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Supervisor

A supervisor in Zoho Desk monitors agent queues, manages escalations, and reassigns tickets with elevated department-level permissions.

A supervisor in Zoho Desk is a support team member with elevated permissions to monitor agent queues, reassign tickets, run reports, and manage SLA escalations, without having full administrative rights over account-wide settings.

Supervisor Permissions

Supervisors in Zoho Desk can view all tickets in their department, reassign tickets between agents, access team and individual performance reports, and manage SLA escalation responses. They cannot change system-wide configurations like billing or global SLA policies.

Real-Time Queue Monitoring

Supervisors use Zoho Desk dashboards and the RADAR app to monitor ticket queues in real time. They can identify agents with high backlogs, tickets approaching SLA breaches, and unassigned tickets that have been waiting too long, and intervene directly.

Supervisor Role in Escalation

Supervisors are the primary recipients of SLA escalation notifications. When an agent’s ticket approaches a breach, the supervisor is alerted and can reassign the ticket, contact the agent, or respond to the customer directly to maintain service levels.

Example: A team supervisor at a telecom company monitors the live Zoho Desk dashboard each morning. When she sees a cluster of unresolved billing tickets approaching SLA, she reassigns three tickets from an overloaded agent to two colleagues with lighter queues, preventing a breach.
What is a Supervisor in Zoho Desk?

A supervisor in Zoho Desk has elevated permissions to monitor agent queues, reassign tickets, run reports, and manage escalations. They oversee day-to-day support operations without full administrative access.

How does a supervisor monitor ticket queues in Zoho Desk?

Supervisors use the Zoho Desk dashboard and RADAR app to see live ticket queues, agent availability, SLA countdowns, and tickets at risk of breaching. They can intervene by reassigning or prioritising tickets in real time.

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