Does your call center software provide your business with all of the information you need to best manage your contact center? If not, you could be overlooking valuable opportunities to reduce costs and increase profits.

Nearly all businesses that rely on a contact or call center track the most basic information, such as how many calls come in each day. Most businesses use that basic information to try to schedule extra operators to effectively handle the busy days of the year. Yet you could probably glean this same type of information simply by asking agents whether their day was “slow” or “busy.”

How much more efficiently could you schedule each and every day of the year if you knew not only what your busiest days are, but also the busiest times of those days? How would you schedule if, through reporting, you could see just how many callers hang up while waiting to receive assistance?

Call center software that provides in-depth reporting can help you avoid both over-scheduling and under-scheduling. You can avoid paying agents for hours spent idly, plus ensure your call center is ready to provide top quality service to every caller during high volume times.

If you choose the right software, you can also easily identify those agents that have the best upsell rates, or the best time-per-call average. You can discover what these agents or operators are doing right, then train the rest to dramatically improve the service they provide. Imagine how much money your business could save if each agent truly operated at the highest levels of efficiency currently achieved by just a handful of your operators.

Call center software is a big and important investment for businesses, but the people you pay to answer your center’s calls are still the biggest cost involved in contact center operations. When you choose the right software solution, you can look forward to reducing costs due to agent inefficiency almost immediately. You can also cut the costs of over and under-scheduling by taking advantage of reporting features.

When every one of your agents is providing the best possible service, callers will inevitably be more satisfied. This leads directly to an increase in customer loyalty and an increase in sales of your products or services. Call center software with thorough reporting capabilities cuts costs and increases sales to boost your business’ profits in two ways. The investment you make in this type of call center solution will undoubtedly proof worthwhile as a result.