The service level agreement, or SLA, is a parameter that most people who work with customer service are familiar with, but for those for whom the concept is unknown, it is the name of the agreement which the service provider and customer make regarding the service provided.
The agreement typically shows how responsibility is divided between the supplier and the customer, what quality of service can be expected and to what extent the service provider is available. We usually say that “eminent customer service starts with eminent customer service”, and therefore the service we provide to you as a customer is a prerequisite for you being able to provide the same for your customers.
And from our 2020 in etrack1 Analytics, for example, we can see how quickly we answered our customers:
—70% got a response within 30 minutes
—11% got a response within 31-60 minutes
—7% got a response within 1-2 hours
~12% falls out of regular categories or are internal/testing.