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Cover nights and weekends with an AI phone agent

Keep your team on the phones during business hours and let Yuma answer every call after they log off.

Call at 22:40, Saturday

Caller · After hours

Yuma is working

  1. Answer with your greeting
  2. Resolve within Handbook policy
  3. Ticket the rest for Monday

Why after-hours calls become Monday's backlog

Most ecommerce phone lines close when the team goes home, but customers keep calling, often with the most urgent problems. Missed calls become voicemails, voicemails become Monday's backlog, and some of those customers simply buy elsewhere before anyone calls them back.

  • Calls spike in the evening and at weekends
  • Voicemails rarely say enough to act on
  • The most urgent problems wait the longest

How Yuma covers the phone when your team is off

You decide when Yuma Voice answers: after hours, at weekends, or for a share of calls while you build trust. Your team stays on the phone during the hours you choose.

When Yuma answers, it resolves what your Handbook allows, such as order status, address fixes, cancellations and subscription changes, with the change made in your backend during the call. Anything else becomes a clean ticket with the recording and transcript attached, so your team starts the day with context instead of voicemails. The Voice launch post covers setup and handoffs.

Illustrative example

A homeware brand that stops taking voicemails

A homeware brand keeps its agents on the phone during the working day. When they log off, Yuma takes over. Weekend callers get their order status, address fixes and cancellations handled on the spot, and the few calls that need a person arrive on Monday as tickets with the recording and transcript attached.

Benefits

  • 01Availability

    Every call answered

    No voicemail and no queue outside business hours. Yuma picks up with your greeting.

  • 02Resolution

    Solved, not stored

    Callers get the change made while they're on the line, instead of a voicemail returned on Monday.

  • 03Focus

    Clean Monday mornings

    Unresolved calls arrive as tickets with the recording and transcript, so your team starts with context.

  • 04Reach

    One number, every market

    One number and one Handbook can serve every market you sell in, in your callers' languages.

Step by step

  1. 01

    Set hours

    Choose when Yuma answers: after hours, at weekends, or a share of calls during rollout.
  2. 02

    Answer

    Yuma picks up with your greeting, with no queue and no phone menu.
  3. 03

    Resolve

    It handles what your Handbook allows, with the change made in your backend.
  4. 04

    Hand off

    Anything else becomes a ticket with the recording and transcript attached.
  5. 05

    Review

    Your team reviews every call, its recording and its transcript the next morning.

Want Yuma to automate this workflow for your team?

Talk with the team and see how the same playbook can be mapped to your support, sales, social, chat or voice stack.

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After-hours phone cover FAQs

Yes. Running Yuma on nights and weekends while your team takes calls during the day is a configuration change, not a different product.

Final step

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