When the sales team wins a deal, the customer is directly passed to me. I do the onboarding, get them live, and then pass them to the support team. The issue now is that rather than emailing support, they still directly come to me with questions and problems. Has anyone got any similar experience, and how did you handle it? I'd like to avoid just replying to every email with "contact support."

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This seems pretty common. You just have to make sure they understand that the support team is now their primary contact. You can repeat that as many times as you need to until they get it.

Bring this up in a team meeting. Let them know what kind of circumstances in which they would contact support versus reaching out to you

This is ultra common. I just forward the email to our support mailbox so it comes in as a ticket in our portal, and an agent can respond. If they persist I'll add a line at the bottom "For all future questions or requests please contact support@company.com". Can explain the need for visibility and how they will actually get better service this way if that helps.

From a service perspective, a client should only need to contact one person to get to the right point of contact. From a workload perspective, it’s not terribly scalable, so internal communication is key. From a user’s perspective, they’re gonna email the most recent person they think can help, so make sure the right person on your team is that person.

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