Managing Zendesk phone lines

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This article describes how to manage general settings for phone lines.
For details about managing line-specific settings, see Managing individual line settings.
For details about adding new lines, see Adding Zendesk phone lines.
This article contains the following sections:
Deleting a line
Recovering a number
Adding a failover number
Setting number priority (Professional and Enterprise)




Deleting a line

You can delete an existing line if you don't want to use it anymore.


Note: You can't delete lines while you're on a trial.

To delete a line

In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
Select the Lines tab.
Next to the line you want to delete, click the menu icon, then select Delete.
Click Ok to confirm that you want to delete the line.




Recovering a number

Your Zendesk phone number is removed from your account when your trial expires, when your
subscription is canceled, or when your account is suspended or deleted.
Within 72 hours, you can contact Zendesk customer support to reinstate your number if you
have resolved the issue with your account.



Adding a failover number

In the event that service is unavailable, the failover feature can route all incoming calls
to a pre-designated number so you can help your customers with minimal disruption.
With the Enterprise plan, if Zendesk is available to your end users but you are unable to
access it (for example if you’re experiencing a localized internet outage), you can request
to have failover manually initiated by contacting Zendesk Customer Support. Zendesk will manually
initiate failover for you once a month.


Important: Failover can be enabled for a maximum of 24 Hours.

The failover number you choose:


Must not be a Zendesk phone number.
Must be able to handle your support call volume, as all incoming calls are routed to
it.
Is not restricted based on the location of your Zendesk phone number.
Works only for incoming calls; outgoing calls do not have the ability to use the
failover number.




Note: You must contact Zendesk to initiate failover. Failover cannot be initiated
automatically.

To add a failover number


In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
Select the Lines tab.
Next to the number you want to add a failover number for, click the menu icon, then
select Edit.
Enter the number in the Failover number field on the Settings tab.



Note: Failover numbers must be entered in e.164 format. For more information, see
What are the accepted phone number formats for
Zendesk.


Click Save changes.





Setting number priority (Professional and Enterprise)

On Professional and Enterprise plans, you can set certain phone numbers to be priority
numbers, meaning calls received at these numbers will be sent to the front of the queue of
available agents. For example, you might want to prioritize calls from actively subscribed
customers over calls from trial users.
The list of phone numbers is sorted into priority numbers and all other numbers. You can
also filter this list to show only priority numbers or other numbers.

To filter the list of numbers
Click the drop-down list next to All phone numbers at the top of the
list.
Select Priority numbers or All other
numbers to filter the list accordingly.



To set number priority


In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Talk and email > Talk.
Select the Lines tab.
Hover over the number you want to edit and select the check box that appears.

Click Set number priority at the top of the list of numbers. Select either
Set as priority number or Remove priority, depending on the change
you're making.
The list of numbers automatically refreshes with your
changes.





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