Lyca Documentation

Help Tickets

User Manual



Table of Contents

1 Introduction 1

1.1 Help Tickets 1

1.2 Creating a Help Ticket 3

1.3 Viewing Ticket Details 5

1.3.1 Escalating Ticket 7

1.3.2 Changing Ticket Status 8

2 Organizing Issues 1

2.1 Creating Ticket Category 1

2.2 Creating Sub Category 3

2.3 Assigning Group 5




Purpose of the Manual

The manual describes the Help Tickets module of the Lycamobile application. The manual explains the procedures to assign and track customer issues, using Help Tickets.




  1. Introduction



  1. Help Tickets

Help Tickets are requests raised by customers regarding service activation, deactivation, or other issues. For effective management of customer issues, a ticket created for an issues is classified, as shown below:

To view list of Help Tickets

  1. In the left menu, click Help Tickets 🡪 Help Tickets, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: Help Tickets

Ticket section, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2:Tickets

The Ticket section displays the list of ticket with the following respective ticket information:

Field Name

Description

Token

The reference number generated for the Help Ticket.

Category

The type of issue (Billing, Invoice, Internet, etc.).

Subcategory

A more specific title for the issue (Recharge Payments, Poor Internet, etc.).

Criticality

The degree of complexity of the issue (Critical/Major or Minor).

Reported Date

The date and time at which the Ticket is raised.

Status

The current stage the issue is at (Open, Assigned, Need Info, Closed, etc.).

Assigned

The Customer Agent ID to whom the Ticket is Assigned.


  1. Creating a Help Ticket

The following steps describe the procedure to create a Help Ticket:

  1. On the Ticket section, click Raise Help Ticket, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Raise Help Ticket

New Help Ticket Form window appears, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: New Help Ticket

  1. Enter/Select the following details to create a Help Ticket:

Field Name

Description

MSISDN Number

Enter user MSISDN number

Alternate Phone Number (Optional)

Enter alternate phone number of the user

Category

In the list box, select user category

Issue Type

In the list box, select the type of issue for the Help Ticket

Description

Enter brief description about the issue


  1. Click Submit.

System generate token number for the Ticket. The Ticket appears in the list of Tickets, on the Tickets section (Tickets 🡪 Help Tickets).

Figure 5: View Tickets

  1. Viewing Ticket Details

The following steps describe the procedure to view details of an existing ticket:

  1. On the Tickets section (Tickets 🡪 Help Tickets), in the Details column, click Details, as shown in Figure 5.

Ticket Details appear, as shown in Figure 6 

Figure 6: Ticket Details

  1. To view the progress of ticket resolution, click Ticket Action Logs.

Details of status of Ticket appear, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7: Ticket Action Logs

The following details about Ticket Action appears:

Field Name

Description

Last Status

The status of ticket if assigned for action (resolution)

Update Status

The status of action on ticket after assigning to resolution team

Last Criticality

The severity of the ticket issue after assessment by last assigned team 

Last Assigned Team

Name of the team resolving the issue

Updated Reason

The reason for updating ticket status by the last assigned team

Updated Date

The date of update added by the last assigned team 


  1. Escalating Ticket

If the team to whom a ticket is assigned, is unable to resolve the ticket issue or the ticket issue is not in scope of the assigned teams, then, user needs to escalate the ticket next level.

To escalate a ticket

  1. On the Tickets section, click Escalate, as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8: Escalate

Escalation Ticket window appears, as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: Escalation Ticket

  1. Enter the details for escalating the ticket to the next level and click Submit.

The escalation reason appears in the ticket details.

  1. Changing Ticket Status

The following steps describe the process to change the status of a ticket:

  1. On the Ticket details page, click Action, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10: Action

Update Ticket Details window appears, as shown in Figure 11.

Figure 11: Update Ticket Details


Field Name

Details

Assigned To

In the list box, select the team/user to assign the ticket to.

Criticality

In the list box, select the criticality of the tickets issue – Minor, Major or Critical

Status

In the list box, select the status of the ticket – Open, Need Info, Assigned or Close.


  1. Click Update.

The status of the ticket appears on the Tickets section.




  1. Organizing Issues



  1. Creating Ticket Category

Organizing issues raised by customers aids in isolating the problem and hence, providing faster resolutions.

The first level of organizing an issue is Category. A category is the vertical of the business, e.g. Billing, Device, and so on.

To create a category

  1. In the left navigation, click Help Tickets 🡪 Category Configuration, as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 12: Category Configuration

Category Configuration section appears, as shown in Figure 13.

Figure 13: Category Configuration

  1. Click Add Category.

  2. Enter the following details in the New Category window:

Field Name

Description

Category Name

Enter name of the issue category

Category Description

Enter details about the issue category

Escalation Duration in Days

Enter the number of days required for resolution. 


  1. Click Submit.

The category name appears on the section, as shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14: Category

  1. Creating Sub Category

To optimize issue isolation, user can further create a subcategory.

  1. To create a subcategory, in the Actions column, click Action list box, and then click Add Subcategory, as shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15: Add Subcategory

Add Subcategory window appears, as shown in Figure 16.

Figure 16: New Subcategory

  1. In the Sub Category Name box, enter name for the issue, associated to the parent Category.

  2. In the Sub Category Description box, enter brief description about the subcategory.

  3. Click Submit.

The name(s) of the Subcategory appears in the Category name.

  1. To view subcategories in a Category, click Category name, as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17: Category Name

List of subcategories window appears, as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18: List of Sub Categories

  1. Assigning Group

Once a ticket is created for an issue, the issue has pre-defined resolution time. In case, an issue is not resolved with the given time, then, the system provisions to escalate the ticket to next level. Based on the severity of the issue, levels are defined in the system, with higher levels handling high severity issues.

User can assign a ticket to another group in case an issue is not resolved with the give time.

To assign a group

  1. In the Actions column, click Actions and click Assign Group, as shown in Figure 19.

Figure 19: Assign Group

Assign Group window appears, as shown in Figure 20.

Figure 20: Assign Group

  1. In the Assignment Group box, enter name of the assignment group.

  2. In the Escalation Days box, enter the number of days after when the group can be assigned to a category.

  3. In the Escalation Group list box, select an escalation group name.

  4. Click Submit.

The category gets updated with the escalation group name.


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