Salesforce Service Cloud

For customer service and logging the ticket for customer support.
Instant messaging service.
Integrate with Salesforce Commerce Cloud for user information
Web2Case or Web2Form to generate and make a form live

Service Cloud is well suited for any organization trying to leverage its customer relationship management system to provide world-class customer service. All your data will be stored in one centralized area, and your representatives can access, edit, and create that data. The Service Cloud allows your agents to build customer engagement and relationships.

Salesforce Service Cloud is excellent as a CRM, a case management system, multi-channel contact centre support application, service and ticketing application as well as helping automate back office processes.
If you want to extend Service Cloud into Sales, Self-Service or Digital Marketing, you need to purchase additional services which can be relatively high cost.

Service Cloud allows users to automate service processes, streamline workflows and find articles, topics, and experts to support the agent.
It's less appropriate when tying up similar cases or even allowing knowledge sharing across tickets.
However, any changes require a lot of effort and usually need to engage consultants which gets expensive.

Very prompt service and tons of material available to come up to speed. The community is very strong.That is a lot of material on the Internet that you can access as well as a community that one can refer to if you need help right away. I am very satisfied.

Salesforce Service Cloud is suited to a wide range of businesses that need to communicate both internally and externally effectively. Working with Salesforce has ensured that remote working is effective and efficient as team stats and performance can be tracked and dashboards and reports built so individuals and teams can monitor performance. It allows us to track customer data and store it securely. Salesforce works well with both small and global businesses as it can be built/adapted to suit the needs of users. It may not be suited to those who do not have extensive communications with customers/clients.

I think the idea behind a CRM is amazing. In this case, we have a product that can be a little bit [tough] to manage and the learning curve seems [never-ending]. Salesforce Service Cloud is useful because it lets you establish and set up connections in [real-time], especially in [a] big company. It traces everything (I am using this product during QA). I do like the [real-time] notification and the white interface. But it takes too long to make anything happen on Salesforce Service Cloud: [sometimes] it adds complexity to your job process.

This is a great solution for any customer that requires a 360-degree view of all their customer interactions. This platform also allows teams and/or divisions to have unique requirements and workflows to support different lines of business. We also have the option of creating different customer experiences based upon their specific support solutions.

Salesforce works as a Sales CRM, any other uses of it as absolute garbage. If you want to build a customer experience this is the absolute worst tool to use, use a real tool like Zendesk.

Salesforce Service Cloud is a great option for those who want to manage customer data. It definitely works well if you have a large amount of data to manage. It is also very nice if you are looking to integrate with other apps like sales apps, email apps, or marketing apps. I would recommend those on a budget or who do not have a large amount of data look else where since it can be expensive.

It is well suited for all the administrative tasks you need to register in a Sales/CRM/Marketing system so you can keep track from prospects, clients as companies and students particularly. Also, it is really well suited to add next steps or tasks to do for the future or for other colleagues from different teams. In that way, everyone is on the same page, and no one misses information when working on a global project.

Service Cloud is an excellent solution for businesses that have many clients and touch points across many departments. It functions as a common platform for teams that operate in different capacities and have varying levels of technical aptitude to share their intelligence and interactions with clients.

It depends on what support package you buy from Salesforce. That can be good or bad. It's highly flexible to your needs pricing wise. If you have devs on staff then don't buy support. If you don't, then sfdc offers support for a cost.

It is well suited to collect the basic data we need and it maintains phone, email, chat info. They have confirmed they are HIPAA compliant with the data and that is very important. But, their customer service is seriously disjointed. It is understandable that an issue must be escalated to the next department but that should be done internally without expecting the customer to do so.

It is a good platform to resolve customer service needs. I find it comfortable for daily work to record all updates of the progress of my students and the calls or other contacts which I made with the students or which made by somebody else. It is updating in real time which makes easy to use it with other people from company without missing any task.

Salesforce Service Cloud is well suited for organizations that are looking for a robust ticketing system, detailed reporting and time tracking features. Easy to track time spent supporting customers and can use the reporting to bill the customers efficiently. The customizable templates make it easy to adopt Service Cloud if your company has many different support teams with different support flows.

Salesforce is generally a great product not only for communicating with clients but also for case handling between teams. It is quite tricky to define a scenario where it would not be useful, as the level of customisation available makes it suitable for most businesses. If you are a small company just starting out the software may provide too many unnecessary functionalities.

[Salesforce Service Cloud is] great at capturing detailed customer information. The information layout is easy to navigate and you don't have to move through a lot of different screens or places within the software to get a thorough understanding of the customer. Where it is less appropriate- I don't know of a way to check if someone else is viewing or working on a customer case at the same time. There may be an issue where two people are working on a case simultaneously and not even know it.

I would say [Salesforce Service Cloud] would only need to be used by big corporation where data is essential. Very small startups really do not need it.

Although some Salesforce competitors provide APIs and plug-ins, none of them allow you to customize your user experience and deploy new tools and interfaces with little to no coding. Salesforce [Service Cloud] allows you to take advantage of our most recent innovations without the hassle of installing new software or training new employees. The Salesforce Customer 360 Platform lets you expand your capabilities beyond what Salesforce rivals can deliver.

Salesforce Service Cloud is suitable for a call center or anyone in the business of being the central contact area. I recommend it for anyone working with multiple clients at once also. This can be a handy tool when dealing with many Salesforce objects at once and servicing the records. Works well for any support role. I would not recommend for sales.

Every feature we have needed to have has, Salesforce Service Cloud was able to provide. We were ready to go out of the box and once we looked for additional features, they were already ready to install or in the build phase. The support was always helpful and able to put us in the right direction for any issues that had come up.

It is perfect to capture service provided, especially for non-profit and community programs. Its data object structure works really well for customers who have a complex situation and have made multiple contacts and need multiple resources. Salesforce service cloud can capture all these complex situations in a streamlined snapshot and it provides agents a centralized place to review all the data. It is definitely not for sales capturing.

Salesforce Service Cloud is excellent for managing your customer service and support cases. For example, we use it when we need to keep track of issues that are raised by our Suppliers so that we can reach out to our Buyers and resolve any discrepancies. These cases are then tied to each Account and Contact associated with the support transaction and it makes it very clear and easy to track who is doing what with the request. Salesforce Service Cloud also does an excellent job of helping us automate the mundane tasks needed to capture key information and ease the workload off of our agents by providing easy to use macros/quick texts and flows that automatically fill in the necessary fields on the back end. Our agents don't need to waste time or energy worrying about data entry and can instead focus on their core skills of helping out customers.

Salesforce does an excellent job of providing overall support for all of their products - Salesforce Service Cloud being one of them. The only reason why I wouldn't give them a 10 is because sometimes it can depend on the customer service rep who can miss out on the details of the ticket and keep asking for information already provided, or simply missing email responses. However, they are overall very easy to work with and quite responsive.

I would not recommend this for small companies looking to do support. Too many functions and highly customizable, but requires experts to get the full power out of it. But for medium to large businesses who want to also integrate CRM data with support, it is a great solution.

Salesforce support is responsive and with our level of enterprise has given us extra resources and help. But, standard support is very lacking and slow, often making you repeat yourself and not reading or understanding the information you initially put into support cases.

How do you organize your customer issues? How do you keep track of service metrics?

I would say score of 10 because SFDC Service Cloud gives all the objects that helps service team store information, edit information efficiently, as well as providing usable data for management in reports. They have Cases and Work Orders that are all very neatly pre-set for you by default so you can simply enter information such as customer info, schedule date, etc. That's why i recommend it. Not a lot of Service assistance platforms are easy to use whereas SFDC Service Cloud is easy to use as well.

If you are a growing company that uses Salesforce as your source of truth, Service Cloud is a great option to keep Support cases available in one place and to report on the account level. It's also great for Support teams that are tiered, as you can create various tiers to ensure cases are assigned to to appropriate representative. For example, we have a rep who only handles enterprise accounts. These are automatically assigned to her upon case submission.

Luckily I didn't need support help very frequently since Salesforce's support team is impossible to get in touch with. When we tried to reach out it would take days for a response, if we were lucky enough to get one.

• Cases

Cases is the basis of Service Cloud, and once you get accustomed to the workflow and interface, it can be quite useful. You can search for knowledge articles, email responses, or use case comments. Out of the box, Service Cloud is terrible, and it will not do what you want. There is a large amount of configuration you will need to do, from setting up email templates, creating workflows to mimic what other platforms do out-of-the-box, and even then you will encounter issues that impede your ability to communicate effectively with your customer. Out-of-the-box email-2-case did not work because we had an Email Service class installed for something else, which rendered the default email-2-case completely useless. So we need to create a custom email handler for cases. This also meant some of the native functionality was no longer going to work. We would end up having to write a ton of customized code, Lightning components, workflows, etc.

• Knowledge

Knowledge is rather nice at first, until you start using it and discover the limitations imposed by Salesforce. Articles are limited to 131,000 characters, and that includes the HTML markup hidden to the viewer. This means your articles will end up having to be abbreviated or broken up into smaller pieces. We tried to host these articles externally, but there is no option to embed these inside the Article object. You can embed videos hosted on YouTube, Vimeo or DailyMotion, but that's the extent. Anything else will require a fully customized solution for displaying knowledge articles. It's a very basic knowledge solution. Salesforce offers a really strong knowledge base of their own, but it's almost certainly not running using Articles, because Articles is terrible.

• Community

Communities is where your customers can go to search knowledge articles, communicate with support, and even create records in your org. It is quite customizable, which is laudable and appreciated. The ability to update and manage the community is relatively easy and can be done without much code.

Unfortunately, the issue comes up with Cases. There are components for displaying Cases, but unbelievably, there is no place for discussion of the case with the service agent. This is almost ludicrous. There are Case Comment related lists, but these are handicapped by artificial constraints. Customers can't view the entire case comment, because it is only a related list, and there's no ability to change this without creating your own Lightning component, which means additional development costs.

Ultimately, the overall impression of Service Cloud is an extraordinarily half-baked product which is nowhere near enterprise-grade, despite carrying enterprise-level costs.

Salesforce offers support, although it generally gets routed to overseas support teams first, and once they are unable to help, it gets escalated up the chain to higher tiers. Frequently, the answer back from support is that there is no native solution, and we either have to turn to the AppExchange for some solution provided by another developer, or custom build our own solution.