Escalations and Tickets
Escalations and Tickets covers what happens the moment the AI stops, your team takes over, and what triggers that handoff. It explains the escalation triggers: the assistant is not confident, the fix needs a permission tier the AI does not have, the topic is out of scope, or the customer asked for a person. It covers the two escalation paths a plan can include, a ticket in your existing helpdesk or a live handoff in the Panelbot Chat Dashboard, and shows exactly what your staff see when they pick up a conversation: the full transcript, the diagnostic results the assistant collected, and the customer's account context. It also spells out what the customer is told when a human is looped in, so the experience feels intentional rather than dropped. Read this section to decide how you want escalations wired to your team.
What this section covers
- How escalation works
How Panelbot hands a conversation to your team when the AI is unsure, a change is risky, the issue is out of scope, or the customer asks for a person.
- Support inbox and live chat handoff
How your team takes over a conversation from the AI, reads the full transcript and diagnostic context, and manages escalated chats from the support inbox.
- What your plan includes for escalations
Escalation on every Panelbot plan: a live Chat Dashboard handoff when your team is online, and a ticket in your billing portal when nobody is.
Common questions
When does a chat escalate?
When the AI is not confident, when a change is above its permission tier, when the topic is out of scope, or when the customer asks for a person.
Does the customer know a human took over?
Yes. The assistant tells the customer plainly that it is bringing a person in, so nothing feels silent or ignored.
What does my team see on handoff?
The complete transcript, the pre-approved checks the assistant ran, the results those checks returned, and the customer's account context.
Ticket or live chat?
Both, on every plan including Free. When someone on your team is online the chat moves to a live handoff in the Chat Dashboard; when nobody is, it files as a ticket in your billing portal.
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