Starting today, Zendesk have started to roll out the new Agent management page. And it looks great and is perfect for managing those stray licenses that aren’t being used.
View all your agents and their role in one place
You can even sort the Agents by last sign in date. Awesome!
Click the Filter button and you can easily start managing your massive directory of Agents by date, product or role.How smart! Find Agents who have not even logged in! Sweet!
Not sure if this Team Members page is available for all. But we have already seen it in our Developer environment and client instances.
Email – this is accessible by your customer emailing an address found on your website, or provided after purchasing a product, or even when they reply back to a marketing newsletter you send out
Webform – this channel is when a customer completes a form on your website or within your app
Chat – this channel works when a customer visits your website and can start talking using their keyboard to your business
Phone – this method is the good old fashion way of picking up the phone and calling your business during business hours.
End Users
Your customers in Zendesk terminology are End Users. These can be members of the public, potential customers, existing customers who need support or employees of a business that is your client.
Agents
Agents are your staff. They are responsible for responding to your customers using the Channels that you have activated. If you subscribe to the Zendesk Enterprise platform, you will have access to create your own Roles that you can assign to your Agents to limit or grant them privileges based on your company’s requirements.
Examples of the Roles that Agents can have our;
Staff
Advisors
Team Leaders
Contributors
Administrators
Types of Roles that are available out of the box
Tickets
Tickets are the items of concern when it comes to interactions between your End Users and your Agents.
When a Agents or End User starts any Channel of communication, a Ticket is created and assigned a Ticket Id.
Every subsequent interaction is called a Comment. This will keep updating the Ticket back and forth until the Ticket’s status is set to Solved.
Tickets have can the following Statuses over the lifetime of the Ticket;
New – when the Ticket is first created and has not been reviewed by any Agent yet
Open – when the Agent has responded to the End User with an update to request from information or clarification
Pending – when the Agent is working on the Ticket and does not require any information from the End User
Solved – Set by the Agent when they believe that they satisfactorily completed the End Users request
Closed – after the Ticket is Solved and then 4 days of inactivity
Groups
Groups allow you to break up your team into logical company cohorts. For example, you might choose to have groups of teams that service different products or regions that your company provides for.
Views
Views are used to show Agents only the tickets that concern there day to day job.