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Brush up on building ticket views, defining custom fields, and managing Kayako Classic support tickets.

  • Reusing Common Replies and Updates Using Macros

    Overview Whenever you find your support team repeating the same action or sending the same reply to one conversation after another, that's a usually a good sign that you could use a macro. Macros can ...

  • Setting up Email Notifications for Your Staff

    Overview Keep your staff up-to-date on their support tickets, even when they are away from the queue, with notifications. Kayako Classic makes it easy to proactively notify staff members, teams, or ev...

  • Creating Custom Fields for Capturing User and Ticket Information

    Overview Many areas of Kayako Classic prompt customers for information, but sometimes, the standard questions don't get you all the details you're after. For those situations, Kayako Classic has custo...

  • Viewing, Sorting and Filtering Support Tickets

    Overview Although Kayako Classic has a lot of default options for looking at your queue, sometimes they don't give you quite the perspective you're looking for. For those situations, ticket views and ...

  • Establishing Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Escalations

    Overview Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are a really useful tool for achieving good customer service. In Kayako, you can build SLAs that set time limits for either ticket replies or ticket resolution...

  • Setting up Recurring Tickets

    Overview Scheduling regular tasks for your staff is an integral part of building up your organization's day-to-day operations. With Kayako Classic, you can automate and streamline this process by sett...

  • Linking Related or Duplicate Tickets

    Overview Customers reach out to you for answers to questions, issues, and problems of all shapes and sizes. As your team provides support, they will eventually start to see tickets come in that are ab...

  • Standardizing Support Procedures with Workflows

    Overview Many support teams spend a lot of time handling common administrative support requests like equipment purchases or travel budget approvals. These requests go through a predefined set of steps...

  • Using Tags to Organize Your Helpdesk

    Overview Keeping your helpdesk organized can be a daunting task. One of the ways Kayako Classic can lessen that burden is with tags. Using keywords to tag related content means you can filter your vie...

  • Resolving Tickets Automatically Using Auto-Close Rules

    Overview Using auto-close rules, you can have Kayako Classic automatically email your customers if their ticket has been inactive for a certain length of time, and then automatically resolve the ticke...