An SLA policy (service level agreement) lets you set standards of performance for your support team. They're like a target, or a deadline, within which your team is expected to respond and resolve tickets.
You can set targets for
- the very first response that you send to the customer
- every response that's sent after the first response (Available from Estate)
- the ticket resolution
You can either have a single SLA policy for all tickets or have different SLA policies for different types of tickets. As an example, you can have a shorter SLA target for tickets from Social media or VIP customers.
In these series of articles, we'll be talking about
- Editing the default SLA policy
- SLA targets for every response
- Reminders and escalations for an SLA policy
Editing the default SLA policy
The default SLA policy applies to all your tickets.
- Login to your Freshdesk
- Go to Admin > Workflows > SLA Policies
- If you're on the Blossom plan of Freshdesk, you can edit the Default Policy
- Because how fast you're required to respond to tickets depends on its priority, you can set-up a different SLA target for the different ticket priorities- urgent, high, medium and low
- Choose whether the SLA should be calculated based on Business or Calendar hours
- If you'd like to enable escalations when service levels are violated, make sure that the Escalation option button is toggled on (Available from Estate onwards)
- Click Save to finish setting up your SLA Policy