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Turning off the "First Response" SLA

  • December 29, 2025
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I’ve seen this discussed a little bit in the past, but I’m still not seeing any obvious way to do this.

We want to turn off the first response SLA, but leave the resolution SLA in place.

An example scenario is that a ticket is raised, and we send out an email to the requester automatically via the “Email Notifications” section in the Admin area of Fresh. So the user is already being made aware that a ticket has been raised, and that we will be working on it. Our first responses tend to be pointless, as they just result in a manual response that pretty much is the same of what they’ve already received when the ticket was first opened.

So, we want to switch off the first response SLA, and keep the resolution SLA in place. Is there a way to achieve this, even if it’s a bit convoluted to do? We could just set the first response to 12 months, and leave the resolution SLA’s as X amount of hours?

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Trevor Cooper
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  • December 31, 2025

No way to do this that I know of, so posting here to get notified if anyone does provide a solution.

 

What you can do is:

  • Turn off the Agent first response notification email
  • Set your first response sla to something silly like 12 months yet keep the resolve sla as a normal amount, the system doesn't seem to care that the first response should be before the resolve date.