The challenges of outsourcing customer service
Indy faces several customer service challenges:
- Expertise requirement: Indy's customer service requires a thorough understanding of accounting, taxation and social dimensions. Customer care agents must be able to answer complex and technical questions, often related to tax returns or to the accounting specificities of self-employed persons.
- Understanding Indy tools and products : Agents need to be able to understand Indy's tools and interact effectively with the product team to quickly resolve issues or optimize the user experience.
- Seasonality of requests: Indy's business experiences seasonal peaks, especially during the fiscal year-end period, when the volume of support requests increases sharply. This seasonality requires the ability to adapt quickly and the fluid management of resources.
- Productivity and competitive cost: Finally, outsourcing must meet a double imperative: guarantee maximum productivity while maintaining competitive costs for the company.
Sqwad was chosen to meet these challenges.
Why choose Sqwad?
Gaël, Head of BPO at Indy, explains: “What convinced us was beyond the fact that they are the best, they are the values. Indy has a strong commitment to human values, including caring, transparency, and ownership. These are values that we have found at Sqwad.”
Indy outsourced 70% of its customer service with Sqawd, including the front office (welcoming and providing direct support to customers) and the back office (processing requests internally). Sqwad agents are responsible for managing the majority of interactions via chat or email. In addition to expertise in accounting and taxation, Sqwad ensures maximum responsiveness, which is essential to meet the urgent needs of Indy's clients during busy periods.
Effective collaboration and a gradual rise in power
Indy started its collaboration with Sqwad with a specific volume of activity and gradually strengthened the collaboration after seeing satisfactory results.
“We outsource part of the activity to Sqwad and to another partner. But we are gaining momentum alongside Sqwad, following satisfactory results,” explains Gaël. The company plans to invest more in this collaboration as the results continue to meet expectations.
Today, Sqwad is involved in 70% of Indy's outsourced activity, not only in the back office, but also in the management of clients subject to corporate tax. This part of the business requires additional expertise, which Sqwad has been able to provide thanks to its specialized teams.
A bilateral relationship based on trust and efficiency
The partnership between Indy and Sqwad goes beyond simple outsourcing. “The idea is to create a bilateral relationship where exchange and collaboration are constant. Feedback is shared in both directions, which allows us to refine our processes constantly,” explains Gaël.
The aim is to continue to strengthen this relationship, not only to meet current needs, but also to anticipate future developments. Indy invests in this long-term collaboration, convinced of the added value that Sqwad brings to its customer service.