Working the queue
Hand-offs and escalation
When a ticket needs to leave QueuePower, nobody should start from a blank page. Reassign to a named teammate with a note, or escalate into Zendesk, HubSpot, ServiceNow, Halo or any system by webhook, with the AI's summary of what has been tried.
5 steps · 4 min read
Before you start
- For help-desk escalation: a connection set up by an admin under Settings → Integrations.
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Reassign to a teammate
Choose a person and add a hand-off note. The ticket moves to them with its full history; the timeline records the change.
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Tell the customer, warmly
When a ticket needs a person, the AI drafts a first-person message about what has happened for them: never a name, team or department, never a timeframe. You review and send it like any reply.
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Escalate to your help desk
Choose Escalate and give a short reason. The ticket arrives in your help desk with an AI-written summary (the issue, what has been tried, where it stands), the attachments listed with a link to open them, your note, the original message and a link back to the full history.
You’ll see: The help desk's reference appears on the ticket. Security, legal and data-protection tickets can go straight through; other tickets need some engagement first, so "send it on" can't become a habit.
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Let Full AI escalate for you
In a Full AI category, tickets escalate automatically when the attempts run out or the customer asks for a person. Every hand-off is on the timeline with its reason.
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Close when someone else will follow up
When a colleague says they will contact the customer directly, the AI proposes closing the ticket with the same warmth and the door left open: a reply reopens it, and no rating is asked for.
Good to know
- Once a person has a ticket, it stays with people. Even in a Full AI category the AI keeps drafting but never takes it back.
- Zendesk, HubSpot, ServiceNow and Halo are treated the same way: context is read in, tickets are escalated out, none is favoured.
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- Ask a colleagueWhen the answer sits with Finance or Engineering, send the question without leaving the ticket.Read
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