Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Send automatic reminders when tickets break a threshold

Overview

Contact Suptask Support to get access and set up SLAs on your account.

Service Level Agreements (SLA) enables you to define how Agents should work with tickets in order to provide a good experience to requesters.

This is done by defining certain thresholds that are applied to your Inbox, where tickets need to comply by these thresholds.

Agents will automatically be notified about potential or executed breaches, making it easier to stay on top of your tickets.


SLA rules and thresholds

  • Priority levels: Define what Priority levels the SLA rule should be applied on. None, or Low, Medium, High, Critical

  • Resolution time: Time it takes to move a ticket to Closed (Solved). Calculated from when the ticket is created to when it is closed.

  • Reply time: Time it takes to send replies as an Agent (via the Responder channel) to Requesters. Calculated from the last reply. For the first reply, it is calculate from when the ticket was created.


Breaches, escalations and notifications

Tickets who are about to breach its SLA threshold, or faces a risk of doing so, can automatically notify Agents and other users.

  • Send a notification prior to a threshold breach: Define the time in minutes when the assigned Agent should be notified about a potential breach coming up.

  • Send a notification when a threshold has been breached: Define the time in minutes when the assigned Agent should be notified when a threshold has been breached.

  • Send an escalation notification: Select another user than the Agent who should be notified about the breach, for example the manager or team lead of the Agent team.

Example breach notification in:

This message is sent in the ticket thread as a notification to the team and Assignee

Example escalation notification:

This summarized escalation message is sent to e.g a manager directly from Suptask


Example SLA configuration

Priority thresholds

An SLA breach will occur when a threshold is exceeded.

Priority
Reply time threshold
Resolution time threshold

None

24 hours

7 days

Low

12 hours

4 days

Medium

8 hours

2 days

High

4 hours

1 day

Critical

1 hour

12 hours

Ticket notifications

Notifications are sent in the ticket targetting the assignee(s) when a threshold is breached.

Optionally you can configure a reminder notification prior to a breach.

Notify before & after
Excluded statuses
Max Notifications
Notify every

30 min

Waiting for customer

3

Daily

Escalation notifications

Escalations can be sent to any user of your choice.

Escalate after
Escalate to users
Excluded statuses
Max Notifications
Notify every

1 day

Greg (Manager)

Waiting for customer

3

6 hours

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