Creating manual custom rating categories

In addition to thestandard Zendesk Quality Assurance system categories,exact text-match custom rating categories, andAI prompt based categories, you can also create manual custom rating categories tailored to your organization's needs.


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You can create manual custom rating categories for QA scorecards to fit your team’s review process. These categories are scored by human reviewers, and admins or workspace managers can add them with a category name and optional reviewer description. After creating a category, you need to add it to your scorecards before you can use it.






Location: Zendesk QA > Settings > Scorecards

In addition to the standard Zendesk Quality Assurance system categories,
exact text-match custom rating categories, and AI prompt based categories , you can also create manual custom
rating categories tailored to your organization's needs.
Manual categories are scored by human reviewers.
Admins and workspace managers can create new manual custom rating categories.
To create a manual custom category


In Quality assurance, click your profile icon in the top-right
corner.
Click Settings.
In the sidebar under Account, click
Scorecards.
Click Create at the top and select Manual category.

Enter a Category name and Description for reviewers (optional). This is
displayed when hovering over a category name while rating a conversation.

Click Create category.
After creating it, you must add the category to your scorecards to start using it.



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