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Improving Zendesk's WhatsApp Integration: A Call for Enhanced Ticket Management
Posted Mar 17, 2024
Zendesk is a widely used customer service platform, offering efficient ticketing solutions across various communication channels. However, one area that requires enhancement is the management of WhatsApp tickets. Presently, there's an issue where subsequent messages from users are routed to previous tickets, leading to confusion and inefficiencies in issue resolution. This white paper proposes a solution to address this challenge and improve the overall ticket management system within Zendesk.
The current issue lies in the handling of sequential messages from users on WhatsApp. When a user sends multiple messages about different issues over time, all messages are often routed to a single ticket. This causes complications, particularly when the previous ticket is closed or resolved, leading to reopening of resolved issues, inaccurate reporting, and difficulty in tracking individual problems.
To mitigate this issue, we propose the implementation of a “time-out” mechanism within Zendesk's WhatsApp integration. This mechanism would allow administrators to set a predefined time interval, after which a new ticket is created for subsequent messages from the user. Administrators can set a time interval (e.g., 30 minutes, 1 day) after which subsequent messages from a user on WhatsApp will initiate a new ticket.
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Improved Efficiency: By preventing the bundling of unrelated issues into single tickets, the proposed solution streamlines the ticket management process, allowing support agents to focus on individual problems more effectively.
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Enhanced Reporting: Clearer ticket segmentation enables more accurate reporting and analysis, providing valuable insights into common issues, trends, and areas for improvement.
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Better User Experience: A seamless interface for handling different ticket context, reducing frustration and confusion.
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Effective Issue Tracking: With each issue allocated to a separate ticket, tracking and monitoring of problem resolution become more organized and comprehensive.
The proposed solution presents a practical approach to addressing the existing challenges in Zendesk's management of WhatsApp tickets. By incorporating a time-out mechanism, the solution offers improved efficiency, enhanced reporting capabilities, and a better overall user experience. We believe that implementing this feature will benefit both Zendesk users and administrators, paving the way for more effective ticket management and customer support.
This post serves as an open letter to Zendesk, urging the consideration and implementation of the proposed solution to enhance their WhatsApp integration. Everyone's support and feedback on this initiative are highly appreciated. Let's work together to improve the ticket management experience for everyone.
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Shawna James
Hey Azriel,
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. This has been logged for our PM team to review. For others who may be interested in this feature request, please add your support by upvoting this post and/or adding your use case to the comments below. Thank you again!
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Naina Mathur
Hey Azriel, thank you for taking the time to provide us with this feedback.
We apologize for the delay on our end in providing you with a response to your feature request.
A solution for this issue - specifically ability to mitigate reopens , and new ticket to prevent long running conversations has been accepted and is on our roadmap in 2024. Per our Community Guidelines that we do not provide specific timelines around releases for our product and any discussion of planning is always subject to change. To stay on top of product releases please visit our What’s New page in the Help Center. We are going to leave this post open for comment to allow others to provide their feedback and use cases.
Thank you again for your feedback and for being a valuable customer with Zendesk.
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Azriel Berney
I noticed that the same issue is at play with the text channel, is that also planning on having the solution applied to this as well?
I would also like to add a suggestion I saw. In a case where there are 2 tickets opened for one end user when an agent sends out a reply on one ticket, that ticket should be considered active for a “set-able” amount of time. This is so that messages are routed to the proper ticket for better conversation tracking and contextual reference.
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Bruno Gabriel
Any update on this?
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Bruno Gabriel
Shawna James
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Naina Mathur
Hi there
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with this feedback. We apologize for the delay on our end in providing you with a response to your feature request.
This is a great feature request and I have added it to the backlog for future consideration. At the moment you may use the End Session end session feature to prevent reopening of the original ticket. We will explore this configurable time out period enhancement - This means that we will think about adding it as a priority later in our planning cycle. We are going to leave this post open for comment to allow others to provide their feedback and use cases, however please note as is stated in our Community Guidelines that we can not commit to prioritizing any one piece of feedback we receive in the community.
Thanks,
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