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Apply your office’s routing and escalation rules without anyone sitting in the middle.

Helpdesk Automation applies the rules your office already follows, without anyone sitting in the middle. Complaints from Yelahanka go to the technician covering Yelahanka. A ticket untouched for a day rises to the manager. Acknowledgements, reminders and the closing message go out without anybody remembering to, and each rule can be switched off when it misbehaves.

What it is

Every helpdesk has rules, and they usually sit in one person’s head. She knows the inverter complaints go to Prakash, that a school customer must be answered before nine, and that anything from the Mysuru dealer goes to the manager first.

Written as rules, they run whether or not she is at her desk. Sorting stops being a job, and her time goes to the difficult customers.

Inside the module

What helpdesk automation does.

Assignment by area, product or customer

A complaint lands with the right technician by pin code, by machine type, or by who handles that dealer.

Escalation on time

Untouched for four hours, a ticket goes to the supervisor. Still open tomorrow, the manager sees it. You set both numbers.

Acknowledgements the customer expects

A message with the ticket number goes out as soon as the complaint is logged, so nobody rings to ask whether it was received.

Reminders before the promise breaks

The technician is nudged before the promised time and not after the customer has called the owner.

Round robin within a team

Where anybody can take the work, tickets are dealt out evenly and do not land on whoever answers first.

Rules you can switch off

Each rule is listed with what it does, and any of them can be paused. Automation that cannot be stopped is a liability.

Who touches it

The people who open this every day.

Support executive

Stops sorting and starts answering, and overrides an assignment when she knows better.

Service manager

Sets the rules, watches what escalates and changes the timings when they turn out to be unrealistic.

Field technician

Receives the job with address and history already attached, with no phone call to explain it.

How it fits

It is one part of a system, not an island.

A module earns its place by what it passes to the next one. These are the connections we set up most often.

  • Ticket management
  • Customer support
  • Technician scheduling
  • WhatsApp
  • Notifications
Common questions

Questions owners ask about helpdesk automation.

Will automation make us worse at answering customers?

It can, if it is used to send more messages and not fewer. The rules worth having are the ones that route work correctly and warn you early. Our audit usually cuts a wish-list of rules down to three, and those three are the ones that survive.

Can a rule be overridden?

Always. A person can reassign any ticket, and the record shows that the rule acted first and who changed it. Rules overridden every week are the ones to rewrite.

Is automation needed with four technicians?

Two rules, perhaps: an acknowledgement to the customer, and an escalation when something ages. Anything more, for four people who sit together, is machinery for its own sake.

Can it answer common questions on its own?

A saved reply can be suggested to your executive, and a knowledge base article can be sent with a click. Letting software answer a customer unsupervised is a bigger step. It starts with what is written in your knowledge base.

Talk to us

Tell us how you handle helpdesk automation today.

A spreadsheet, a register or another system: say which, and we will tell you plainly what is worth changing.

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