Routing & Automation
Auditing repetitive work before adding another support tool
Trace repeated agent actions, identify their causes and decide whether a workflow change, existing feature or new tool is justified.
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Mia Campbell
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Support Reporting
Building a fair conversation review sample
Define eligible conversations, draw a baseline sample and separate risk-triggered reviews so quality findings have a clear population.
Support Reporting
Checking storage and history limits
Check storage, attachments, customer-visible history and reporting windows in a proposed support plan.
Support Reporting
Checking the denominator behind support service metrics
Audit support percentages by identifying eligible cases, time anchors, exclusions and whether the unit is a ticket or an event.
Ticketing
Choosing when a chat should become a support ticket
Use the remaining customer action to decide when a chat needs tracked ticket work and avoid duplicate records where messaging already creates tickets.
Platform Migration
Comparing per-agent and usage-based support pricing models
Compare agent seats, contacts, AI sessions and outcomes against the same support workload and billing term.
Knowledge Base
Comparing public and agent-only knowledge bases
Decide what belongs in customer-facing and staff-only support articles, then check how four platforms control access and distribution.
Routing & Automation
Comparing suggested replies with autonomous responses
Suggested replies and autonomous responses have different failure paths.
Live Channels
Connecting email inboxes to a shared support system
Check forwarding, sender identity, ticket creation and reply continuity when moving customer email into a shared support queue.
Routing & Automation
Defining support workflows before comparing tools
Create a concise support workflow brief covering intake, ownership, handovers, required data and completion before comparing software.
Platform Migration
Evaluating a new platform after a process review
Turn process-review findings into a keep, extend or replace decision, with requirements and transition work made visible.
Knowledge Base
Evaluating search quality with real customer questions
Build a customer-question set, check the right search surfaces and diagnose poor results before changing knowledge base content.
Ticketing
Exporting tickets with attachments and conversation history
Check ticket exports for replies, internal notes and actual files, then reconcile each item before migrating support history.
Ticketing
Handling a failed customer-system lookup
Give agents clear fallback steps for missing, ambiguous, denied, stale and temporarily unavailable customer records.
Platform Migration
Mapping old ticket statuses to a new Zendesk system
Translate ticket statuses by next action and ownership, then test what happens when customers and agents update imported cases.
Support Reporting
Measuring first response and resolution time separately
Define separate clocks for first response and resolution, then check time anchors, office hours and cases missing a measured duration.
Support Reporting
Measuring whether a support technology change reduced customer effort
Define the affected customer journey, ask about ease, check repeat work and compare outcomes without overstating causation.
Routing & Automation
Monitoring integration delays that affect agents
Measure the age of information agents see, combine queue and delivery signals, and respond safely to stale connected data.
Routing & Automation
Passing order details to support agents
Choose useful order fields, verify customer matching and distinguish live source records from limited or stale support views.
Routing & Automation
Preserving context when a conversation changes channels
Carry the issue, verification status, open action and reply route when a support conversation changes channels, while checking delivery limits.
Ticketing
Preserving unresolved cases during a platform switch
Keep owners, next actions and reply routes intact for unresolved cases when switching support platforms.
Ticketing
Restricting access to sensitive customer cases
Design a restricted case workflow and check roles, participants, reports, requester access and connected applications.
Ticketing
Reviewing unused agent licences before renewal
Reconcile paid support seats with required work, hand over cases and confirm when a lower licence count takes effect.
Routing & Automation
Reviewing what a support integration can read
Audit a support integration's scopes, authorising identity, retrieved records, stored copies and revocation path.
Ticketing
Separating agent, supervisor and administrator permissions
Use a task-based matrix to separate support agent, supervisor and administrator actions, then check ticket visibility and exceptions.
Routing & Automation
Support channel integrations
Plan email, social messaging and order-data integrations around ticket capture, customer matching, replies and failure handling.
Ticketing
Support platform access
Plan support platform access by role, case visibility, temporary work and integration permissions, with checks for each grant.
Platform Migration
Support platform reliability
Define the support paths that must work, spot partial failures, prepare for disruption and check recovery and vendor commitments.
Routing & Automation
Support routing and automation
Design support routing around reliable fields, clear ownership, monitored exceptions and controlled automation changes.
Platform Migration
Support software costs
Build a support software budget that includes seats, usage, add-ons, storage and billing commitments.
Support Reporting
Support workforce tools
Learn how support workforce tools connect demand forecasts, staffing requirements and rosters, and which product limits to check.
Routing & Automation
Testing a routing change before all tickets use it
Check a routing rule with expected cases, inspect actual ticket paths and widen the change only after a controlled first release.
Platform Migration
Testing customer identity matching during migration
Build a known-answer identity test set, inspect ambiguous matches and check that migrated tickets attach to the right customer.
Ticketing
Ticket management systems
Set up ticket records, statuses, ownership and queue order so support requests have a clear next action.