A Service Territory is a geographic boundary in Zoho FSM that defines the area covered by a specific group of field agents. Territories can be defined by city, region, postcode, or a custom boundary. When a Work Order is created for a customer address, FSM matches it to the appropriate territory and routes it to agents assigned to that territory, ensuring jobs are always handled by the team closest to the customer.<\/p>\n
Service Territories can be nested in a hierarchy. A parent territory might represent a state or large metropolitan area, with child territories for individual districts or zones. This hierarchy allows escalation rules to move a job up to a parent territory when no agents in the child territory are available, preventing jobs from going unassigned.<\/p>\n
Each Field Agent is assigned to one or more Service Territories in their profile. When a Work Order falls within a territory, only agents assigned to that territory appear as scheduling candidates in the Dispatch Console. This restriction ensures dispatchers don’t accidentally assign a job to an agent based in a different city, and reduces travel time across the entire operation.<\/p>\n
Yes. A Field Agent can be a member of multiple Service Territories simultaneously. This is common for agents in border zones who serve two adjacent territories, or for senior technicians who cover a wider area than standard agents. Their work queue will include jobs from all assigned territories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Territories are defined by the administrator in the FSM settings using postcode ranges, city or region names, or manually drawn boundaries on the territory map. For precise geographic boundaries, map-based drawing is the most accurate method. For simpler operations, postcode or city-based definitions are faster to set up and maintain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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