Help Scout is the ideal small business help desk. You can deliver great email support and get setup in minutes, without any of the typical help desk complexities.
Give escalated chats a clear question and a link for the original owner.
Get a focused question in a private group chat and the handoff link in your inbox when a customer chat needs a teammate's judgment.
Send proposed customer replies with the original email for approval.
Your chosen approver gets a proposed reply beside the customer's message, ready to review before anyone answers.
Keep escalated cases with the right specialist and a clear handoff.
Your specialists get the customer's request and a clear next step, while former owners know who took over the case.
Send unsupported questions with thread context for review.
Your customers get how-to answers from your help center, and your support lead gets questions those articles cannot answer.
Surface unanswered tickets that need a policy decision.
Your routine support emails get a reply in the same conversation, while cases needing judgment land in your lead's decision list.
Route unresolved customer emails to the right person with the case history.
The next support person gets the full email history and attachments, while your first responder knows who took over.
Alert the support team when a portal request has no safe ticket match.
Your customers get a reply with their ticket link after a confirmed match. Your support team hears about requests that need attention.
Send urgent complaints with ticket history and reasons to follow up.
Your service lead sees why an urgent customer complaint needs attention. The message includes ticket history and a link.
Get absence replies approved before they reach customers.
Customers get a reviewed reply while their usual contact is away. Urgent requests reach the teammate covering for them.
Track tickets awaiting a person and brief the next support shift.
Customers get a receipt after hours, and your next support shift sees which tickets still need a personal reply in team chat.
Prepare defect replies against replacement rules for team review.
Your support rep gets a reply draft in the customer's conversation, grounded in the order and the replacement rules you choose.
Keep spoken customer requests visible to the team in ticket notes.
Read spoken customer requests right on the ticket. Your team gets the full transcript in a private note, without replaying the recording.