How Zendesk QA relates to Support

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A separate product reading your conversations. Knowing where each thing lives saves the usual hunting.

How they connect

Quality Assurance reads tickets and conversations from Support and adds reviewing on top. Nothing changes for agents handling work; the reviewing happens alongside.

Where things live

Tickets and channels Support
Agents, roles, groups Admin Center
Quality Assurance roles Admin Center, on the team member page
Workspace permissions Quality Assurance
Workspaces and scorecards Quality Assurance
Reviews and feedback Quality Assurance
Ticket reporting Explore
Quality reporting Quality Assurance

Workspaces are not groups

Support groups route tickets. Workspaces here decide which conversations are reviewed, by whom, against which scorecard. They often mirror groups and they are maintained separately.

The groups themselves do cross over: a group made in Support syncs into Quality Assurance on its own, private ticket groups excepted, and never the other way round. So the groups here are largely your Support structure, and the workspaces are the part you build yourself.

Two sets of numbers

Explore measures volume and time; this measures quality. They answer different questions and will not reconcile, which is expected rather than a problem.

Reviews do not touch the ticket

A reviewed conversation is unchanged in Support. Agents see feedback here, not on the ticket, which is worth saying because people look for it there.

Access is separate

Being an admin in Support does not make somebody a reviewer here. That is deliberate: seeing reviews of colleagues is a different kind of access.

It comes in two levels, and they are set in two places. The account role sits on the team member page in Admin Center, alongside the Support and Explore roles, and covers Admin, Agent, Reviewer, Workspace lead, Workspace manager and Connected user. Permissions within a single workspace are set inside Quality Assurance itself, as Manager, Lead, Reviewer or Agent.

So somebody can be a reviewer in one workspace and only see their own conversations in another, and the answer to "why can they not see this" is often the level you are not looking at.

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