Helpdesk/Knowledge ...
 

  You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more

[Closed] Helpdesk/Knowledge base system for small business

9 Posts
8 Users
0 Reactions
45 Views
Posts: 727
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Hello all,

Wondered if anyone out there has been in a similar situation. Our little IT company has got slightly bigger over the last year or so and data management, call logging and sharing info has become a problem. There are 11 of us and we need to have the ability to for customers to log calls on a helpdesk on-line, for us to use the helpdesk internally, link to Office 365 adn Trello ideally, have a searchable database of all the previous problems and solutions, detailed reports and be good value.

We currently use a mixture of Trello, OneNote and Sharepoint but it not ideal as there is no central location where everything is stored and can be searched/reported on.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good system, bearing in mind funds are limited?

Many thanks.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 11:01 am
Posts: 19
Free Member
 

In a similar situation and we're using JIRA and JIRA service desk.

JIRA not sure if you can just use JIRA service desk but it looks like you can.

Atlassian own Trello so I'd expect the integration to be OK but I've not used it myself.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 11:08 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

+1 JIRA Service Desk (ticket logging/kanban) and Confluence (Wiki/KB product) - both from Atlassian.

Caveats are its super cheap for <10 users, gets expensive as you start scaling up due to their licensing model and the fact you need to license every plugin for every user (we have over 200).

If I was starting from scratch I’d look at ZenDesk.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 11:34 am
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Freshdesk.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 11:47 am
Posts: 727
Free Member
Topic starter
 

JIRA looks quite good. Do you mean that if you get a Trello plugin you have to buy for every agent? Could be expensive.

Have looked at NetSupport as their pricing seems to be good, but it feel s a bit old fashioned. If the functionality is good then that isn't really a problem.

Thanks.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 1:12 pm
 Nico
Posts: 4
Free Member
 

BugTracker. The pricing is very good, but it looks a bit 1990.


 
Posted : 04/09/2018 3:40 pm
Posts: 0
Free Member
 

Late to the party-

OTRS- open source, easy to set up, fits your functional spec.


 
Posted : 05/09/2018 4:06 pm
Posts: 727
Free Member
Topic starter
 

Thanks for the suggestions - checking them out now.


 
Posted : 09/09/2018 5:32 pm
Posts: 1143
Full Member
 

Not sure if Spiceworks will link to Trello but it does everything else you mentioned. And it's free (ad supported).


 
Posted : 09/09/2018 5:57 pm
Posts: 13594
Free Member
 

We use Jira at work for call tracking....


 
Posted : 10/09/2018 10:47 am

6 DAYS LEFT
We are currently at 95% of our target!