Defining Business Hours

Customer support teams in an organization may follow their own business hours and work in shifts based on different time zones. The customer support personnel at the Japan office and the one in the Indian office will have different work schedules. In Zoho CRM, you can define multiple Business Hours with different time zones that can be helpful in assigning cases to individuals using the case escalations rules.

Take for instance, your customer support personnel in India, creates a case. The case details meets the escalation rule criteria and so is escalated to the support personnel in Japan. Since the time zone is different, it is best if the case is escalated when the support team in Japan is available.

Availability

Profile Permission Required: Users with the Administrator profile can access this feature.

To define business hours

1. Click Setup > Organization Settings > Business Hours.
2. In the Business Hours for your Organization page, click Create Business Hour.
3. In the Business Hours Details section, do the following:
   • Enter a name for the business hour. For example: New York Office or Eastern Daylight Time NY
   • Select the Time Zone from the drop down list.
   • Select the Active checkbox, if required.
   • Specify the business timings for the days of the week.
4. Click Save.