HubSpot Ideas

Brandonbaker

Setting for "Working hours" for ServiceHub

The ability to have a global setting in which we could set working hours for our support team who is using ServiceHub.

  1. This would allow us to drive workflows and autoresponders for tickets and conversations submitted outside of working hours.
  2. It would also allow us to obtain a higher degree of accuracy for our analytics.
    1. Example: Average Time to Respond Over Time, Average Time to Close, Average Time to Respond all are taking into account the weekend.
    2. We need the ability to pull the tickets that are submitted over the weekend or holidays (outside working ours) to start the time attributed to that ticket once we are inside of working hours. Example: working hours are M-F 8am-5pm. A ticket is submitted at 7:30pm on Friday. The counters on that ticket should not start until 8am on Monday when our team is back working again. Currently, we have data that is showing subpar response times.

 

Mises à jour HubSpot
February 21, 2024 05:29 AM

Good morning, everyone! We are working on building out user working hours, and you can learn more about the upcoming feature here. We anticipate this feature being available for beta in March. At this time, the main focus is conversation or ticket routing and scheduled meetings. Our next priority is to add out of office as well, and that will come later in 2024.

84 Commentaires
CBOUQUET
Membre

This feature is very important because it affects the statistics.

 
KHardisty
Participant

This is very important to our business reporting.

 

Could be helpful to set globally and also at a team level. Of course different time zones would need to be considered.

trangnguyen
Participant

Is there an updated status on this?

 

Our team would benefit from this as we have global teams and need to manage working hours for our service teams.

NChamberlain
Membre

For sure this is a needed feature. It would help me have a real working knowledge of the efficiency of each channel, how to allocate my resources, and help agents answer questions faster/better.

Any update on when this could be available?

DaveJoRo
Participant

This is super important for us as a key metric we measure is response time. With the weekends included, this really messes things up when we want to keep that response under 10 mins!

HNelson1
Membre

This would be extremely benefical to our comapany when reporting on our sales team!

I am currently having to manually calculate this information, which is very time consuming!

NChamberlain
Membre

Here’s what I did, and it works. I created a property with a radio-select field. Then I created 2 main workflows (and an optional Holiday workflow). Now I can easily report when our tickets are coming in.

 

1. Create a Ticket property called ‘Business Hours?’

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2. Create 3 different workflows that kick off when a ticket is created. 

SET BUSINESS HOURS

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Only execute the workflow during business hours.

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SET NON-BUSINESS HOURS

Delay the 'Non-business hours' by a minute and build an if/then branch to update the field if it's empty.

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Only execute the workflow during NON-business hours.

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SET HOLIDAY HOURS WORKFLOW

Should look just like the 'Business Hours' workflow but sets the field to ‘Holiday’. You'll need to pause the 'Business Hours' workflow from executing and manually turn on the 'Holiday Hours' for those days your office is closed.

 

3. Report

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NChamberlain
Membre
Here's what I did, and it works: I created a property with a radio-select field. Then I created 2 main workflows and an optional Holiday workflow.

1. Create a Ticket property called 'Business Hours?'
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1. Create 3 different workflows that kick off when a ticket is created.
SET BUSINESS HOURS
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SET NON-BUSINESS HOURS
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SET HOLIDAY WORKFLOW
Looks just like the Business Hours but sets the Business Hours to 'Holiday'.
JohnL
Membre

Hi community,

 

Any updates about creating reports but only considering working hours? Because it seems that receiving clients' requests outside our working hours distorts our reports and resolving time is longer than in reality. 

 

SandraCarls
Membre

We definitely need this for our CS-team!

SalesAdvisor
Participant

AWESOME! EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED

JamieWilde
Membre

Completely agree, this is something a lot of our teams have requested independently as it was in our old CRM system.

Yevheniia
Membre

As for now, this causes many issues and takes a lot of time to get the right report.
It is a must!

cneisel
Membre

agree, should be standard, ETA?

DevinHenry
Membre

I'll bump this again, since I believe it's extremely important to the majority of Service Hub users. Hopefully Hubspot can make this update soon. 

zfvl
Membre

Still very needed! Please prioritize this HS!

SBosevich
Participant

Come on, HubSpot. It's been almost 5 years and still no action on what is BASIC functionality for a critical need.  SLA functionality is gone  without being able to exclude times/days from the running of a workflow.  How are we supposed to monitor staff??

LRadhauer
Membre

I have found a workaround inspired by @NChamberlain's suggestion, as it has a minor flaw.

 

So what you do is (1) create the ticket property 'Business Hours' and (2) set up the three different workflows.

 

The problem with stopping there, is that all tickets coming in outside of business hours will be labeled as 'No', but switched to 'Yes' as soon as you are back in business hours. This is because tickets still enter the workflows even outside of the set times. Basically what the set times do, is that they just execute the final action when activated – it doesn't mean that they are inactive outside of set times.

 

For example, if a ticket arrives outisde of business hours at 5:10pm, it will enter both worflows ('Set business hours' and 'set non-business hours') and the property will be set to 'No'. But in the meantime, the 'set business hours' workflow has already decided that the property will be set to 'Yes', as 'Set non-business hours' is delayed by 1 minute. What will happen, is that when we are back to business hours, the property will be changed from 'No' to 'Yes', as the action is then executed. You can see that in the property history of your ticket.

 

To make sure that doesn't happen, all you need to do is set up a fourth workflow to correct this:

 

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This workflow is activated at all times, and just checks if the property is currently 'Yes', but if it has ever been set to 'No', and then reverts that action.

 

This works for us and correctly labels tickets.

AG33
Membre

BUMP  We Pay 1000s  for this product and left other lesser products to  get hubspot ... its seems very doable... our data  from Service hub is basically garbage without this feature

 

hjohnstone-tct
Membre

+1 - echoing everything mentioned so far, this is much needed!