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Slack for Customer Service

Make customer service simple and productive

Deliver standout customer service by putting the experts, tools and information your agents need at their fingertips.

RESOLVE ISSUES FASTER

Bring the right teams together to speed up resolution times

  • Resolve incidents in real time by easily looping in experts across the company using the Service Cloud for Slack app
  • Collaborate and solve problems aloud with Slack Huddles
  • Search across files, messages and channels to find answers quickly and easily
See how Salesforce resolves cases faster in Slack

“By swarming issues in Slack, we can bring the right experts into the case at the right time, eliminate tiers and escalations, and ultimately find the best person available to help troubleshoot the issue quickly.”

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Tamara Carpenter, Senior Manager, Operations
IMPROVE AGENT ONBOARDING AND PRODUCTIVITY

Empower your agents to rapidly solve issues

  • Boost agent productivity with no-code workflows and streamline collaboration among customers and experts
  • Create a central hub for knowledge so agents can spend less time searching and more time helping customers
  • Get new team members up to speed quickly with automated and interactive onboarding
Learn how Intuit increases customer satisfaction with Slack

36%

faster customer support case resolution

12%

increase in customer satisfaction

*Source: Intuit, 2020
GROW CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS

Improve customer satisfaction with prioritized support

  • Bring customers directly into your workspace using Slack Connect and delight them with white glove service
  • Troubleshoot issues together with partners and experts, using tools in one space to reduce complexity
  • Strengthen customer loyalty by sharing real-time updates
See how Fastly scales excellent customer service

“We hear back from our customers that we’re like an extension of their team, and part of that feeling definitely comes from the fact that we use Slack.”

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Kami Richey, Director of Customer Experience

Productivity begins with your favorite tools

Resolve customer issues faster and collaborate right from Slack using platforms like Salesforce and more.

See all customer service integrations

Frequently asked questions

Excellent question. Slack is a way for your entire organization to communicate internally and externally. Instead of one-off email chains, all your communication is organized into channels that are easy to create, join and search. When there’s a channel for everything, everyone knows exactly where to go to get work done. And when it comes to customers, serving them seamlessly is easier when every tool and every piece of information needed is right at your agent’s fingertips. For more reading on the topic, we recommend checking out our Resources Library.

No, but it does integrate with your preferred customer service software solution including Salesforce, Freshdesk, and more. By using Slack and your primary service solution together, agents can instantly collaborate with the experts without having to switch between tools, allowing them to resolve customer issues faster and deliver seamless customer experiences.

Yes. You can use Slack Connect to speed up work and strengthen relationships throughout your entire retail ecosystem. Slack Connect securely connects your teams with external partners including vendors, suppliers and third-party logistics providers. Slack Connect is available on all paid subscriptions.

Yes! Unlike email, Slack is not susceptible to spam or phishing, which causes 90% of data breaches. Your Slack handle cannot be sold to advertisers or put on a mailing list. You will only ever receive Slack messages from other people inside your organization, or from trusted partners using Slack Connect. You may get notifications from apps integrated with your workspace, such as Asana, Google Docs or Jira.

Slack offers enterprise-grade data protection and privacy. Granular controls allow admins to customize security for each user, so no one sees things they shouldn’t. Learn more about how Slack can securely replace email inside your company.