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Using Email and TaskRouter Together


You can easily add Email as a channel to your contact center, by combining a REST based third party email service with TaskRouter. You may also want to use Twilio Chat to provide threading for multi-email conversations. This will use the following products:

This page outlines the best practice of how to use these products together for this Contact Center use case.

Note also that if you are also building webchat or SMS as a channel for your customers, most of the agent work done for these channels is applicable to Email (or vice versa).


Orchestrating Email and TaskRouter

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The flow diagram below shows our recommended way of using Email and TaskRouter together.

Note that the chat room should be created first, before the task. This is because otherwise in times of low traffic the task might be assigned to an agent before the chat room has been created. Once the chat room is created, it can be associated with the new task as an attribute.

2-way Email with TaskRouter.

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