Salesforce Service Cloud Tutorial: Configuration And Features

This Comprehensive Salesforce Service Cloud Tutorial will Explain All About Salesforce Service Cloud Including Its Configuration And Features:

Salesforce is a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) service that is used to connect customers and their information. Salesforce provides many services like Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, Salesforce IoT, Community Cloud, Data Cloud, Analytics Cloud, App Cloud, etc.

This tutorial will explain one of the services i.e. Salesforce Service Cloud in detail. The service cloud helps customers and makes them happy. Customers can be reached out through email, phone, chat, etc. Customers can be reached out by these ways called ‘Channels’.

Features Of Service Cloud
Configuration Of Service Console
Cases Management In Salesforce Service Cloud
Omnichannel In Service Cloud
- How To Configure Omnichannel For Service Cloud?
- Basic Information On Route Configuration
Conclusion
- Recommended Reading

Features Of Service Cloud

The service cloud platform can be used for managing all the cases that are assigned to an agent. It helps to prioritize tasks.
The knowledge base is one of the vital features. The interactions of customers are organized into the knowledgebase. This provides better issue resolution.
Provides real-time chat service through Live Agent feature.
Social customer service provides service in the social media platform and does not ask customers to visit separate web pages to interact.
Customer services are also managed through Salesforce1 which is the mobile platform. Through Salesforce1, customer services can be managed from any device and any place.
Service cloud communities are one of the features that help customers to help each other.

Configuration Of Service Console

Go to Setup => Search as ‘Users’ => List of users will be displayed.

List of users is displayed => Click the ‘Edit’ link beside it.

Enable Service Cloud User checkbox and click the ‘Save’ button.

Then provide visibility to the Service Console. Setup => Create => Apps => Click ‘Edit’ next to Sample console.

Give the App Name and Label name.

Select the tabs to be displayed in the Service console.

Assign permission to your profile by enabling Visible checkbox and click ‘Save’.

Go to the App menu.

Select the Service App from the menu.

The service console opens.

The selected Tabs are displayed in the Service console.

Cases Management In Salesforce Service Cloud

Taking care of the customers to the most important task. The Case management functionality in Salesforce helps to achieve customer success. Case management deals with Customer service, Product support, Solving issues, etc.

Case management allows users to record, track and solve issues of customers across sales and support. Cases can be created either through an Email or from Webform or a case can be created manually by licensed internal support or service users who are logged into Salesforce.

The support or service representative can follow the below steps to ensure that the case is closed.

Ascertain who the customer is and analyze what support they must receive if it is applicable.
The case details must be recorded. Questions, Concerns, Comments, and Products that they use must also be recorded.
The best solution must be found, and the solution should be attached for future reference.
Respond to the customers either through email for the solutions for auto-generated cases, and solving through phone for phone resolution cases or send articles as follow up emails.
Make sure that the case contains all the details and then Close the Case.

How Are Cases Automated?

Cases can also be managed through an automated process.

Case automation includes the following:

Queues: Assigning cases to queues. Support team workload can be prioritized by assigning cases to specific agents to solve certain types of cases.
Assignment Rules: Cases will be assigned automatically to specific agents or queues and the right people will be able to work on cases that are related to them. Multiple assignment rules can be created and sorted. But only one will be active at a time.
Auto-Response Rules: Personalized emails will be sent automatically to the corresponding customers based on the details of each case. This helps to decide on which email template can be sent to the customers when cases are captured from emails, websites, self-service portal or customer portal.
Escalation Rules: When cases are not resolved within a certain time then it will be automatically escalated. We can also choose to notify the user automatically when the case is escalated or the user can be reassigned to another user or queue.
Macros: It will automatically complete repetitive tasks on cases so that the agents will be able to spend time on the most important things.

Case Creation In Service Cloud

Click on the Case tab and click the ‘New case’ button.

Select the Case record type if any and click the ‘Continue’ button.

Fields in the case will be displayed.

Fill all the fields and click the ‘Save’ button. A case record gets created.

Here we can keep the Related lists of the Case on the left side. The layout of the case can be customized based on our needs.

Now let’s see the different ways of managing cases.

Example 1:

Consider that a Case was raised by a customer through the phone to resolve the issue in Laptop. The following details were entered manually by the support agent who logged into Salesforce.

The case record is saved and gets assigned to the Laptop Support Queue based on the Assignment Rule.

Example 2:

Let’s consider that a case raised by a customer through the phone is not handled by the support agent within a certain period (say as 1 hr or 30 mins). So, the case raised by that customer will get escalated to the Chief Sales Officer.

Here, the Case Escalation rule which is one of the case automation processes will be implemented. The case has been assigned to the person higher in the hierarchy.

As this case was not handled by the agent, it is escalated to one of the CFOs.

Solution related list can be added to the case page layout. Now Solution can be provided to the customer either by searching or through viewing for suggested solutions.

Suggested solutions for the case can be viewed.

Check here for exploring case management further.

How To Capture Cases From Web To Salesforce?

In general Web-to-Case forms can be used to gather customer requests directly from the organization website. 5000 cases can be generated through Web to Case forms.

Web to Case forms will allow customers to submit the cases directly to the support group online. Cases will get created directly in Salesforce.

At first, search as ‘Web’ in the Quick Find box. Select ‘Web to Case HTML Generator’. Web to Case HTML generator is used to capture case information from the company’s website.

Select the fields that must be displayed in the form and enter the URL to which it must be returned. Then click on the ‘Generate’ button.

HTML code gets generated.

Copy this HTML code in notepad and save it in .html extension. Click ‘Finish’. Enable Web to Case settings and Save.

Got to the respective folder in which the HTML code was saved. Open the code in any browser. Web to case form gets displayed with the fields that were selected previously.

Enter the details and click Submit.

Redirected to the URL (Salesforce login page) that we gave previously in case of capturing information.

The case created though the web is captured in Salesforce for support to handle. This case can be viewed in the service cloud by going to the Case tab and then select ‘My Cases’.

A list of the Cases will be displayed.

Select the case created with help of the Subject.

Click on ‘Case Number’ and open the case.

Omnichannel In Service Cloud

Omnichannel customer service allows customers to connect with their support staff seamlessly. It is like a widget and appears at the footer of the screen.

Omnichannel is a customizable feature and it can be configured without writing the code. It can be configured directly without writing the code. Omnichannel routes all the assignments to the corresponding agents.

Let’s see how the Omnichannel Solution works:

#1) Agents can receive the cases based on their availability so that the right cases can be received. This can be termed as ‘Presence’.

#2) Business can route the cases from multiple channels based on the following:

Whichever has the highest priority.
Oldest items can be displayed at first.
Availability of the agents.
The capacity of the agent.

#3) Supervisor or manager can track the data like the following:

What are all the open Cases?
Who is working on those Cases?
Which agent has more capacity to work?

How To Configure Omnichannel For Service Cloud?

To configure Omnichannel for the Service cloud, the following steps can be followed.

Go to Setup => Search as ‘Omni’ in quick find box => Click Omnichannel Settings.

Enable the Omnichannel checkbox and click Save.

Click the Service channel link.

Click ‘New’ to create a Service channel.

The custom control footer component is optional.

Search for Routing configuration in the quick find box.

Now let’s do Route configuration.

Basic Information On Route Configuration

Routing Configuration Name: This is the name of the routing service. This name automatically becomes the developer’s name.

Developer Name: This sets the API name for the service channel.

Overflow Assignee: This sets the user or queue to which the Omnichannel routes items. A user or queue that has access to the objects can be selected. Routing configuration can be assigned with an overflow assignee to all the omnichannel queues.

Routing settings can be given.
Routing settings contains the following:
- Routing priority determines in which order the work items must be routed to the agents.
- The routing model determines how the incoming work items are directed to the agents.
Push Time Out sets the time limit for an agent to respond to the work item before it is pushed to another agent.

Units of Capacity in Work Item Size: It indicates the amount of an agent’s overall capacity that is consumed when the agent is assigned a work item from the queues.

Percentage of Capacity: It indicates the agent’s overall capacity that is consumed when the agent is assigned a work item from the queues.