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Reimagining Customer Support with MSPbots Next Ticket

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November 21, 2023
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Nia Rabanes
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MSPs stand on the brink of a transformative era, pivoting from traditional methods and exploring the vast potential of automation. This promises profound benefits: from increased efficiency and productivity to boosting customer service quality. This shift isn’t just about advancements in tech; it’s about refining the overall user experience. To facilitate this change, raise the bar on your customer support with MSPbots’ Next Ticket. Leave behind the woes of traditional ticket dispatching by leveraging automation to improve your processes and customer service.  

Manual Dispatch & Triage

In traditional customer support systems, every request requires time consuming triage to avoid wandering aimlessly in the vastness of support queues to properly assess and prioritize tickets.  

With A Ticket Dispatcher

The process of manual ticket triage is time-consuming, complex and costly.

Initially, each ticket demands diligent reading to grasp the customer’s issue, comprehend the troubleshooting steps taken, and assimilate any other key information.

Figuring out how urgent a ticket is laborious. It requires understanding the issue’s impact on the customer’s business, how severe it is, and matching it with what the customer expects.

After these labor-intensive evaluations, the task of assigning the ticket starts which calls for an analysis of the skills and expertise needed, along with the often-daunting chore of verifying staff availability.

The drawn-out manual process takes up a significant amount of time and, because of its delays, can lead to decreased customer satisfaction as clients wait for solutions.

Without a Ticket Dispatcher

Without a ticket dispatcher, the challenges are amplified. Requests frequently get lost in the abyss, leading to disgruntled customers and stressed support teams.

There’s no designated individual responsible for sifting through the influx of tickets, prioritizing them, or allocating them appropriately.

In this scenario, the responsibility often falls haphazardly onto managers, who already juggle numerous other tasks, or becomes a chaotic every-tech-for-themselves situation. Technicians, in trying to address tickets, may inadvertently overlap efforts or completely miss some. Worse still, some may select easy to solve items and ignore more severe ones.

This lack of a central figure or system to direct the flow results in a disorderly process where tickets can easily be mismanaged or overlooked, leading to mounting customer frustrations.

The Dream: Support Perfection

Automation stands out as a key solution, refining each step of customer support for better results.

Instead of wading through a wave of tickets manually, an advanced ticketing system instantly makes sense of each customer’s unique needs and challenges. The tickets are identified and categorized as soon as they come in, ensuring an immediate and precise triage.

This speedy and accurate classification gives way to a prioritized dispatch, propelling tickets with unmatched speed to the best-suited personnel. Armed with this well-defined information, experts can then zero in on problem-solving, minimizing potential delays or back-and-forths.  

With automation supercharging the triage process, issues can be resolved swiftly and accurately. By simplifying the initial steps, technicians can focus their expertise more effectively on the core issues, enhancing their overall productivity. This leads to delighted customers which then ripples to positive word-of-mouth, glowing testimonials, and increased loyalty.

Happy customers are the cornerstone of both robust profit growth and a distinguished brand reputation. In this world, automation seamlessly blends efficiency and dedication, combining efficiency and commitment which benefits both customer happiness and business success.

The New Dawn: MSPbots’ Next Ticket Revolution

Customer Support with MSPbots’ Next Ticket brings the envisioned support process to reality. Here’s how it happens:

Next Ticket

Next Ticket acts as a dependable assistant for your ticket dispatcher. With Next Ticket’s automation, the dispatcher no longer needs to manually handle, categorize, or prioritize tickets.

Next Ticket’s functionality starts with setting up filters, creating rules in line with your existing triage process using categories from your PSA system. Then, to prioritize incoming tickets, you configure these rules by allocating points based on how they contribute to levels of customer urgency. For instance, using the “Company Type” criterion, you can decide the points assigned to a ticket when that specific criterion matches.

With its help, there’s no need to painstakingly review each ticket in detail. In fact, Next Ticket can save up to 80% of the dispatcher’s time. Simply put, MSPbots Next Ticket streamlines the process, making ticket dispatching more efficient and effective.  

BI (Business Intelligence)

MSPbots offers ready-to-use dashboards and widgets for various business needs. We provide template dashboards which are designed for all users, as well as custom dashboards which are tailored to each account with full editing capabilities.  

These dashboards give a quick overview of vital metrics. The streamlined triage and dispatching enabled by Next Ticket displayed on these dashboards. With over 1,000 integrated widgets, you get instant insights into your ticketing process and overall MSP performance.

Bots

MSPbots empowers businesses with automation processes that introduce a 24/7 virtual manager assistant, ensuring seamless operational flow through bots.

These bots offer round-the-clock availability. With the ability to send customizable alerts, each bot can directly engage with employees based on their unique roles, tasks, and performance metrics, preventing the need for manual team check-ins.  When not headed, they will escalate messages to management ensuring that proper coaching can be carried out in a timely manner before issues become recurring damaging customer satisfaction and company reputation.

Additionally, specialized Micro Training bots deliver targeted training, with tailored content to each employee’s specific responsibilities, ensuring everyone’s work meets the company’s standards.  

Mark Luna, Excellent Networks CEO, had long been searching for a way to streamline his operations and reduce the daily pressures of management.

“When I saw the alerts that MSPbots does, it kind of created like a mini manager for me, so I wouldn’t have to worry [about] a lot of things,” he explained.

Attendance App

The Attendance App is a tool for automated attendance management, providing insights into productivity and actionable data.

This all-in-one solution not only eases attendance tracking but also delivers valuable business information. By setting clear rules in the app, like punctuality standards and break durations, businesses can ensure consistent attendance practices.

Traditional PTO applications, often bogged down by paperwork and delays, become straightforward with the Attendance App. Employees can quickly submit PTO requests, with automatic routing to managers for swift approvals. Instead of manual check-ins and dispersed communication, the app centralizes attendance updates, whether they’re remote or on-site.  

The alerts served as a proactive assistant providing timely updates and reducing Mark’s need for constant oversight, allowing him to focus on the business rather than in it.

For a deeper dive into our efficiency and results, feel free to explore these case studies and our insightful whitepaper.  

Elevate customer support with MSPbots Next Ticket. Take the lead, transform your support structure, and bring your brand to the next level with us.  

Because every ticket, just like every client, deserves attention.