Business hours

A four-hour promise should not expire while you sleep

Set your working week and timezone once. Response and resolution clocks pause outside those hours, so targets reflect the service you actually sold rather than wall-clock time.

  • Workspace timezone plus per-day working windows
  • Clocks pause outside hours and resume when you open
  • Different policies per client tier, priority or tag
  • At-risk highlighting calculated in working time

Business hours

Live in your workspace

Active
  • Working windows
  • Paused clocks
  • Tier-aware
  • Escalation timing
  • Honest attainment

Inside the workspace

What your team actually sees

Home shows what is due within four working hours and what is at risk, using the same business-hours calendar the SLA engine runs on.

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Last 7 days

9

Assigned to me

3

Due within 4h

1

SLA at risk

0

Unassigned

184

Resolved (7d)

4.7

CSAT (7d)

My queue - due first

  • Invoice total looks wrong12m left
  • Cannot sign in to the portalbreached
  • Order SO-88213 never arrived1h 40m
  • How do I add a teammate?3h 05m

Setup health

  • Mailboxes connected3 syncing
  • Routing rules active11
  • Pending invites2
  • Portallive at help.northwind.co

Capabilities

Built for this job, not bolted on

Working windows

Per-day start and end times, including split or shortened days.

Paused clocks

Out-of-hours minutes never count against a first-response target.

Tier-aware

Enterprise clients can run to a 24/7 calendar while standard tiers do not.

Escalation timing

Escalations fire on working-time thresholds, not arbitrary wall clock.

Honest attainment

SLA attainment reporting uses the same calendar, so numbers survive scrutiny.

One place to change

Holiday closures update every policy at once.

How it runs

From arrival to answer

  1. 1

    Set the calendar

    Timezone and working windows in Admin > SLA.

  2. 2

    Attach policies

    Each SLA policy references the calendar and its own targets.

  3. 3

    Track live

    Tickets show remaining working time, not raw elapsed time.

  4. 4

    Report

    Attainment is measured against the same rules the team worked to.

Detail

The small print that matters

Where it lives

Admin > SLA & business hours.

Timezone

Workspace level, with client tiers able to override to a 24/7 calendar.

Granularity

Per-day windows; closures can be applied without editing every policy.