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TravelMaster Customer Charter
Our customers are at the core of what we do and it is important to us that we provide the highest quality of customer service to them.
We’re focused on improving access to South Yorkshire’s public transport network through providing flexible, great value and consumer relevant transport tickets.
This Customer Charter outlines our commitment to our customers and provides a standard against which they can hold us to account.
Our Commitments to Our Customers
We commit to our customers that we will make customer orientated decisions and place their requirements central to our commercial decision making.
We commit to our customers that we will make sure information about or products is available to them in a readily available and easy to understand way to make sure they select the best product for their journeys.
We commit to our customers that will provide a range of ways for them to provide feedback, lodge complaints and interact with us. Our customers will receive timely and satisfactory responses to their feedback
Customer Service Policies
We will ensure that a resource is available for responding to general customer issues between the hours:
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7am to 7pm Monday to Friday
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8am to 7pm Saturday and Sunday
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362 days a year (only closing on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day)
We will ensure that suitable resource is available, and deployable during business hours, to any significant customer identified issue (E.G. a new product is failing to work in the field), to build up immediate intelligence of the issue and action basic remedial solutions.
We will ensure that all feedback, complaints and refunds requests are treated fairly and impartially and will ensure that customers do not experience bias in any response.
All our staff, when communicating with customers over the phone, will conduct themselves in a professional manner, using a tone suitable for the context of any enquiry and will always maintain a helpful and respectful approach.
All our staff, when communicating with customers via letter or e-mail, will ensure that responses are simple and clear for users and should maintain a friendly and respectful tone.
Communication with customers in response to enquiries or feedback should avoid complex language or jargon and should be provided within the above operating customer service hours.
Customer Service Channels
We will make sure that we have a multi-channel and varied range of customer service & engagement channels available to card for users from a diverse range of demographics and technical abilities. All first-line inquiries and concerns are handled through Traveline, the Travel South Yorkshire’s contact centre. Second-line queries may be escalated and dealt with directly by the TravelMaster Team.
Webform
We will use the purpose specific public facing contact us webform to allow our customers to suitably direct enquiries within the organisation.
Telephone
We will have a public facing ‘General Enquiries’ phone line. This will be a shared phone number.
This phone line will allow TravelMaster customers to log feedback, make general enquiries above and beyond the remit of Traveline partners and work through issues. This phone line will operated during business hours.
The General Enquiries line is 0800 952 0002.
Social Media
We will promote the use of our Facebook account as an inward bound customer contact channel and will, so far as that channel allows, respond to customer enquiries through it in line with the below Service Levels.
Customer Service Level Standards
We will set and adhere to Customer Service Level Standards and timelines for the processing of comments or feedback received through the full range of channels available
We will respond to all webform and e-mail enquiries within 5 working days and if an issue is not able to be resolved at this point customers will be contacted to inform them of this, acknowledge their feedback and inform them of a case specific timeframe for resolution.
We will respond to all postal enquiries within 5 working days and if an issue is not able to be resolved at this point customers will be contacted to inform them of this, acknowledge their feedback and inform them of a case specific timeframe for resolution.
We will respond to all social media messages within 5 working days and if an issue is not able to be resolved at this point customers will be contacted to acknowledge their comment and be informed of a case specific timeframe for resolution and alternate contact points if appropriate.
Requests for corporate sales quotes will be provided within 2 working days of receipt and the fulfilment of orders for physical stock will be processed and dispatched no more than 5 working days after the acceptance of an offer and the receipt of suitable payment.
Requests for refunds will be acknowledged within 5 working days of receipt; detailing if a request has been approved or rejected. The provision of a refunded sum of money should then happen no more than 15 working days after this point. In the event of a delay or failure to meet this SLA generally, we will contact the customer to inform them of the delay and the reasoning behind it and advise them of a revised timeline for resolution.
Complaints will be acknowledged in line with the SLA for the channel they were submitted via. We will then have a further 10 working days within which, as appropriate, to investigate the nature of a complaint and provide a response. In the event of a delay or failure to meet this SLA generally we will contact a customer to inform them of the delay and the reasoning behind it and advise them of a revised timeline for resolution.
Complaints Procedure
We understand that events may occur where customers feel a need to complain and as result we will ensure a robust, fair and uniform approach to complaints handling as is practically possible.
In the event of a complaint being made all our staff providing responses will remain professional, impartial and polite even in the face of anger or upset from customers.
Our staff, however, cannot be expected to be subject to abusive or threatening behaviour and in instances where customers behave in a way likely to cause distress or alarm then our staff members are empowered to end the communication with that customer in line with our policy on Abusive & Vexatious Customers.
In the first instance, complaints should be addressed by the first line customer service resource and an acknowledgement of receipt provided to the customer.
The first line resource will attempt to resolve the issue to the customer’s satisfaction. Our first line customer service resource is the contact us webform or 0800 952 0002 phone number.
If the first line customer service resource is unable to resolve the issue to the customer’s satisfaction, a customer can escalate to the second line customer service & complaints handling resource.
Our second line Customer Service Resource is the complaints@sytravelmaster.com email address or a callback request made through 0114 478 2266.
This resource will review the customer’s issue and again attempt to provide a mutually satisfactory resolution.
In the event a customer is not happy with the complaints process or their experience they may request a review of the resolution offered or response provided.
This review will determine if the response was provided in line with our conditions and Commercial Policies.
A request for a review should be sent to management@sytravelmaster.com.