QAlertâ„¢ CRM Features

Administration Features

  • Automatic GEO coding of service requests
  • Dynamic GIS integration
  • GIS export capabilities
  • QScend product suite integration
  • Street database integration
  • User password management and recovery
  • Work order and asset management integration
  • Integration with third-party reporting tools

Website Integration

  • Attachment Options
  • Customizable Web form
  • Customizable confirmation page
  • Customizable introduction page
  • Email verification on submissions
  • Site search engine by category or tag

Knowledge Base

  • Citizen self-service center option
  • Article delivery via email
  • Public and private articles
  • Quick article access for call takers
  • Article authoring permissions
  • FAQ for website visitors
  • Article/Type matching for call takers
  • Optional knowledge base review before submitting service request
  • Popular article designation
  • Recent article updates

Notifications

  • Auto-call telephone messaging
  • Automatic receipts on creation and closing
  • Email submitter option
  • Postal mail preference indicator
  • Telephone call preference indicator
  • Staff updates via email from other users and citizens

Routing

  • Individuals or groups
  • Customizable routing/resolution timeframes
  • Delayed routing
  • Escalation routing to supervisors, department heads, administration
  • Inheriting from main to sub-types
  • Internal user re-routing option

Call Center Features

  • Auto-population of citizen data
  • Easy access to knowledge base articles
  • Knowledge base article distribution
  • On-the-fly matching of related requests
  • On-the-fly mapping of service request data
  • Systematic searching

Citizen Interface

  • Integration with your current website
  • 24/7 self-service FAQ
  • Knowledge base article printing
  • Customizable Web form
  • Citizen Login option
  • Commenting on service requests

Responding

  • Customized My Service Requests by use
  • On-the-fly mapping of service request data
  • Re-opening options for closed requests
  • Search option to locate service requests
  • Unlimited activity entry per request
  • Unlimited file attachments to service requests
  • Viewing service request by status

Reporting

  • Audit reports by user and activity
  • Customizable report and chart building
  • Downloadable reports in a variety of formats
  • Email report delivery in a variety of formats
  • Integrated district/street reporting
  • Sharing via email or control panel
  • Scheduling delivery via email in a variety of formats
  • System reports by type, street, user, timeframe, and more
  • Sharing of XML report files with other users
  • User-specific dashboards

Service Request Types

  • Customizable type listing
  • Call taker scripts
  • Submitter comment prompts
  • Public and private types
  • Unlimited parent (main) types
  • Unlimited child (sub) types

Benefits of QAlert

To Your Government

  • Serve more citizens without increasing staff
  • Affords staff the opportunity to focus on other tasks
  • Minimizes the escalation of issues, allowing department heads and administration to focus on other tasks
  • Eliminates redundant processes
  • Assures issues are being addressed
  • Reduces phone call and email inquiries
  • Reduces operational costs per citizen interaction
  • Provides shared knowledge for common answer delivery
  • Provides data and customizable reporting for performance measurement/CitiStat programs
  • Allows for better budgeting, resource allocation, and work scheduling

To Your Citizens

  • 24/7 self service
  • Access to more information
  • Improves ability to communicate about specific issues
  • Builds levels of trust
  • Provides a means to search for the answers needed
  • Increased community awareness through popular questions
  • Opportunity for quick issue resolution