Create, respond and manage tickets in help desk

Use help desk to navigate between existing tickets and create new ones without having to leave the workspace. Support agents in your account can create, respond, and manage help desk tickets to more efficiently triage issues for your customers.

By default, tickets will automatically be created via all channels you've connected to help desk. For example, if you connected a team email address support@mycompany.com to help desk, any emails to that address will create a ticket automatically. Learn more about connecting channels to help desk.

Please note: only Super admins and users with a Service Hub seat can access all features in help desk. Users with Service or Sales Access can still view and collaborate within the help desk workspace. However, they won't have access to default views, help desk settings, and customizations. Users can only see tickets in help desk that they have access to. Learn how to limit access to tickets for your users. 

Create tickets in help desk

To create a ticket manually:

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Workspaces > Help Desk.
• In the help desk workspace, click Create ticket in the bottom left.
• In the right panel, enter your ticket details. If you want to customize which properties appear here, click Edit this form at the top of the panel. The following fields are required by default:
  
  • Ticket name: provide a description for this ticket.
  • Pipeline: assign this ticket to a specific ticket pipeline you've created.
  • Ticket status: choose a specific ticket stage from the pipeline you've selected.
• To associate a company or contacts with the ticket, click the Company and Contact dropdown menus, then search for the company or contacts. Learn how to associate the relevant company or contact activities to the ticket.

When you create a ticket manually, a conversation won't be automatically associated with the ticket. To create a conversation, click Add contact. Once you associate a new or existing contact, the reply editor will appear, and you can begin composing a message to the contact.

Respond to tickets in help desk

Use the reply editor to respond to an incoming email or chat message, or use the Comment tab to notify another team member of the conversation.

To expand the reply editor while typing your response, click and drag the reply editor. 

Enter a reply, using the toolbar in the bottom left to add rich text formatting (e.g., bold, italics, etc.). You can also click Insert and select an option to attach content from another tool in HubSpot, including:

• Knowledge base articles
• Snippets
• Video
• Meetings
• Documents
• Quotes
• Templates

If the visitor you're responding to in your conversation was originally unknown, and they later provide you with their name or email address, you can then associate them with a contact:

• Locate one of the messages the visitor sent and click the search magnifying glass icon.

• In the right panel, click the Create new tab to create a new contact or click the Add existing tab to associate the visitor with an existing contact. This will also associate their ticket and your conversation with them.
• At the bottom of the panel, click Save.

Manage tickets in help desk

You can review, manage, edit, or merge tickets in help desk to help you or your team stay organized and quickly prioritize tickets in any view.

Edit tickets 

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Service > Help desk.
• In any of the ticket list views (e.g., Unassigned), you can click and drag a column to rearrange where it appears, or resize the column if you need to review longer column names. You can also change the columns that appear in the table:
  • In the top right, click Edit columns.
  • In the dialog box, search or browse through properties on the left.
    • Select the checkbox next to a property to add it to your selected columns.
    • To reorder a column, click and drag a property.
    • To remove a column, click the X to the right of the property.
    • To remove all currently selected columns, click Remove all columns.
    • When you're done configuring columns, click Save.

You can also edit tickets in bulk in any of your list views:

• Select the checkboxes next to the tickets you want to edit. You can also select all tickets in the current list view by selecting the checkbox in the top left of the table.
• At the top of the table, click Edit.

• In the dialog box, click the Property to update dropdown menu and select the property you want to edit.
• In the field that appears, enter or select a new value for the selected property. For multi-select properties:
  • To add new values while maintaining the existing values, select Append to current value(s).
  • To overwrite the existing values, select Replace current value(s).
• Click Update. For text or single-select properties, this will overwrite the old values in the property for these records.

Merge tickets 

If you want to consolidate related threads regarding the same customer or issue, you can merge two tickets directly within help desk:

• In any of the ticket list views, click the name of a ticket.
• In the top right, click the ellipses menu icon, then select Merge ticket.

• In the dialog box, click the Search dropdown menu to search for and select another ticket to merge with.
• Select the Primary radio button under one of the tickets to use its property values for the new record created as a result of the merge.
• Click What happens when you merge two tickets to review additional information about what will happen after you merge the tickets. Learn more about merging records in this article.
• Click Merge. Once merged, tickets cannot be unmerged.

Review your tickets and conversation details

To review and manage tickets in help desk:

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to Workspaces > Help Desk.
• In the help desk workspace, you can connect additional channels, create, respond, and manage your tickets, and customize ticket properties.
• Click a ticket to view the corresponding conversation, along with details about the associated records (e.g., contacts, companies, and deals). 

• To edit a ticket's properties, click the Ticket owner, Priority, Category, or Status fields at the top of the ticket.
• In the right sidebar, you can edit the tickets information, such as the description or the priority, or update the ticket's associated contacts, companies, or deals.
• To receive notifications when there's new activity on a ticket, follow the record:
  • To follow a ticket, click the ellipses menu icon in the top right corner, then select Follow. If you already follow the record, to turn off notifications, select Unfollow.
    
    
  
  

Search and sort for tickets in the ticket list view

To review and filter all tickets in a single high-level view:

• You can locate a specific ticket by entering a term in the search box in the top left, which will search across all tickets in help desk.
  • Any of the following fields are currently supported as search terms:
    • Ticket information: name, ID, or description keywords
    • Associated contact properties: first name, last name, phone number, mobile phone number, email address, or company
  • After you've entered a search, hit the enter key to execute your search.

• You can sort tickets by a specific property by clicking the column header for that property.
• Click the dropdown menus at the top of the list view to filter by Ticket owner, Priority, Pipeline, Ticket status, or HubSpot team.
• Create a customized filter by clicking Advanced filters:
  • In the right panel, enter and select a property to filter by.
  • Set the criteria for the selected property.
  • To select another property, click AND or OR. When you set a filter with AND, records must meet all of the criteria in the filter group in order to be included in the view. When you select OR, the records must meet the criteria in at least one filter group to be included in the view.
  • To remove a property, hover over the filter and click the delete delete icon.
  • To remove a group of filters, click the delete icon delete icon in the top right corner of the group.
  • To remove all filters, click Discard.
  • Once you’re done, click the X in the top right corner. Filters will be saved and applied globally to default views only. Applied filters will not be saved to custom views.

• You can click the name of a ticket to return to the detailed view of the ticket and its associated conversation.

Move tickets between the conversations inbox and help desk

You can move conversations associated with tickets between the conversations inbox and help desk.

Please note: only super admins and users with the Account access permission can move tickets between the conversations inbox and help desk (and vice versa).

To move a conversation from your inbox to help desk:

• In your HubSpot account, navigate to CRM > Inbox.
• Click a conversation.
• In the top right, click the ellipses menu icon, then select Move to another inbox.
• In the dialog box, click the Select inbox dropdown menu, then select Help desk. You can reassign the conversation if needed, and add an optional comment to provide context on why you're moving it.

To move a conversation from help desk to one of your conversation inboxes:

• In the help desk workspace, click the conversation you want to move.
• In the top right, click the ellipses menu icon, then select Move to another inbox.
• In the dialog box, select an inbox. You can reassign the conversation if needed, and optionally include a comment to provide context on why you're moving the conversation, then click Save.

When you move a conversation from help desk to an inbox, the conversation will move but the ticket will remain in help desk.

Turn on automatic chat transcripts

Super admins and users with Account access permission can turn on automatic transcripts of your live chat conversations, which will be emailed to the contact who started the chat. The transcript will be sent after the chat is closed.

To turn on automatic transcripts:

• In your HubSpot account, click the settings settings icon in the top navigation bar.
• In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Inbox & Help Desk > Help Desk.
• On the Channels tab, hover over the Chat channel and click Edit.
• Toggle the Chat transcript switch on.
• You can also click the Send from dropdown menu to change the email address the chat transcript is sent from.

• In the bottom left, click Save.