Global Premium Plus Support Overview

Objective

The Premium Plus Support Experience is a program designed to provide a superior level of technical support to 8x8’s strategic customers.  The Premium Plus Support Experience is delivered by seasoned 8x8 technical experts, who have years of product specific experience and industry knowledge.

Premium Plus Support Engineers (P+) - The 8x8 P+ Support team is a globally distributed team of hand picked product support engineers who are dedicated to quickly managed and resolve Premium Plus Customer issues

Named Support Engineers (NSE) - 8x8’s NSE’s are senior-level, highly trained 8x8 product support engineer who manage and resolve complex technical support issues for their assigned Premium Plus Customers

Technical Account Managers (TAM) - 8x8’s TAM’s are seasoned professionals that bring a wealth of UCaaS/CCaaS industry knowledge and peripheral areas of expertise to the Premium Plus program. The TAM’s delivers strategic and tactical technical consultation to the Premium Plus Customers and act as customer champions during technical crisis

How can I engage 8x8 Premium Plus Support?

• Create a Case (Preferred) -  Using 8x8 Support Portal to create a web case (Click Here)

• Phone - Call 1-866-204-8720 (US) / +44 207 096 6060 (UK) to reach our Premium Help Desk line where the issue will be triaged and escalated to the appropriate NSE/CEM

• StatusCast - Receive alerts on service outages with the ability to create a case if desired. For an article on how to sign up for StatusCast (Click Here)

Before Contacting Support

Customer Responsibilities 

As an 8x8 customer, the customer is responsible for the following items:

• Service identifier: Providing a valid service identifier such as site name, address or telephone number when reporting an incident to 8x8 Support
• Authorized representatives: Provide and maintain a list of authorized technical representatives who can act on behalf of the organization, and be contacted by the 8x8 Premium Support team
• Checking equipment: Checking that equipment is cabled and powered correctly, including phones, routers, etc 
• Diagnostics: Completing first-level diagnostic checks before raising a case with 8x8 Support

8x8 Quality of Service 

The Customer is responsible for procuring at its own cost, Internet connectivity; and for ensuring that all aspects of the applicable network environment(s) adhere to the standards and requirements specified in 8x8’s Documentation (being those user manuals and technical documentation related to the 8x8 VOIP service offering posted to www.8x8.com, but excluding marketing materials). Additionally, the Customer must make sure that the 8x8 VOIP service offering is configured appropriately to the proposed use. As 8x8’s VOIP service offerings rely on the transmission of electronic data over the Internet and various other networks that are not owned or operated by, or under the control of, 8x8, 8x8 is not responsible (or liable) for any delay, loss, alteration or interception of data in the course of its transmission through and between networks not owned and/or operated by 8x8. 

Call quality checklist: 

When logging a fault please be prepared to supply information to help diagnose issues, for example:

1. What is happening? i.e. no audio / one way audio / break up of audio / delayed speech / echo / robotic / static noise?
2. Is it on all calls or is it intermittent?
3. Does it affect one single phone, a few, or all phones? 
4. Has the call been tried on another phone? 
5. Is the issue on incoming, outgoing, or both? 
6. Does the issue happen on internal calls? 
7. What was displayed on the phone at the time of the call and afterward? 
8. Are there any obvious patterns? i.e. always at the same time of the day? Always when lots of people are taking calls? 
9. When supplying call examples for an audio trace, the following is required: 
10. Is the internet connection stable and checks have been run?

When collecting call samples, they need to have the following criteria: 1. Call sample needs to be within 2 hours of the call 2. Number calling (Full number with Area code)  3. Number called (Full number with Area code)  4. Date and time of call  5. Call direction

Preferred call examples are from landline numbers. As mobile calls have too many variables to take into account. Call examples from withheld numbers are acceptable, where they are few in number, as finding these calls can be time consuming. 

How do I escalate an existing case?

There are two primary methods of escalating support issues, please ensure you have an existing support case logged. Escalating a case will notify the Premium Plus leadership team to ensure the case will receive the proper attention. 

• How to escalate via Support Portal
• How to escalate via email

Premium Plus Support Team Hours of Operation 

Service Level Targets (SLT): Initial Response

Management Contacts