Modifying Auto Contact Tasks for a Strategy Branch

Procedure

You can modify any information for a strategy at any time. However, if the strategy is associated with a segment as a Champion or Challenger strategy, when comparing effectiveness metrics, select dates so that you are not mixing effectiveness metrics for the period before and after the changes were made.

To modify autonomous tasks for a strategy branch:

  1. Select Admin.
    The Admin Home Page appears.

  2. From the Policy Administration tab, select Strategy Setup.
    The Strategies screen appears.

  3. Select view/edit in the row for the strategy for which you want to modify an auto contact task.
    The Strategy Definition screen appears.

  4. In the Branches section, select view/edit in the row for the branch that has the auto contact task you want to modify. The Task Type column lists Auto for autonomous tasks.
    The Branch Definition screen appears.

  5. In the Tasks section, click view/edit in the row for the auto contact task.
    The Task Definition screen appears.

  6. You can change any of the following information for the task:

Note: You can change the Auto selection to Yes to make this auto task a collector task. In this case, you enter the information required for the contact task type you select.

    • Task name

    • Number of offset days

    • Priority for the task. For an autonomous task, the priority is only relevant if the task will ever be converted to an action item in a collector's Work Queue, that is, if Error Notification is set to Yes.

    • The Contact Category as external or internal to your organization. The contact category helps to determine the contact who receives the correspondence, and must match a contact entered for the invoice or customer.

    • The Contact Type that describes the role that the contact performs, such as bank, sales, or company rep. For the message to be successfully sent, there must be a contact of the contact type and category entered for the invoice or customer.

    • Is primary to determine if the contact to receive the correspondence is the primary contact for the invoice. The contact entered for the invoice or customer should match the 'Is Primary' selection you make.

    • Look Ahead days to determine the number of days to look ahead for correspondence action items that use the same template and are for the same contact using the same address. Look ahead days are used differently depending on whether or not your eCredit implementation is set up to group the same action items for multiple invoices into a single correspondence.

    • The Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Delivery Methods. The primary method is used if sufficient address information is entered for the contact specified for the task. The secondary method is used if sufficient information is not available for the primary method. The tertiary method is used if sufficient information is not available for the secondary method.

    • Error Notification: Select Yes or No. If Yes, an action item is created for the correspondence if eCredit fails to send it.

  1. If your implementation is not set up for grouping, you can change the Schedule Mode as follows:

  • Opportunistic: The task executes as soon as its due date is reached

  1. Sequenced: The task executes when its due date is reached and when all tasks with previous due dates have executed

  2. Dependent: The task executes when its due date is reached, and another, specified task in the branch has executed

  3. If your implementation is not set up for grouping, you can select one of the following for Confirmation Mode. Confirmation Mode converts an autonomous correspondence task to a user interactive task.

    • When Promise of Dispute is Active: eCredit convert the autonomous task to an action item in a user's work queue when a dispute or promise is active.

    • Never: the task is always autonomous

    • Always: the task always becomes a user-interactive task

  4. Click Save.