Zendesk Talk: Allow Reporting on Agent Availability

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  • Casey Eisenberg

    Karen Hynes is there a way we could get some regular updates on the progress on this feature? I have supervisors who are asking about this almost weekly since I told them it was promised Q4 of last year. If we could know at least what quarter this will hopefully be released in that would be helpful.

    Thank you.

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  • Paul Isaac

    It was quite surprising to find out that this reporting feature is not available. Understanding call demand vs. capacity over time is the first thing I looked for after we implemented Zendesk Talk. 

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  • Matthew Sammut

    Karen Hynes can we PLEASE just get an updated ETA here? Since this has failed to be delivered on time, over and over, at the very least some transparency.would be nice... especially since you have actually lost customers for the lack of this feature already.

    IS it still being worked on? When can we expect it?

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  • Norman Knoche

    I figured out a way to bring data in from the API into another platform, but it was costly.

    We've actually decided to switch to another platform and get away from Zendesk because of many small issues like this. The price of Zendesk doesn't justify all of the shortfalls and missing features that are easily solved with other systems.

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  • Amanda L.

    Norman Knoche - Could you please share which platform you moved to? 

    Thank you! 

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  • Norman Knoche

    Amanda L. our BPO was able to arrange a reporting system using DOMO.

    But we are moving our ticketing system back to FreshDesk. MUCH less expensive. But small "quirky" things that Zendesk struggles with, FreshDesk knocks out of the park. 

    For example, unmerging tickets or contacts - you simply click "unmerge" :-P 

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  • MineralTree | Support

    Norman Knoche How are you dealing with the move of data from Zendesk to FreshDesk?

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  • Jon Simone

    This is great news Karen Hynes! Thanks for the update!

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  • Tom Erik Skjønsberg

    Karen Hynes

    Way too little way too late. Together with all the downgrades currently being forced on customers, confirming that all earlier promises on this subject is now broken just confirms our company's decision.

    If implementing the most basic metric for any customer service, especially when it used to be available, takes 4 years of broken promises, then there is a huge trust issue with how Zendesk is going to cope with future changes.

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  • Kevin Froleiks

    Karen Hynes is it possible to sign up to test out this feature? We have some immediate needs to implement and would be more than happy to help move things along.

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  • Jon Simone

    Karen Hynes would be very nice to have a quarterly update on this at the very least.

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  • Ruth PCL

    Just wanted to say that since my original comment, one of my clients had to fire an agent for low performance and one of the reports they were looking for was how many times the agent was available vs not. It was quite laughable (in a bad way) that we had no way of pulling this information from ZD. Thankfully, this particular agent had issues in other areas that could be documented but this is now a liability concern for my client and they want me to provide alternatives to ZD. Such a shame. Up until now I put all of my clients on ZD. 

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  • Daniel Heard

    Karen Hynes Is there an update to the open eap?

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  • This was the first metric that came to our heads when searching for a KPI to measure Zendesk adoption. We were really surprised when we found out that only Realtime Agent Availability reporting was available.

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  • Jordan Forsythe

    Do we have any updates on the EAP for this? Thanks! 

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  • Tobias Hermanns

    Hi,

    we also need this any news?

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  • Daniel Krob

    Anyone knows how to get the report via API in the meantime?

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  • Robert Delbueno

    Any progress on this?

    No ability to track agent Away/Available time??

    Are you kidding me? This is a fundamental metric for a customer service platform, no?

    Arggg.

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  • David

    Karen Hynes This sort of metric should be across all Zendesk products. Linked to the logged in agent user.

    Our use cases are mainly to track productivity based on a multitude of statuses. So I'd be nice to see the ability to customize your own statuses for agent segments, e.g. break, lunch, backoffice work, online phone, etc.

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  • Karen Hynes
    Zendesk Product Manager

    Hi all,

    I just want to provide a quick update on the EAP- we paused adding additional customers until we fix some bugs that have been raised. We want to make sure these are ironed out before adding any more customers so we can provide the best experience possible and react quickly to any issue raised.


    Once we have re-opened the EAP to more registrations, I will announce it here.


    Thank you,

    Kare

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  • Kevin Froleiks

    Karen Hynes can we get a timeline or ETA on this? We're almost at the end of yet another quarter without this feature.

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  • David Kingsbury

    We have been looking at the ability to have this reporting as well. Has this become an Open EAP yet?

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  • Tom Erik Skjønsberg

    If anyone is curious why this feature is still delayed:

    https://www.zendesk.com/newsroom/articles/tymeshift-acquisition23/

    Why add something when they can make us pay for an addon.

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  • Tobias Hermanns

    Hi Tom!

    I think you are right, I tested the "Free Plan" of Tymeshift right now and it can already do more as Explore, Omni Chanel Agent Status and so on. Pretty good detection of tickets agents working on, Calls, Daily Bar Chart Statistic. But yes, for Zendesk will have Add on for everything (AI ...)

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  • Jon Simone

    Have attempted to use Tymeshift a few times now and always found the interface clunky and it was hard to tell if the reporting was reliable (I would see agents offline that were on). I may have had it configured incorrectly but this is disappointing imho. 

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  • Anastasia Kachanova

    any updates on this topic? when we actually will be available to see granular historical reporting on agent availability and performance in Live Channels??

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  • Robert Elliott

    +1 for this, we definitely need to be a native report and option that we can pull, we need to be able to know and track to help keep our agents accountable. 

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  • Robert Delbueno

    another +1 , again. Seems like such an obvious feature.

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  • Lara Cox

    Karen Hynes. The last update on this was in MARCH. Please provide another. 

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  • Jose Garcia

    Can we have an update on this update please?

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