HappyFox is a help desk ticketing system for mid-market support, IT and HR teams, with SLA escalation, multi-brand portals and AI replies, sold per agent.
HappyFox gathers support email, phone calls, live chat, a web portal and Facebook and Twitter messages into tickets that a team assigns, tracks and closes in one queue. HappyFox Inc, the Southlake, Texas software company behind it, also sells a service desk and a contact center suite. One instance can carry customer support next to internal IT and HR requests, with Custom Queues keeping each team's work apart. Smart Rules assign and escalate tickets on time elapsed, keyword matches or custom field values. SLA Management sends breach alerts and reassigns tickets when a service target is at risk. Agents answer with Canned Actions, talk privately in Private Notes and see through Agent Collision Detection when a colleague is already replying. Tickets can be merged, split, cloned or related, and the Contact Portal lets customers sign in and follow their requests. HappyFox AI adds Copilot and AI Resolve, which draft replies and self-service answers grounded in the knowledge base and run on Claude through AWS Bedrock. Mid-market and growing support teams that have outgrown a shared mailbox are the core audience. Companies with several brands or products use the Multi-Brand Help Desk to give each one its own knowledge base, ticket form and portal from one account. Organizations that want IT and HR requests in the same system as customer tickets can run all three side by side. Agents who work away from a desk handle tickets, private notes and SLA alerts in the iOS and Android app. The work HappyFox is hired for starts with turning a support address into tracked tickets and routing them by content and agent expertise. Team leads then watch the Agent Activity Report, ticket inflow and the satisfaction surveys sent when each ticket is resolved. Apps from the App Marketplace install into the help desk and connect it to Salesforce, HubSpot, Shopify or Jira for the teams that work in them. IT and HR teams link it to Azure AD, Slack and Microsoft Teams. HappyFox suits a support desk that answers customers on many channels and has to show every response target it set was met.
Pricing
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Help Desk
$24 per month
Monthly price per agent; annual billing saves 20%
- Entry Basic plan caps agents at 5; higher plans include unlimited agents
- 14-day trial on every plan, no credit card required
- HappyFox AI add-on from $14 per agent a month; its entry tier allows 500 AI interactions a month
- Asset management on higher plans only
- Discount on every plan for qualifying non-profit and education organizations
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Help Desk unlimited agents
Custom pricing
- Price on request; a flat annual fee with a yearly ticket allowance instead of per-agent pricing
- Usually more economical above about 20 to 25 agents or with very high ticket volumes
Features
- Included: Shared inbox with ticket conversion
- Included: Multichannel ticket intake
- Included: Rule-based ticket automation
- Included: SLA policies with breach alerts
- Included: Skills-based ticket routing
- Included: Macros and canned responses
- Included: Agent collision detection
- Included: Internal notes and side conversations
- Included: Parent-child and merged tickets
- Included: Requester portal for open tickets
- Included: CSAT survey on ticket close
- Included: Ticket volume and resolution reports
- Included: Agent mobile app for tickets
- Included: Custom ticket fields and forms
- Included: Multibrand help desk
- Included: AI-drafted ticket replies
- Not included: Help desk sandbox environment
- Included: Help desk app marketplace
Additional Features
- Smart Rules ticket automation
- SLA Management escalations
- Canned Actions reply templates
- Private Notes for team discussion
- Agent Collision Detection
- Merge, split, clone and relate tickets
- Ticket templates with custom fields
- Custom Queues
Best for
- Mid-market support teams outgrowing a shared mailbox
- Companies supporting several brands or products from one account
- Organizations running customer, IT and HR tickets in one system
- Support leads who report on SLA compliance and CSAT per agent
- Small teams of up to 5 agents starting on the entry plan
- Teams above about 20 agents weighing flat unlimited-agent pricing
- Teams already working in Salesforce, Jira, Shopify or HubSpot
Use cases
- Turning a support email address into tracked tickets
- Pulling phone, chat and social messages into one queue
- Routing tickets by content and agent expertise
- Escalating tickets before a response target is missed
- Running an internal IT help desk for employees
- Handling HR service requests
- Giving each brand its own portal and knowledge base
- Drafting agent replies with AI from the knowledge base
- Deflecting repeat questions with self-service answers
- Measuring customer satisfaction per agent after tickets close
- Answering and assigning tickets from a phone
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