Customer Service Glossary

Important definitions and terminologies used in Customer Service

A

  • Accessibility in Customer Service
  • After-sales service in Customer Service
  • Agent in Customer Service
  • Agent performance in Customer Service
  • Agent Reply Template in Customer Service
  • AI-powered customer service in Customer Service
  • Application Program Interface (API) in Customer Service
  • Automated response in Customer Service
  • Average First Response Time in Customer Service
  • Average Handle Time in Customer Service
  • Average Problem Resolution Time in Customer Service
  • Average Reply Time in Customer Service
  • Average Response Time in Customer Service

B

  • Backlog in Customer Service
  • Benchmarking in Customer Service
  • Billing and invoicing in Customer Service
  • Brand in Customer Service
  • Brand reputation in Customer Service
  • Bug in Customer Service
  • Business Hours in Customer Service

C

  • Call center in Customer Service
  • Canned Response (or, Macros) in Customer Service
  • Canned Responses in Customer Service
  • Channels in Customer Service
  • Chat support in Customer Service
  • Chatbot in Customer Service
  • Churn in Customer Service
  • Click-to-call in Customer Service
  • Closed Tickets in Customer Service
  • Community Forum in Customer Service
  • Community support in Customer Service
  • Complaints in Customer Service
  • Consumer advocacy in Customer Service
  • Consumer behavior in Customer Service
  • Consumer protection in Customer Service
  • Contact center in Customer Service
  • Contact management in Customer Service
  • CRM in Customer Service
  • CRM software in Customer Service
  • CRM(Customer Relationship Management) in Customer Service
  • Cross-selling in Customer Service
  • CSAT Scores (Customer Satisfaction Score) in Customer Service
  • Customer acquisition cost (CAC) in Customer Service
  • Customer acquisition in Customer Service
  • Customer advocacy in Customer Service
  • Customer analytics in Customer Service
  • Customer care in Customer Service
  • Customer Churn in Customer Service
  • Customer education in Customer Service
  • Customer Effort in Customer Service
  • Customer effort score (CES) in Customer Service
  • Customer engagement in Customer Service
  • Customer expectations in Customer Service
  • Customer experience in Customer Service
  • Customer feedback in Customer Service
  • Customer journey in Customer Service
  • Customer Journey Mapping in Customer Service
  • Customer Life Cycle in Customer Service
  • Customer Lifetime Value (CLTV) in Customer Service
  • Customer lifetime value (CLV) in Customer Service
  • Customer loyalty in Customer Service
  • Customer onboarding in Customer Service
  • Customer outreach in Customer Service
  • Customer persona in Customer Service
  • Customer portal in Customer Service
  • Customer profiling in Customer Service
  • Customer relationship management in Customer Service
  • Customer retention in Customer Service
  • Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) in Customer Service
  • Customer satisfaction in Customer Service
  • Customer Satisfaction Survey in Customer Service
  • Customer segmentation in Customer Service
  • Customer Self-service in Customer Service
  • Customer service in Customer Service
  • Customer service management in Customer Service
  • Customer Service Philosophy in Customer Service
  • Customer service representative (CSR) in Customer Service
  • Customer success in Customer Service
  • Customer support in Customer Service
  • Customer touchpoint in Customer Service
  • Customer-centric in Customer Service

D

  • Delivery tracking in Customer Service
  • Digital customer service in Customer Service
  • Downtime in Customer Service

E

  • E-commerce customer service in Customer Service
  • Email automation in Customer Service
  • Email support in Customer Service
  • Empathy in Customer Service
  • Escalation in Customer Service
  • Escalation management in Customer Service

F

  • Feature in Customer Service
  • Feedback in Customer Service
  • Feedback loop in Customer Service
  • First call resolution (FCR) in Customer Service
  • First Contact Resolution (FCR) Ratio in Customer Service
  • First Contact Resolution Rate (FCRR) in Customer Service
  • First Response Time in Customer Service
  • Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) in Customer Service
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) in Customer Service

G

  • Gamification in Customer Service

H

  • Help desk in Customer Service
  • Helpdesk software in Customer Service

I

  • In-app Support in Customer Service
  • Inbound call center in Customer Service
  • Incident management in Customer Service
  • Interactive Voice Response(IVR) in Customer Service

K

  • Key Performance Indicator (KPI) in Customer Service
  • Knowledge base in Customer Service

L

  • Lifetime Value (LTV) in Customer Service
  • Live chat in Customer Service
  • Loyalty in Customer Service

M

  • Metric in Customer Service
  • Multi-Channel Support in Customer Service
  • Multichannel support in Customer Service

N

  • Net promoter score (NPS) in Customer Service
  • New Tickets in Customer Service

O

  • Omnichannel customer service in Customer Service
  • Onboarding in Customer Service
  • Online reputation management in Customer Service
  • Online support in Customer Service
  • Open Ticket in Customer Service
  • Order fulfillment in Customer Service
  • Order management in Customer Service
  • Outbound call center in Customer Service
  • Outsourcing in Customer Service
  • Overdue Ticket in Customer Service

P

  • Payment processing in Customer Service
  • Pending Ticket in Customer Service
  • Personalization in Customer Service
  • Personalized communication in Customer Service
  • Proactive service in Customer Service
  • Proactive Support in Customer Service
  • Proactiveness in Customer Service
  • Product knowledge in Customer Service

Q

  • Quality assurance in Customer Service
  • Quality management in Customer Service
  • Queuing Resolution Time in Customer Service

R

  • Reassign in Customer Service
  • Resolution Rate in Customer Service
  • Response time in Customer Service
  • Retention in Customer Service
  • Returns management in Customer Service
  • Review in Customer Service

S

  • Sales support in Customer Service
  • Self Service Ratio in Customer Service
  • Self-service in Customer Service
  • Self-service portal in Customer Service
  • Service Culture in Customer Service
  • Service level agreement (SLA) in Customer Service
  • Service Level Agreement(SLA) in Customer Service
  • Service recovery in Customer Service
  • Social listening in Customer Service
  • Social media customer service in Customer Service
  • Social media monitoring in Customer Service
  • Subscription management in Customer Service
  • Support ticket in Customer Service
  • Survey in Customer Service
  • Surveys and polls in Customer Service

T

  • Technical expertise in Customer Service
  • Technical support in Customer Service
  • Telephone support in Customer Service
  • Text messaging support in Customer Service
  • Ticket in Customer Service
  • Ticket management system in Customer Service
  • Ticket Status in Customer Service
  • Ticket tracking in Customer Service
  • Time to resolution in Customer Service
  • Tone in Customer Service
  • Touchpoints in Customer Service
  • Training in Customer Service
  • Trouble Shooting in Customer Service
  • Troubleshooting in Customer Service

U

  • Unassigned Ticket in Customer Service
  • Upselling in Customer Service
  • User Error in Customer Service
  • User experience in Customer Service

V

  • Virtual assistant in Customer Service
  • Virtual support agent in Customer Service
  • Voice in Customer Service
  • Voice of the customer in Customer Service

W

  • Warranty service in Customer Service
  • Web chat in Customer Service
  • Widget in Customer Service

Z

  • Zendesk in Customer Service
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