How to Save Your Large Customer Service Team Time with Salesforce

Running a large customer service team is essential for keeping customers happy and ensuring your business operates smoothly. But at scale, even small inefficiencies can have a massive impact on productivity, costs, and customer satisfaction.

Hitting SLAs is important, but so is providing a human, personalised experience. The challenge is balancing both, especially when your team handles hundreds of service requests every day.

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The Problem: Wasted Time in Customer Service

Many organisations don’t realise how much time is spent on repetitive administrative tasks, such as:

• Collecting customer details at the start of each interaction

• Asking security or verification questions

• Manually logging interactions

Even if these steps take less than a minute per request, across hundreds of agents and requests, it adds up to thousands of hours lost annually.

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The Solution: Pre-Filled Customer Information

We worked with a customer who faced exactly this challenge. Their customer service team was spending a significant portion of their day just gathering information before a meaningful conversation could begin.

Our solution was simple yet transformative: require customers to sign in before starting a chat.

The impact?

• Customer details pre-loaded for the service agent

• No more back-and-forth asking for information

• Immediate access to relevant account data, purchase history, and case details

• Conversations start informed, personal, and proactive

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The Results: Small Change, Huge Impact

Saving even less than a minute per interaction, across a team of hundreds, quickly scaled into thousands of hours of saved work.

This small change not only boosted team efficiency, but also improved the customer experience, ensuring each interaction is seamless, informed, and responsive.

Key benefits included:

✅ Faster resolution times and improved SLA adherence

✅ Reduced agent frustration from repetitive tasks

✅ Enhanced customer satisfaction and loyalty

✅ More time for agents to focus on high-value interactions

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How Salesforce Can Help You

Salesforce provides the tools to automate and streamline customer service workflows, from pre-filled forms to integrated knowledge bases and smart routing of requests. With the right setup, your team can spend less time on admin and more time delighting your customers.

Want to see how we can help your customer service team save time and work smarter with Salesforce? 👉 Get in touch today