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Your SaaS help desk for software companies

HelpDesk by Text gives your software company one place for every user conversation. Bug reports, feature requests, and how-to questions become trackable tickets, whether they start inside your app or in email.

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SaaS help desk dashboard in HelpDesk by Text

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Why your software company needs a SaaS helpdesk

Technical users, technical tickets

Your users report bugs with logs, screenshots, and version numbers. A shared inbox built for support keeps that context attached to the ticket instead of buried in someone's mailbox.

Contracts come with clocks

B2B customers buy response times along with your product. Without SLA tracking, the first missed deadline shows up in a renewal call, not in your queue.

Support cut off from the product

When feedback lives in scattered threads, it never reaches the roadmap. Connect support to your product stack and every request becomes usable signal.

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Meet customers on the channels they already use

Unified SaaS help desk inbox in HelpDesk with tickets from email, chat, Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS Unified SaaS help desk inbox in HelpDesk with tickets from email, chat, Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS
  • Email
  • Native live chat
  • Messenger
  • WhatsApp
  • SMS
  • and many more

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All your user support cases on one dashboard

Capture — SaaS help desk ticket inbox with bug reports and billing questions filtered into custom views
Solve — subscription upgrade ticket with AI reply suggestions and unified customer data in HelpDesk
Route — ticket rules routing bug reports and feature requests to the right team in HelpDesk
Automate — Playbook workflow turning a new ticket into a summary, a Salesforce lead, and a Slack message
Measure — ticket resolution time reports and analytics dashboard in HelpDesk

Unified inbox

Every channel lands in one queue with clear statuses: open, pending, solved.

Views and filters

Build custom views around the queues your team actually watches, like open bugs by product area.

Prioritization and SLAs

Surface high-impact tickets and SLA risks first, so nothing urgent slips through.

Keep your support team on track

Assignment panel routing a SaaS support ticket to the right team and teammate in HelpDesk

Ticket assignment

Route work by team, workload, and skills, so ownership is never unclear.

Ticket tags editor adding api and bug labels to a support case in HelpDesk

Tags and statuses

Keep the queue readable and reporting clean without manual triage.

Canned response picker inserting a saved reply into a ticket in HelpDesk

Canned responses

Answer the questions that repeat in one click, consistently.

Bulk actions bar updating status and tags for several selected tickets in HelpDesk

Bulk actions and reporting

Handle daily actions at scale and see team performance in clear reports.

Built for the way software companies run support

Bug reports become tickets

Users attach logs and screenshots, your team tags by component and severity, and automations route each report to the right queue.

Feature requests in one backlog

Collect requests from every channel, tag and count them, and answer each one with a canned response while reporting shows what users ask for most.

API and webhooks in your stack

Create and update tickets from events in your app, and push ticket changes to the internal tools your engineers already watch.

Ready for your AI agents: MCP server

Connect Claude or ChatGPT to your help desk through Text's MCP server. Ask about tickets, search archived chats, and pull transcripts without leaving your assistant.

SLA management for B2B contracts

Set response and resolution targets with SLA rules configured in Workflows, track them on every ticket, and watch at-risk tickets rise to the top before deadlines pass.

In-app and email support together

Chat with users inside your product and answer email from the same workspace. One queue, one history per customer.

AI built into your help desk

The AI Agent resolves up to 73% of routine cases in chat before they ever become a ticket. You stay in control: point it at the knowledge sources you trust and set the escalation paths.

AI Agent resolving a routine question in chat in HelpDesk

AI Agent

Answers routine questions in chat, hands the rest to your team with context.

AI reply suggestion drafted for a support ticket in HelpDesk

Reply suggestions

Drafts responses your agents can tune and send.

AI ticket summary listing the core issue and next steps in HelpDesk

Ticket summaries

Catch up on any case in seconds.

Knowledge source picker pointing the AI at a help center and documents in HelpDesk

Knowledge sources you choose

Point the AI at your help center, docs, and files, and nothing else.

Tone picker setting the AI agent voice to professional, casual, or friendly in HelpDesk

Match your brand voice

Pick a tone, professional, casual or friendly, and every reply sticks to it.

AI agent handing a conversation to a human teammate with the history attached in HelpDesk

Instant handoff, full context

When a case needs human judgment, it reaches the right person with the history attached.

Up to 73%

of customer cases resolved before a ticket is created

35%

decrease in ticket resolution time at Brastel

~2,000

tickets handled monthly via automation at Brastel

SaaS help desk vs. SaaS ticketing system: one tool for both

Bug report ticket with tags, priority, and full conversation history in HelpDesk Bug report ticket with tags, priority, and full conversation history in HelpDesk

A SaaS ticketing system tracks issues; a SaaS help desk does that and runs the whole conversation around them. HelpDesk by Text combines both: every bug report, billing question, and feature request becomes a ticket with an owner, a deadline, and a full history, whatever channel it came from. There is no separate tool to sync, because the helpdesk SaaS layer and the ticketing layer are the same product.

The same applies to the SaaS service desk use case. If your users are other businesses, SLA tracking, private notes, and custom views turn the queue into a service desk your account managers can rely on. One subscription covers your SaaS customer support software, your ticketing system, and the automation between them.

Give your users faster answers

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Keep data secure and audited

Your customers run vendor security reviews, and your help desk is part of them. SOC 2 compliance, GDPR readiness, and encrypted data in certified data centers give procurement teams the answers they expect.

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GDPR GDPR
CCPA CCPA
PCI DSS PCI DSS
Data Privacy Framework DPF
WCAG 2 accessibility WCAG 2
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Support that sells

Resolving tickets is the baseline. Your help desk can also spot buying intent in a conversation and act on it.

Monitor

Watch behavior and intent in real time, before a question even becomes a ticket.

Real-time customer monitoring list with chatting and browsing visitors in HelpDesk

Engage

Start the conversation about the plan a trial user is looking at, at the right moment.

AI agent widget proactively offering plan comparison help to a returning visitor

Convert

Recommend and help close, then hand off to a human with full context when it counts.

AI agent chat comparing Business and Enterprise plans and starting a trial

Measure

Track the dollars, leads, and repeat customers your conversations generate.

Tickets report with new tickets, resolution time, CSAT, and earned sales metrics
Real-time customer monitoring list with chatting and browsing visitors in HelpDesk

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“Each agent can spend more time resolving tickets and make our customers happier with an individual approach and better response time.”

Dalton Hasegawa, Manager, Brastel Co., Ltd.

Extend your help desk with Workflows and the API

Connect the tools you already use through predefined actions, webhooks, and the API. Build multi-step automations without engineering time, with integrations for Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Slack, and Zapier.

Workflow recipe creating a ticket with an AI summary and tags when a chat ends in HelpDesk

Start with HelpDesk by Text in three simple steps

1

Sign up.

Create your account. No credit card required.

2

Connect channels.

Bring in email, chat, Messenger, WhatsApp, and SMS.

3

Resolve cases.

Let the AI Agent take routine questions while your team handles the rest.

SaaS help desk FAQ

What is a SaaS help desk?

A SaaS help desk is customer support software delivered as a subscription and run in the browser, with no servers to install or maintain. The term also describes a help desk built for SaaS companies: one system that turns bug reports, feature requests, and user questions into trackable tickets. HelpDesk by Text is both, a cloud-hosted help desk designed to support software products.

What is the best SaaS help desk solution for a software company?

Look for SaaS help desk solutions that handle technical tickets with attachments and tags, track SLAs on every ticket, connect to your product stack through an API and webhooks, and automate routine answers with AI. HelpDesk by Text checks each of those boxes and adds an MCP server for connecting your own AI agents.

Can I try a SaaS help desk for free?

Yes. HelpDesk by Text comes with a free 14-day trial. No credit card required, and setup takes about five minutes.

What is the difference between a SaaS help desk and a SaaS service desk?

A SaaS help desk focuses on resolving customer questions quickly. A SaaS service desk adds structure for business customers: SLA targets, prioritization, and clear reporting. HelpDesk by Text covers both models in one tool, so you can start with a shared inbox and add SLA management as your contracts require it.

Can AI handle SaaS support tickets?

Routine ones, yes. The AI Agent resolves up to 73% of routine cases in chat before they ever become a ticket, and hands anything that needs human judgment to your team with the full history attached.

How does HelpDesk fit into a SaaS product stack?

Through Workflows, webhooks, and the API you can create tickets from app events, sync updates to internal tools, and automate multi-step processes. You can also connect assistants like Claude or ChatGPT to your tickets and chats through Text's MCP server.

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