How can I stop Zendesk allowing me to send an email to a phone number?
When we receive tickets via Talk, the requester is a phone number. Often we need to follow up by email and send links to help articles and so on, but when I do this, as the requester is still the phone number, it doesn't get to the customer.
I'm not expecting Zendesk to know who to send it to, but surely there can be a warning that I'm trying to submit the ticket to a phone number? Ideally it would prompt me to reselect the requester.
Am I missing something?
Cheers!
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Hi Emma!
The best practice here would be to train your agents ask the caller for their email address to check whether they have a user profile in your Zendesk. Doing this at the beginning of call lets your agents identify whether the user has an existing profile and, if they do, see any other tickets they might have open.
If the customer already has a user profile with an email address in your Zendesk, you can add the phone number to the existing profile, or merge the two profiles together.
If the caller does not have an email address on file with you, your agents can add the caller's name and email address to the user profile that was created from the phone number.
Once either of those tasks is completed, any subsequent calls will come in under the existing user profile - Zendesk will automatically set the correct requester.
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While I understand the answer provided to ensure the team's workflow is accurate is an understandable one, it doesn't address the actual issue. For those of us with smaller teams, things can get a bit hectic where workflows aren't followed to the T.
I think Emma's request to be provided with a notification or the preventing of sending a Public Reply if there is not an email address is a reasonable request. I would love to see this. It'll help agents realize "Oh... crud. I forgot that." and hopefully reach back out to the customer (by phone) to correct that error.
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Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback Travis! I'll be sure to pass this feedback along to the appropriate team :)
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Sounds like a reasonable requirement that Zendesk UI would notify the agent if requester does not have an email address in the profile. These kind of requester profiles are created from contacts from different channels, not just Talk, and agent would not easily see directly, that they cannot contact these users by email. It would help if Zendesk would separately inform agent about the missing email address.
With existing ticket this could be notified in many ways, in user selection it could just say "no email address" below the name:
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