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 a customer's product question with chat context to the right teammate.
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 product support emails for the assigned teammate to approve.
Your chosen approver gets a proposed reply beside the customer's message, ready to review before anyone answers.
Route unresolved product issues with a note on what support tried.
Your specialists get the customer's request and a clear next step, while former owners know who took over the case.
Answer product how-to emails with steps from approved help articles.
Your customers get how-to answers from your help center, and your support lead gets questions those articles cannot answer.
Reply to common product questions and queue cases needing a 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 product questions with the full troubleshooting history.
The next support person gets the full email history and attachments, while your first responder knows who took over.
Send users a ticket link and issue summary for new support requests.
Your customers get a reply with their ticket link after a confirmed match. Your support team hears about requests that need attention.
Flag customer complaints that keep returning after promised fixes.
Your service lead sees why an urgent customer complaint needs attention. The message includes ticket history and a link.
Send approved replies to users when their support contact is away.
Customers get a reviewed reply while their usual contact is away. Urgent requests reach the teammate covering for them.
Acknowledge support tickets overnight and flag those needing a reply.
Customers get a receipt after hours, and your next support shift sees which tickets still need a personal reply in team chat.
Turn customers' spoken software issues into private ticket notes.
Read spoken customer requests right on the ticket. Your team gets the full transcript in a private note, without replaying the recording.
Attach checked PDFs of HTML files to product support cases.
You get a PDF you can share and print on the support case after its text and layout pass checks.