Freshdesk + Orcabase

Which tickets take longest to solve?

Sync Freshdesk through Fivetran and ask which issues take longest, how each group performs and what customers think, in plain words, next to the rest of your business.

  • Synced by Fivetran
  • Syncs every 6 hours
  • No Fivetran account needed
AgentFreshdesk connected

Which ticket types take longest to solve?

Reading your Freshdesk data…

Refund requests take longest: 31 hours on average.

  • Most of that time is spent waiting for approval.
  • Delivery questions are solved in 4 hours.
  • Satisfaction drops sharply after 24 hours.

Average hours to solve, by ticket type

31RefundDamageBillingAccountDelivery
How I got this· 4 steps
  1. Looked at your Freshdesk tickets
  2. Measured time from opened to solved
  3. Grouped tickets by type
  4. Compared satisfaction by solve time

Example answer. Numbers are illustrative.

In plain words

How do I analyze Freshdesk tickets?

Fivetran copies your Freshdesk tickets, contacts, agents and ratings into a database Orcabase hosts for you. You ask in plain words, and the agent answers with the number, a chart and how it got there.

With orders or payments next to it, you can also ask what each type of ticket costs you.

Ask in plain words

What you can ask about your Freshdesk data

The agent answers with the number, a chart and the steps it took. Keep the good answers on a dashboard.

  • Which ticket types take longest to solve?

  • How many tickets did each group handle last month?

  • What’s our first response time, week by week?

  • Which customers open the most tickets?

  • How often are solved tickets reopened?

  • What’s our satisfaction score by agent?

  • Which channels bring the most tickets?

  • Show me tickets opened and solved by week.

What comes in

Your Freshdesk data, ready to ask about.

A copy in a database Orcabase hosts for you, with its own folder for each app.

01

Tickets

Every ticket, its type, status, priority, source and fields.
02

Contacts and companies

Who writes in, and where they work.
03

Agents and groups

Who handles tickets, and which team they’re in.
04

Satisfaction ratings

Survey results after each ticket.

Numbers worth defining

Define them once. Every answer agrees.

Tell Orcabase what each number means, certify it, and your dashboards, the agent and your whole team use the same one. The agent can draft these from your Freshdesk data.

How metrics work

  • Resolution time

    Average time from ticket opened to solved.

  • First response time

    Average time to the first reply.

  • Satisfaction

    Share of ratings that were positive.

  • Reopen rate

    Share of solved tickets that were opened again.

Dashboards to start with

Your Freshdesk numbers at a glance.

Ask the agent to build one of these, or pin charts yourself. Share any dashboard with a link.

Support

4 charts
  • Tickets opened and solved
  • Resolution time by type
  • First response time
  • Satisfaction

Teams

3 charts
  • Tickets by group
  • Tickets by agent
  • Reopen rate

About dashboards

How to connect

Connect Freshdesk, step by step.

  1. 1

    Find it in Sync data

    In Orcabase, go to Sync data → Add source and search for Freshdesk. Pick the database to sync into.

  2. 2

    Connect Freshdesk on Fivetran’s page

    Fivetran’s page asks for your Freshdesk address and an API key, which you’ll find in your profile settings.

  3. 3

    Choose what to sync

    Back in Orcabase, tick the data you want. Only what you pick is synced, and only it counts toward your allowance.

  4. 4

    Ask away

    The first sync starts straight away. When it’s done, ask the agent about your Freshdesk data.

What you’ll need

  • A Freshdesk login that can see your API key, and your Freshdesk address.
  • The Admin role in Orcabase, and data hosting: Fivetran writes into a database Orcabase hosts for you.
At a glance
How it connects
Synced by Fivetran
How fresh
Every 6 hours, as standard.
Where your data lives
A copy in a database Orcabase hosts for you, with its own folder for each app.
Who can set it up
An admin in your organization.
Your login
You sign in on Fivetran’s own page. Orcabase never sees your password or keys.
Cost
Counts toward your monthly sync allowance: 500,000 changed rows a month, as standard.
Sync apps with FivetranStep-by-step, in the docs.

Questions

About Freshdesk and Orcabase

More in the docs: Sync apps with Fivetran

Does it include custom ticket fields?
Yes. Custom fields come along with each ticket, so you can split numbers by them.
Can Orcabase change tickets?
No. Orcabase only reads the synced copy.
Do I need a Fivetran account?
No. Orcabase uses its own. You sign in to Freshdesk on Fivetran’s page, and the data lands in a database Orcabase hosts for you, so there’s nothing else to set up or pay Fivetran for.
How fresh is my Freshdesk data in Orcabase?
Fivetran syncs it every 6 hours as standard, and an admin can run a sync by hand at any time. The page for each source shows when it last synced and when it syncs next.
What does syncing cost?
Counts toward your monthly sync allowance: 500,000 changed rows a month, as standard. Each distinct row that’s added or changed in a month counts once, however often it changes, and the first full copy is free. You choose which tables sync, so you only spend the allowance on what you need.

Your Freshdesk data already has the answers.

Connect it, ask your first question, and pin the answers you want to see every week.