HANDLE PEAK DEMAND

Handle Peak Call Volume Without Hiring for the Peak

Rate changes, outages, enrolment windows and holiday surges. Amazon Connect scales in minutes, and we build the deflection and callback that keep service levels up.

Trusted across Canada

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1. Elastic Capacity
2. Queued Callback
3. Self-Service Deflection
4. Emergency Messaging

A spike is predictable. The cost of it is a choice.

Legacy platforms are licensed for a peak that happens a few weeks a year. Teams staff for it, or customers hear a busy tone.

Seats bought for the worst day

Paying twelve months for capacity you use for three weeks.

Abandonment during surges

Wait times climb, customers hang up, and the calls come back tomorrow.

No plan for the unexpected

A storm or an outage hits and changing the greeting takes a ticket and a day.

What we put in place before your next peak.

Peak readiness is part of every Serve7 deployment. For contact centres already on Amazon Connect, it is a focused two-week engagement.

Pressure point What we build
Concurrent call limits Quotas raised against your real traffic, with alerts at 80% and 90%
Wait times climbing Queued callback so customers keep their place and hang up
Repetitive surge questions Amazon Lex bots for status, outage and hours questions
Overflow Queue limits with transfer to a defined overflow destination
Voice saturated Chat capacity, with agents handling several conversations at once
Unplanned closure An emergency toggle a manager can flip from a phone

Capacity that follows demand.

Amazon Connect pricing is per use. The platform grows and shrinks with your volume, and so does the bill.

Self-Service
24/7
Routine questions during a surge
Capacity
Pay for minutes used100%
Seat licencesNone
Daily Contacts
Surge week vs baseline
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Tue
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Elastic by design

No seat licences. Add agents, queues and channels in minutes and scale back when the surge passes.

Deflection where it counts

Self-service built on your top surge contact reasons, so queues carry only what needs a person.

Callback and overflow

Customers keep their place in line, and overflow routes to a destination you define.

Real-time visibility

Dashboards and alerts on concurrency, wait time and abandonment while the peak is happening.

Peaks we have planned for.

Government programs

1,500 Government of Canada agents onboarded in days, handling 40,000+ calls on peak days with no over-provisioning.

Rate changes

Lenders and credit unions absorbing rate-announcement volume with callback and self-service.

Enrolment windows

Admissions and registrar peaks handled with chat capacity and student-record lookups in the IVR.

Shipping season

Logistics shipment-status volume moved to self-service before the holiday rush.

Proven Results for Real Businesses

A Southern Ontario Electricity Utility Handles Power Outage Call Surges with Amazon Connect

A cloud IVR in front of customer service scales automatically during outages, so callers stop hitting busy signals.

  • 2019 In production since November
  • Auto Scaling for outage call surges
  • Text-to-speech Custom outage messages
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A Canadian Airline Improves IVR Self-Service on Amazon Connect

A redesigned IVR call tree and a new self-service bot help the airline handle more routine travel questions without an agent.

  • 2023 Redesigned IVR in production
  • 1 Self-service bot added
  • Zero Re-platforming required
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Tell us when and how big. We will review your instance and put a plan in place before it arrives.

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