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Phonecall routing

  • July 8, 2026
  • 2 replies
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Yesterday and today we experienced two inbound phone calls in a short period where the phonecalls entered the Hold and assign call step and remained In queue.

No available teammate was automatically offered the call, even though atleast one teammate was active and could immediately answer the call manually.

Can someone of Intercom check the backend routing logs to determine why no teammate was selected for automatic assignment for these conversations?
 

I've already tried to figure out what might have gone wrong, based on the logging I am thinking it might have something to do with the away status and how we have configured our workflow, but no clear reason could be determined.

We have enabled Show team composition in conversation event log, but no team composition events are written to the conversation timeline for new inbound calls. Is there any prerequisite for this feature, or is it expected to work for all Phone conversations?

We compared a successful inbound call with a failed inbound call.
Successful call:

  • Team composition events are logged.
  • Balanced assignment is executed.
  • Call is assigned to agents automatically.

Failed call:

  • No team composition events are logged.
  • No balanced assignment event is logged.
  • The call remains in queue until a teammate manually answers it.

Could you investigate why the team composition and balanced assignment steps were skipped for this conversation?

2 replies

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  • Intercom Team
  • July 10, 2026

Hey ​@NickvanVliet to check what happened with those calls we’d need some examples to take a look at. Could you send on the URLs for some conversations that were created by those calls? With that we could check the logs.


  • Author
  • New Participant
  • July 13, 2026

Hi Dara, thank you for the response, will send you a DM with the link.