WordPress is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) built on PHP (Wikipedia) and it is mostly used in blogging websites. This CMS is highly popular and around 25% of the sites of the world are developed in WordPress (Source).
In WordPress, you have various plugins which provide custom features to the existing WordPress site. Plugins are useful as it provides additional functionality and takes your site to the next level.
Now, by default, there is no “Contact Us” form on the WordPress site. We all know the importance of the Contact Us form on any website.
It is a medium by which the customer can ask their query to the store owner and without any Contact Us form. It will be difficult for the customers to communicate their doubts to the store owner.
One Form is not enough for your site-
For running an eCommerce site on WordPress, you have to use WooCommerce. For the blogging site, you can make use of WordPress itself and also for the appointment sites.
Now, taking the example of an eCommerce site, for adding the functionality of the “Contact Us” form, people use different third-party plugins in WordPress.
Now, there may be a vulnerability in plugins that may be a threat to your website.
Also, a site needs more than one form to be connected to the customers like Feedback Form, Poll Form, Subscription form, etc. So, only one form is not enough for your online business.
When the online business grows then it becomes a bit complex and for handing the form we have UVdesk Helpdesk System.
Better Query Management-
The website owner can also link the “Contact Us” form with their Email id so that they can get the queries of the customer over their mail inbox.
This seems simple ( replying to customer’s queries) but the management part is not as easy as it seems. Suppose you have a single form for example “Contact Us” form on your site.
Now, you may get 500 – 1000 customer queries daily and it will be difficult for the site owner to reply to 500 queries daily.
Also, there might be chances that he misses any query. If the customer doesn’t get any revert in the stipulated time then chances are that customer will go away.
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In case you hire people ( for example Associates) for replying the customer queries, then there might be the possibility that some of the associates do not reply properly to the customers. Due to this nature, you might lose the sale and reputation.
Let us take another example, where you had some important data in the customer’s query.
You can make use of the Form Builder App by UVdesk which a new ticket is created when any users submit the form.
In this way, a separate ticket would be created which will look standard and its management will be easy.
You can reply to the queries via the ticket and the customer will get the reply on their email address only.
If the customer has any other doubt, they can ask from the mail only and the query will get updated on the ticket system automatically.
With the help of the Form Builder App, you can create multiple forms for your website for different purposes like you can create one form for the feedback, another form for any other services as per the requirement.
You can easily see which queries are resolved or answered on the UVdesk.
You can even see which customer queries are in the pending stage and which queries are closed by the “Agents” which the created the owner only.
The site owner can keep a check on the agent’s replies which are sent to the customers. You can filter the tickets on the basis of Agents, Customers, Groups, Team, Priority.
You can create “Tags” and assign important queries under that tag and later you can find that query easily with the help of the “Tag”.
Superior Security-
Every online business needs to be immune to online threats and hacking. Online hacking occurs due to SQL Injection.
As WordPress, a lot of plugins and many programmers does not understand the complexity of the plugins and loopholes are created.
Due to the loopholes, SQL Injection occurs. As per the report of Sucuri blog, they found a critical vulnerability on some third-party WordPress Custom Contact Forms plugins.
Even WordPress Contact Form 7 version 3.5.3 suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability ( source ) and during a regular cleanup process, they came across a reinfection case ( source ).
Image Source: Sucuri Blog
UVdesk is highly secure as the form created from the UVdesk is generated from the UVdesk server. If we talk about the long run, then UVdesk is best for your website ( irrespective of any platform).
You just have to add any number of fields and create forms. After that UVdesk will take care of everything as our main concern is security. Using the right tools, you can generate the business.
Compatible with every theme and existing WordPress site-
After the UVdesk installation, there would be no compatibility issue with your existing theme. It is a SaaS-based product and it runs independently within your system.
So, whatever theme you have installed on your site ( even a custom theme), UVdesk will work without any issue.
If your site is highly customized ( like you have added plenty of custom plugins), in that case also, the forms created by the UVdesk will work seamlessly. It helps you to provide great support to your customers.
The form created with UVdesk will go with your theme. It will improve the appearance of your site. You can see http://ampcommerce.net/ which has used the Contact Us form of UVdesk only.
Once the user submits the form, automatically a ticket is created at the UVdesk Ticket System.
I hope you enjoyed this blog. In case of any doubt, please mail us at support@uvdesk.com