Understand tasks
Last Update: Oct 2024 • Est. Read Time: 2 MINTasks help agents stay organized by enabling them to create and manage to-do lists that can be assigned to teammates and include comments for collaboration. The feature is designed to streamline your team's non-conversation-related work, such as follow-up calls, returns, or escalations. We offer a basic tasks feature that provides a way for your agents to keep track of their important follow-ups, as well as a more advanced option that lets you turn custom objects into tasks. This dual approach ensures that both standard and customized workflows are supported, enhancing team productivity.
Who can access this feature? | |
User types | Admins can turn on the Tasks feature and create custom tasks. Agents can access tasks from the timeline. |
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Default Tasks app
Kustomer provides a default Tasks Klass to get you started, which works perfectly for general to-do items. See this article to learn more about keeping track of to-dos with tasks.
Create custom tasks
If your team handles more specific tasks, you can build custom versions of Tasks tailored to your unique workflow.
For instance, if agents handle returns, they might need to track details such as the order number and reason for return. In this case, you could create a custom Return Klass with fields for these attributes. Similarly, you could create a Follow up call Klass that includes fields for call reasons or whether the recipient answered.
These custom tasks can be configured through forms or API for greater flexibility. For tasks like onboarding, you may prefer an API-generated task with a simple description and a status that the assigned agent can mark as "done."
For more information on using custom objects as a task, see this tutorial.
Route tasks to teams
All tasks, whether via the default Tasks Klass or custom objects, are highly flexible and can be assigned to team members either manually or through routing.
Available reporting
You can review the Overview report to see the average handle time for tasks. The Team Pulse dashboard shows a real-time view of routed tasks.