Contact Surplus Scenario is when the number of incoming contacts exceeds available agents, and the strategy for handling overflow uses Queue Ranking, Contact Priority, and Longest Waiting Contact, in that order, to pick which parked contact an agent who just became available receives next.

Checked 2026-09-04

Vendor
Cisco
Product
Webex Contact Center
Subsystem
Contact routing
Deployment
cloud
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-04
Checked
2026-09-04

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 4). Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: source note wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order,
  title  = {Webex Contact Center queues teams and routing strategies: source note wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order},
  note   = {Source note wxcc-rt-contact-surplus-tiebreak-order, checked 2026-09-04}
}

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