The Customer Service Standard Operating Procedure

The SOP (standard operating procedure) refers to a set guidelines or instructions that are laid out by an organization to help solve recurring situations like customer interaction. Situations that are governed by SOP are commonly encountered by employees and are often repetitive. With a SOP in place, it means that all employees can follow the same guideline when faced with such situations.

last updated Saturday, March 30, 2024
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by John Burson

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The typical operating situation in customer interaction encompasses the procedures for processing orders, protecting the client’s private information, and providing post-purchase support.

Under the privacy procedures of the SOP, you can get detailed statement that involves how organizations make the use of e-mails that are voluntarily provided by the customers. According to one expert broker, Rowe Price, they do collect numerous email addresses from their clients in a bid to communicate regularly with their customers on the status of their accounts. In his sentiments, he said that they do not at any given time sell email addresses to any third parties. The difference according to price is that third parties are usually given the customer's email so that they can conduct market research for him.

Order processing

The order processing under the SOP takes into account the step-by-step procedures for filing orders from placements to delivery. Nike’s SOP for processing internet orders, for example, takes into account a statement that outlines the orders that are to be placed. Orders confirmed and charged, as well as those that might be cancelled and refunded to the debit or credit card for whatever reason, are also included.

Support

The SOP product support sets out the procedures that the company needs to follow so that the validity or warranty of a product can be determined. It also takes into account the necessary steps that ought to be provided to customers in case there is something wrong with the product. According to Nintendo Corp service SOP, customers calling for support using the Wii gaming system will first be asked for the gaming system serial number. This way, the customer service representative can easily verify when the product was purchased and the warranty of the product before the product issue can be addressed at length.

 
 
 

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