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Frappe Helpdesk is a capable support desk that will sit there doing very little if the email intake is wrong and the SLA policies never match a ticket. We set the intake up properly and migrate what you already have, then answer the requests that follow. One monthly figure.
Where a support desk usually goes wrong
A support desk fails in specific, boring ways. Mail that arrives and never becomes a ticket. An SLA policy that quietly skips the one priority you actually care about, because its condition matched and its priority table did not. We own that class of detail for the life of the subscription. Where you need more than one Frappe app, we cover the rest of the app range on the same terms.
Concretely, the inbound mail path is tested rather than assumed, including what happens to replies and to autoresponders. SLA policies are written against your real priorities and then checked by firing them. Ticket types, teams and assignment rules match how your people are actually organised rather than how an org chart says they are. The customer portal says what you want it to say. And when volume or team shape changes, the configuration changes with it instead of staying as it was on day one.
Most tickets arrive as email, so the intake path decides whether the desk works at all. The mapping that turns mail into a ticket lives on the incoming Email Account rather than anywhere in Helpdesk settings, which is why self-installs sit there receiving mail and creating nothing. We set it, then prove it with a message sent from outside your network.
A policy applies only when its condition matches the ticket and its priority table lists that ticket's priority. Miss the second half and the policy is skipped in silence while the next one is tried. Rank decides which goes first, and an unranked policy always goes last. We build the set and rank it deliberately, then raise test tickets to watch which one lands.
An unassigned ticket is a ticket nobody has decided about yet. Assignment rules put each one on a named agent by condition, either spreading evenly or handing it to whoever is carrying least. We also agree what happens to something arriving at eleven at night, because the honest answer is a queue somebody opens first thing rather than an alert nobody hears.
Where ERPNext already runs your operations, an agent sees the order and the invoice while answering instead of asking a colleague to go and look. Both applications share one database, so there is no middleware sitting between them and nothing extra to renew.
A desk that emails everybody about every event teaches everybody to ignore it, and the breach you miss is usually the one an alert warned you about. We set notification and email preferences against who genuinely needs telling, then revisit it once your ticket volume is real rather than estimated.
Frappe Helpdesk is open source and the site is yours. Every policy and article we build stays inside it if you leave, along with the notes explaining why it is set up the way it is.
Subscription versus a one-off rollout
The usual way to get Frappe Helpdesk is a fixed-scope project. Somebody configures it against what you described in a kickoff call, trains whoever is in the room that week, invoices, and leaves. That holds up until your first real Monday. Where you want several Frappe apps handled this way rather than one, our all-apps subscription covers the set.
A project sets the response targets you guessed at before you had any data. Six months in, that guess is wrong in at least one place. We change it inside the subscription rather than pricing a variation.
Email intake breaks quietly. A mailbox password rotates or a folder mapping resets after a migration, and tickets stop appearing while mail carries on arriving. That is something to monitor rather than something to configure once.
Under project billing, a new ticket type or one extra field waits for a quote and then waits for approval. Small changes stop being worth asking for, and the desk gradually stops matching the work.
Implementation training happens once, for the agents you happened to have that week. Support turnover being what it is, the person answering your customers in month eight was never in the room.
Frappe Helpdesk carries on shipping after your project closes. With nobody tracking releases against your customizations, an upgrade is either postponed indefinitely or applied on a Friday and discovered on a Monday.
Bring a contractor in for the next change and the first days go on reading your configuration. We already know why your Urgent policy has the schedule it has, because we argued about it with you.
Who this service fits
This suits a support team that has settled on Frappe and wants the desk run properly rather than stood up and abandoned. It is the wrong buy for a two person operation answering a handful of emails a week. At that size the honest recommendation is Managed Zoho Desk, which costs less and asks less of you, and we would rather sell you that than oversell this.
How the work runs
Nothing goes live on day one. We agree what a ticket is and who owns it, build against that on a test site, then move your real mailbox across once it behaves the way you were told it would.
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The first sessions are about your commitments rather than the software. What counts as Urgent. What you have promised in writing. Which hours you genuinely cover, as opposed to the hours on the website. These are decisions your side has to make, and they are the ones your customers will hold you to.
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Everything gets built on a test site first: ticket types, the policy set with its holiday list, routing, the portal, the first knowledge base articles. Then we raise tickets on purpose at awkward times, because a clock you have not watched cross a weekend is a clock you are guessing about.
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Your mailbox moves across, agents are trained by role, and the request queue opens. The first weeks get watched closely. The difference between the desk you designed and the desk you actually have shows up in about ten days.
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