Using Aleyant Support and Professional Services

 

Support for your organization is included with your subscription. Please encourage those seeking support to familiarize themselves with this information. 

 

Training participation for our products is required for all users requesting support. The training sessions are open to any employees who wish to attend. You may request additional one-on-one training for all areas of the system. This additional training is $125 per hour. To request training please create a support ticket under the professional services area. 

 

Client support hours are as follows:

The Support Portal
The best way to reach us is by submitting a new support ticket through our support portal: http://support.aleyant.com. Submit a new ticket for each new question. Please do not respond to an old ticket that has been closed to ask a new question, as this opens the old item and will likely cause confusion as well as add a delay to our response time. 

Phone Calls to Support
A phone message may be left by calling 800-571-2138 ext. 4. Support items received by phone or through the support portal are taken in the order in which they are received in the queue. Please rest assured that your voicemail message will be reviewed quickly and prioritized if necessary. 
 

As of January 1, 2019, live chat is available to Pressero and eDocBuilder customers with HV and above plans. The chat is available within Pressero and eDocBuilder admin.

 

Please note Chat Support is for quick questions that can be answered in 15 minutes or less. More advanced type questions such as troubleshooting an eDocBuilder script, a calculator pricing engine, or setting up an approval plan on your site should be submitted as a standard ticket, here: https://support.aleyant.com/Main/frmTickets.aspx 

Depending on complexity, it may even fall into Professional Services territory. Our agents will be able to provide assistance

 

Live chat is only for Pressero/eDocBuilder questions. As of right now it is not available for PJM or tFlow questions.

Emailing Support vs. Submitting Through the Support Portal
Emails sent directly to our support email account should not be used. If you have not done so already, create an account at http://support.aleyant.com and submit support requests thereby opening a new ticket. This is the most efficient method, the benefits of which are detailed below: 

Response Time and Procedure
Our goal is always to respond within four business hours; however, our average response time is much quicker. Difficult situations or questions that require input from our programming staff will take longer. Please note that on a Monday, or on a day following a holiday where our office is closed, there may be a longer response time. 

Urgent Issues
An urgent issue can be subjective based on the unique set of circumstances you may be experiencing, but for most cases, an urgent issue is any situation where the customer cannot place an order or you can’t produce the job. If this is the case with your issue, you can mark the ticket as urgent. We have staff that will be notified during non-working hours when a ticket is submitted that is urgent. Please be sure to only use this feature when an issue is preventing your customer from ordering or keeping you from being able to fulfill an order. 

“How To” and Other Questions 
We encourage all questions on how to use the system to first be searched on the support site (http://support.aleyant.com) before submitting a ticket. The Knowledge Base and Documentation have most of the common questions posted for an immediate answer to your question. 

Bugs and Errors
If you are experiencing an error or feel you have found a bug in the system, submit a ticket with all the necessary information we would need to reproduce or see exactly what is happening in your site. This may require that we have:

We will report any API changes that are part of an upcoming release using the News section located in the support portal. If you would like to be notified of these changes you may subscribe to the RSS feed available for the News area. Go to: http://support.aleyant.com/news/root.aspx, and click the RSS icon link. That URL can be used in any standard RSS reader, like MS Outlook. (http://support.aleyant.com/RSS.ashx?type=news).
For information on how to add an RSS feed to Outlook, see this resource: https://bit.ly/2QdKr7w

Feature Requests
We believe that the success of our products is due to the many great ideas our customers have shared. Please submit a ticket to our support department and describe what you wish to accomplish. There may be a solution or a workaround to reach the desired result. If not, we will record the items for future consideration and update the popularity of those requests as others express wishes for the same feature. 

 

There are areas of the system that require a higher level of knowledge and understanding. The support team is available to review work you have done and offer advice in an area where you might need additional help. 

Professional Services would be any situation that requires our staff to do the work, giving technical advice (scripting, programming, etc.), restoring a site or setting because of user changes, or when a series of questions either written or phoned in that could be considered training, goes over 15 minutes. This rule is in place to ensure that the support team is able to answer all customers questions in a timely manner. This applies to all areas of the eDoc and Pressero system, but some common areas that we encounter this most often are:

Here is an example:
You’ve been working in the system, but you are not getting the results you needed or expected. We will review the work and give you a suggestion as to what we think you should try on your own. If this takes more than 15 minutes because it is very complicated, or we need to involve the programming staff for help, or you want us to fix or do the work for you, we will let you know there will be a fee to continue.

See Professional Services Rates below. We will never charge without telling you first that there will be charges to proceed. In all situations, if we determine that there is a bug in the system that was causing your problem, we will not charge. 

 

 

 

Custom HTML and Javascript Issues in Pressero Sites
We have worked hard to empower our customers with the freedom to use CSS and Javascript in a store's HTML Head area to customize the look and operation of their storefronts by allowing the ability to custom skin their own sites. (Sites > Settings > SEO/HTML > HTML Head Content).

 

However, with freedom comes responsibility. In this case, by adding or editing the CSS and/or Javascript you are also taking on the responsibility to make sure it works and does not cause issues with the operation of your Pressero stores. Typically, we will have an update to eDocBuilder or Pressero each week. It is a good rule of thumb to regularly check your sites for any problems. 

 

Regrettably, our support staff has been repeatedly asked to fix issues not caused by Pressero but instead caused by custom CSS or Javascript that was added to a store by our customer. Often, the customer sending this request does not realize the problem has been caused by their own custom code.

 

To address this, we will charge Professional Services per incident for all support requests related to issues caused by custom CSS or Javascript. See Professional Services Rates below. In most cases, we will tell you before we proceed to fix your code so you can agree to the fees. Situations where this may not happen will be when it is faster to fix the issue than to estimate what needs to be done, or when a fix you require is of an urgent nature (ie: your customer cannot order). There will be no charge if it is determined to be a problem in Pressero. Our aim is to continue to provide the best support in the industry. Issues outside our control can be part of that support, but they are simply not covered under the flat, monthly Pressero subscription.

 

If you need to unlock the protection on the Excel files used to create a pricing calculator, you may contact support for the password. In almost all cases you can edit the sheet without the password but we realize there are times it is needed. We advise customers to be very careful what you do after unlocking the spreadsheet because it contains many formulas that can be very easily altered. There will be a fee of $125 - $175/hr to fix any calculator that is damaged by you unlocking the sheet. Because of that, we suggest saving a copy of the spreadsheet before making any edits. 

 

The Professional Services team is available to do the setup work for you. If it is one small task or you need an entire site set up we are available. We also have developers in our Professional Services department that can do a variety of custom development projects. Please open a ticket on our portal support.aleyant.com, and select Professional Services from the menu, along with details of what you need to be done and we will contact you to discuss the project and provide a quote. 

Professional Services Rates
The cost for Professional Services depends on the type of work we are doing for you. One simple way to understand what can be done at the $125/hr rate is to think if you are able to do it yourself through the admin setup area, then it is billed at this rate. If the services we are providing requires use of the database, APIs, or is for custom skinning, it is at a rate of $150/hr.  

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