How to handle incoming ticketsUpdated 2 months ago

Every customer interaction is important, therefore every interaction is resulting in a new ticket on your Gorgias Helpdesk.

If a customer writes an email, or contact you via chat, or comments on one of your Facebook posts - all those actions will create a ticket in the Gorgias platform so that you can respond to your customers accordingly.

How it works

Ticket Status

In Gorgias, we have two ticket statuses: Open and Closed.

The story behind ticket status is that it helps your team keep track of open cases. You'll always know how many tickets you currently have opened and how many customers are waiting for your response.

Open Status

• If a ticket is opened, it means that the last message in that ticket should be from your customer.

Closed Status

• If a ticket is closed, it means that the last message in that ticket should be from you or one of your agents.

Additionally, you can mark your tickets as 'read' or 'unread' (just like you would with the emails in your mailbox for example) to better keep track of the tickets that you need to handle or not on an individual level.

This feature allows every agent to switch the tickets to 'read' or 'unread' based on whether or not they want to address them right away or not, without leaving the ticket read/unread for everyone else.

For example, let's say that you opened a certain ticket just to check something real quick, but you don't have time to reply to the customer right away. However, you'd like to get back to that ticket later, but how will you know that that's the one that wasn't replied to? As of now, even if you opened the ticket, you can still mark it as unread and get back to it later knowing that it wasn't handled.

This action can be bulk-applied as well! Inside a view, select at least one ticket (or select them all) to enable the action under the More dropdown.

If all selected tickets have the same status, the button to toggle it to the opposite status will be enabled. If the selection includes both read and unread tickets, both buttons will be displayed.

And if you are a fan of Gorgias keyboard shortcuts, this action comes with its own set as well:

• shift + i: mark selected tickets as read
• shift + u: mark selected tickets as unread

Ticket Workflow

When you initially receive a ticket in Gorgias, it will always have the status open, by default.

When an agent responds to a ticket:

1. The ticket gets automatically assigned to that agent (if it was not assigned to another agent already).
2. When responding to a ticket, the agent should always use either the "Send" option followed by the Snooze option.

Or the "Send & Close" option should be used instead:

Both of those options will actually set status closed to a ticket. Since views are configured to show you only opened tickets, this way you will always know if you have a new customer response or a new ticket created.

1. When your customer writes back to you and that same ticket was previously closed, it will automatically be reopened. The same will happen with snoozed tickets once the set time has passed.

Agents collision detection

When another agent is viewing or editing a ticket, there is always going to be a yellow bar shown at the top, when that ticket is opened. This will help prevent collisions between agents, as all agents will be aware if the ticket that they opened is being worked on.

Forwarding messages

Instead of replying to a ticket in Gorgias, you can also forward the thread:

This allows you to pass over the conversation and potentially loop in colleagues who are not using Gorgias.

Additional features

Editable reply threads for email messages

We are really excited to announce that you can now edit reply threads when forwarding or responding to emails!

To try it out, go to an email ticket and click the “three dots” button in the text editor. This will inject the reply thread into the editor, allowing you to remove any messages you’d like from the reply thread.

Customer ticket history

With Gorgias, you can also quickly check previous tickets from the same customer in just a couple of clicks! If the customer is reaching out using the same email address, all of the previous threads are accessible from the ticket itself!

• You'd need to click on the clock icon at the top left corner of the ticket

• Select a ticket from the list! Tickets from different channels through which the customer reached out will be shown as well.

FAQs

What happens once the ticket is closed? Will the replies received under the closed ticket result in opening a new ticket?

This actually depends on the channel in question, let us explain this a bit further:

Email: If the customer continues the conversation under the same email thread, even if the ticket was closed, it will reopen on the customer's message and won't be considered as a new ticket. The billable ticket count is 1.

If they, however, send a brand new email, a new ticket will be opened. If you reply, the billable ticket count is 2.

Chat / Facebook Messenger / Instagram DMs: If you close out a chat ticket from a customer, and they reach out again after more than 3 days, a new ticket will be opened. If you reply, the billable ticket count is 2.

If a closed chat ticket receives a response within 3 days, the closed ticket will reopen. The billable ticket count is 1.

The same applies for Facebook Messenger, and Gorgias Native SMS.

Social Comments: Every comment pulled from your social channels is considered as a new ticket. But replies to that comment will populate under the same ticket. If you reply to the comment from Gorgias, the ticket is billable. If you only like a Facebook comment but do not respond, ticket won't be billable.

If you exceed your billable ticket count for your plan, you will not be automatically moved up to the next plan, nor will your account be suspended or disabled. Rather, you will be billed for each additional billable ticket. Each subscription level has a different cost for this which is broken down below.

With Gorgias, the ability to merge customer communication profiles together allows you to see customer ticket history across all communication channels. This means that duplicate tickets are not responded to and in turn, your support efficiency is increased and billable ticket count is decreased.

What happens if the message fails to be sent?

If you've replied and click on "Send" but stay on the ticket, after a couple of seconds a red notification will appear stating that something went wrong.

If you've replied and click on "Send & Close":

• immediately:
  • the ticket is closed
  • you are redirected to the next ticket
• if the message failed to be sent:
  • the problematic ticket is reopened (even if the ticket was already closed prior to message send)
  • after a couple of seconds a red notification appears on the screen with link to the problematic ticket

In both case, the text of the message will be saved and you can retry to send the message.