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.
Ask a teammate to judge a flagged chat and email its handoff link.
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.
Email a proposed answer beside the customer's message for review.
Your chosen approver gets a proposed reply beside the customer's message, ready to review before anyone answers.
Notify the former case owner who now has the escalated case.
Your specialists get the customer's request and a clear next step, while former owners know who took over the case.
Reply to common customer questions with approved article steps.
Your customers get how-to answers from your help center, and your support lead gets questions those articles cannot answer.
Answer common customer emails in the existing ticket thread.
Your routine support emails get a reply in the same conversation, while cases needing judgment land in your lead's decision list.
Pass unresolved replies along with the original message and files.
The next support person gets the full email history and attachments, while your first responder knows who took over.
Send customers a ticket link and short summary after they ask for help.
Your customers get a reply with their ticket link after a confirmed match. Your support team hears about requests that need attention.
Record why a customer's complaint needs prompt attention on the ticket.
Your service lead sees why an urgent customer complaint needs attention. The message includes ticket history and a link.
Send approved acknowledgments while the assigned teammate is away.
Customers get a reviewed reply while their usual contact is away. Urgent requests reach the teammate covering for them.
Confirm after-hours tickets arrived and keep unanswered cases open.
Customers get a receipt after hours, and your next support shift sees which tickets still need a personal reply in team chat.
Draft replacement replies from orders and rules for rep review.
Your support rep gets a reply draft in the customer's conversation, grounded in the order and the replacement rules you choose.
Put customers' spoken requests in tickets for reps to read.
Read spoken customer requests right on the ticket. Your team gets the full transcript in a private note, without replaying the recording.