Customer service business models

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 1 minute to read
  • Customer Service Management provides different business models that you can use to support your business needs. Select a business model based on the type of services and support that you provide to your customers.

    Business-to-business (B2B) model
    In the business-to-business (B2B) model, an account is a supported external customer and a contact is an employee of that account. With the B2B model, you can support accounts and contacts and also set up:
    • Customer relationships
    • Account teams
    Business-to-consumer (B2C) model
    With the business-to-consumer (B2C) model, you can support individual consumers.
    Service Model Foundation
    The Service Model Foundation framework expands the business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) models and provides the flexibility and security needed to support:
    • Business organizations with internal and external locations
    • Households and consumers
    • The relationships that exist between these entities
    Contributor users
    The contributor user model provides unified customer support for internal and external customers. With this model, you can engage middle office teams resolve customer issues and requests.
    • Enable employees to request support for themselves and external customers.
    • Enable service organizations to serve one another and external customers.
    • Assign tasks to middle office agents who work on specific tasks that are required to resolve a case.