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About osTicket

An open source customer support system that organizes, manages and archives incoming support requests.

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Pros:

It has a very ease to use API to make osTicket work with external systems like call center and CRM.

Cons:

Too difficult to install, its not abandonware but its close, even when its can be modded and have some community behind it. Again... will need a full time programmer to do so and will take some time.

osTicket ratings

Average score

Ease of Use
4.3
Customer Service
4.0
Features
4.2
Value for Money
4.8

Likelihood to recommend

8.5/10

osTicket has an overall rating of 4.3 out of 5 stars based on 52 user reviews on Capterra.

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Aravinth
Aravinth
System Administrator in India
Verified LinkedIn User
Food & Beverages, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Great helpdesk system | Opensource and Paid version

3.0 2 years ago

Comments: I've worked with several OSTicket versions for more than five years, from 1.5 to 1.17. further, i have implemented both the self-hosted and cloud versions for a number of organizations. this can be very useful especially if you are the first time using ITSM and ticketing management.

Pros:

OS Ticket has been used as an IT Help Desk system and incident management systemEmail integration (O365 /Google workspace)Department-wise ticket number generation Help topic-wise SLAVery easy version upgrade for on-prem

Cons:

Version 1.17 has an issue with the auto auth token access issuePHP version is compatible with Version 1.17 (So we cannot run multiple systems with OSticket)Email fetch time issue - it takes more time to fetch the mail than what we configured in the systemVersion 1.17 has an issue with one DB view - department-wise ticket countAuto escalation not available

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

If Issue tracking and Ticket management is your requirement, osTicket is your choice.

5.0 3 years ago

Comments: As a free opensource tool, osTicket is great. We used it in our startup and my current company which is really good. It does ticket management really well. There are loads of customization, it's easy to use and can even work in a small hosting environment.

Pros:

Fast, quick and easy to setup. OpenSource so can be self-hosted.

Cons:

Some file types are not supported as attachments. A bit obsolete in terms of technology but does the job.

Indrawan
IT MANAGER in Indonesia
Hospital & Health Care, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

OsTicket can provide what we need

4.0 3 years ago

Comments: my experience use this osticket is satisfy. this can very useful especialy if you are the first time use ITSM and ticketing management.

Pros:

this ticketing system can have many categorized and element. so it is more easier to you while make your own form.

Cons:

i think os ticket must build some business intelegent dashboard or make a decision report for management.

Sara
Engineer in Italy
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

The jumping Kangaroo I like

4.0 6 months ago

Comments: We switched some months ago from another product. After the initial settings (creation of staff, set the email subjects, the SLA, the fields to be displayed...) we start using OsTicket and it works really well. You just need to learn to manage and move among the various tabs, that may be a bit confusing sometime.
I also use OsTicket via mobile phone, the web pages are clear and easy to navigate and interact. Well Done!

Pros:

First of all, you can use OSticket freely, install it on a Linux machine, set your environment and you will have a fully working ticketing system. The interface may not look appealing, but it has all the information and features you need, plus of course you can customize it. Customers can open tickets via web interface or simply sending an email (you have to set this feature). You will receive an alert via email (remember to customize the alert) and on dashboard a new ticket will be displayed. Just assign it to yourself (or other collegue) and interact. Files and images can be attached. Very simple and intuitive to use. When you are on holiday you can set the holiday mode on your profile so you will not receive notifications, just remember to uncheck it when you come back.

Cons:

You need a Linux machine and a bit of knowlegment to make OStocket work. Anyway you will find documentation on internet. Interface may look old. I suggest to zoom it.

Fabruzio
Technician in Italy
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

osTicket an easy way to manage customers tickets

5.0 7 months ago

Comments: I use osTicket everyday and helps me a lot to manage customers requests.
The interface is simple and intuitive, I suggest to zoom it for better visibility.
Highly recommended!

Pros:

Os Ticket helps you to manage helpdesk request by your customers. They can open a new ticket via email or create an account and interact via dashboard and you can assign the new ticket to yourself or your collegues. In your replies you and attach images and/or document. You can have reports and do many researches and also customize the logos/initial screen, set holiday mode (so no new ticket notifications will arrive to you). Osticket runs on linux machine, the installation and configuration is quite easy, just follow the instructions. You can find documentation and plugins on internet.

Cons:

Some menus are a bit confusing, sometimes when I click on a features I don't see on screen what expected

Tristan
Tristan
Game Developer in South Africa
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Games, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

BEST help desk software 2022

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: good experience overall and i would recommend

Pros:

Easy to customize or edit forms and configurations for workflow

Cons:

there is a limit to features but still not too bad

William
William
Chief Operating Officer in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Support tickets, email notifications, mobile app, all relatively easy to use

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Support ticket software, for free. But not the best feature set around.

Pros:

Ticket tracking and email notification Tasks can be added to tickets for additional steps before a ticket can be closed. User management is fairly easy, and users can be organized by teams and departments Files can be attached to the ticket. A Paid Mobile app allows for simple ticket management.

Cons:

Notifications and team/department access seems haphazard and a bit of an afterthought. It could be much better organized. Mobile app is very limited and very pricey for what little it actually accomplishes.

Kyle
Kyle
Executive Management Team in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Construction, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source
Source: GetApp

Great Help Desk Ticket System

5.0 8 years ago

Pros:

oS Ticket has been a great IT Help Desk system for our company. Users can easily send in a help request via email, and oS ticket automatically creates a ticket and alerts our help desk. The system allows for tickets to be assigned to different technicians, change hands, and keeps a detailed note/tracking of everything associated with the ticket. There are a lot of great reports as well, including # of tickets closed, average response time, etc.

Gustavo
Gustavo
Infrastructure and Network Administrator in Ecuador
Verified LinkedIn User
Higher Education, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Good but not great

4.0 2 years ago

Pros:

It has an free option if you want to test it

Cons:

Should be simpler, most companies don’t look for all the features so you may end paying for things you will never use

Eric
Eric
COO in Israel
Verified LinkedIn User
Telecommunications, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great tool forticketing

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

Solution that is free, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use. Has most of the features of the paid solutions. Easy to tie to company websites for customers to open tickets.

Cons:

You need to know how to set it up and host it your self.

Manish
Manager IT in India
Information Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best Tool for IT Support Ticketing system

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

It's Open source tool which perfect for IT support Ticketing system

Cons:

They can Improve the reportings and launch some free plugins

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Individual & Family Services, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Rock solid, no problems or outages related to the software for over 9 years!

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: This software gives our employees a place to report problems to multiple departments and receive timely answers to their technical issues. It allows us to measure metrics for performance, and see trends in issues. Importantly it also allows us to have a historical reference of all problems, outages, etc.

Pros:

osTicket is the best open source ticking system out there. Did I mention that it's free? It's fairly easy to customize and is very intuitive! It has an active support forum and community supporting it. There are third party developers that have created (free and paid) plugins and modifications to help others customize their system to their environment and companies needs. Need paid support or hosting? Need custom installation services? Have a feature that isn't available that you need? Enhancesoft, the parent company that owns and pays developers to work on the project, offer all of that.

Cons:

There are a couple of features that I think are important that this type of product has, and they [the developers] have been really slow to implement them. Responsive Themes being the biggest of these. While you can modify it to make your own themes this type of feature is needed. note: Devs have promised this with the forth coming 2.0 release.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

An easy Ticket system

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We use Osticket more than five years. I highly recommend it.

Pros:

You don't need a knowledge translation to start using it. It's simplier than others.

Cons:

The release of new versions is slow. The User Interface is old.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Free and easy to setup support ticket system to deliver a great user support experience.

4.0 7 years ago

Pros:

Being free to use and easy to implement and setup, osTicket is suitable for non-profit and small business. osTicket offers large set of features and options that enables to customize and deliver great user support experience for example you can create custom departments, customize support system pages and modify ticket fields like adding additional ticket fields. osTicket is a very customizable support ticket system that offers many options to help customize all aspects of user support experience like the ability to customize departments, emails sent to user, pages and alerts. osTicket offers an easy to setup knowledge base of frequently asked questions to help minimize support requests.

Cons:

osTicket lacks some important options and features like the option to automatically close tickets after a certain period of time, an option to disable Overdue behavior and the lack of custom themes of both user and agent interfaces.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Perfect software for my ecommerce website support portal

5.0 6 years ago

Pros:

When my ecommerce business started to take off and we were placing 400 orders a day, we needed something better than just an email inbox to manage customer service. With osTicket, I can manage my several customer service managers and inboxes to ensure we are utilizing our time in the best way possible, and serving our customers needs effectively. osTicket was the perfect addition to our toolbelt, and after trying alternatives, this was still the front runner.

Cons:

The setup is a bit involved. There are a lot of out of the box settings that need modified in various places in the interface. It does take time to get used to the interface, but once you get the hang of it, the software is set and forget style. Works well for me anyway.

Giorgi
Giorgi
Lithuania
Used the Software for: Not provided
Reviewer Source

Probably Best Free Customer Support Platform ever.

3.0 8 years ago

Comments: OSTicket is so far my beloved customer support system when it comes to free platforms and easy of use functionality. I have spent over 1 year of managing and using OsTicket with 18 different agents and 4 separate departments. Thus, I will share my review of the system below in few words.
(Please note this is about the self-hosted package of OsTicket, not Cloud-based.)
The main advantage of the system is its nature of being equipped with all the necessary functions to maintain the medium sized companies support platform. It is a convenient system to carry out daily support-related tasks, answer tickets, have an unlimited number of cases/departments/agents, etc. In terms of simplicity, OSTicket is really user-friendly and easy to use platform that perfectly realises its own purposes of being reliable ticketing system. It is easy to install and maintain, the internal admin and agent user face are user-friendly as well. The main disadvantage of the system might be its lack of statistical measurements. It was the main aspect I was lacking while using the OsTicket. It is really hard to get the valuable statistical data from OSTicket regarding the agents, their working levels, times, etc. Basically, there is just one simple page of "Statistics" that shows the quantity of the tickets and some basic stuff and that's all. Nothing else about the statistics. Furthermore, another disadvantage is its lack of social integration. The reason I decided to move my company to another platform was that I couldn't integrate the OsTicket with Facebook & Twitter platforms. There are other little disadvantages, however, not worth mentioning as they don't make a big different. All in all, if not the aforementioned disadvantages of the system, OSTicket would be one of the best solutions for the small and medium-sized companies' support system needs. However, as it's completely free I'm nothing but grateful to the developers who developed this wonderful system and share it for free.

Eva
Customer Experience Executive in Kenya
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

osTicket - Issue Tracking Made Easier

4.0 4 years ago

Pros:

It's the best open source ticketing system. Claiming and reassigning tickets is very easy, as well as email notification is sent out, once a ticket is overdue. User is able to export tickets quickly using the filtering option of, Assignee, ticket status, and date. From the exported report one is able to see when a ticket was raised and closed. This helps to track on the SLA's

Cons:

OSticket, does not show how long a ticket took to be escalated to the next level, i.e from level 1 to level 2. It lacks the option to automatically close an overdue ticket after a particular time. There should be an option to reassign a ticket to the next person, if its overdue

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Education Management, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Backbone Ticketing For Tech

4.0 6 years ago

Comments: Overall OSTicket lets our tech and maintenance teams address issues in a timely fashion. It is pretty simple to use and therefore easier than some systems for our less technical staff.

Pros:

The software allows our staff to create trouble tickets for both tech and maintenance. The incorporation into out email system (Gmail) easily lets staff create these tickets through simple emails. More advanced users can log into the portal and track all of their open tickets.

Cons:

Our previous software was harder to setup but had a few more features. It would be nice to have a heftier reporting feature or trend management built in. Inclusion of asset tracking would be a plus too.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

osTicket

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: So far great experience.

Pros:

Great simple application for support ticket. I am using this app for the past 8 years or more. For someone looking for a basic ticketing system, this is the one. Since the app is opensource, no need to pay for it. lately they have paid hosted versions. I am running mine in my own server. For me this works perfectly as a ticketing platform. You can create web tickets or email tickets.

Cons:

Reporting can be better. Since its a free app, it's not fair to complain.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

It suited our needs at the time

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Like a I said in the title it fitted our needs at the time, but as we improved our system we found that we had outgrown the software.

Pros:

It's easy of use is second to none. Everything is very intuitive and you can't fault it for that. It does the job it sets out to do, provide a space to view any issues that come into your service desk

Cons:

The system just lacks a polished finish. From a visual perspective it looks out of date and it's lacking feature which people nower days probably want like reporting.

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Machinery, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Great software

5.0 6 years ago

Comments: We implemented this software to better track the problems encountered by our clients and to better assist them.

Pros:

Open sourced, customizable, very easy to use and multi-user. You get reports so you can keep track of your statistics. Its easy to setup and install and you can host it on your own servers.

Cons:

Search function is terrible. Feels a bit unfinished but they are always doing upsates and improving.

Alfredo
Alfredo
Director in Panama
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Leading open-source ticket management

5.0 4 years ago

Pros:

Once setup it is a very stable platform. All advanced ticket management features are available, including routing and templates.

Cons:

Integrating into my workflow was challenging, since it would usually require developing a module by code.

Adam
Adam
IT Manager in US
Verified LinkedIn User
Legal Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Best open source Ticket system EVER!

5.0 7 years ago

Comments: love it Free and Great helpdesk software !

Pros:

I love this software. We use to use Zendesk but at a user, it wasn't worth it. osTicket save us a ton of time with the FAQ feature that allows our end users to look up and answer without submitting a ticket. We have about 500 FAQ's entered into the system. The ticket system has great integration with gmail allowing tickets to be emailed of submitted via a form. The software is open source so if you are tech savvy you can just install it for free. We run in AWS for / month and have 5 IT Techs on the system. Regular updates are released so we won't be left with an outdated product

Cons:

No major cons. I wish they would modernize the UI. The UI is about 10 years behind as of 5/2018. Also the API is not full featured on certain actions can be done in the API :( IF you don't want to integrate into existing software this will not matter for you.

Tyler
IT Guru in US
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Free and Easy!

5.0 7 years ago

Pros:

This software is easy to deploy, just git clone from https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket Feature packed and ready for SMB deployment on your own servers. Community support is active and easy. Also available as an install package on Synology NAS

Cons:

For out of the box ticketing system, this software has no real downsides. Some have said its hard to install but I did not have any issues getting it up and running. The fact that you can install this as a package direct from Synology package store makes it even easier.

Shawn
IT Manager in US
Industrial Automation, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

osTicket

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Overall osTicket has significantly helped me streamline our IT support in a mid-sized company.

Pros:

osTicket is an open-source help desk ticketing system. It has all the best features, is easy to set up, deploy, and maintain and is fully customizable. I needed a help desk platform that could be hosted on-site and osTicket has fit the bill perfectly.

Cons:

I really don't have any cons for this software. It's open-source and the developers monitor their support forums well so issues can be resolved in a timely manner.