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.
Assign escalated tickets with the customer's history and files.
Your escalated support requests reach a named person with the conversation, available files, and a clear next step.
Leave a reply draft in the complaint thread for review.
Your support inbox gets a courteous draft for an angry customer email, with threats or escalation concerns flagged for your review.
Send approved answers to matching tickets and acknowledge the rest.
Your customers hear back by email on familiar questions, while tickets needing a personal answer stay open for your support team.
Check repeat issues and complete each case before handoff.
Your team gets clear support cases with owners. Everyone knows which case number to work from.
Flag unanswered chat questions with the missing page detail.
Visitors get answers backed by your published pages, with a link to the source. Your support team takes questions the pages cannot settle.
Open tickets with chat context when help articles fall short.
Your visitors get linked answers in website chat, while questions your articles cannot settle go to your support team.
Answer routine chats and pass open questions along with their history.
Your customers get answers from your help articles, and your support team gets recent chat history when a question needs a person.
Answer routine visitor questions and flag chats needing a person.
Your visitors get clear answers in chat, with context from earlier messages and a source link for current facts.