Customer Service Support for Star Maps Retailer
- Call Center Services IT Staff Augmentation
- $10,000 to $49,999
- Sep. 2019 - Ongoing
- Quality
- 5.0
- Schedule
- 4.5
- Cost
- 5.0
- Willing to Refer
- 5.0
"They are always willing to take on more responsibilities."
- Retail
- Barcelona, Spain
- 1-10 Employees
- Online Review
- Verified
Wow24-7 provides ongoing customer support services for a star maps retailer. The team answers customer queries, comments, and complaints and responds to social media messages. They also check orders.
Thanks to the Wow24-7 team's work, internal stakeholders can focus on more challenging issues within the company. The team is reliable in solving issues that third-party customers have. Competent and professional, they collaborate seamlessly with the firm as they commit to providing good services. This review is an update by the client company. The original content is located below the new review.
The client submitted this review online.
BACKGROUND
Please describe your company and your position there.
We make star maps that show constellations that are at a particular place and time. For example, you can order a map with a constellation that was in the sky above the place where you were born and at the time of your birth. My name is Fiona King, I am a head of the customer service department at Under Lucky Stars.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
For what projects/services did your company hire Wow24-7?
We hired them to provide 24/7 customer service for our product. We wanted to have around-the-clock support so our customers could contact us anytime either by live chat or by email and there would always be somebody to help them.
SOLUTION
How did you select this agency and what were the deciding factors?
Before we contracted with WOW24-7 we were not able to offer 24/7 service. We had a very limited customer service response. Our commitment was to respond to emails within 24 hours of receiving them but we were able to turn on the chat facility only when we were not overloaded with emails, and at that point, we had a much smaller team.
So we unable to cater to the U.S. market in the way we wanted to because since we are based in Barcelona, our timetable is quite different from the U.S. market, which is our principal market. We wanted to expand our customer service team to be able to provide proper client care. When we were looking for a customer support provider WOW24-7 seemed to offer the best prices compared with other similar companies. That was the primary reason why we chose WOW24-7.
Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.
We started by introducing WOW24-7 agents to our product and our customer support system. We familiarized them with the kinds of inquiries we receive from customers. Also, we showed them our standard answers and encouraged them to modify them according to the customer’s specific queries, comments or complaints. Once we saw that the agents were competent enough we started putting them on live chats.
They also respond you customer messages on our Instagram and recently, they started checking orders. They make sure that there are no spelling errors on the star map, which is a common problem since a lot of customers place orders from their phones. They also manage product issues like damaged maps or delivery delays and navigate those problems with our print labs.
Describe the recruitment process in detail.
We briefed Wela 24 seven on our requirements and they provided us with candidates who we interviewed. We then spent a two week period training the agents, followed by a period of monitoring their work for a week. Once we were satisfied that the agents were reaching the high standards we expected we confirmed their employment.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
Can you share any outcomes from the engagement that demonstrate progress or success?
They’ve provided us with the 24/7 support that we weren’t able to provide on our own. They took over the responsibility of replying to our clients’ queries which is a very time-consuming task. This allowed our employees to focus on some of the more challenging issues related to customer service and product development. Sometimes it can be very time-consuming to try and resolve specific difficulties and issues that clients have so having a reliable customer support team helps a lot.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
The workflow between our teams has always been very good. We usually communicate through channels on Slack. And once a month we have a video call with one agent at a time. I think we have been very lucky with the agents. They are all very professional and committed to providing a good service for our company and for the customers that we have.
What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?
WOW24-7 agents have been very professional and competent, but they also have great personalities. It’s important for us to not come out like robots in our communication with customers. We want to come out as a caring and considerate retailer. And WOW24-7 agents’ emotional intelligence and professionalism have done that very well by being empathetic and using human touch in their interactions with customers. They have managed to balance being professional and competent with also allowing their own personalities to come through in their interactions with our clients.
Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?
The agents are very responsive to all of our requests. If we ask them to do over and above something we’ve originally imagined they would do, they happily agree. So there really isn’t anything we can ask them to improve in because they are always willing to take on more responsibilities. We are very satisfied with our agents.
UPDATED REVIEW
This review was published on October 26, 2020
Fiona King
Head of Customer Service, Under Lucky Stars
Retail
1-10 Employees
Barcelona, Spain
$50,000 to $199,999
Jan 2019 - Sep 2020
Project summary
Wow24-7 provides around the clock call center services to a star map company. The team answers customer inquiries regarding everything from product details to logistics and supply chain.
Feedback summary
Internal stakeholders are pleased with Wow24-7’s services, noting their excellent representation of the company. The team is knowledgeable about internal processes, allowing them to provide excellent customer services to clients.
BACKGROUND
Introduce your business and what you do there.
Under Lucky Stars is a small company based in Spain selling maps of the stars at a special moment in the time chosen by the customer. We ship the maps to customers around the world.
OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE
For what projects/services did your company hire Wow24-7?
In order to support a growth in customers, we wanted to provide a 24/7 service on chat and email to be able to resolve questions or concerns our customers may have.
What were your goals for this project?
Previously, we were dealing with all customer queries in house. However, the need to provide round the clock service was beyond the scope of the original, core team.
SOLUTION
How did you select this vendor?
We used Google to search for around the clock customer service support services
Describe the project in detail.
The team supplied to us by Wow24-7 is providing a professional response to customers’ emails and chats. Some of these responses may simply be answering questions about the product. Others require an in-depth knowledge of the supply and delivery chain for our product, in order to resolve issues such as the product arriving damaged, being lost, etc.
What was the team composition?
Wow24-7 provides us with a team of customer service agents. They work autonomously within the company guidelines for response.
RESULTS & FEEDBACK
Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?
Having the team from Wow24-7 ensure that we provide an effective and efficient round the clock service for our customers has been remarkable.
How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?
We communicate in a shared Slack channel. It is a good way of communication: all involved stakeholders are part of the channel, and all communication is transparent.
What did you find most impressive about this company?
The team of agents supplied by Wow24-7 is very professional, flexible, and understanding in the face of some troublesome situations.
Are there any areas for improvement?
Overall, we are very happy with Wow24-7's performance. There have been some issues with the admin processes but these seem to have been resolved. Wow24-7 is always responsive to our requests for information or reconsideration where we feel an error has occurred.
RATINGS
Overall rating 5
Quality 5
Cost 5
Schedule 5
Willing to refer 5
RATINGS
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Quality
5.0Service & Deliverables
"They have supplied exactly the staff we needed and remain responsive to our requests for modification"
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Schedule
4.5On time / deadlines
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Cost
5.0Value / within estimates
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Willing to Refer
5.0NPS