business needs. Full flexibility to match your workflow.

Department Routing

Separate incoming chats by department — sales, support, billing — so every team handles their own queue.

Time-Based Rules

Configure different routing logic for business hours and after hours to keep service levels consistent around the clock.

Priority Routing

Identify VIP customers and route them to senior agents or dedicated queues for premium service.

XONChat flow builder routing a conversation through conditions, a form and an API call

FLEXIBILITY

A support manager sets up separate routing rules for sales and billing inquiries, so each team only sees conversations relevant to its queue.

Use case · Multi-department teams

SCALE

Routing that grows with your team

As your team expands, your routing rules scale effortlessly. Advanced features like load balancing, geographic routing, and SLA-based escalation keep your operation running smoothly at any volume.

Load Balancing

Automatically distribute conversations based on each agent's current workload and capacity to prevent bottlenecks during peak hours.

Geographic Routing

Route visitors to agents in the same region or timezone for faster, more relevant support and language matching.

SLA-Based Escalation

Automatically escalate conversations that approach SLA thresholds to available agents or supervisors to maintain service commitments.

SCALABILITY

As a growing support team adds agents, load balancing and SLA-based escalation keep every queue evenly distributed without manual reconfiguration.

Use case · Scaling support teams

Route every conversation to the right agent today