HubSpot Ideas

basil

Time to Close and Time to First Reply Taking Business Hours into Account

We have SLAs with customers that we respond during business hours and during weekdays within a certain time period. It would be greate if the Time to Close and the Time to First Reply KPIs could have an option that they are calculated based on business hours.

 

E.g. If a ticket is opened on Thursday and closed on Monday, then the time to close would be 3 days (since Saturday and Sunday are not counted given they are the Weekend).

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February 23, 2023 08:55 AM

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January 05, 2023 08:34 AM

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January 05, 2023 08:19 AM

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August 02, 2022 07:09 AM

Status aktualisiert zu: Being Reviewed
February 03, 2021 07:16 AM

Multiple teams are reviewing this idea, in part to enable more 'time between' reporting. Thank you all for offering your thoughts, we deeply appreciate it.

94 Kommentare
JPaleschi
Teilnehmer/-in

@dmastin - Is there any update or news on the idea review? 🙂 Very big update for some core service desk need

BSherwood
Teilnehmer/-in
LLynam
Teilnehmer/-in

Any updates on this. We are new to HubSpot and I assumed this funstionality would be standard. One of our main metrics to report on.

KNeipp
Mitglied

Having this metric available and only calculating it within business hours is a basic need of a support team looking first reply time and time to close. Please add this and I'll throw a dance party in your honor 💃🕺

JPaleschi
Teilnehmer/-in

Any ideas on an update on the status of this one @dmastin ? 🙂

RPovey
Mitglied

As with others, without this feature, the Time To Close report is of little use. Any update on the progress of this being implemented?

KNeipp
Mitglied

Any updates on where or if this falls in the roadmap? It's concerning that this idea was originally posted in 2020 😕. Support teams have a few basic metrics they're looking to track that are critical to their success - an accurate, within business hours First Response Time and Time to Close are at the TOP of the list. 

JLindsay13
Mitglied

It's very hard to hold our team to account when we can't measure them on accurate metrics. This is a super important feature. 

Status aktualisiert zu: Not Currently Planned
dmastin
HubSpot-Produktteam
 
ELichon
Mitwirkender/Mitwirkende

^^ Things like this make me pause when I prospect a new tool or upgrade within the HubSpot platform, because I know I'm going to run into a fairly "simple", other-tools-have-it, common feature request that just will not be implemented no matter how many years of requests there are, how much sense it makes, and how relatively "simple" it seems.

 

I don't envy being a SAAS developer, but man, it seems like I've got 15 HubSpot features on my wishlist that just aren't coming. Nowadays if I search for a functionality and I find an ideas thread, I know right then and there it likely isn't coming.

KNeipp
Mitglied

^^^ Agreed. This communicates that the Service end of Hubspot is low priority. I can understand that, but this metric is a basic need of every support team. The fact that it's not being looked at is concerning. 

LLynam
Teilnehmer/-in

I think its time to start worrying about the future of service hub. Its pretty clear that it isn't a priority at all if something as fundamental as this isn't being planned. And lets be honest, even if it was planned, we would be a long way off seeing it. We purchased the hub alongside sales and marketing on the promise (yes thats right who trusts the promises of sales people) from the AE that they were putting heavy investment into all hubs. 

The service hub is the weakest part of HubSpot and needs more attention. 3 months in and its clear to see we won't be using it very long. Back to the drawing board I think.

dwc1993
Teilnehmer/-in

Definitely need this. Trying to use a workaround to use "calculated properties" or exporting and creating formulas in excel is NOT ideal. Obviously, some companies work on the weekends, so there should be a COMPANY BUSINESS HOURS/DAYS setting available...

jaymie
Mitglied

This would be clutch - the opportunity for us to set "working hours" or "working days" and have a report that reflects timeframe within those restrictions would be fantastic and absolutely a game-changer.

arielowens
Teilnehmer/-in
JMChevassus
Mitglied

Are you still waiting or did anybody find a solution to avoid weekend counts and focus on working days (or hours) duration when measuring tickets treatment?

netaffinitymaja
Mitwirkender/Mitwirkende

Hi JMChevassus

No solution for that yet Im afraid.

What we did in the meantime, we set up tickets SLA's, that at least gives us a fair overview within office hours 

Maja

RPovey
Mitglied

Hi @JMChevassus No solution as yet that satisfies what we need. 

 

serlim
HubSpot Employee

Hello team 

Just to add on to this existing thread here:

We currently have the in-app message feature to alert paid users to when a ticket is nearing it's SLA during the team's working hours. I have a few suggestions on how current feature can be expanded to give customers higher visibility of how their team is performing with regard to SLA:

The current feature is great but it does require users to click into the inbox and scroll through the conversations to check how the assigned owner is doing. If we could have this display on the ticket board as well, that would be even better as users can just glance at the ticket board and quickly identify which tickets are nearing the SLA or are overdue, see attached screenshots. 

Another suggestion would be to give customers the optiuon of enabling email notifications to selected users once a ticket is overdue, so that they can action on it quickly. 

Additionally, the ticket board has this line 'Open for X hours/days' currently that starts counting down from the timestamp of the ticket creation. It would be great if we could allow customers to exclude non working days and hours from this figure as it would then be able to provide a useful, accurate number of how long the ticket has actually been open for.For the product team's consideration!  inbox - sla msg.jpgticket board suggestions.jpg

Yevheniia
Mitglied
 It is a crucial thing for our reporting! Currently, we have the wrong analytics because it includes our non-business hours. Our ticket time to close can reach 48 hours which is not right. How should we deal with that? This is not acceptable.
We require some solution for that!!!!