Month: June 2017

Salesforce Service Cloud – Contact Center Reports

As a call center manager, it is very important to monitor team’s case performances targets, train new support agents, analyze team’s open case performance and etc. There are multiple matrices which a call center manager normally monitor to improve contact center’s performance. Call center manager can use Salesforce reports to monitor critical support metrics such as -Total open cases by agentsTotal cases created by agents and statusTotal cases created by agents and productsTotal average age by agentTotal closed cases by agentLet’s start with few important reports here -Agent Open Case Load by Origin/Type:This report will help call center manager to determine his/her team’s bandwidth/workload. The report will be grouped based on Agent and Case Origin/Type(based on your business operation). From here call center manager can easily get real time view of his/her team’s current work pressure. Here comes the report -Average Age of Open Case:Another very important report to understand your team’s performance – how long your agents are taking to serving customers and thus meeting the service-level agreements (SLAs). To create this report, you can customize the out-of-the-box report “Total Open Cases By Agent” and then summarize the Age column (Summarize by Average). Below is how the report will look like -Average Age of Closed Case by Agent:Call center managers can use this report to monitor their agent’s productivity in terms of how quickly agents are closing the cases....

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Salesforce Live Agent Chat – Objects

In this post, I am going to explain about the standard objects which will be created by default the moment you enable Live Agent in your organization. Let’s start – Live Chat Visitors:This object contains information about the visitors who has initiated the chat session. One important field here is the Session Key. A session key in a unique record which is stored on Live Chat Visitor’s record and end user’s machine as a cookie. But why? The reason is if the end user is initiating multiple chat sessions, then Salesforce will link all Live Chat Transcripts records (This is another object, which I will explain in a few minutes) to this unique Live Chat Visitor record. Here is a sample Live Chat Visitor record. Live Chat Transcripts:This is the record which tells you the conversation that happened between your Service Representatives and End Users. It stores the chat transcripts. Salesforce will automatically create the record for you as soon as the chat session is ended and your service representatives close the chat transcript. Here is sample Live Chat Transcript record.Live Chat Transcript Events:This object tracks all the events that occur between Service Representatives and Customer during the chat. Few important events are like Chat Request, Accept Request, Route Information, Transfer information. You can see the detail of events – https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=live_agent_transcript_events.htm&language=en&type=0Here is sample Live Chat Transcript Event record.Live Agent Sessions:This...

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Salesforce Live Agent Chat – Understand the Basics

Using Live Agent Chat, Sales Representatives can chat with their customers and solve their problems or answer their questions. In today’s world providing first class services to customers is very important and chat support plays an important role here. Live Agent Chats are referred as Live Chat as well. With Live Chat, customers don’t need to wait for the long queue or need to wait for replies for their email queries. They can get immediate attention which eventually improves customer satisfactions. Trailhead comes up with a very good project “Build a Branded Chat” which explains how to enable Live Chat and it’s basic configurations. I recommend everyone to please go through this one and understand the basic of the Live Agent Chat first before proceeding further. Below is the visual representation of “Live Agent” Object Model. Though I am saying it “Object Model”, but most of them are not objects. 🙂  Let’s try to two basic terminologies associated with Live Agent.1. Skill:To understand Skills, we first need to understand how we want to support our customers – is it based on geography? Is it based on business units? Is it based on products? etc.. Then based on the answers you will hire employees and train them so that they can support your customers. These peoples are known as Sales Representatives who normally support your customers. So let’s say, the...

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