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Support priority Criteria Examples
Urgent An error with the Customer Production Portal or Storage Services for which no workaround exists and which has caused an immediate and material adverse business impact through: an impact on the delivery of services to your end users; an impact on your operations and/or on the provision of your services; the loss or corruption of data, or provision of incorrect data.
  • Entire production environment is inaccessible (error is received by all users when trying to access the production URL)
    No users are able to log into production environment
  • Issues with HR feed affecting all accounts on production
  • No files can be uploaded or downloaded on production environment
  • Interface functionality errors being experienced by all users
High An error with the Customer Production Portal or Storage Services for which no workaround exists and which if not corrected is likely to cause a material adverse business impact through: an impact on the delivery of services to your end users; an impact on your operations and/or on the provision of your services; the loss or corruption of data, or provision of incorrect data.
  • Selected users are not able to log in
  • Issues with processing HR feeds that affect a selected number of accounts
  • Issues with uploading or downloading some files
  • Notice of immediate changes to account creation and/or authentication configurations (although we expect that these types of requests should be submitted within a reasonable timeframe to avoid urgency wherever possible)
  • Interface functionality issues reported by several users that require updates to configurations or customisations which an admin is unable to do themselves in the interface
Medium Any function of the Customer Production Portal or Storage Services is unavailable or has slowed down such that there is a significant business impact.
  • Interface functionality issues only being experienced by a single user
Low Minor incidents, which you can easily avoid or work around for which there is no urgency for resolution.
  • Changes, updates, or additions to production settings that are not configurable within the interface (these types of requests should be submitted within a reasonable timeframe)

Note that for support requests for changes, updates, or additions to production settings that are configurable within the interface by an admin, our Support Team will only respond to these after all priority tickets have been responded to, which may result in a response time of greater than 24 hours. Fees may apply for such changes that an admin can configure themselves.

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