Cases

Overview

A case can be an appointment, a phone call, a problem report, a sales or service order, or a variety of other things.

You can view cases by double-clicking Relationships in the navigation panel, then clicking Cases.

Key Features

Cases provide a ticketing system that can be used to schedule the time of sales representatives and campaigns for telemarketing teams.

Emails from customers can create cases against existing transactions such as sales orders and service orders. Such cases can then be tracked and followed up by your customer service team.

Emails and SMS generated by the system or sent by customers in respect to a cases are automatically logged against the case and accessible from the source transaction or campaign  

Campaigns can generate sets of cases and assign them to This integrates to Readysell's CRM features

Sales can capture information about once off or past customers and machines that are not serviced by your business. The CRM system can drill into that data via reports and campaigns. Producing cases that are used to implement and track the results of sales efforts.

Cases can be scheduled and displayed on mobile phones used by sales representatives and shared with the customer service team working through Readysell.

Sales, service orders, quotes, further calls, emails, sms messages and other transactions can be generated from and linked to cases. Allowing your team to act on the feedback received from customers. 

This feature is not available in Readysell Lite. 

Getting Started


Reference

Buttons

Refer to Common Buttons.

ImageNameDescription
New Service OrderAllows you to create a new service order from a card from the Case
New Service via TemplateAllows you to create a new service order via a template from the Case
New Sale OrderAllows you to create a new sales order from the Case
Send Email Allows you to send an email from this case linking it back to this case
Standard Note

This is a standard Note case note description that consists of 3 sections of notes (there should be a standard list to choose from and also you can add to it if required to do so from the Administration Standard Notes section)


Cases FilterCases list view changes to display only cases that meet the filter criteria. The last filter setting selected will be saved and defaulted when user next access the module.
 RelatedIf a case has any related records in Readysell (for example, a case might have a related card), you can use the Show Related button in the Home ribbon to view these records.

Fields

NameDescription
Case TypeSelect the type of case (In administration there is a list called "Case type" where you can create a new case types).
NumberUniquely automated
Status

The status of the case. Either:

  • Open: The case is currently in progress and new transactions may be added to it.
Case NameIdentifies the case in the system
Workflow StatusWhere the case is up to (logged, call, ready, visit)
CardThis is the card for this case
PersonThis is the contact person for this case, this selection is available from the card information
PriorityThis is the priority for this case
Assigned ToThe name of the user to whom the case is assigned
Due DateThe due date the case is to be resolved by
W/F Change DueWork Flow Change Due date - each work flow might have a number of days that the status needs to be completed by, allowing the change of W/F Change Due date to update or you can update this manually
Date CreatedThe date and time that the case was created in the Readysell system.
Date UpdatedThe last date the case was updated
Next EventYou can schedule the next event for this case
Next Activity Due DateThe date the next activity is due-  is populated when you create an activity in the case. The idea is to put in the activity and set the date ahead of time (e.g. if you're calling back next week, you put in the activity and date it next week, then when you do it you check "Completed")
OutcomeOutcome of the case
ObjectiveThe objective of the case

Activities tab

NameDescription
Filter to view all activities for that case or outstanding ones
DateThe date and time of the activity
Communication MethodThe communication method for this activity (e.g: Email, Telephone, Service call etc.)
NotesThis field contains any notes that have been entered for the activity
CompletedChecked (flagged) if the activity is completed.

Events tab

NameDescription
Subject
Card

Service Order


Address 

Status 


Contact Person 
Recurrence 
Start On 
End On 
Label 
Location 
Send Scheduled Event Reminder Minutes Early 
Description 
Send Scheduled Event Reminder (check/flag box) 
Scheduled Event Reminder Sent (check/flag box) 
Send Scheduled Event Reminder To Contact Person (check/flag box) 
 All Day (check/flag box)
Resources 

General tab

NameDescription
SiteThe site that has been entered or defaulted to for the case
MachineThis is the machine for this case, you can create a new machine from here by clicking on "new". Another screen will opened with pre-populated fields.
Service Order
Sale Order
TokenEach case has it's own unique token number.  That way when the customer responds to an email sent to them that has the token number on it, the email is linked to the case for tracking purposes.

Notes tab

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Message Logs tab

File Attachments tab

Schedule tab

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