Purpose

Teamwork Desk is a support ticketing software to streamline our inbound customer support inquiries, track issues, and run small tasks through. 

To enhance our support operations & collaboration, ensuring prompt resolutions and building stronger customer relationships by getting tasks and issues resolved in a timely manner.


Application

All employees utilize Teamwork Desk software, which applies to Buzz Marketing's daily operations. 

Teamwork Desk Introduction

Please watch this video for an induction to the platform.



1. Finding Your Inbox

Tickets will be assigned to you as they are received. Please check your Teamwork Desk Inbox daily at the start of every shift and periodically throughout the day. To locate your inbox, look at the Custom View Menu on the left-hand side, as seen below.

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2. Creating a Ticket 

Tickets can be created in two ways. The first and easiest way is to open an email and send it to support@buzzmarketing.ca. It is even possible to send yourself a ticket or forward an email from a client that came into your email inbox. 

The second way is to open a ticket within the Teamwork Desk platform by clicking the +New Ticket button.

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Creating a ticket this way requires you to fill out all the input fields and assign them to the correct support team member or client, as seen below. 

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3. Ticket Status

Keeping statuses accurate as you work through each step on the ticket is essential. 
Here are the following statuses:

New Ticket: This type of ticket is unique and requires action.

Active: Set the ticket to Active when the work on it is actively in progress.

Waiting on Customer: This implies that you have replied to a customer and are waiting for a response.

Closed: Close the ticket once it is complete. 

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4. Ticket Tags

Ticket Tags are used to set the priority of the ticket.
The different tags include:

Billable Tickets: This ticket will be invoiced by our Office Admin after the ticket is completed and signed off. Be sure to assign the ticket over to the Office Admin for billing.

Non-Billable Ticket: The non-billable tickets are done mainly for our hosting clients, website maintenance clients, and recently launched website support. 

Super low Priority:  This ticket type is low priority and requires action within 3 to 5 business days.

Low Priority: This ticket type is also a low priority and requires action within 2 business days.

Medium Priority: This ticket requires action within 1 business day.

High Priority: This ticket requires action today. 

5. Replies and Notes 

Replies go directly to the set customer on the ticket when they need to be updated, or a question is asked. Notes are for internal communications on tickets with the team support members.

To name tag a team member, use the @sign and the team member's name if you need their attention on the ticket.

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6. Changing Ticket Customer 

You can change the customer associated with a ticket within the Teamwork Desk. This may be helpful if you have a long ticket thread with more than one party involved and must assign it to a new customer to continue.

When viewing an individual ticket, you will see a Customer section at the top of the sidebar to the right of the ticket. Click the three dots to the right of the customer name and choose Change Customer from the dropdown menu.



When you select this option, you can search for existing customers to assign it to. You can also create a new customer and associate them with the ticket.

Once you select a different customer, the changes will be reflected in the Customer area of the sidebar.



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7. Ticket and Time Tracking

To track time spent working on each ticket, post the time you have spent in bold at the bottom of each message stream. Note that it is essential to differentiate between billable and non-billable tickets. If the ticket is billable, make sure to assign the ticket to Office Admin after the ticket is completed and signed off by the client.

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8. Managing, Closing & Passing Tickets 

Managing: Each team member is responsible for managing their ticket inboxes. Team members are responsible for following up with the team member to whom they have assigned tickets at the start of their shift and throughout the day as needed.

Closing: Once a ticket is complete and signed off by the client or the team member who opened it, you may close the ticket.

Passing: You can pass a ticket to a team member if their help is required by reassigning the ticket and letting them know via Skype. 

9. Using Canned Responses

Within the Teamwork Desk, you can use canned responses to quickly insert frequently used information to ticket replies and notes.

You can apply existing canned responses via the ticket editor when replying to a ticket or adding a note.

Click the speech bubble icon in the editor menu and select the relevant canned response from the dropdown.

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10. Forwarding Tickets

Within the Teamwork Desk, you can use ticket forwarding to connect your third-party vendors to a ticket without giving them direct contact with your customers.

Select Tickets from the Teamwork Desk's main navigation menu.

Navigate to the relevant inbox.

Click a ticket to open it.

Select the Forward tab at the top of the editor. Forwarding allows you to forward the ticket to a third-party email address.

Type out the forward recipient's email address in the To field. The Teamwork Desk automatically suggests addresses to match existing customers on your site as you type.

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Enter a custom subject line. By default, it inherits the parent ticket's ticket number and subject.

Type a custom message above the Forwarded message line. The original ticket's previous replies are included and can be edited or removed as needed.

You can also uncheck the Include ticket history option at the bottom of the editor to exclude the entire history from the forwarded message.

For inboxes that have an email signature enabled, the signature will be included by default when forwarding a ticket. You can view the signature using the three dots at the bottom of the editor to expand the hidden content. 

Click Send Message.


11. Adding Tickets A Teamwork Project

12. Adding Followers to tickets



Working with Tickets

Please watch this video on working with tickets.