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Help Center Software

Help desk self-service software that reduces ticket volume

Make support easier for customers and agents with 24/7 self-service Help Center software.

What is help desk self-service software?

Help desk self-service lets customers and employees find answers and resolve straightforward issues. Instead of submitting a ticket for every question, they use resources like a Help Center and knowledge base articles to solve problems 24/7.

If a customer or employee can't find an answer, they can raise a ticket directly from the Help Center. The result is that customers and employees get faster answers to common questions and agents get more time back for  the issues that require a human.

FEATURES

Everything you need to deliver exceptional support

Powerful tools and seamless integrations designed to streamline your support operations and keep your team focused on what matters most.

24/7 knowledge base software

Allow customers to help themselves by offering them a library of resources.

Branded content platform

Make your help center look as beautiful as your website.

Multi-channel help center

Let customers contact you in the way that suits them best.

Built-in help center software

Link your help center and help desk together for optimal support.

Messenger

Access Help Center content anywhere

Your Help Center content can be made available on any page on your website through a messenger widget.

Customers using the widget can access all of your knowledge base content through the widget; providing an alternative user interface with your Help Center combined with live chat.

Structured Guides

Step-by-step self-service

Sometimes your customers need you to hold their hand through an issue, but this is time-consuming for agents.

Create structured self-service content that provides a step-by-step walkthrough and helps your customers solve their problems.

Escalations

Automatic actions that prioritize tickets

Admins create escalations across the entire help desk that run after a ticket has spent a pre-defined amount of time in one particular state.This will trigger actions of your choice such as increasing ticket urgency, reassigning tickets, or sending survey requests.

Auto-Responder

Keep customers updated with automatic replies

Set up auto-replies and configure updates to make sure customers are never left in dark regarding the status of their issue.Utilize custom fields to personalize your auto-response templates.

Effortless Navigation

Organize self-service content easily

Easily manage how content will appear to your customers with a live drag and drop management system.Within each guide, it’s possible to create nested topics with a hierarchy of volumes, chapters and pages, keeping the information organized and easy to navigate.

find answers

Make finding the right answer easy for everyone

Customers want to find the answers to problems when it suits them. Reduce the effort it takes for customers to solve their issues and help them quickly find solutions to their problems the first time they access your content.

Instant Search

Help customers find answers faster

Give customers instant answers with powerful search across the whole Help Center and Knowledge Base software, including Knowledge Base articles, guides, community topics and news.

Intelligent search begins to suggest articles as they're typing.

Search Words

Make the most relevant content rank first

Ensure important content is always included in the top of search results by assigning frequently used keywords to articles.

Labels

Categorize self-service content for easy discovery

Organize your library of content to help customers and agents find answers faster when they search, by assigning labels to published content.

Related Content

Boost related content with simple links

Increase discoverability of content and ensure that when customers are searching for answers, they’ll discover your solutions first.Articles are optimized for search engines and related content can be linked.

Sub-Categories

Organize self-service content with nested categories

Create a structured knowledge base with unlimited sub-category nesting to put your content where you want it.Place the same article in multiple sub-categories, great for organizing large and small content libraries.

Ticket Management

Customers can manage their tickets

You can access your tickets from the Help Center; view lists of your tickets and notifications with ease.

The Help Center software lets you conveniently manage your ticketing from a different interface and helps you stay on top of things.

CUSTOMIZATION & CONTROL

Customize the Help Center to fit your brand

Support content shouldn't have to look dull. A familiar branded content platform helps your audience feel safe and increases trust in your brand.

Set your own color scheme, logo and header image to reflect your brand - with an easy-to-use template system and CSS.

Multi-brand

Manage Help Centers from one help desk

Provide support to multiple independent brands, products, services or audiences with unique Help Centers you can manage from a single help desk.

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content that shines

Delight customers with quality support

Choose Help Center Software where you can provide customers with more than just a plain word document.

quality content

Create and edit quality content with ease

Author content using a rich and easy-to-use publishing interface. Moderate content with the ability to draft, approve, publish, and archive articles.

community

Discover what your customers really think

Crowdsource improvements by allowing customers to see, comment and vote on topics most important to them. Provide a roadmap to track progress of responses to feedback and show you are listening to them.

Promote Collaboration

Let customers engage with one another

Improve engagement by allowing customers to provide you with feedback, enabling customers to collaborate, discuss and help each other to solve issues.

Comments
Customers can reply to content and other people as well as upvote comments deemed most valuable to discussions.

Moderation
Keep your community free of spam and offensive content by reviewing comments and topics before they are published.

CONTENT TRANSLATION

Deliver localized self-service at scale

Speak the language of your customers and build stronger relationships across the world by publishing articles in different languages.Learn more about Localization

News

Provide time-sensitive instant updates

Keep customers constantly engaged and in-the-know by communicating the most recent news, blog posts and announcements.

Categories
Organize news posts into categories to communicate specific types of content and quickly distinguish them with colors.

Cover Images
Add images to news posts to provide context and a captivating preview.

Subscriptions

Ensure customers never miss an update

Subscriptions allow customers to be notified via email of any new articles, changes and updates to the knowledge base.

Individual articles, categories and the whole knowledge base can be subscribed to, along with News and Community content.

Templates

Keep content consistent and fresh


Ensure that your news posts use the same format. Agents can create templates for different purposes and save time by using them again and again. Choose when you want content to be reviewed by your team, keeping it up-to-date and relevant.

file hosting

Centralize file sharing and storage

Make files available to your customers and agents, whether it is a pdf, a brochure, a software application or driver.

Deskpro provides you with the ability to host files within knowledge base articles, guides and news. It also has a dedicated file storage area for your external or internal customer base.

Usergroup permissions

The right content for the right audience

Make content available for internal and external use on the same Help Center. Specify permissions to limit what content customers can view. Set permissions for internal knowledge management, such as employee training, on the same support site as customer FAQs.

FULL INTEGRATION

Fully-integrated knowledge base and help desk

Create an article once, solve an issue for hundreds of customers in the future.

Ticket Deflection
Ticket Replies

Ticket Deflection

Ticket Deflection

Reduce pressure on agents by automatically suggesting relevant articles to customers before they submit a ticket.

Ticket Replies

Ticket Replies

Access Knowledge Base articles when replying to tickets and help customers by linking them to relevant articles.

Ticket to article

Turn common questions into self-service resources

Keep your knowledge base up-to-date and your customers in the loop while reducing tickets for your agents.

Ticket to Article
Ticket to Community Post

Ticket to Article

Ticket to Article

Turn tickets into pending articles, instantly populating the article with content from that ticket.

Ticket to Community Post

Ticket to Community Post

Turn tickets into discussion topics in order to collect feedback and decide next steps for prioritization.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a help desk service?

A help desk service is the system a business uses to receive, manage, and resolve support requests from customers or employees. It typically combines a ticketing system with support channels like email, live chat, voice, and a self-service Help Center, so agents can handle every request from one place.

What are examples of self-service?

Common examples of help desk self-service include knowledge base articles that answer frequent questions, step-by-step guides that walk customers through a process, community forums where customers help each other, file downloads like manuals and drivers, and a customer portal where people can check the status of their own tickets.

How does self-service reduce support ticket volume?

Self-service deflects tickets before they reach your agents. When a customer starts typing a question, Deskpro automatically suggests relevant articles, so many customers find their answer without submitting a ticket at all. Agents can also turn resolved tickets into knowledge base articles, which means each answered question can prevent hundreds of future tickets on the same topic.

What's the difference between a knowledge base and a self-service help center?

A knowledge base is a library of support articles. A self-service help center includes a knowledge base and adds everything else customers need to help themselves: search, structured guides, community forums, news updates, file downloads, and ticket management. In Deskpro, the Help Center connects all of this to your help desk, so customers and employees can move from finding answers to raising a ticket without leaving the page.