osTicket
The World's Most Popular Customer Support Software·osticket.com
osTicket is a widely-used open source support ticket system that integrates inquiries created via email, phone, web-based forms and API into a single, easy-to-use multi-user web interface. It lets support teams manage, organize and archive tickets, route them via configurable filters and help topics, track resolution with SLA plans, and offer customers a self-service portal and knowledge base. A separate cloud-hosted edition, SupportSystem, is also offered with a free trial.
What it's for
Features 17
- Advanced search with saved criteria and custom field inclusion
- Configurable automatic reply emails with placeholder variables
- Configurable help topics for routing inquiries to departments
- Create a new ticket or task directly from a thread entry
- CSV export of search results and dashboard data
- Custom columns in ticket list views
- Custom queues based on ticket criteria
- Custom ticket fields, forms and lists
- Customer knowledge base for self-service
- Customer support portal
- Dashboard reports on help desk statistics
- Internal task management linked to tickets, with collaborators
- Online ticket archive with client login via email and ticket number
- SLA Plans with overdue alerts and priority escalation
- Ticket filtering and routing rules with automated actions
- Ticket locking to prevent duplicate agent responses
- Ticket transfer, assignment and referral between agents/departments
At a glance
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Pricing
Self-hosted osTicket is free to download and open source. The cloud-hosted edition (SupportSystem) offers a 30-day free trial with no credit card required, but no subscription price is stated on these pages.
Free, open source support ticket system available for self-hosted download and install.
Cloud-hosted edition offered via supportsystem.com; subscription pricing not shown on these pages.
30-day free trial, no credit card required