Background

Betfred is the world’s largest owner-operator bookmaker. A significant proportion of bets are still placed over the phone during popular sporting events including the Grand National, Wimbledon and the Football World Cup. Tasked with handling these calls, Betfred’s 150 seat contact centre based in Wigan deals with 50,000 inbound calls a week. 

With telephone bets being placed by some of Betfred’s most loyal customers who have been with the company for twenty years or more, maintaining excellent customer service is a key business driver for the contact centre agents who are assisted by a customer service team in Warrington. 

Open seven days a week, 365 days a year, the contact centre operates from anywhere between 7am to Midnight and sometimes longer during special events. With complex staffing requirements creating a need to scale up or down as events dictate, Betfred recognise the importance a call recording system can play in handling customer queries quickly and efficiently particularly where bets are placed when events are already underway.

Solution

As a long term advocate and user of call recording Betfred recently took the opportunity to refresh their technology. Having previously appointed Business Systems (UK) Ltd to support their Wordnet recorders, they once again selected them as a strategic partner to implement the Red Box Recorders Quantify solution. A reliable and easy to use call recording system was essential for the organisation, which is regulated by third parties including the Gambling Commission who can carry out spot checks and request to listen to calls at any given time.  

Prior to the implementation, listening back and retrieving calls was an onerous process for Betfred, with calls having to be archived onto a disk every four weeks. Any customer or regulatory query meant an extremely time consuming and labour intensive process was in place when trying to retrieve a call. With the implementation of the Red Box Recorders Quantify product, retrieving calls is now a simple and efficient process.

Cheryl King, Head of Call Centre Operations at Betfred comments:

“When a customer query now occurs, finding and playing back the call couldn’t be simpler. Instead of telling the customer ‘we have to get back to you on that’, we can now instantly deal with the query as and when it happens.”

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