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#20496 Staff member ticket assignment

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 15 July 2014 15:32 CDT

user81746
 Hi Nicholas,

I'm using ATS for answering questions to my customers. I would like to have a feature in the ATS which allows me the following:

- First ticket a customer send is answered by someone from the staff member.
- From that moment, all the new tickets sent by this same customer, should be replied by the same staff member only. (as the customer has already "trust" in that staff member).

Is there a way I can get this customizing working?

Thank in advance and congratulations for your great work!!

Regards

Gustavo

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
Hello Gustavo,

No, there is no such feature. The concept of a dedicated person per client is something belonging to a CRM, not a support ticket system. Support ticket systems are always based on the idea of two "pools": one pool of support tickets, one pool of support staff. The concept behind a ticket system is that support is elastic and purely effort driven, i.e. any member of the support staff can answer any ticket.

The kind of many-to-one assignment between clients and support staff, meaning that each client is assigned to exactly one member of the support staff, is the opposite concept from a ticket system. It's CRM (Customer Relationship Management) territory. Indeed, the underlying concept is that each client has their "own" representative to talk to, hence the "relationship" in the CRM acronym.

I want to make it very clear that ATS is a ticket system, not a CRM, and this kind of CRM features will be implemented neither as core features, nor as customisations. The extent of changes required under the hood is so massive that we pretty much end up talking about a different product :(

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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