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Email Response Management

Does this sound like your helpdesk?

  1. Is your helpdesk email inbox  overflowing with new requests, or "follow-up" email from your clients?
  2. Do you manually "convert" email into helpdesk jobs
  3. Do you reply directly to an email without logging it into your helpdesk system, possibly because your ticketing system makes it too cumbersome or time consuming to do so?
  4. Do you use your email system as a ticketing system, forwarding email to the appropriate person?

If you answered "Yes" to any of the questions above, then it's time to re-think the way that you handle email and the quality of service that you offer your clients.

How the HelpMaster Pro Email Manager can help


The Email Manager is a HelpMaster Pro module that will manage any number of email inboxes by automatically logging jobs or updating existing jobs based on incoming email.  This is particularly useful if your helpdesk or workgroup receives support requests via email.  The benefit of such a system is that not only does the job get logged, but your clients can receive a near-instant response to their support issue.  With the Email Manager, you can automatically handle all of your incoming email support requests, and provide near-instant confirmation, resolution and actions to a wide range of client issues.

Multiple Email Inboxes?

Do you have a number of different support inboxes within your company?  The HelpMaster Pro Email Manager can handle them all.  In fact, the Email Manager can handle an unlimited number of boxes, and of different email sources.  For example, the following email inboxes are supported.

  1. Microsoft Exchange
  2. Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express
  3. Google GMail
  4. Hotmail.com
  5. Novell Groupwise
  6. Lotus Notes

What are the benefits of automated email response management?

  1. No more manually handling of email
  2. New clients can be automatically created within your helpdesk system (no more manually data entry for names, addresses, email etc….)
  3. Each email is processed within seconds of being received.  This means that…
    1. A job is logged with a unique job number
    2. All file attachments within the original email can be added to the job or action
    3. The client is notified
    4. The staff member is notified
    5. The job is now “handled” by the escalation and business workflow rules that you define within the HelpMaster Pro Priority Manager
  4. Management statistics can be viewed on how many jobs were logged with the Email Manager
  5. Clients can update their jobs via email at any time

We've been encouraging people to email their requests rather than phoning them in. In 2004 about 5% of requests were email. Now email requests make up just over 40% of total requests....

[The HelpMaster Pro] Email Manager was introduced to log new jobs and update existing jobs automatically. This is doing the work of an extra staff member.


- Quote from a client using the Email Manager (excerpt from the Email Manager discussion board)

 

Email Manager links
  

Discuss Email Manager
Using Email Manager with Lotus Notes by Michael White
We have been looking at implementing the Email Manager service to automatically create HM jobs from ...
Email Manager - Moving Email to Folder and Emailing Someone by helpdesk@ntsolutions.com.au
Hi, I have upgraded to V8 and in the process of setting up some workflows with the email manager. I...
Job Templates and Issues by muser
When we create a new job manually, we drill down the Issues tree to find the appropriate issues desc...
How to get Priority Manager & Email Manager to start automatically by Dennis Odri
We've experienced, and had reports of clients experiencing, difficulties getting the HelpMaster Pro ...
Avoiding automated chaos! by Rod Weir
An interesting thing happened this morning with our own implementation of the Email Manager.  A...
Email Manager to always log all jobs under a specified client by Rod Weir
Recently we've had a few requests from people asking whether the Email Manager can log all jobs for ...
Using the Email Manager with Network monitoring tools by Rod Weir
Hello helpdeskers, I was on-site yesterday doing a bit of training in the town of Wodonga and we ca...
A Robot read my Email! by Scott McRae
Hi Again! You may find it interesting that some of the responses you get to errors you report, espe...
Email Manager v8 - Scan multiple inboxes by Rod Weir
Now that the new version of the Email Manager has been released as part of the HelpMaster Pro v8 rel...
  

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