Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Automate customer service and support processes


When your company communicates with your clients and customers the process can involve many different people within both organizations and using a variety of different methods. To ensure that your company can provide the best customer support experience possible, the utilization of online service desk software should be considered.

Typical service desk software will allow you to track and organize collaboration with its current and prospective customers. The software allows your agents to store information about customers and their requests then can be accessed over the web by staff in different departments within your organization.

Scopedesk is designed to help streamline customer service and support. It’s an accessible, fast way for customers to get helpful support based on their individual questions and concerns. The objective is to provide a robust and easy-to-use web help desk application that helps organizations automate their customer service and support processes to deliver consistent, reliable and superior service to both internal and external customers.

Scopedesk can provide users with access to tutorials on frequently asked questions. With this feature, you can make customer service self-serve, while providing customers with the information they need to troubleshoot technical issues. As a business owner, you can reduce costs because you'll spend less time having your customer service team take on the same technical questions. With each new change or release in your product, service or internal procedures, update your archives to ensure your online help desk software contains the most recent information.

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Help Desk Planning and Deploying

To set up a help desk and customer support system that reflects your service and support structure, you need a good understanding of that structure and help desk processes.

Information Recording and Tracking

  • What information do you want to record and track for each issue and help desk ticket?
  • Do you manage and co-ordinate issues and requests into a ticket queues? HelpDeskSAAS allows you to define multiple ticket queues and record issues into queues based on different criteria.
  • How do you categorize issues?
  • Do you want to provide different views of the issue data?
For example, do you want a summary view optimized for fast logging issues and categorizing problems, and a detailed view for recording things such as how the issue was resolved?

Workflow and business rules

  • What is your help desk process?
  • Can you represent the path of an issue through the process as a sequence of steps, or decisions, such as New, Working, Waiting, and Solved?
  • Who should have permission to make each decision? Who will be responsible for carrying out each step in the process?
  • Do you need e-mail notifications to enforce ownership and accountability when ticket are submitted or solved and who needs to be alerted? What kind of data notification message should contain?

Roles and responsibilities

  • What are the different roles and responsibilities of your help desk staff (such as help desk analysts and group leaders)?
  • Can you divide customers and their users into groups?
  • Do different groups have different requirements for the system? Do you need to restrict access to the system based on specific preferences of your clients and their clients?
For example, you probably want to give them only limited access to the system so they can submit new ticket and track their status. Help desk staff, on the other hand, will require greater access to the system.