Technical Support

FlowMo Technical Support Services Guidelines

  1. OVERVIEW

The FlowMo TSS provides technical assistance for the Services, access to the Documentation and update/upgrade releases for the Services. Unless otherwise noted in the Order Form, FlowMo shall provide TSS (as specified below) during the Term. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meaning given to them in the Agreement.

  1. SUPPORT TERMS

  1. Technical Assistance. The FlowMo TSS’ staff shall provide technical assistance to support the administration of the Services to the Customer’s Authorized Contacts in accordance with the terms below. Customer agrees that only Authorized Contacts will contact FlowMo for TSS and that Customer, and not FlowMo, shall be responsible for providing front-line support to Customer’s End Users. TSS do not include Professional Services.
  2. Support Availability. The FlowMo TSS’ staff is available to provide in-app chat support to an Authorized Contact in accordance with the terms below. Eligibility for chat support requires an active User license for the FlowMo Software and will only be provided to an Authorized Contact.
  3. Maintenance. To ensure optimal performance of the Services, FlowMo performs periodic Maintenance. In most cases, Maintenance will have limited or no negative impact on the availability and functionality of the Services. If FlowMo expects planned Maintenance to negatively affect the availability or functionality of the Services, FlowMo will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide advance notice of the Maintenance. In addition, FlowMo may perform emergency unscheduled Maintenance at any time. If FlowMo expects such emergency unscheduled Maintenance to negatively affect the availability or functionality of the Services, FlowMo will use commercially reasonable efforts to provide advance notice of such Maintenance. Maintenance notices noted above will be provided via an email to the Notification Email Address.
  4. Language of Support. Unless specific arrangements are made in writing in advance, all Customer Support will be provided in English.
  5. Scope of Support. FlowMo is not obligated to provide TSS if: (a) the Services have not been used in a manner consistent with the Documentation; (b) Customer has disabled connectivity required for TSS; (c) the Services have been altered or modified by any party other than FlowMo; (d) an upgrade, update or patch that FlowMo has recommended and made available has not been installed due to Customer’s actions or instructions; or (e) FlowMo is not able, after commercially reasonable efforts, to replicate an error or problem in the Services within the FlowMo TSS laboratory environment. FlowMo does not provide support for third-party software or hardware.

  1. ISSUE REPORTING

  1. Issue Severity Definitions:
  • S1 - Critical: Complete loss of application functionality causing a critical impact on business operations.
  • S2 - Urgent: The Services are operative but degraded causing a significant impact on business operation.
  • S3 - Tolerable: The Services are usable, non-critical functionality or components are affected, most operations are unaffected.
  • S4 - Question: Includes general questions, requests for documentation, or other non-critical system related issues. Operations are not affected.

  1. Reclassification. FlowMo may reclassify the priority level upward or downward and modify the order, classifications and method of responding to and/or addressing such issues, if any, at any time.
  2. Priority Response Time. FlowMo will use commercially reasonable efforts to respond within the Response Time set forth below in accordance with: (a) the specific priority level assigned by FlowMo, and (b) the Support Services Plan purchased by Customer. FlowMo’s response consists of either: (a) FlowMo remediation of the support issue, or (b) confirmation that FlowMo has received the support issue reported and indication of active remediation efforts.

Support Services:

Issue Severity Level

Response Time (Business Hours/Off Hours)

Update Frequency (Business Hours/Off Hours)

S1

1 hour/2 hours

8 hours/12 hours

S2

4 hours/6 hours

12 hours/Next Business Day

S3 & S4

1 Business Day/2 Business Days

On Request

  1. TERMS OF SUPPORT SERVICES PLAN

Support Services include the following:

  • Access to 24/7 email case submission
  • Access to 24/7 Customer community forum
  • Customer may request voice or chat support via email for S1 and S2 issues to “urgent at FlowMo dot com”
  • Unlimited number of support cases
  • Unlimited number of Authorized Contacts

  1. TSS Definitions

  • “Authorized Contact” means an individual who has either of the following: (i) completed training (including implementation training) or (ii) certified partner status including implementation training.
  • “Business Days” means Monday through Friday, excluding US, UK and Japan local holidays.
  • “Business Hours” means between 17:00 on Sunday to 17:00 on Friday Pacific Time Zone.
  • “Maintenance” means maintenance work that is performed on hardware or software delivering the Services.