Yealink Technical Support Guide

Version 1.1

June. 2018

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to Yealink Support ................................................................... 3

2. About Yealink Support Team .................................................................. 4

3. Yealink Support Center .............................................................................. 5

4. Yealink Support Account registration .................................................. 6

5. How to Contact Yealink Support ........................................................... 7

6. Yealink Support Flow .................................................................................. 8

7. Ticket Lifecycle ............................................................................................... 9

8. Support Response Goals ......................................................................... 11

9. About Yealink ............................................................................................... 12

1. Welcome to Yealink Support

Thank you for choosing Yealink as your IP phone provider. Yealink aim to be here to build a healthy and

mutual benefit relationship. Yealink offers support to help worldwide customers to deploy and use

Yealink phones for enhancing work efficiency. Our highly-trained support team is available to help you

quickly and easily use, deploy and troubleshoot Yealink products. In addition, Yealink provides a wide

variety of online materials to answer your questions and help you to solve simple issues by yourselves.

Through Yealink Support you can expect:

• Answers to your questions about the Yealink products as well as all features;

• Assistance in identifying and verifying the causes of issues with your Yealink products;

• Software updates, product documentations and training videos;

You can open cases online via Yealink Ticket System or our support community, or by calling Yealink

Support directly. Cases are assigned to support engineers for investigation and resolution according to

engineer skill sets and availability. By using a unified case tracking system, Yealink Support engineers

know they are working with the latest details and status of each case. At any time throughout the day, a

subject matter expert will be available to respond directly to your questions and resolve technical issues

2. About Yealink Support Team

Yealink support team members are experts in the Yealink product line. In addition, our technical support

engineers have completed extensive internal training and are very experienced. Yealink technical support

engineers are reliable for all the questions and issues troubleshooting. They work closely with Yealink

R&D and product team in order to provide the best solution for customer’s requests.

3. Yealink Support Center

With the Yealink support team, your technical issues will be resolved quickly, in the meanwhile you can

access to our support resources 24x7 and search answers by yourselves on Yealink Support Center

(http://support.yealink.com ).

Please see below overview of Yealink support resources.

Yealink support website is a centralized place for all the following activities:

 Ticket: Open & Manage case via Yealink Ticket System (http://ticket.yealink.com )

 FAQ: Search and find answers via Yealink Knowledge Base

 Download: Find product documents/Release note/Firmware/Tools

 Forum: Interact with the Community (http://forum.yealink.com )

 Training: Access for Free training and videos

Once you are active user on Yealink support website, you can login the system using your credentials

and enjoy all Yealink support service.

4. Yealink Support Account registration

Yealink support account can login Yealink Support Website, Yealink Ticket System and Yealink Forum.

To apply for Yealink support account, please click http://sso.yealink.com/register to register.

Note:

1. There are two types of accounts. If you are Yealink reseller, please register as ‘Prather or

Reseller’ to have priority support. For more information, please refer to

http://support.yealink.com/faq/faqInfo?id=678.

2. For better case management, Yealink prefer one company to have one account registered

3. After you submit application, Yealink will verify or contact you within 24 hours

5. How to Contact Yealink Support

You have following ways to reach out Yealink Support Team:

1. Yealink Ticket System (http://ticket.yealink.com ) (Recommend Method)

Yealink recommend submitting your requests in Yealink Ticket System that allows customers to

provide significant details which helps solve issue faster. For how to get your account, please refer

to Yealink Support Account Registration page

2. Email: [email protected]

Note:

3. Make Phone Call:

Our support engineers can also be reached by phone. This option is best during a Severity 1

situation.

China Number: +86-592-5702000 (International)

US Number: North American Toll Free Number, for Yealink Reseller only and need customer ID; if

you are Yealink Reseller, please create a ticket to apply for the number and the customer ID.

Yealink Support Hours:

Yealink China office: 8:30 AM - 22:00 PM (GMT+8), Monday to Friday

Yealink US Support Hours: 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM (EST), Monday to Friday

If the time doesn’t match your time, please arrange it with your dedicated engineer in advance.

Before contact Yealink Technical Support, we recommend you have Self Service first through

Yealink Support Center: http://support.yealink.com. There you can find Yealink documents

(Datasheet/User Guide/Administrator Guide/Installation Guide etc…) & Firmware & Tools & FAQ

easily.

 Email is for Case follow-up or to report Ticket System login problems. Do not open

new support cases or report admin issues using email; please submit new support and

admin cases through Yealink Ticket System

6. Yealink Support Flow

Yealink follows below process when a technical issue need to be reported.

Normally, end users report issues to resellers or service providers. If resellers or service provides can’t

solve issues by themselves, they can submit issues to distributors. If issues need Yealink support to solve,

distributors will forward them to Yealink support team. What’s more, resellers or service providers can

create a ticket directly.

End User

Reseller/Service Provider

Distributor

Yealink

End User/Reseller/Distributor should try

to find answers on Yealink support

website (http://support.yealink.com ) first

7. Ticket Lifecycle

Opening a Ticket

You can open cases online via Yealink Ticket system (http://ticket.yealink.com). Cases are assigned to

Yealink technical support engineers according to the severity and priority. By using a unified case

tracking Yealink Ticket system, Yealink technical support engineers know they are working with the latest

details and status of each case. Rest assured that your concerns are heard by Yealink, with escalation

channels readily available. For the duration of the case, we ask that you work with us towards a

resolution.

 Collecting Case Information

There are 3 issue types when opening a ticket, Question, Bug and Feature Request. For each type, you

can find clear prompts to guide you how to create a ticket. Please fill out all the needed information. if

necessary you can upload photos, screenshots or videos, this significant details helps to solve your issue

faster.

 Defining Priority/Severity:

Problem Severity: P1

Outage situation

This type of Problem severely affects data or voice services, capacity/traffic, and maintenance

capabilities and requires immediate corrective action. This type of Problem renders the service or

operation of the Solution unusable or inoperative.

Problem Severity: P2

Service impacting but not an outage

Problems that result in conditions that impact the normal use, maintenance and administration, and

require immediate attention.

Problem Severity: P3

Improvement of the using experience

Currently not impact the normal use, not an urgent requirement and solving the issue will help to

improve the using experience.

Problem Severity: P4

Features and bugs which will be developed and fixed in the future

Features and bugs which not impact the normal use, and hopefully could be developed and fixed in

the future.

Closing a Ticket

Upon completion of a case, the support engineer will follow up with the customer for approval before

closing a case. If the engineer does not hear from customer for a week, they will send additional

email. If they don’t get any reply after 2 weeks, they will close the case but customers can re-open

it based on their request or create new ticket.

Re-opening a Ticket

If your problem re-occurs after your case is closed, you can always re-open the case, or submit a new

Ticket.

You can re-open a case by logging in Ticket system, then find the closed ticket and click “Reactivate”. If

possible, the original case engineer will accept the case and follow-up with the customer, since they are

already familiar with the case history. If the original engineer is not available, the next available engineer

will accept the case.

8. Support Response Goals

Usually, you will have response within 24 hours and have solution ASAP.

Also Yealink will escalate a case when the case is out of defined time table.

Priority

Requested Response

Timeframe

Requested Recovery and Resolution Timeframe

100% within 1 working

day

Once the software issue is located, Yealink will fix within 1

month; Hardware issue, it depends on which module is

failed, after the issue is located, Yealink will release a

timetable within 1 month.

100% within 1 working

days

Once the software issue is located, Yealink will fix within 2

months; Hardware issue, it depends on which module is

failed, after the issue is located, Yealink will release a

timetable within 2 months.

100% within 2 working

days

Once the software issue is located, Yealink will fix within 6

months.

100% within 2 working

days

Yealink will fix it in the general version release.

9. About Yealink

Yealink is the global provider of unified communication (UC) terminal solutions. Yealink One-stop UC

Terminal Solutions unify voice, video and data. They satisfy diverse customer needs and usage scenarios.

Customers from more than 100 countries enjoy Yealink’s solutions through its global sales and service

network. Yealink is the world’s second-largest SIP phone provider and is number one in the China

market. Yealink is dedicated in its pursuit to deliver the best possible user experience and highest

customer satisfaction through high-quality, feature-rich and intuitive-based products. Its international

distribution network and strong pre- and after-sales team ensure that customers enjoy professional

technical support and efficient services.