- Can it cope with the first hot week of summer?
- That is the week it earns its keep. Every caller is answered at once instead of queueing, so the twentieth person to ring at 8am gets the same booking flow as the first.
- Does it know the difference between a service and a breakdown?
- It asks whether the unit is running at all, what it is doing that it should not, and how old it is, then books a tune-up or flags a no-cool call as urgent.
- Can it handle maintenance plan customers differently?
- Yes. Give us the rule — priority slot, different pricing, whatever it is — and the agent applies it when the caller says they are on the plan.
- What about elderly customers with no heat in winter?
- Vulnerable-caller and no-heat rules are part of your escalation list, so those calls reach you rather than sitting in a summary.