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What is Vision 2.0 helpdesk all about?

In a nutshell Vision 2.0 is about High Speed Performance,  Security,  Reliability, Scalability,  Portability and User-Friendliness. Vision 2.0 reflects the state of the art in web based helpdesk solutions. It well derives benefits of latest Web2.0 technology and equip support staff with fast, secure and user-friendly interface. It is extensively designed with PHP Ajax that offers user-experience improvement, decreasing user delay, decrease in bandwidth usage, high speed results and loads of features listed below :

Key Features :

Satellite Helpdesk | Multi-Domain Helpdesk

The well-organized and logically constructed interface allows users to add multiple domains/companies and further easily access and manage them all from one place.

More details –
http://www.thevisionworld.com/true-satellite-helpdesk.html

Robost Mail Parser

Vision includes email parser that gives you power to manage your emails, it gives you option to create corresponding mail queue for each email account. Every new email that user sends in – gets created as a ticket and further staff or user can reply / update the same ticket.

Email Parser supports –

* File attachments
* CC / BCC / Forward option
* Auto responders
* much more ..

Email Parser can be configured in two modes
* Email Piping
* POP3/IMAP/POP3 SSL/IMAP SSL Email Fetching.

AJAX Based Rich User Interface

A major challenge while designing online softwares is the page reload time – for all operations that you do (may be its submitting form or clicking event etc) requires communication between server and reloading the complete page to display the results.

We have used AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) to overcome the complete page reloading issue, AJAX is a web development technique used for creating interactive web applications. AJAX makes your pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change. This way it increases the web page’s interactivity, speed, functionality, and usability.

Paid Support

Vision integrates with leading Billing software WHMCS and allows you to turn your helpdesk to offer paid support to your clients. You can add billing notes, create invoice from helpdesk, track payment status and much more..

Plugin Based

Vision helpdesk is modularized to equip users to enable or disable various features. (example : You can enable or disable scrapbook, alerts, calender, online staff, favorites, anti-virus, address book etc.. ) — This also allows our developers to code several useful plugins and easily plug in to our system rather changing whole code.

Multi-Language

“Multi-language” feature now empowers organizations to extend their business all over the globe by breaking the language barriers. Now you can provide support to your clients in their own language.

This feature mainly includes –

• Clients can change client panel language to one that they understand.
• Clients can send tickets / emails in their own language.
• Your staff has option to select language while replying tickets.

More details — http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-help-desk-now-breaks-language-barriers.html

Easy Migration Tool

Vision provides with an innovative data migration tool. The migration tool automates the entire migration process and easily imports data from major helpdesks like:

• Kayako Support Suite
• Kayako eSupport
• Cerberus
• WHMCS

The migration tool is an open, user-friendly, and extensible migration process ensuring reliability and data integrity.  Migration of users, tickets/emails, ticket queue’s, ticket status and much more are seamlessly done that save time and efforts.

Inbuilt Antivirus Tool

With increasing online virus threat it becomes very important for any organization to keep its data secure — Vision comes with a robust integrated Antivirus tool to eliminate the possibility of virus through email attachments and also allows you to scan helpdesk files.

Auto Upgrades & Installation

This feature allows you to auto install / upgrade your vision helpdesk versions.
more details — http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-helpdesk-auto-version-upgrade-tool.html

Google Apps | Google Hosted Emails (POP3 & IMAP SSL)

You can configure google hosted emails with helpdesk.
more details http://www.thevisionworld.com/vision-helpdesk-supports-google-apps.html

Scrap Book & Private Messaging

The module provides instant private communication between members of your organization. Adding to this, it allows staff members to post scraps/updates in the scrap book.

Submit / Reply Tickets Using Your Favorite Email Client

Vision not only allows you to submit / reply / update tickets via online web portal but also from your favourite Email Clients – like Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express etc.

Customized Tool Bar

Staff can customize tool bar as per their convenience . The most used features are just a click away with our toolbar.

Service Level Agreements

Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) are fundamental to both providers and recipients of services. For important services, therefore, it is essential that the service level agreement is appropriate

But how can you ensure that this essential component of the legal contract is met while delivering a service? Our system therefore includes a comprehensive presentation, designed to help the service provider to gain a complete insight of each ticket/client to find out if the SLA was maintained.

Report Generation

With the help of rich GUI including charts, figures & table of contents – Vision generates accurate report on runtime for Work summary, Service Level Agreements, Response time, Performance and much more..

The reports include elements such as recommendations, suggestions, or other motivating conclusions that indicate possible future actions the report reader might take.

• Last 7 days staff activity (Matrix Report)
• Monthy Staff Work Activity (Statistics)
• Monthly Staff  Performance (Scale / Point Graph)
• Monthly Staff SLA Record (Pie Chart)
• Annual Ticket Bar Graph Report
• Work Report
• SLA Report
• Response Report
• Performance Report
• Client Tickets and Billing Report

Online Issue Tracking

At this point, with technology as cheap as it is, there’s really no excuse not to have an online issue tracking system. Vision incorporates an online issue tracking system which is relatively easy to use, can be made accessible to all, and can serve as a central depository for all kinds of issues.

Custom Fields

This feature allows you to easily create custom fields / forms as per your business requirements.

Ticket Escalation

With this feature you can configure your helpdesk to auto escalate/move tickets to different departments if the ticket reachs overdue time limit. This is helpful to speed up operations and maintain SLA’s.

Login Integration

Login Integration plug-in allows your users to bypass the login registration process for their support area.

Vision supports the most popular and widely used third-party software packages/applications like:

• ModernBill (v4 and v5)
• vBulletin
• osCommerce
• SM Forum (SMF)
• WHMCS
• WordPress

Through the login integration plug-in with other areas of your business, Vision gives you simplicity with maximum control.

3rd Party Live Chat Integration (CCS | LivePerson | ProvideSupport)

This feature allows you to integrate 3rd party live chat helpdesk in to your client portal. You can easily add live chat
icon on client portal page with this feature.

Configurable Client Portal

We have designed client portal in simple html pages which allows you to easily integrate it with your website design.

Client side quick search facility

It enables your clients to search their email / ticket using single word or phrase that appears in message subject or content.

Useful Tools :  KnowledgeBase | Downloads | Predefined | News | Troubleshoot
Advance Search | Alerts | Filters | Labels | Flags | Address Book | Calender

Vision Helpdesk now supports Auto Version Upgrade — Version Updates is user-friendly and the extensible update process that ensures reliability and data integrity. Version upgrades of Vision Helpdesk are seamlessly done that saves time and effort.

It takes two simple steps to upgrade Vision Helpdesk version — Before you upgrade make sure you take your vision helpdesk files backup and your helpdesk database backup.

Step I] In Admin Section Check Available Updates — If new version is available then click on update to respective version.

Software Information

Step II] Enter your account ftp login details and click on update now — our system will replace old files with new version files.. thats it.

ftp details

The ftp password is stored in encrypted format — this makes upgrade process secure and safe.

TheVisionWorld , providers of an extensive web-based helpdesk software “Vision – helpdesk”, today announced their new partnership with WebHostingChat , one of the leading Web Hosting discussion forums.

Partners

“Vision” is a promising helpdesk software, having a potential to deliver features that any organization needs to manage their day to day customer care and support activities. “Vision” provides the optimum combination of call management automation, functionality and flexibility, delivering a comprehensive Helpdesk solution that satisfies most IT service managment requirements.

“We always urge to help WebHostingChat members by all possible means to improve their business. With this partnership, we can now offer Free Vision Helpdesk Annual License to our most active members. ( Eligibility – A member should have minimum 100 posts on WebHostingChat)”, said WebHostingChat
CEO – David Kathir”.

A helpdesk plays an important role for a company, it not only opens communication channel between customers and the company but acts as a central hub for help and information for both customers and company employees. Keeping this in mind, Company HR. Preeti Sharma comments, “We’re really excited with this partnership since the major client base for “Vision” is definitely the Webhosting Sector. We  view our partnership with WebHostingChat as an important step forward in our continuing goal to make “Vision” more widely available to businesses of all sizes.”

TheVisionWorld.com providers of advanced help desk software “Vision”, today announced another crucial feature “Multi-Language” Vision is an extensive web-based help desk software that empowers organizations to gain maximum control over their inbox and offers effective methods for managing Emails, Client Communication, Online Issue Tracking, Knowledgebase, Troubleshooting, News, Downloads, SLA, Escalations, Reports and much more..

Company claims that “Multi – language feature will enable organizations to offer support (emails / tickets) to their clients in their respective language.”

Company HR. Preeti Sharma said “The feature is easy to use and does not require any technical expertise” adding to this she said “With multi-language feature Vision will now break language barriers for organizations which helps to extend their operations for non-English users too.” In continuation to multi-language feature she shared few words about Vision color themes by saying, “Vision is not just feature rich; with new set of color themes for client panel it makes Vision help desk design rich as well”

For more information please visit :- http://www.thevisionworld.com/

English has always been the dominant language on the Web but we cannot ignore the fact that a significant number of Internet users either don’t speak English or prefer to use their native language for Web transactions.

You bet, the ratio of English to non-English users should be almost 50-50? or even if it is 60-40 — Is it worth loosing a client just because they are non-English user? I’m sure your answer will be “No – its not worth loosing clients!!” So my question is what actions are you taking to prevent your non-English speaking clients? some will say they need tools that will allow non-English users to communicate with them,. Agreed!! – This is what we are trying to help you with our Multi-language feature..

Vision – “Multi-language” feature now empowers organizations to extend their business all over the globe by breaking the language barriers. Now you can provide support to your clients in their own language.

This feature mainly includes –

• Clients can change client panel language to one that they understand.
• Clients can send tickets / emails in their own language.

• Your staff has option to select language while replying tickets.

We hope this feature will enhance your business and you stop saying NO to non-English users

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Vision helpdesk (thevisionworld.com), a powerful web-based helpdesk software that integrates various support channels (emails, web based helpdesk, phone or fax) at one central point and further allows maximum control over them, WHMCS (whmcs.com) being a complete all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for Web Hosts & Other Online Businesses, a combination that makes an easy to use client system.

Vision integration with WHMCS mainly covers three modules; Sharing Logins, Auto Custom Fields and Overriding WHMCS inbuilt support module. This easy to integrate system opens two way communication between WHMCS and Vision, allowing access to a client’s ticket information from WHMCS and the complete detailed billing information that is displayed in Vision.

“Integration of two software’s plays an important role in today’s online business. The integration not only increases the features but also improves control over the operations flow. Keeping this in mind we are looking forward to integrate Vision with other leading software’s that will benefit users to a large extent in their day to day helpdesk activities” says company HR Preeti Sharma.

For more details on how WHMCS integration works please visit –
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WHMCS Billing System — WHMCS is the complete all-in-one client management, billing & support solution for Web Hosts & Other Online Businesses. Packed with features but with a core focus on remaining easy to use and customise, WHMCS enables you to easily and effectively manage your business. It also automates many routine tasks including invoicing, order provisioning, suspensions, and more.

Vision Helpdesk — Vision is a powerful web-based helpdesk software that integrates various support channels (emails, web based helpdesk, phone or fax) at one central point and allows maximum control over them.

WHMCS & Vision Integration

We support three modules under this integration -

a) Login Share

Login Share plug-in allows your users to bypass the login registration process for their support area. If enabled your users can use one common login details for login to WHMCS billing system and Vision Helpdesk.

b) Auto Custom Fields

This allows Vision to pull client information (Package type, Server Ip, Domain name, Control Panel User & Password and more) from WHMCS enabling support staff to view client information in helpdesk whenever client post a ticket.

c) Overriding WHMCS Support Module.

Vision not only supports login share and auto custom fields but goes one step ahead – It overrides whmcs inbuilt support module, view tickets, submit tickets, knowledge base articles, downloads, announcements and search options.

Submit Ticket

View Ticket

Ticket List

The integration is simple and does not require any technical expertise or coding knowledge – click here to check detailed steps for integration. ]]> http://www.thevisionworld.com/whmcs-billing-system-vision-helpdesk-login-share-integration.html/feed 1 http://www.thevisionworld.com/multiple-domainscompanies-helpdesk.html http://www.thevisionworld.com/multiple-domainscompanies-helpdesk.html#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:52:06 +0000 Vision Helpdesk http://www.thevisionworld.com/demosite/?p=188

The well-organized and logically constructed interface allows users to add multiple domains/companies and further easily access and manage them all from one place.

Multiple Domain Helpdesk

Better controls are definitely achieved due to the centralized nature of the system which in turn is easy and has low maintenance.

Control – Staff Access Rights

Not only you can add multiple companies and manage them but you can also organize staff as per respective company that means you can assign staff particular rights and controls over more then one department and further domain.

Adding Staff

The best part is you can combine it all into one central place!