Should we automate onboarding as we scale to 30 clients a month?
#1
We’re hitting a real bottleneck with our customer onboarding process now that we’re adding about 30 new clients a month. The manual setup and training calls are eating up the team’s capacity, and I’m worried the quality and speed will drop as we keep growing. Has anyone found a reliable way to automate or streamline this without making new clients feel like they’re just a ticket number?
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#2
We actually split the process into a self serve onboarding flow with a simple portal that has a checklist, short videos, and automated emails. It handles the basics without me having to book dozens of calls. We still do a quick intro call for priority accounts, but the day to day setup and data capture feel less like a ticket and more like a guided rollout.
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#3
We tried automation and it did reduce the back-and-forth for a while, but a few clients felt lost when templates didn’t match their industry. We paused, mapped the steps by client type, and added a light touch human check at handoff points. It cut rework but slowed a bit when volumes spiked.
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#4
Are you sure the bottleneck is the process itself, or could it be the capacity to train and follow up? If automation just routes more work without fewer calls, you might not gain.
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#5
I’ve been there. We rolled out a content library and a standard success playbook, and we still got bottlenecks with edge cases and integrations. We ended up assigning owners to each stage and tracking a rough SLA, which helped a bit, but it still felt like a moving target and not a silver bullet. Sometimes I wonder if we’re chasing the wrong metric.
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