Contracts

Contracts in SupportCenter Plus are the services offered to an account and their associated products for a specific time period. These support services are grouped under a Support Plan which determines the due by time for requests raised for the account/product.

 

Contracts can be created for an account with single or multiple products. A service contract can be associated to an account with multiple products in the same time period. Multiple contracts can be associated to a single product, provided the time period of each contract does not overlap. Apart from associating service contracts to products, contracts can be associated to accounts alone. Thus based on the associated contracts, any request raised for the account should be resolved based on the support plan and applied due by time.

 

 

Note:

1. Contracts plays a vital role in setting the due by time for a request.

2. The time period of two different contracts associated to an account should not overlap.

 

Resolving requests based on Contracts  

 

Users raise requests into SupportCenter Plus and these requests are resolved based on contracts, provided the user has an account in the SupportCenter Plus database. If the user has an valid account, then the contract associated to the account is identified after which, the due by time for the request is applied.

 

The work flow explains how contracts are involved for resolving requests.

 

 

 

Identify the Customer/Product

 

On receiving request from a customer in the application,

• A search is conducted for the customer and his company in the available list of contacts in the database, i.e., if the customer has an existing Account in the database, and  

• If the customer's request pertains to any Product that is associated to the account.

If the customer and his company details are not available in the list of contacts in SupportCenter Plus database, then the Default Support Plan is applied for that request.

 

 

Identify the Active Contract

 

Identify the associated contracts and analyze if the account has an active contract,

• If the customer's account is available in the database, and if the request pertains to a product then the contract associated for the product is identified.

• If the customer's account is available in the database, and the request does not pertain to any product then the contract associated for the account is identified.

 

Service Level Agreement and Support Plan

 

The support services offered for an account is listed in the corresponding contract details. Based on the account, the Support Plan has associated Service Level Agreement with certain SLA rules. Using these SLA rules the due by time for a request is applied.