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.
Hand a client's unresolved support chat to a teammate for a decision.
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.
Draft answers to client support emails for the responsible teammate to approve.
Your chosen approver gets a proposed reply beside the customer's message, ready to review before anyone answers.
Assign client support cases with the unresolved issue in a private note.
Your specialists get the customer's request and a clear next step, while former owners know who took over the case.
Answer client setup emails with approved help article steps.
Your customers get how-to answers from your help center, and your support lead gets questions those articles cannot answer.
Hand off client support tickets with earlier fixes and files intact.
The next support person gets the full email history and attachments, while your first responder knows who took over.
Acknowledge client IT requests with a ticket link 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.
Alert the covering teammate to urgent client support requests.
Customers get a reviewed reply while their usual contact is away. Urgent requests reach the teammate covering for them.
Confirm client help desk requests after hours and list open cases for the shift.
Customers get a receipt after hours, and your next support shift sees which tickets still need a personal reply in team chat.
Add transcripts of clients' recordings to their service tickets.
Read spoken customer requests right on the ticket. Your team gets the full transcript in a private note, without replaying the recording.
Add checked PDFs of clients' HTML files to support cases.
You get a PDF you can share and print on the support case after its text and layout pass checks.
Draft blog posts from common client support questions and published guides.
Get a blog draft grounded in your published help articles and real customer questions, with unanswered points flagged for your review.
Turn employee support forms into categorized service desk tickets.
Your team gets support requests sorted by your rules, and employees get ticket numbers they can use to follow up.