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Discover how the City of Port Phillip led the way as the first council to integrate their CRM with Snap Send Solve and Technology One. This innovative integration has revolutionised their operations, cutting down manual handling time significantly and enabling faster resolution of service requests.
By streamlining the reporting and management processes through seamless integration, City of Port Phillip has not only saved 23 days annually but also enhanced their responsiveness to community needs. This proactive approach has set a benchmark in municipal service efficiency and customer satisfaction.
The City of Port Phillip is a local government area (LGA) located south of Melbourne’s central business district and the Yarra River.
The City of Port Phillip is customer-centric, actively encouraging any channels that make it easier for its customers to communicate with the council. As the most densely populated Victorian municipality changes needed to be made regarding accessibility and waste management.
In the last financial year, the City of Port Phillip received 22,384 reports through Snap Send Solve, making it one of the most common channels for reporting community matters.
Responding to these issues promptly is extremely important, which is why the integration with Snap Send Solve was critical to meeting increased customer demand.
“Our customer service staff love not having to manually log and allocate thousands of requests per year!” says Melanie Darmanin, Head of Customer and Business Improvement, City of Port Phillip.
With the integration, the City of Port Phillip’s CRM system and Snap Send Solve API communicate automatically and assign the issue to the right team for resolution.
This means time is saved for the employees and the public sees faster solutions to issues affecting their community.
Here’s how, by integrating with Snap Send Solve and Technology One to automate their backend process, the City of Port Phillip has saved 23 days annually.
Before integration, manual processing of those 22,384 reports took up to three minutes each, with the typical reporter submitting an average of 5.9 reports annually.
A third of the reports received were dumped rubbish. If they were manually processed, it would take up to 408 hours.
Every time a community member interacts with the council they’re manually assigned a Name and Address Record (NAR) by staff. If they use different contact details for any reason, it can result in duplicate entries, which need to be manually merged later.
Double handling between Snap Send Solve and the internal CRM was also introducing human error. Once each report was logged, any updates would need to be entered into both Snap Send Solve and the CRM.
Dumped rubbish reports have a two-business-day turnaround from the report being logged until removal. Previously, if a report was submitted on Friday it might not be allocated to the right team and workflow for action until Monday, pushing any action taken to Wednesday.
As each report needed to be manually processed, more reports meant more time entering information into the CRM. With a 25% increase in reports in 2022, the City of Port Phillip needed to increase efficiency to stay on top of issues.
The solution needed to allow the City of Port Phillip to scale its engagement with citizens without impacting response times, customer satisfaction, and engagement.
So the City of Port Phillip spearheaded the first-ever Snap Send Solve integration with Technology One to automate report processing. Most of the work to enable this integration was performed by Snap Send Solve and Technology One. For TechnologyOne CI Anywhere customers, this can be easily replicated now via the Snap Send Solve connector.
To address the issue of duplicate names, after the initial report, customers are matched with a NAR in the council’s CRM. Every following report, the community member’s NAR is automatically linked to provide a single customer record, saving the council’s team time and increasing accuracy.
Any updates made by City of Port Phillip staff in their CRM are instantly communicated to the community member via Snap Send Solve. From our data, in-app updates are more likely to result in higher customer satisfaction and keep citizens engaged in local matters.
Because of this integration, there’s no need to manually action the requests by City of Port Phillip’s Customer Service team at all. When using Snap Send Solve to make a report, users in the City of Port Phillip answer a few additional questions, which means a work order is automatically created. With the integration running, this happens immediately after the report is sent.
This means if a dumped rubbish report is received via Snap Send Solve, the request immediately creates a work order in Technology One and gets pushed to the relevant work crew for action. This is especially impactful for City of Port Phillip residents for requests such as illegally parked vehicles - getting the request where it needs to go faster than ever before.
“We’re really keen to promote any channel that makes it easy for customers to communicate with us. We want to continue to promote the use of Snap Send Solve because it is so easy,” says Melanie Darmanin, Head of Customer and Business Improvement, City of Port Phillip.
As the usage of Snap Send Solve grows in the community the time-saving and efficiency scales now the system is integrated.
The City of Port Phillip was the first council to integrate this closely with TechnologyOne and Snap Send Solve.
With only minor setup work required from the City of Port Phillip, they’ve saved 23 days annually. Along with freeing up the customer service team for other tasks, Melanie Darmanin says her team is thankful for the future-proofing of this system.
“Last financial year we had 21,935 Snap Send Solve requests logged with us, which is huge. The year before we got about 16,834 so people are using it more and more.”
This time saving is passed onto the customer, who is seeing a quicker turnaround on issues in their community. According to Melanie Darmanin, this integration has been well-received across the board.
“Our residents and councillors love Snap Send Solve.”
Working together, Snap Send Solve and TechnologyOne have created the Snap Send Solve connector, making this integration level much easier for other customers.