Effectiveness report
Free on every planNot just fast. Actually resolved.
Conversations replied to, messages sent, first-contact resolution rate, median time to first reply, median time to close, and unique conversations closed. Filter by date range and inbox.
The problem
Fast replies that fix nothing
A team can hit a great response time by answering quickly and unhelpfully. Speed on its own tells you almost nothing about whether customers got what they needed.
- Quick first replies that lead to five more messages
- Averages skewed by a handful of extreme cases
- No measure of whether anything was actually resolved
- Nothing to show whether a process change helped
Why teams love it
Speed and resolution, side by side
Reading both together is what stops a support team optimising for the wrong thing.
- First-contact resolution
- The share of conversations solved in one reply: the single best measure of whether answers land.
- Medians, not averages
- Median times are not distorted by a few extreme conversations, so they describe the typical customer.
- Responsiveness you can manage
- Time to first reply and time to close give managers a clear read on how the team is doing.
- Measure your changes
- Introduce quick replies, rules or AI and see the effect in the numbers rather than guessing.
What’s inside
Six measures of how it went
Performance metrics that describe both effort and outcome.
- Conversations replied to
- How many conversations the team actually responded to in the period.
- Messages sent
- Total outgoing messages, which shows how much effort each resolution takes.
- First-contact resolution rate
- The proportion of conversations resolved without a second exchange.
- Median time to first reply
- How long a typical customer waits for their first response.
- Median time to close
- How long a typical conversation takes to reach resolution.
- Unique conversations closed
- Distinct conversations resolved, filterable by date range and inbox.
Pricing
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Effectiveness report: response times and first-contact resolution
A support team can post an excellent response time by replying quickly and unhelpfully, which is why speed alone is a poor measure. The effectiveness report puts both halves together: conversations replied to, messages sent, first-contact resolution rate, median time to first reply, median time to close, and unique conversations closed, filtered by date range and inbox.
First-contact resolution is the number most worth watching, because it captures whether an answer actually landed. Medians are used rather than averages so a handful of unusual conversations do not distort the picture of what a typical customer experiences. Together with the conversations report’s re-open count, you get an honest read on answer quality.
It is also how you measure a change. Introduce quick replies, AI agents or an AI agent and the effect shows up here rather than in an impression. The effectiveness report is included on every Herodesk plan, including Free, and used by webshops, B2B companies and SaaS companies across Europe. See pricing for what each plan includes.
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