Hi - Cloud-based Jira is our product ticket tracking system. Some people at my employer have been saying that Notion is an emerging standard for tracking customer requests and giving customers visibility to those requests. An initial change was done in which a Notion table is now used for tracking customer enhancement requests which must then be copied over into Jira when it's decided to take action on them. The current system increases the need for manual data entry without giving customers visibility into their tickets.
Personally, I'd prefer to use a single system (Jira) to track work tickets and give customers visibility into the status of their bugs/enhancement requests. For a company that users Jira to track engineering work tickets, what is the best way to give customers visibility to the status of their tickets?
I'm guessing it's Customer Portal with controls on what data is visible to the customer. I'd welcome expert guidance on the best way to do this!
Our current internal solution set is:
- engineering ticketing: Jira (happy with it, although it's not optimally configured)
- wiki: Notion (company is happy with it)
- HelpDesk ticketing: ZenDesk (we're underwhelmed)
- Customer Documentation: ZenDesk (we're REALLY underwhelmed)
- CRM: HubSpot
Some classic barriers to giving customer visibility into internal work tickets include:
- Don't want customers to see the entire ticket database, only subset filed by them.
- Don't want customers to see all the comments. (Staff must be able to candidly discuss their thoughts and data that may come from other customers covered under mNDAs with them.)
- Don't want customers to see all the metadata (e.g. labels).
- Pricing
(Sorry, among Atlassian's products, I'm familiar with Jira and Confluence, not the rest. Atlassian Sales is welcome to email/call me.) Thanks for any info!
