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Why is it so hard to get a response to support tickets?


chrism827

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Chris / John,

 

As I'm sure you can agree, everyone has their own expectation of service levels for a given ticket priority. (One can extend this to include what constitutes a valid priority for a given ticket as well.)

 

Last I checked (and I'll freely admit, it's been awhile) there was no guidance from WHMCS as to what our expectation should be at a given priority, nor what priority we should ideally use for a given situation. Perhaps some of these issues would be mitigated WHMCS expounding on the above during ticket creation. Something like "WHMCS values our customers and responds to each ticket in the priority order received. It is our goal to answer high priority tickets, for example securtiy issues, outages, within 4 hours...." etc etc etc...

 

When a ticket gets answered after the "goal" time, simply include an apology in the ticket response, eg. "My apologies <John/Jane/whatever>, we weren't able to respond as soon as we would like to this ticket, however with the recent release of WHMCS 6.0 all hell has broken loose." Well, you get the idea...

 

You set a goal, try to achieve it, set a reasonable expectation (and can /bonk people when they don't read what the expectations are) and when you fail to achieve it, you apologize and provide good customer service.

 

Sounds like a win/win all around.

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Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to provide your thoughtful feedback. I am absolutely on the same page as you, this is something I'd very much like to have implemented. Personally I'd like to display the average response time on the ticket submission page, perhaps over the past week or 24 hours.

 

I'll certianly add your comments to my case, and who knows maybe it will happen :)

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