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.
Route flagged support chats to teammates and send owners the handoff links.
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 each proposed reply to the teammate assigned to the customer thread.
Your chosen approver gets a proposed reply beside the customer's message, ready to review before anyone answers.
Prepare private case notes before specialists take over.
Your specialists get the customer's request and a clear next step, while former owners know who took over the case.
Clear common how-to emails from the support inbox with approved steps.
Your customers get how-to answers from your help center, and your support lead gets questions those articles cannot answer.
Route tickets needing judgment into the lead's decision view.
Your routine support emails get a reply in the same conversation, while cases needing judgment land in your lead's decision list.
Match unresolved email cases to the right support person.
The next support person gets the full email history and attachments, while your first responder knows who took over.
Confirm portal requests reached the help desk or flag missing tickets.
Your customers get a reply with their ticket link after a confirmed match. Your support team hears about requests that need attention.
Flag urgent tickets and give the service lead a clear handoff.
Your service lead sees why an urgent customer complaint needs attention. The message includes ticket history and a link.
Pass urgent customer requests to the teammate covering the conversation.
Customers get a reviewed reply while their usual contact is away. Urgent requests reach the teammate covering for them.
Post the next shift's chat list of tickets awaiting a personal reply.
Customers get a receipt after hours, and your next support shift sees which tickets still need a personal reply in team chat.
Add audio transcripts to incoming tickets for support review.
Read spoken customer requests right on the ticket. Your team gets the full transcript in a private note, without replaying the recording.
Route unclear account questions with the customer facts already gathered.
Your customers get policy-linked answers to routine account questions, while exceptions reach your support team with the facts in hand.