SLA based on internal notes

I first thought this was bug.. well I hope it is a bug that gets addressed because this is absolute show stopper for larger companies with a lot of full service clients...

+1 This is a feature that we desperately need.

I reached out to Zendesk support and they confirmed there is no way to set a SLA target for tickets returned/reopened by light agent through internal comment. So the new SLA feature is a no-go for most of us with light agent managing communication of full service clients. Unfortunate, since the new SLA looked promising..

This is also very important to our workflows. The use case is as follows:

• End user sends email to our Zendesk. First Reply Time SLA goal is set.
• Zendesk Agent replies to End User. First Reply Time SLA goal is met and removed.
• Zendesk Agent realizes ticket requires collaboration from a separate team. Zendesk Agent reassigns the ticket to the corresponding Group.
• Ticket appears in View of Unassigned Tickets in the destination Group, but with no SLA goal set.

When tickets are sorted by Next SLA Breach, this creates an opportunity for those tickets to age out in the back page of the View. In the absence of SLA policies that can apply to internal comments, another helpful approach might be to elevate these tickets with no SLA goal to the front of the View, instead of the back, so Agents don't lose visibility.

I need this as well. 

I think it is weird that no SLA metric can be triggered be an internal note. We try to work 100% SLA based, and this makes it a bit complicated because some tickets just get forgotten. This is both related to tickets submitted by agents and tickets with only internal comments e.g. a phone call, which has obviously had public activity (via the call it self).

Hi, we need this as well. I hope it is implemented in 2019.

Thanks!

This feature is very important to us as well, and the lack of SLA on internal notes has caused a lot of frustration. I really hope it gets put on the product roadmap soon.

We really do need this feature. In our user case we serve an internal team of agents with operational queries. Tickets comments in the user case are typically internal. We work SLA based as a company and this causes a lot of frustration. We still need to serve these customers in an SLA based workflow, regardless of whether they are internal or external.

+1 for this. We would also like to be able to utilize SLA on internal actions. 

I would definitely be up for this 100%!

Our team has a smaller group of full agents supported by a large group of light agents. I would like to be able to report on whether or not light agents are getting responses back to the team in a timely fashion, and this could be done with SLAs for them.

I'd ideally like to separate the SLA to not include full agents because they're being measured on the existing ones now. To have the option would be great.

I would then like to drill down to the specific agent for performance purposes for the individual.

This is pretty critical for us. We get a lot of comments/questions/updates from internal teams on tickets that get missed for long periods of time because there is no SLA.

Hi all - 

Thanks as always for your feedback. I spoke with the product manager for this area of Support this morning, and work is being done on internal SLAs this year. 

We can't share specifics on exactly which use-cases will be targeted yet, but I did flag this one for consideration. 

Great to hear this is being looked at!

+! agreeing this feature would be great

+1 for our team as well! We would love the ability to reset the SLA for some of our longer development items. Rather than creating ridiculously long SLA metrics, having the SLA reset on an internal note would be incredibly useful for us.

Hi, its been 3 years since this topic has been posted. Has there been any changes?

That's what I think with almost every suggestion (picked up by Zendesk Product Dev) :(

@Nicole - Community Manager what's the status? It's 2020 ;)

Kind regards,
Oliver

YES PLEASE!!! 

Providing tools to help managing SLAs for tickets from internal users would be a HUGE help for the enterprise user.  We have a number of teams that use Zendesk and we're constantly submitting tickets to each other.  The current SLA functionality is next to useless for this use case.  We need to be able to have a first reply time and next reply time for both light agents and full agents.  Maybe Zendesk could ignore agent status if the agent is the ticket requester?

I agree!

This is slowing down my team because they need to check their home screen in Zendesk regularly in order to make sure that they dont miss older tickets. I set up the SLA in order to have them work on their view of unsolved tickets so they always know which ticket to do next and the fact that there is no way to make private notes coming in as answers from customers part of the SLA breach is a big flaw in my work flow. I hope this gets a solution soon. 

A lot of our requesters are Light Agents. While the First Reply time fires, the next reply time does not.

This seems only half implemented and is of crucial importance to us.

As an FYI - the Zendesk Support EAP - Child ticket side conversations can be helpful for some use cases related to requests from internal users and SLAs.  We've started testing this EAP which allows agents to open tickets using the side conversation feature.  One of the benefits of this is that the requesting agent on the child ticket is treated as an end-user in terms of the SLA.  This allows us to track all SLAs for our internal users when they create these child tickets.

The EAP still doesn't address the issue where an internal user comments directly on a ticket or directly submits a request and the SLAs are not honored the same as for end-users.  However, it's a step up from previous functionality.

Is there an update from the product manager on if Internal Note SLA's will be rolled out anytime soon?

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for all our comments and input. I'm a new Product Manager here at Zendesk, and one of our priorities for the year is to improve functionality in this regard. I know this is what we told you a year ago, but unfortunately those plans were dropped when we reprioritized everything due to COVID and WFH.

Thanks for your patience, and continued feedback! We truly appreciate it.

@Scott Allison That's awesome to hear, are you willing to share some more details on what you are planning?

Our use case would be related to ticket sharing between instances. For example, an Italian customer contacts our Italian colleagues. They cannot answer his question completely and share the Tickt with the HQ instance. The HQ agent answer to the Italian agent via internal comment (not directly meant for the customer). Can we create an SLA for the internal comments coming from the HQ agents?