Round-Robin Routing
Round-Robin Routing is the practice of distributing leads or accounts evenly across a team of reps — typically by rotating through the team in order — to balance workload and prevent some reps from over-saturating while others starve.
What is Round-Robin Routing?
Round-Robin is the simplest fair-distribution algorithm: lead 1 to rep 1, lead 2 to rep 2, lead 3 to rep 3, then back to rep 1. The advantage is fairness and simplicity. The disadvantage is that it ignores rep skill, capacity, and territory fit — round-robin to a junior rep at capacity vs a senior rep with bandwidth is mathematically fair but operationally suboptimal. Modern routing combines round-robin with skill-based and capacity-based logic, falling back to round-robin only when other criteria don't differentiate.
Why it matters
- Fairness algorithm — prevents some reps from getting all the good leads.
- Simple to explain, simple to audit, simple to override when needed.
- Increasingly combined with skill and capacity logic rather than used alone.
Use cases
- Inbound-lead distribution. Qualified inbound leads round-robin across the AE pool.
- BDR-to-AE handoff. Qualified pipeline distributed evenly across AE coverage.
- Capacity-aware variant. Round-robin within a subset of reps below capacity threshold.
How turgo helps
turgo supports round-robin routing as a default — and combines it with skill-based, capacity-aware, and territory-based routing for richer assignment logic.
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