Receiving Zendesk QA notifications in Slack

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Review notifications in your chat tool. Convenient, and worth thinking about what becomes visible to whom.

Connect it

  1. Open the integrations in Quality Assurance.
  2. Connect Slack and authorise it.
  3. Choose which notifications are sent, and where.
  4. Send a test and look at what it contains.

Direct messages, not channels

A review is feedback about one person's work. Posting it in a shared channel makes their score visible to colleagues, whether or not anybody intended that.

This is the setting to get right before switching anything on.

What is reasonable in a channel

Programme-level things: reviews completed this week, a reminder that the review queue is filling up. Nothing naming an individual's score.

Read the test message

Before rolling it out. Notifications can include more than expected: the score, the comment, the conversation. Check what actually appears rather than what you configured.

Immediate is not always better

A review notification arriving mid-conversation pulls an agent's attention away from a customer, and feedback read under those conditions gets a defensive reading.

A daily summary is usually kinder and just as timely.

Chat history is long-lived

A message about somebody's review is searchable by colleagues for years. That is a longer life than most people assume when they set this up.

Ask the team

Whether they want reviews in chat at all. Some teams find it convenient; others find it intrusive, and either answer is worth respecting.

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