Help desk software features at a glance
HelpMaster has a rich feature set that has been developed by years of community feedback and design. Download a trial copy today so that you can configure HelpMaster to work in your organization for the following areas:

Incident Management
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Log jobs quickly and easily via poweful job templates
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Automatic ticket number generation
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Notify clients and staff by email whenever an action is taken
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Add file attachments, keywords or a photo to any helpdesk job
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Access client or site call histories instantly
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Track time, cost, cost codes for each action taken

Problem Management
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Search the knowledge base for resolutions to known problems
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When a job is open, search for similar jobs
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When a job is open, search the knowledge base for articles with the same issue
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Use reports to identify common problems
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Link problems to incidents
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Search the knowledge base for likely solutions to issues

Knowledge Management
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Built-in HTML knowledge base
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Full text searching keyword searching option
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Integration with helpdesk jobs for faster job resolution
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Articles can link to other relevant articles
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Knowledge Base articles have a voting system for both staff and on-line viewers
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Knowledge base articles can be published to the web for client self-service

Service Level Agreements
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Build custom escalation rules
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Schedule the frequency of reoccuring escalation rules. Eg. Email every 2 hours after a job is overdue etc.
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Build rules to automatically reclassify job codes according to organizational requirements
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Increase / decrease the priority level of particular jobs
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Re-assign jobs based on staff performance
- Configure rules on only operation with "Office Time"

Asset / CI Management
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Comprehensive asset information can be stored
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Record complete service histories of each asset
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Customize what asset information you need to track
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Link assets to clients, helpdesk jobs and other assets
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Automatically links assets to incidents or problems based on client
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Track financial, warranty and depreciation details

Web-based client self-service
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Provide 24 x 7 support to your clients
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Clients can log their own jobs, search the knowledge base & even close their own jobs
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Staff can access their job queues from anywhere via a web browser
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Client web interactivity is moderated via use of templates
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Uses AJAX controls for speed and "Desktop" performance
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Customize your web interface with your own company logo

Email Response Management
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Automatically convert incoming support email into helpdesk jobs
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Automatically update existing helpdesk jobs with incoming email details
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Set "black-lists" to stop spam or other unwanted mail from being logged
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Create rules to filter incoming email
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Post-processing of email options include Move, Delete, Mark as read, Flag
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Automatically email appropriate knowledge base articles

Reports
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Over 140 management reports
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Detail reports, statistical reports, trend reports, drill-through reports
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Many reports contain graphs, charts or cross-tab objects
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Reports can be customized with Crystal Reports
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Custom reports
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Export reports to Excel, text, database, .pdf and many other formats

Text and formatting capabilities
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Spell checking and thesaurus for all text fields (MS Office users only)s
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HTML text
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User preferences for text size, font, color
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Auto text for commonly used acronymns and shortcuts
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Field chooser to display different text files in every list
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Dynamic edit and popup menus make text manipulation easy and fast