Helpdesk: full list of features
- Web-based - accessible from anywhere with just a browser, works on smartphones and touch devices.
- Hosted or self-hosted - use it online (recommended) or install on your own server
- iOS app + Android app + Mobile Web UI - free mobile apps plus mobile-optimized web-UI that works on any screen through a mobile browser.
- Categorizing and Tagging tickets - assign tickets to different categories and assign default agents to categories.
- File attachments - attach documents, screenshots and PDFs to tickets.
- Live chat - for your website right inside the "contact us" widget (see below), more details here.
- Asset management - track your assets, assign assets to your users and tickets, track incident history and quickly find the asset owner
- Email-integration - the help desk app monitors your support mailbox and converts emails to tickets, sends out email replies and notifications.
- Time tracking - automatic billable hours tracking
- Knowledge base - a self-support portal for users
- Reports with an option to export to Excel and CSV
- User permissions - different user roles and security permissions (technicians can be assigned to different areas, no customer sees anyone else's data, etc)
- "Companies" - Assign users to "companies" and "departments", set up company "managers" and track tickets from particular companies.
- Active Directory authentication - possible Windows-integrated authentication - integrate our support ticket software with your existing Active Directory users catalog. Even the hosted version can authenticate users via AD
- Single sign on - integrate with your other apps via SAML (with any SAML provider - like Google, Azure AD, ADFS etc), or use our simple Authentication API.
- Automation/macros engine - Set up complicated workflows using our easy "if this - do that" engine.
- Custom fields for tickets, like "client number" or "equipment ID" etc
- Custom statuses for tickets, like "on hold" or "awaits shipping" etc
- Customizable design - add your own logo, change colors and fonts, add custom CSS, adjust the way your emails look. You can even add custom JavaScript to customize the app even further.
- Custom domain (for the hosted version) - switch the helpdesk app to your own domain name, like "support.acme.com", SSL supported.
- Multilingual - Help Desk supports English, German, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch,
Swedish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi, Finnish, and more.
- Import/export - for users, tickets, assets etc. You can import/export from CSV or even import from another ticket system (like Zendesk or Freshdesk)
- Search engine - quickly find tickets by keywords, advanced search by ticket date, users, companies, tags etc.
- Integration with 3rd-party apps, including:
- RESTful API
- "Contact us" widget for your website/app - with just one line of JavaScript you can add a nice looking "support" popup to all your website pages. live-chat with your visitors and convert their requests into tickets.
- Source codes - C# source codes available for developers
- AI powered autosuggest - suggest relevant KB articles to users when they create a ticket, utilizing modern Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques (hosted version only!).
- Calendar view for tickets, so you can easily manage your helpdesk "due-dates".
- Ideas forum where user can suggest new features for your product, "vote" for feature-requests and leave their comments
- Machine Learning (hosted version only) - automatically suggest relevant Knowledge base articles to helpdesk agents when tickets come in
- Scheduled tickets set up a daily/weekly/monthly/etc. schedule for your recurring maintenance tasks
These are just some of our help desk app features.
Short video tutorial
Remember to check our short 5 minutes introduction video here that quickly walks you through all the basic features of our ticket management system.
Last updated: 11/6/2018
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