topic Re: Service SLA and ITSM in Tickets & Conversations

Service SLA and ITSM

PedroRodrigues — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:02:11 GMT

How can I set deadlines automaticaly based on the creation date of a ticket depending on the ticket service type, priority, customer and schedule (Work days only).

We need to provide our team visibility of our SLAs for each customer to guarantee the closure time of the tickets to meet the deadlines set by contract.

I tried to do that using workflows, but I feel like I don't have enough tools in the Tickets Workflow to build something like that, maybe I'm just trying to do it the wrong way...

Do you guys have any clue of how can I manage to build that?

Thank you very much!

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

darynsmith — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 07:54:34 GMT

@PedroRodrigues currently there are no SLA management tools for tickets. Using workflows as you have done is the closest you will get to this.

We are considering building an SLA tool whereby you can setup an SLA and then link it to a company or contact record. And then have a CRM extension to notify the agent/team of the SLA relevant to the customer is question, as well as notify them when they SLA will be breached.

We are assessing the demand for a SLA tool like this - would you be prepared to contribute to the development costs of such a tool?

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

StephHutch — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:53:55 GMT

This is the one feature that is preventing us from transitioning over from Zendesk. Please create some knowledge base articles to provide a workaround using workflows, and add this feature of SLA's for different customers types, who doesnt manage their customers by type or service level segmentation. 🙂

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

fabiomarques — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 21:21:54 GMT

It's a MUST HAVE the SLA tool. We need to know if a ticket is inside the SLA or no so that we can work with the team to prioritize this ticket. Also this will be important to create a dashboard were we can see how many ticket had their SLA impacted. I've tried with workflow but it's not the same, and if a ticket have more than one stage, the time the ticket stood on the stage 1 it's not added to the next stage.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

Brittany-RG — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:18:50 GMT

Following this thread. Figuring out the best way to handle SLAs in HubSpot Tickets is a pain point for me right now. Would love some insight and or updates.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

darynsmith — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 04:41:56 GMT

@Brittany-RG if your customers all have a very similar SLA, you can use workflows and put the amount of days/minutes as a delay. And then use a smart supression list to unenroll the ticket from the escalation.

Supression lists always run before the next step in a workflow.

If clients have different SLA's, you can create a pipeline for each SLA type and follow above steps.

We are about to launch our Customer Portal for your customers to be able to track the status of their tickets. And phase 2 of this will be an SLA tool.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

Phil_SB — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:15:19 GMT

Hey Daryn can you share more about the customer portal and do you know if there's a beta? We just transitioned to Hubspot and are having a number of challenges around SLA measurement (in particular, the fact that there is no concept of office hours/weekends). A customer portal where people can see their submitted tickets would be great.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

Brittany-RG — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:25:30 GMT

Thanks for the reply @darynsmith . That is helpful and much appreciated. Though, our biggest struggle now is that we use business hours for SLAs and I am not seeing and control for that.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

Raythien — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:03:54 GMT

My organization just switched to HubSpot for sales and marketing, and we would like to switch for service desk as well. However, without being able to configure SLAs, this is not possible. Hopefully this will be available in the near future.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

darynsmith — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:12:30 GMT

Hi @Raythien

I'm not sure if this will help - but you can set an SLA for how long a ticket can stay in a particular pipeline stage.

Do this by enrolling all tickets into a workflow where the enrollment criteria is the ticket must have the selected pipeline stage.

You can then build out the escalation actions - emails, tasks, text messages, slacks etc.

And then set an unenrollment criteria of the ticket being in any other pipeline stage.

The way HubSpot workflows run, is they always check the unenrollment criteria before executing the action.

So if the escalation path is that after 8 hours a task must be created for a manager. But the ticket has already been resolved, the task will never be created.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

Raythien — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 11:02:52 GMT

Thank you Daryn.

As was already written by some of the other users, the fact that there are no operating hours prevents this from being effective. If our service desk is open from 9 AM - 5 PM, we get a ticket at 6 PM, and our escalation rules are set to run after four hours, the ticket should not escalate 10 PM, but rather at 1 PM the next day.

Please let me know if there's a workaround for this.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

MatWeb — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:40:18 GMT

@darynsmith do you have any update on the customer portal? Is it available / will it be available soon? If yes when?

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

darynsmith — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:10:45 GMT

Hi @MatWeb - yes the Customer Service Ticket Portal is available, you can install it and test it here: https://ecosystem.hubspot.com/marketplace/apps/customer-success/ticketing/customer-ticket-portal-220145

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

BPouchain — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:57:16 GMT

Hi,

I like your solution but sadly, it's not enought, because it depend on business hours too. Exemple :

- Office open fron 9AM to 5 PM.

- Ticket is open TODAY at 6 PM.

- We have an 4 hours delay

=> The SLA should be TOMORROW at 1 PM and not today at 10 PM. Do you have any solution about this ? SLA is critical on "Ticket service" and Hubspot seem to have a major flaw in comparaison to other solution.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

eugeniadelvigna — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 13:40:48 GMT

Same here, I am following this thread to see if there is any update.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

ARINTJEMA — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:19:09 GMT

Hello,

SLA management should not even be a topic of discussion around a ticketing tool.

It's the basics and creating workflows is extremely complicated for something so basic.

And for that, you absolutely have to enable morning AND afternoon office hours.

Lots of logic problems like this on Hubspot, it looks like a tool still in beta.

Why when you click on the notficiations bell, the dot disappears as soon as the notification display is executed?
We should validate each notification one by one. How can we work efficiently if we can't see what we have to do?

Alexis.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

edowling — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:23:23 GMT

Hello everyone -- I'm excited to share this functionality; Service Level Agreements (SLAs) is now live for all Service Hub Professional and Enterprise customers!

This feature enables you to set SLAs in the inbox to help reps prioritize incoming tickets based on their importance and ensure that they meet your customer expectations. Please visit this knowledge base article: Set SLAs in the inbox for more details.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

JonathanS — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 22:19:12 GMT

Hey all, I'm a part of Aptitude 8's product team A8 Labs. We're currently in Beta for a new SLA Tool called Timerman SLA. It may help solve your problem as it allows you to assign SLA Policies to both tickets and deals via workflows. Timerman allows you to set your hours of operation and holidays. It also tracks time in each stage down to the minute and lets you create reports/dashboards within HubSpot!

We're releasing the app to beta users so shoot me a message if you'd like to learn more!

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

xtractor — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 21:57:14 GMT

While on the right path, limiting the priorities to HubSpot's default without any option to extend means Icannot use this feature.
Most of our customers follow some form of ITIL, and all of them use levels 1 to 4.
For us to be able to use the SLA functionality, I need to be able to make sure the levels align.

Please add to backlog, as it shouldn't be that difficult to amend and to customised priority in HubSpot even without SLA I'm sure is a highly requested feature.

Re: Service SLA and ITSM

bdermoum — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 16:40:14 GMT

That's great but how can we set up holidays or special days we don't want the SLA to be active. It's such a pain right now because we keep it unabled. It is unusable as is.