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Searching For a CX Solution That Can Scale

In order to reach Zettle’s goals to both scale the business and provide an exceptional support experience for customers they needed a best in class contact center platform, however because its current platform was not stable and lacked modern features. It did not have a call-back function. There was no way to provide customers online with wait time notifications. Also, the platform lacked chat capabilities — and that, says Hydling, was going to hurt Zettle in the future. “Phone is our main channel for support, and email is second,” he explains. “Email is an expected channel for support in the fintech industry. However, we are confident that chat will soon overtake email.”

Another challenge for Zettle was the fact that the customer support platform provider was a large company, so it didn’t fit with the way that Zettle wanted to work. “We needed a partner that understands modern customer support, and has an agile, tech-driven and fast-moving approach to innovation,” says Hydling.

Zettle also needed to find a contact center platform that would support its large and growing population of customers who were using mobile as their primary checkout option. “We clearly saw the opportunity for mobile and apps as a primary channel for support because Zettle, itself, was invented to be mobile-first,” says Hydling. “In fact, our hero product allows businesses to connect the card reader to a mobile phone to become a mobile point-of-sale.”

Also, Zettle was facing pressure to accelerate its move to a platform that would allow it to deliver a modern, multichannel and personalized customer experience. Competition was increasing in its key markets, with new fintech innovators constantly emerging in every market.

“In a fast-changing industry like fintech, providing an outstanding customer experience is essential to success,” says Hydling. “It’s a big business differentiator that’s hard to copy.”

Putting One-Tap Support Into the Hands of Small Business Owners

When Zettle began working with UJET in December 2017, it set four initial goals that it wanted to achieve, according to Hydling. Those goals were to:

1. Improve customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores. Zettle’s previous contact center platform lacked features, like callback requests, that could help the company provide exceptional customer service and boost CSAT scores. “We have seen improvements in our CSAT scores of up to 10% recently, and we’re confident that UJET’s high voice quality, call scheduling, and other features have been factors in that trend,” says Hydling.

2. Reduce customer support costs. Zettle considers investments in customer support to be business-critical — that is, cost is secondary to providing a high-quality experience. However, UJET has in fact helped Zettle reduce costs because its platform is more cost-effective than the previous solution. We’re still implementing UJET, so we haven’t even seen the full return on investment yet,” says Hydling.

3. Build a strong working partnership with UJET. “We wanted to work with a company that understands customers like we do,” says Hydling. “We knew that partnering with a customer-focused company would be easier because of our unified mission.” He adds that UJET’s customer success team is very knowledgeable and helpful — they meet weekly with Zettle and even collaborate with the company regularly through Slack.

“They are aware of our customers’ expectations and provide the support necessary for success,” says Hydling. “They are also proactive about enhancing the product.”

4. Make the most of collaborating with a mobile-minded company. The fact that UJET harnesses the visual power and immediacy of smartphones was very important to a mobile-first company like Zettle, says Hydling. “Since our user interface is app-based, working with a company that understands and optimizes for the mobile experience is key to delivering on our goals and values, he explains.

Other benefits Zettle has seen since it started implementing UJET include reducing the amount of training time for admins by half. Agent training is quick and easy, too, Hydling says. Zettle has also added more languages and multiple outbound numbers to serve its customers in different countries. The company is measuring customer interactions and retention, as well, using data insights from UJET.

With UJET, Zettle can now help customers get the right answers quickly by guiding them either to an agent or a self-service solution. And Zettle has already implemented the UJET Web SDK, so its customers can get in touch with customer support directly from the company’s website. Soon, it will implement UJET mobile SDKs for iOS and Android.

UJET is the right fit for the way we do business,” says Hydling. “I would tell other companies like Zettle to be brave and not always go for the big players. Partner with a company that has the same drive and passion as you do and that also wants to be at the forefront of innovation.”