Tickets have different statuses through their journey from new to resolved, each helping you to keep your mailbox organized. There are multiple ways, both manual and automated, to change a ticket's status in eDesk.

This help file will walk you through all the different ways you can change ticket statuses in eDesk.

Before you start

 
  • You’ll need an Admin login to eDesk. If you don’t have an Admin login, you can request one from an Admin user within your business.

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01 Change a ticket's status when responding to it.

Sometimes you may want to change the ticket status manually because you know further action will be required to solve the ticket later or because of the way you want to report on closing tickets. If this is the case, you can easily choose the status yourself every time or close as the default, which you can choose from your account settings.

  • How can I change the tickets' statuses when I reply to them?

Clicking on the Submit As button in the reply box will open up options for you to choose the ticket status you would like this ticket to be reassigned to.

You can choose from the following statuses: 

  • Waiting
  • To-do (open)
  • Resolved 

02 Change a message's status manually

  • How to manually close tickets? 
  1. Click on the ticket.
  2. Click on the status dropdown.
  3. Select the new status that you want to change to.

To help understand these statuses keep in mind that tickets (customer messages) are not always solved with a single response. 

The eDesk ticket statuses are:

  1. New Tickets contain new tickets that you’ve never responded to before and that require action.
  2. To-do contains tickets that require action. These include new tickets and tickets that you’ve responded to but need further follow-up action.
  3. Waiting contains tickets that have been actioned but aren’t ready to be closed. Use the waiting status if you know the ticket isn’t going to be resolved when you reply. When you send a message in eDesk it’s usually closed by default. However, if you uncheck the Close ticket checkbox in the reply box then the ticket will go to Waiting.
  4. Snoozed contains tickets that have been temporarily removed from New and/or To-Do categories to reopen at a specified time. When the snooze time has elapsed, the ticket will return to where it originated. To find out more about how to snooze tickets, click here.
  5. Resolved contains closed tickets. Tickets in the resolved category will reopen if the customer responds to you or sends another email. 
  6. Recently Updated contains tickets that have been changed recently i.e. the customer sent a new mail, a note was added or the status was changed.

03 Change a message's status automatically

You can use Message Rules to tell eDesk to automatically close certain tickets based on the conditions you decide.

The easiest way to think about rules in words is...If [condition] then [assign to teammate x]. More on Message Rules below in further readings.

Further Readings


If you would like to find out more about responding faster with snippets, click here.

If you would be interested in learning more about Message Rules with eDesk, click here.