Odoo Helpdesk Overview

Odoo Helpdesk is a centralized software support system which helps support team & users to handle the support requests such as general inquires, technical issues, any new requests received from customer against the Products/Services delivered to them.

The Main objective of this Helpdesk system is to

  • Acknowledge the customer request quickly
  • Reply to their queries in a systematic way as quickly as possible
  • Provide Solution to the requests within SLA
  • Communicate with customer about the request closure
  • Improve the service delivery with high customer satisfaction
  • Track the History of communications with customer for future audit purpose

This Helpdesk system works as

  • Internal Helpdesk – To handle Internal Employee’s support request such as IT Support, HR support, Admin support etc
  • External Helpdesk – To support customers against company’s products/services sold

Helpdesk Workflow

General Features

  • Manual Creation of Support Tickets
  • Creation of Support Tickets through Email
  • Creation of Support Tickets through API
  • Creation of support tickets through Portal (Access provided to customer)
  • Dedicated / Shared Support Teams to customers
  • Support with Individual support emails associated with each team
  • Dedicated SLA Rules for Each Team for Responses and Resolutions
  • Dedicated working schedule for each team
  • Dedicated Team Members for each support Team
  • Team wise Field Display (On/Off)
  • Add/Remove customers to teams any time
  • Default Assignee at the team level/Customer level
  • Adequate Master data to support Helpdesk Activities
  • Configurable Email Templates for any communications
  • Configurable Customers and their branches
  • Configurable Ticket Categories with respect each team
  • Provision to Integrate with any Third Party system via API
  • Portal view to customer to know the ticket status
  • Reopen a Closed ticket for Defined set of period
  • Flexible data Filters
  • Flexible to store the filters and view data anytime
  • Export required field data anytime
  • Data restriction Team wise
  • Access Controls (Support User/Team Lead/Manager)
  • Support Incoming email Server with IMAP/POP server authentication
  • Support Incoming email Server with Outlook Authentication
  • Support Incoming email Server with SMTP Authentication
  • Support Incoming email Server with Gmail Authentication
  • Support Outgoing email with any email servers including AWS

Helpdesk Ticket Features

  • Ticket Creation upon Incoming email to support Emails
  • Ticket Creation (Manual) upon phone calls received
  • File Attachments While creating tickets
  • Acknowledgement to the customer upon Ticket creation
  • Auto Assignment of ticket
  • Notification to Assignee when ticket getting assigned
  • Open tickets in new tab
  • Reply from Tickets by Support person
  • File Attachments while sending reply (Inline/External)
  • Reply to “To” and “CC” Emails
  • Email Signatures while reply to the ticket
  • Addition of Previous Mail Communications while reply (Mail Threading)
  • Capture the Customer replied tickets
  • Maintain configurable stages
  • SLA Policy based on selected Team, Ticket Priority, Severity
  • Calculate SLA Deadline, SLA Remaining Time
  • Calculate Age of The Ticket
  • Sort tickets based on SLA Remaining Time
  • SLA Success/Failures for Ticket Response and Resolutions
  • Capture Resolution and Reply to the customer upon ticket closure
  • Ticket Checklist for Closure
  • Allow to Close the ticket only when defined checklist are met
  • Maintain Different stages of the ticket
  • Print the ticket with History of log notes
  • Move Ticket status to Feedback
  • Put the Ticket on hold
  • Capture the root cause of the Ticket Issue
  • Capture Ticket Working hours (Timer to Start and End Time of each activity)
  • Automatic Timesheets based on start and end time
  • Manage Ticket Stage Change Histories
  • Keep communication history
  • Capture Customer ratings and their Feedback
  • Merging of two or more tickets

Helpdesk Dashboard Features

  • Helpdesk Dashboard to View Periodic Ticket statistics
  • Parameters to Filter and view ticket measures and graphical view of status
  • View SLA Performance (SLA Met, SLA Not Met, & SLA Breach Count) measures along with Links
  • Team wise Total/Open/Feedback/Closed tickets based on the Search Criteria
  • Assignee wise Total/Open/Closed /Feedback Tickets based on Search criteria
  • Team Vs Incident wise Ticket Status
  • Team Vs Request wise Ticket Status
  • Assignee Vs Incident Ticket Status
  • Assignee Vs Request Ticket Status

Helpdesk Benefits

  • Support for Business extension
  • Faster Resolution of Issues within defined SLA
  • Monitor the Ticket status through the Dashboard and act fast
  • Centralized Data availability for continuous support and improvements
  • Support for Future auditing
  • Expose the Support system for new sales

Helpdesk Screenshots

Helpdesk Dashboard

Helpdesk Team Master

Helpdesk List View

Helpdesk Form View

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