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.

fact · verified 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
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-04

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

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

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