Β· Reviewed by Issabela Masters
Why do Dialpad users need a virtual assistant?
Dialpad transcribes every call, summarizes it and suggests the next step, which is only useful if someone reads it and does the step. In most small teams nobody does. The summaries sit in the app, the missed calls in the department stack up, the SMS thread from a prospect goes unanswered, and the sales rep who owns the number is on the road. Dialpad users also tend to be sales and support teams that need someone in the queue at 8am, not just a smart recording. An assistant closes that gap. They answer departments and contact center queues in your name, work the Ai summaries into CRM notes and tasks, text back missed calls, run outbound follow-up from your lists with lawful consent and do-not-call scrubbing, and keep the routing, hours and voicemail greetings correct so the system behaves the way you think it does.
What can a virtual assistant do inside Dialpad?
- Departments and contact centers
- Answers as an agent in your departments and contact center queues during your hours, follows the hold and callback rules your admin set and returns every missed call within your window.
- Ai call summaries and transcripts
- Reviews the Ai Recap after each call, corrects anything the transcript got wrong, logs the outcome and next step in your CRM and creates the follow-up task while the detail is fresh.
- SMS and MMS
- Replies to texts on your Dialpad number from approved templates, sends confirmations and reminders with lawful consent and do-not-call scrubbing, honors STOP requests and keeps your 10DLC campaign details on file.
- Auto attendant and routing
- Documents your IVR menus, business hours, holiday hours and fallback routing, tests them from an outside line and proposes changes in writing for your admin to apply.
- Call recording
- Works with automatic or manual recording as configured, states the recording notice each country and US two-party consent state requires and pauses recording before any card details.
- Outbound and power dialer
- Runs follow-up and appointment setting lists through Dialpad's dialer with lawful consent and do-not-call scrubbing, records dispositions and books meetings into your calendar.
- Contacts and CRM logging
- Keeps shared contacts clean, checks the HubSpot or Salesforce integration is logging calls on the right record and fixes mismatched contacts.
- Analytics and coaching
- Pulls call volume, answered versus missed, average handle time and Ai CSAT where you use it, and reviews the numbers with the team lead for the QA scorecard.
Integrations we handle
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Dialpad and HubSpot
Logs calls, summaries and texts on the contact timeline and creates tasks for the owner from the Dialpad integration.
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Dialpad and Salesforce
Records calls on leads and opportunities with disposition and next step so pipeline reports stay accurate.
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Dialpad and Google Workspace
Checks calendars before transferring and books callbacks and meetings straight from the call.
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Dialpad and Slack
Posts messages, voicemails and urgent callbacks to the right channel with the Dialpad link and a one-line summary.
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Dialpad and Zendesk
Creates or updates tickets from support calls with the recording and summary attached.
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Dialpad and Zapier
Sends missed calls and SMS leads to a sheet or task board and reviews failed Zaps weekly.