RingCentral Managed ServicesTM
Service Attachment
This RingCentral Service Attachment for Managed Services (the “Managed Services Attachment”) is subject to the RingCentral Professional Services Agreement Attachment appended to the Master Services Agreement.
1. General Terms
a) Service Overview. Managed Services provides Customers with the Managed Service Entitlements including 24x7x365 support, a Service Delivery Manager, and case/ticket management delivered by RingCentral. Services may be delivered by RingCentral or a third party partner (“Managed Service Partners”) to work with the Customer in its day-to-day management of the Services.RingCentral reserves the right to substitute the delivery of the Managed Services with a third party partner performing the Managed Services upon thirty (30) day notice to Customer.
b) Term. Customers must purchase the Managed Services for a Minimum Term. The term of this Managed Services Attachment shall remain in effect for the Minimum Term. The term of any existing Services shall be extended by the Minimum Term such that they will be coterminous with the Managed Services.
c) Pricing and Payment. Prices for the Managed Services are set forth in the Order Form. The Managed Services are made available in several packages set forth herein, and priced according to the number of Digital Lines, Limited Extensions, and/or agents on the Account.
d) Support for Managed Services. Case Management will be provided to Customers as part of the Service Desk, where Customer support cases will be evaluated for resolution, escalation, and closure. The Service Desk will be responsible for overall management and resolution of incidents, MACD requests, escalation as required, and third party vendors where applicable (third-party support is subject to additional cost). Case Management will escalate to additional RingCentral resources as necessary and close cases upon completion.
e) Designated Service Delivery Manager. RingCentral shall provide a Designated Service Delivery Manager to perform a Technical Account Manager’s function. The RingCentral Service Delivery Manager will act as a point of contact for all day 2 escalations, ongoing relationship engagements and Managed Services support. The RingCentral Service Delivery Manager will be responsible for the following activities:
i) Interval reporting on Managed Services KPIs, Service Level Objectives and other metrics associated with delivering the Managed Services,
(1) Service Review report with a summary of Incident Management, Service Desk Performance, and Simple and Complex MACD Reports,
(2) Six-month trends summarizing SLOs for each support category,
f) Managed Services Service Level Objectives.
i) The below table sets forth the target response, resolution and communication time frames for the Managed Services (“Service Level Objectives” or “SLOs”):
ii) Escalation ownership and management when necessary,
iii) Overall success of the Managed Services delivered and Customer satisfaction.
Severity Level |
Service Failure Descriptions |
Initial Response |
Updates |
|---|---|---|---|
Priority 1 |
Customer experiences a loss of Core Service affecting (a)100% of Digital Lines at one or more Customer Sites or (b) 50 or more Digital Lines in the aggregate across its Sites. A “Core Service” means the inability to use any of the following:
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30 minutes (Business hour) |
Upon Customer request, every thirty (30) minutes, until resolution |
Priority 2 |
(A) Customer experiences a loss of Core Services affecting between 20 to 49 Digital Lines in the aggregate across its Sites; or (B) Customer experiences a loss of Services (other than Core Services) affecting (a) 100% of Digital Lines at one or more Customer Site(s) or (b) 50 or more Digital Lines in the aggregate across its Sites. |
30 minutes (Business hour) |
Every sixty (60) minutes, as requested, until resolution |
Priority 3 |
(A) Customer experiences a loss of Service not covered under Priority 1 or 2; or (B) Minor functionality impairment to Services. |
4 Hours (Business hour) |
Every business day, if requested by Customer, until service is restored |
Priority 4 |
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8 Hours (Business hour) |
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ii) Service Level Exclusions. Any delays or failure to meet the SLO response times shall be excused where the delay or failure arises from or is attributable to: (1) Customer or a third-party (acting on Customer’s behalf) delaying or failing to provide a deliverable, action, dependency or prerequisite, including Customer testing or verification of Incident solutions prior to implementation; (2) scheduled maintenance time or planned downtime as agreed in advance with Customer; (3) Customer withholding access for required updates, patches, or bug fixes to restore normal Service operation; (4) performance degradation or stoppage due to loss of internet connectivity between Customer and the Managed Service Partner web portal or service ticket system; (5) the actions or omissions of Customer or third parties, including carrier and service providers providing the internet connectivity to the Managed Service Partner web portal or service ticket system; (6) Customer site power failures and shutdowns, third party products and applications, networks and network service interruptions; (7) any other reasons or events beyond the reasonable control of RingCentral or Managed Service Partner; (8) incidents that require an operational change to restore normal service operation and Customer does not provide or is delayed in providing the required change window to implement such operational change; (9) Customer initiated actions, such as MACDs performed by the Customer using their access methodology; and (10) Force Majeure Events.
g) Customer Obligations and Responsibilities. Customers must open Helpdesk Support cases and provide reasonable detail and cooperation to understand the nature and extent of Customer’s issue with the RingCentral Services. Customers shall be responsible for providing the necessary access to their systems.
h) Service Limitations. Any service that is not part of the Managed Service Entitlements are outside the scope of the Managed Services and are subject to fees on a Time and Materials basis. Additional limitations are set forth in the applicable SOW.
i) Optional Services. Services designated as Optional in the Managed Service Entitlement tables in Appendices A and B are not included as a part of any package shown therein and must be purchased separately through a RingCentral Professional Services SOW, Change Order or Amendment. Some Optional Services are only available as a part of certain Managed Service packages, and may require Customer to upgrade their existing package before purchase.
j) Service Expenses. In addition to any fees and expenses set forth in the applicable SOW, Customer agrees to reimburse RingCentral for its fixed travel, meal, and lodging expenses incurred in connection with any On-Site Services. Travel, meal, and lodging expenses shall be invoiced on a per-trip/per resource basis. RingCentral shall, after Customer request, provide information verifying the deployment of on-site resources and expenditure of Service Expenses.
k) True-Ups. SDM will conduct a quarterly true up to determine if any license additions have been made that warrant an increase in the Managed Services license entitlement. If needed, a request to the Deals Desk for Managed Services entitlement increase will be created.
l) MOVE, ADD, CHANGE, DELETE (Simple & Complex)
i) Definitions of Simple & Complex MACD can be found at: https://assets.ringcentral.com/us/reference/simple-advanced-macds-details.pdf.
m) Simple MACD.
i) RingCentral will evaluate each case or request it receives and, in its sole discretion, determine the number of Simple MACD Requests that will be consumed against the Managed Service Entitlements based on the nature of the work and whether it can be performed in bulk. If an item of work shown in Tables 1-4 can be performed in bulk, then performing such work up to the listed bulk quantity maximum will consume one (1) Simple MACD Request. By way of example, a request to build ten (10) custom rules and add (10) phone numbers would amount to eleven (11) Simple MACD Requests: ten (10) for each of the custom rules, and one (1) for the bulk add of the ten (10) phone numbers.
n) Complex MACD
i) RingCentral will evaluate each case or request it receives and, in its sole discretion, determine the scope of work requested and level of effort to complete the Complex MACD Request. If the request can be fulfilled within the Managed Services team the hours of support will be decremented from the quarterly allocation against the Managed Service Entitlement. If the level of effort exceeds either the included scope of Complex MACD support or exceeds the level of effort available within entitlements an additional Scope of Work and pricing will be required for Professional Services engagement and will be referred to the RingCentral Account team to assist with scope and pricing for out of scope requests.
2. Definitions. Unless otherwise defined in the Master Service Agreement or its accompanying Service Attachments, the following terms shall be defined in accordance with the below definitions.
a) “Break/Fix Requests” means helpdesk support requests to identify the underlying causes for Services not functioning as configured.
b) “Case Management Reports” means summaries of open/closed tickets for each given month with a 6 month rolling trend analysis. These reports include: priority, case description, status, closure resolution, SLO (met/missed), time to respond, time to resolve.
c) “Service Delivery Manager” means the person who will act as a Point of Contact for all day 2 escalations, ongoing relationship engagements and Managed Services support. The RingCentral Service Delivery Manager will be responsible for the following activities:
i) Interval reporting on Managed Services KPIs, Service Level Objectives and other metrics associated with delivering the Managed Services
Service Review report with a summary of Incident Management, Service Desk Performance, and Simple and Complex MACD Reports
Six-month trends summarizing SLOs for each support category
ii) Escalation ownership and management when necessary
iii) Overall success of the Managed Services delivered and Customer satisfaction
- d) “Incident Management (Cases)” means support will provide basic troubleshooting and resolution of end user reported issues. Managed Services’ dedicated incident management includes:
i) First call/case triage of customer request.
ii) Logging and routing cases based on priority.
iii) Provide support on "How to" questions such as:
iv) Navigate the RingCentral App
v) Add contacts
vi) Configure notifications
vii) Configuring Caller ID and emergency location.
viii) Troubleshooting reported "break/fix" issues and managing to resolution.
ix) Maintaining ownership throughout the case lifecycle
Incident Management is performed via cases that may be submitted via the case management portal and/ or by calling the Managed Services hotline. In the event a customer repeatedly exceeds the package threshold, the service description document will govern the policy to provide an option to true-up or create a SOW for additional work.
Case volume per month will vary from customer to customer. Recommended allocations by DL/Agent quantity are listed below for RingEX, RingCX and Contact Center.
User or Agent Qty |
RingEX - Incident Ticket Assumption Per Month |
CX/CC - Incident Ticket Assumption per Month |
|---|---|---|
150-499 |
5 |
6 |
500-999 |
10 |
12 |
1000-1499 |
20 |
25 |
1500-1999 |
15 |
37 |
2000-3499 |
20 |
50 |
3500-4999 |
25 |
62 |
5000+ |
30 |
75 |
e) “Escalation Management” means RingCentral will perform Escalation Management in collaboration with Customer Incident Management team or IT personnelAs part of the onboarding process the customer will be provided a quick reference guide on case creation to ensure alignment with Managed Services escalation processes.
Service Desk Support - Managed Services offers customers a high-touch, 24x7 support desk for RingCentral’s platform requests and product related issues. Once a customer’s IT team has triaged end user requests and identifies that support is needed from RingCentral they then route these request to the Managed Services Desk for resolution. This helpdesk-to-helpdesk triage model ensures that RingCentral supports all relevant requests while ensuring timely responses and accuracy by eliminating issues that are non-RingCentral. Managed Services owns the case request/management process including all tiers of support and ensures that any elevated level of support needed to resolve a customer request is transparent to the customer throughout the engagement.
Should an incident need escalation due to severity or speed of resolution, customer should contact their designated Service Delivery Manager who will:
Engage Additional RingCentral Support Resources as required
Open escalation bridge
Manage escalation to resolution
Release resolution team resources
Notify all required customer contacts, customer management of Resolution
Direct ticket closure once resolution confirmed by customer
Document the Root Cause analysis & report to all customer stakeholders.
h) “24x7x365 Service Desk” means RingCentral provides a Global Service Desk for Managed Services support. RingCentral Support Technicians utilize the RingCentral Service Ticketing System to open and manage incidents per standard operating procedures under Incident Management. The Service Desk will be responsible for overall management and resolution of incidents, MACD requests, escalation as required, and third party vendors where applicable (third-party support is subject to additional cost). The RingCentral Global Service Desk is Responsible For:
- Incident Management
- Request Management (MACD)
- Escalation Management
- Problem Management
i) “Governance and Reporting” means establishing regular meeting cadence to ensure day-to-day support needs are met and addressed, and providing the below reports to the Customer:
j) “Hardware Replacement” means replacing equipment purchased under the MSA and through RingCentral and still under warranty.
k) “How-To Support Requests” means basic how-to support, including answers to the questions in connection with: (i) setting up a Customer’s new account; (ii) navigating an interface; (iii) adding contacts; (iv) configuring notification and sound settings; and (v) configuring caller ID and emergency address settings. How-To Support Requests exclude any support that would be considered a Simple or Complex MACD Request.
l) “Managed Service Entitlements” are the service attributes, by package that are included with the support models shown in Appendices A and B. Service attributes with a periodic allotment are not eligible for rollover if any unused units remain at the end of the applicable period.
m) “Minimum Term” means at least three (3) years for initial Terms, or either one (1), three (3), or five (5) year Terms if being renewed.
n) “Simple Move, Add, Change, Delete Requests,” or “Simple MACD Requests” include creation and management of simple call flows. Request Management includes RingCentral providing resolution of Requests for the Customer. Requests also include non-break/fix, Move/Add/Change/Delete cases.
Report |
Description |
Frequency |
|---|---|---|
Service Review |
Summary of Case Management Reports, Service Desk Performance Reports, Simple and Complex MACD Reports, and Health Check and Optimization Reviews. |
Based on purchased package |
Simple MACD requests are provided to all customers with a Managed Services subscription. The quantity of MACD tickets allocated per month is tiered and associated with the total quantity of DLs or Agents for which the customer has an active Managed Service subscription. See more here.
Table of Simple MACD allocations by DL/Agent quantity is listed below for RingEX, RingCX, and Contact Center:
User or Agent Qty |
RingEX MACD Tickets Per Month |
CX/CC MACD Tickets Per Month |
|---|---|---|
150-499 |
25 |
25 |
500-999 |
50 |
50 |
1000-1499 |
100 |
100 |
1500-1999 |
150 |
150 |
2000-3499 |
200 |
200 |
3500-4999 |
250 |
250 |
5000+ |
300 |
300 |
Complex MACD allocations are based on combined DL/Agent quantity and allocated in total hours available per quarter based on account size.
Customers with 500 or fewer combined DL/Agents are entitled to 6 hours per quarter.
Customers with 501 or more combined DL/Agents are entitled to 9 hours per quarter.
o) “MACDs Reports” means summaries of Simple MACD Requests for each given month with a 6 month rolling trend analysis. These reports include: MACD Request type (Simple/Complex), details of the request, number of requests, and time to resolve.
p) “Case Management” means basic troubleshooting and resolution of End User reported issues including Simple MACD Requests, Break/Fix Requests and How To Support Requests, as well as Escalation Management, ticket handling, routing, and triaging.
Appendix A - RingEX, RingCX and Contact Center
1. Managed Services for RingCentral RingEX, RingCX and Contact Center
a) Documentation. Customer will be provided with materials that document: (i) procedures for accessing the Service Desk and opening tickets; (ii) contact information for assigned resources, such as the Designated Service Delivery Manager; and (iii) if applicable, processes and information related to a Managed Service Partner. Customer agrees to comply with any process requirements set forth by the Managed Service Partner.
2. Managed Service Entitlements for RingCentral RingEX, RingCX and Contact Center. The Managed Service Entitlements are set forth below.
3. Customer Responsibilities. Customer is responsible for aspects not specifically included in this Managed Services Attachment. Out-of-scope items that are the customer’s responsibility include:
a) Customer’s network infrastructure;
Meeting network minimum requirements for RingCentral as a Service model as described for the following items here at: https://support.ringcentral.com/network-and-system-requirements/network-requirements/overview/quality-of-service-guidelines.html.
b) Quality of Service (QoS) configuration;
c) Firewall or access control list configuration;
d) Power over Ethernet (“POE”) port activation / configuration;
e) Configuration and software installation on customer PCs;
f) Decommission and disposal of any legacy equipment;
g) Customizations on individual user endpoints, or phone settings;
h) Provide workspace for RingCentral on-site personnel (as scoped);
i) Non-RingCentral equipment including but not limited to:
i. overhead paging;
ii. postage machines;
iii. credit card or Point of Sale (“POS”) Machines;
iv. door buzzer or automatic door controllers;
v. third party SIP phones;
vi. headsets;
vii. analog devices;
viii. third-party applications;
j) Input and maintain registered E911 address and location information in Service Web; and
Providing access to contacts within Customer’s organization for assisting RingCentral with resolving chronic number portability issues with customer’s incumbent carriers/suppliers
Entitlements |
Inclusion |
Service Delivery Manager |
✔ |
24x7x365 Service Desk |
✔ |
Service Level Objectives |
✔ |
Escalation Management |
✔ |
Governance & Reporting |
✔ |
Incident Management (Cases) |
Quantity depends on DL/Agent qty. See table in Case section for details. |
Simple MACD Requests (Cases) |
Quantity depends on DL/Agent qty. See table in MACD section for details. |
Complex MACD Requests (Cases) |
6 hours p/Qtr or 9 hours p/Qtr based on combined Users |