Glossary

 

Account ID

An account is a unique identifier. It represents a company and may contain multiple clients.

 

Answer Book

Answer Book helps you to build a knowledge base where clients and representatives can search in existing articles, added by other representatives, before creating or while replying to a ticket.

 

Assigned To

Client service representatives can assign the ticket(s) to a representative. Click Assign To and select the respective REP ID. In addition, the clients may also assign tickets to a representative, via the client interface.

 

Auto Responders

Auto Responders are pre-defined responses for replying to clients about the status of their tickets.

 

Awaiting Customer Response

The status signifies that the representative is waiting for additional information or a reply from the client.

 

Cancelled

The tickets cancelled by the clients, cannot be reopened. They are assigned the status- cancelled.

 

Category

Category is a classification of the ticket. This allows the representative to allocate the ticket under a predefined group.

 

Client

A client is an individual for whom a ticket can be created.

 

Closed Tickets

The tickets that have been attended to, or where the query has been resolved,  are listed under Closed Tickets. These tickets can be reopened, if required.

Deferred

The status of a ticket where, either the client is not responding or the representative cannot work on the ticket immediately.

 

Draft

It is a copy of information prepared by the representative, for the client and would be sent to him later.

 

Due Date

The last date fixed for resolving the ticket.

 

Escalated

Forwarding a ticket automatically to another representative incase the ticket matches a specified escalation rule.

 
Fixed Tickets

All tickets that have been attended to, and await client’s feedback are listed under Fixed Tickets.

 

Language

Choose your look-up language as English, French, German or Chinese (simplified).

 

Log In

Enter the login information such as username and password to gain access to the system.

 

Open Tickets

All new and unassigned requests are known as Open Tickets.

 

Password

A secret word, 4-10 characters long that allows admittance or access to the interface used for logging, adding clients and modifying the client’s details.

 

Priority

Rating a ticket as Normal, Important, Very Important or Urgent, etc. depending on the level of urgency. Remember, the administrator can configure more priority types like Normal, Urgent, etc.

 

Queue

The Queue signifies the category on the basis of which you can classify the ticket list. It makes the list more precise to work on.

 

Representative (Rep) Name

Representative Name is the login name of the client service representatives.

 

Routed

Routed means reassigning of a ticket to a representative by another representative when he or she is unable to resolve it.

 

Spell Checker

Spell Checker is used to check the spellings of the message.

 

Status

The current position of the ticket.

 

Ticket Channel

Ticket Channel is the media through which the clients’ query reaches the Helpdesk (i.e. Telephone, Email, Fax, etc.). A Representative can assign channels while creating a ticket on behalf of the client.

 

Ticket Number (T.No.)

Ticket Number is a unique identity given to the collection of interactions between client and representative on a specific issue. Every ticket is allotted a unique ticket number.

 

Ticket Subject

Subject of the ticket, i.e. what the ticket or query is about.

 

Ticket Type

A unique identifier to define the ticket, assign a Ticket Type as Urgent, Problem or a Suggestion.

 

Trash

Trash contains the tickets that have been deleted from the list.

 

User Name

Administrator has to assign a User Name to the representatives to enable them to login to the system.