Standard Support Plan

General

The Standard Success Plan will be provided to Customer’s Users at no additional charge in accordance with this description. Users can submit cases over the Web via the Certinia Community or by telephone.

Upon case submission, Named Support Contacts will be asked to provide their company name, contact information, steps to replicate the issues, and authorization for support to access Customer’s salesforce environment to provide support. Each case will be assigned a unique case number. A Certinia Support Representative will use commercially reasonable efforts to call or email the User within two (2) business days and will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly resolve each case. Actual resolution time will depend on the nature of the case and the resolution. A resolution may consist of a fix, workaround or other solution in Certinia’s reasonable determination.

Named Support Contacts

“Named Support Contacts” are Users Customer identifies as primary liaisons between Customer and Certinia for technical support. For our Standard Success customers, Customer shall identify between one (1) and four (4) Named Support Contacts. Customer may be charged an additional fee for designating more than four (4) Named Support Contacts contacts at a time. Customer shall notify Certinia whenever Named Support Contact responsibilities are transferred to another individual.

Customers’ Named Support Contacts shall be responsible for:

  1. overseeing Customer’s support case activity
  2. developing and deploying troubleshooting processes within Customer’s organization
  3. resolving password reset, username and lockout issues for Customer
  4. ensuring that Customer’s application users are properly trained and use the app in accordance with Certinia Documentation
  5. providing technical staff to assist with non application issues such as network issues
  6. granting Certinia access to the Customer’s salesforce environment via Subscriber Support org access when required

Customer shall ensure that Named Support Contacts:

  1. have completed, at a minimum, the basic Services administration course currently titled “Administration Essentials,” which is included at no additional charge as part of online training
  2. have completed any supplemental training appropriate for the Named Support Contact’s specific role or Customer’s usage of the Services
  3. are knowledgeable about the applicable Services in order to help resolve, and to assist Certinia in analyzing and resolving, technical issues
  4. have a basic understanding of any problem that is the subject of a case, and the ability to reproduce the problem in order to assist Certinia in diagnosing and triaging it

Telephone Support Hours

Named Support Contacts can submit cases via telephone on weekdays, excluding holidays, during Certinia’s Support hours as stated in the table below. Named Support Contacts can submit cases through the Certinia Community twenty four hours a day seven days a week, cases will be logged by a Support Representative for later response by the appropriate Support team.

A Certinia Support Representative will use commercially reasonable efforts to call, email the User or update the Case via the Community within two (2) business days and will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly resolve each case. Actual resolution time will depend on the nature of the case and the resolution. A resolution may consist of a fix, workaround or other solution in Certinia’s reasonable determination.

Main phone numbers as follows:

Region Support hours Telephone Numbers
US 6:00am-6:00pm PST +1 877 828 9161
(Toll Free)
UK & Rest of World 7:00am-5:30pm GMT +44 (0)808 238 9790
(UK Freephone)
+44 (0)1423 532830
(International)
Australia 9:00am-6:00pm AEST 1800 092 411

Telephone support is available in English only.

Logging a Case

Named Support Contacts may log a case as follows:

  1. We recommend that Named Support Contacts log cases via the Certinia Community. Named Support Contacts can access the Certinia Community by clicking the appropriate link under the Certinia Resources section of the Salesforce sidebar, via Certinia Central (once you click the link you will be signed into the Community with your Salesforce login credentials), or by accessing the Community at https://erp.force.com/community.
  2. By telephone call to customer support as described above.

Note: For assistance with User password resets, Users should use the “Forgot your password?” link on the login page or contact a Named Support Contact or Customer system administrator. For assistance with Salesforce usernames and lockouts, Users should contact a Named Support Contact or Customer system administrator. For security reasons, Certinia does not provide contact information for Named Support Contacts or Customer system administrators.

Reproducing Errors

Certinia must be able to reproduce errors in order to resolve them. Customer agrees to cooperate and work closely with Certinia to reproduce errors, including conducting diagnostic or troubleshooting activities as reasonably requested and appropriate. Also, subject to Customer’s approval on a case-by-case basis, Users may be asked to provide Subscriber org access to their salesforce.com system for troubleshooting purposes.

Reproducible errors that cannot promptly be resolved will be escalated to higher support tiers for further investigation and analysis.

Severity Levels

Issues will be categorized and handled according to an assigned severity level. The case severity level is selected by the Named Support Contacts at time of case submission, and will be updated by Certinia as follows:

Level Severity criteria

Level 1: Business Standstill

Production and/or mission critical services are down and there is no immediate workaround.

  • All or a majority of your mission critical environment is unavailable or not functioning
  • Your business operations are completely disrupted
  • Majority / All Critical users affected

For Business Standstill you are required to have dedicated resources available during your contracted hours of operation.

Level 2: Business Critical

Production and/or mission critical services are critically impacted and there is no workaround available.

  • Critical business operations seriously affected
  • You must have a direct financial impact
  • If not in production, important areas of the environment are affected such that it would critically impact a go-live date of less than 1 week away
  • Large amount of users are affect or critical group of users are affected that would enable the business to run normally

For Business Critical you are required to have dedicated resources available during your contracted hours of operation.

Level 3: Major Problem

Major operations or functionality is seriously impaired and a workaround has been provided if necessary.

  • Standard business operations can continue in a restricted manner, however long term functionality cannot be sustained
  • No immediate direct financial impact
  • A temporary workaround may have been provided

Level 4: Problem

Where a problem, error or defect is non-­critical to the business.

  • No direct financial impact
  • Small number of users /systems affected

Level 5: Question

Where a question is raised to assist with the continued running of the applications.

Supported Versions

Certinia success plans include support for the current and previous two versions.

For example, service pack support for Spring ’21 will continue until the release of Spring ’22. If you are running an unsupported version, we strongly urge you to upgrade to a supported release. If you are unable to upgrade, you may contact us about purchasing consulting services from our professional services team under a statement of work.

Case Escalations

Please communicate with your case analyst if you wish to escalate your case to management. If you need additional escalation support, please email [email protected] to reach your CSM.

Developer Support

The Standard Success Plan includes support for developers using the Certinia API, limited to reporting suspected Certinia bugs on the Certinia API. Certinia Support will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide customers with a targeted date for bug resolution.

Excluded Items

The Standard Success Plan does not include any of the following:

Separate consultancy advice can be arranged for topics such as:

Changes to Standard Success Plan

Certinia may change its Standard Success Plan from time to time in its sole discretion.

Maintained Product Versions

Certinia provides ongoing maintenance (via service packs) for each release (Winter, Spring, and Summer) for a period of one year from the date of release. Service packs supply fixes to known issues. Therefore, at any given time, software fixes will be made to the current release and the past two releases; this is referred to as the maintenance window. Customers on versions older than twelve months from the current release will need to update to a release in the maintenance window in order to continue to receive service packs to correct known issues.

For more information about service packs and their release schedule, please see the Service Packs page on Support Hub in Community.