Awesome Support – WordPress HelpDesk & Support Plugin vs Hive Support | AI-Powered Help Desk, Live Chat and Chatbot

Live Demo Awesome Support is the most versatile and feature-rich support plugin for WordPress. It is the only helpdesk & support ticketing plugin that can match the feature set of an SAAS solution such as Zendesk or Helpscout. And your customers can be using it in just 5 mins! After installing and activating the plugin, just answer a few questions in the startup wizard and your helpdesk will be ready for your customers. Take a product tour in the video below where you can see the extensive list of free and premium features that will be available on your new helpdesk! You can also go hands-on with the Live Demo or scroll down to the bottom of this page for screen shots. Product Tour For premium one-on-one support or pre-sales questions please visit the official site. What does it do? Check out the user-friendly features of this awesome plugin: Ticketing: users can submit tickets from the front-end, and your agents respond to them from the WordPress back-end Import: Import tickets from Zendesk, Helpscout and Ticksy using our free importer add-on – makes for a seamless transition to your new helpdesk E-mail notifications: relevant parties are notified of certain actions by e-mail, and all e-mails are customizable Restricted access: all correspondence is private between the client and the agents (unless the PUBLIC TICKETS premium add-on is installed and configured) File upload: you control when files can be uploaded, how many files, and how large they are Multiple products: provide support for as many products as you want; synchronize product lists with popular e-commerce platforms such as WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) Multiple departments: provide support for multiple departments Custom fields: easily set up additional custom fields on your ticket forms (and our premium Custom Fields add-on offers even more convenience) Terms & conditions: ask users to agree to your your terms and conditions before they open a ticket Old tickets: identify old tickets quickly with tags; limit your viewable ticket list to only show old tickets Tickets waiting on you: Quickly see all tickets still waiting for a reply Agent Collaboration: multiple agents can work on the same ticket and tickets can be transferred between agents; assign primary, secondary and tertiary agents to tickets while retaining the flexibility to transfer a ticket to any other agent. Sorting And Filtering: includes an amazing flexible sorting, filtering and tagging system for your tickets Security: assign just the right capabilities to each of your agents including just the ability to see their own tickets or expand to see everyone’s tickets – your choice! Tracking: easily track where a ticket originated (support form, email, facebook, phone call etc.) Prioritize your way: create your own priority scheme – you don’t have to get locked into a 1-5 priority scheme! Time Tracking: basic time tracking is included! Admins can even adjust time and all time changes are logged directly in the ticket. Custom Labels: sign up for our email newsletter and get our Custom Status plugin for free – unlimited color coded, customized statuses and ticket labels at your fingertips! WordPress UI: Uses the familiar WordPress administration user interface so there is almost no learning curve! REST API: We love it when developers use our products. The REST API is very developer friendly – push and pull Awesome Support ticket data with ease! GDPR READY: Our registration screen can be easily configured to show GDPR related information GUTENBERG AWARE: Compatible with the new WordPress editor known as Gutenberg WOOCOMMERCE INTEGRATION: Includes integration into the WooCommerce dashboard along with a premium option for advanced integration Features Awesome Support is the result of three+ years of work, research, and improvement. It is probably the most powerful helpdesk and support ticketing plugin on the planet. Whether you’re a startup that needs just the basics or a major corporation with multiple departments requiring service level agreements and sophisticated ticket routing, we have the functions you need! Seriously – just take a look at all the features you can get (some free, some premium) View the full list of features on our website Premium Extensions Now that you’ve seen our list of awesome features above, you already know that Awesome Support is packed with features; so if you want to supercharge your support and make it even more awesome, make sure you pick up our premium add-ons so you can extend the plugin’s functionality even further! All of our add-ons are extremely affordable (they’re a fraction of the cost of a web-based application). To check them out, visit our official site at getawesomesupport.com. Extensions E-Mail Piping – reply to tickets and collaborate on tickets using just e-mail. Includes built-in options to control how to handle unrecognized email addresses, responses to closed tickets and much more! Custom Fields – a visual helper for adding custom fields to your tickets. Add unlimited fields and choose from 13 different field types! Paid Support – charge users for using your support services. Create subscriptions by time (monthly for example) or number of tickets or bill for every individual ticket. WooCommerce – this is a must-have bridge between your WooCommerce store and Awesome Support Powerpack – Adds 30+ powerful additional functions to Awesome Support. Merge/split/lock tickets. Use new template tags in your outgoing emails. Add private notes for each customer. Fine tune your security and so much more! Canned Responses – preconfigure replies to common questions, and access them in one click when replying to a ticket Gravity Forms – create custom ticket forms with this very popular WordPress forms builder Private Notes – insert notes into tickets that only agents and admins can view FAQs – Powerful FAQ management make your agents more productive Notifications – get notified of important events in slack and via pushbullet. Notify third parties of important ticket events via email. Custom Status and Labels – create unlimited custom labels that give you new levels of organization for your tickets Advanced Reports and Statistics – create hundreds of custom charts and tables from a base of 6 core reports Admin Report Widgets – More than a dozen customizable widgets with key statistics on your WordPress dashboard! Advanced Time Tracking – Track and record time down to the reply level using automatic or manual timers. Export data for invoicing. View critical time and billing reports. Auto Close – Close tickets automatically based on defined rules. This is especially useful in managing abandoned tickets. Private Credentials – Adds another security layer to your tickets so that users can securely enter passwords and other sensitive credentials onto a ticket Satisfaction Survey – Conduct suveys to see how your agents are performing. Extremely customizable with multiple survey types and methods! Public Tickets – Use your tickets to create a searchable archive of solutions. Assign public/private control over tickets and replies to customers, agents! Guest Tickets – Allow new users to enter their first ticket without the separate step of creating an account. Combine this with Email Support, Powerpack and Satisfaction Survey to create a solution where customers never have to log into your ticket system! Smart Agent Assignment – Have multiple agents with multiple departments and/or multiple products? Use this to automatically route new tickets to the correct agent using a choice of 5 sophisticated algorithms! Documentation – A powerful documentation add-on that integrates tightly with your Awesome Support ticketing system. Includes a beautiful layout and automatically suggests relevant topcis as users fill out a new ticket! Remote Tickets – Adds a pop-up ticket form to one or more remote websites. Quickly and easily funnel tickets from all your websites to one core support site! Smart Replies – Automatically respond to messages received from Facebook Messenger, Custom Site Chat and New Tickets. Service Level Agreements – Calculate ticket due dates automatically using rules set for each customer. This will take into account holidays, weekends, working hours and more. Issue Tracking – Easily manage multiple related tickets. Very useful for product recalls, bug tracking, system-down situations and more. Custom FAQ – Use any WordPress custom post type as your FAQ source. Tightly integrates your selected CPT with Awesome Support and uses it to automatically offer topic suggestions to users as they fill out a new ticket form. Business Rules Engine With Zapier Integration – Powerful rules engine for your tickets. Automatically respond to tickets, change status, close tickets and more! Company Profiles – Allow multiple users from the same company to manage a single pool of tickets. Scheduled Tickets – Create recurring tickets on daily/weekly/monthly/annual schedules Agent Front End – Allow untrusted agents to manage their tickets without access to wp-admin Bundles Purchase one of our bundles and get up to an 80% discount compared to purchasing individual add-ons. Startup Bundle – A 50% discount on the 5 most common add-ons for unlimited sites Standard Bundle – A discount of 20%-60% on the 8 most common add-ons Professional Bundle – A discount of 45%-70% on the add-ons most useful for e-commerce sites Enterprise Bundle – A discount of 50%-70% on the most common add-ons used in larger businesses. Agency Bundle – A discount of 55%-80% on a bundle of almost all our add-ons. You get an even bigger discount if you purchase this package without the option for technical support! Roadmap Want to know what’s next for Awesome Support? Check out the roadmap. You can also vote for the ideas you like best! Add-Ons Need to extend Awesome Support’s features? We have lots of add-ons to help you setup the perfect support site. Check out our add-ons page. Team Even though the plugin has been developed and is maintained by the Awesome Support development team, we’ve had help from various developers around the world. You can see all the contributors on the team page. Many thanks to them all! Our key core developers on the Awesome Support Development Team in 2018 include: Ante Laca Muhammad Tahir Nazir Nigel Bahadur With contributions from customers such as: Rolly Bueno Naveen Giri Nathan Moinvaziri Translators Here is a list of users who voluntarily contributed the most translations to our POEDITOR project in 2017/2021: Miquel Martínez – Catalan Samer Haddad – Arabic Paul Hecko – Portuguese Thiago Rocon Kuwabara – Portuguese Denison Carlos – Portuguese (Brazil) Davey Hurkmans – Dutch We had over 25 users contribute to the various language projects but these were the top 6 with the most translation activity. On behalf of all our users we would like to publicly offer a heart-felt Thank You for their hard work and contribution to the Free Awesome Support core project! Related Companies Disclosure Awesome Support now manages the newly released Simple-Press Forums Plugin as well.

Improve your WordPress customer support with Hive Support – a complete AI and human hybrid helpdesk built for modern WordPress businesses. Manage tickets, run live chat, deploy an AI chatbot trained on your own content, and handle every support request from one clean dashboard inside WordPress. ✨ AI that learns from your own content. Upload your documentation, product pages, or TXT and DOCX files. The AI reads from there and gives specific, accurate answers instead of generic ones. 🎫 With a reliable ticket system, easily manage and organize support tasks, reducing confusion and boosting efficiency across your team. With Hive Support’s live chat, enjoy real-time conversations that build stronger customer connections. Automate tasks with customizable triggers to update your workflow and speed up response times. Get real-time insights with agent reports and quickly resolve common queries using canned responses. Stay connected with customers and create a support experience that’s efficient, reliable, and ready for the future. 🚀 Get Pro | Docs ✴️ Hive Support Key Features ✅ Ticket Management System (Free) – Manage unlimited tickets, agents, and customers with customizable filters and statuses. ✅ Business Inbox (Free) – Create and customize multiple support mailboxes. (Web-based and Email Based) ✅ Agent Activity Tracking (Free) – Monitor all activities and agent performance reports in one interface to ensure team productivity and efficient support. ✅ AI Chatbot with RAG Knowledge Base (Pro) – Deploy a 24/7 AI chatbot trained on your own documentation, product pages, and uploaded TXT or DOCX files. Accurate, specific answers every time. ✅ AI to Human Handoff (Pro) – When AI cannot help, customers request a live agent. Your team gets notified instantly and takes over the chat with full conversation history. ✅ Live Agent Takeover (Pro) – Agents can take over any active AI chat directly from the WordPress admin panel in real time. ✅ Support Queue with Real-Time Notifications (Pro) – Every handoff request joins a live support queue visible in your WordPress dashboard. Accept, convert to ticket, or dismiss requests from one place. ✅ All Chat History in One Inbox (Pro) – Every AI chat and live chat conversation is stored and fully searchable in your inbox. Returning visitors pick up right where they left off. ✅ Reply Tickets with AI (Pro) – AI drafts replies to support tickets using your knowledge base. Agents review, edit, and send. ✅ Customizable Chatbot (Pro) – Set a custom bot name, upload an avatar, choose brand colors, write custom instructions, and add pre-defined questions. ✅ Live Chat (Pro) – Enable or disable live chat on any page and customize the chat widget appearance. Control who can use live chat — all visitors or logged-in customers only. More Features of Hive Support Manage Support Agents (Free) – Easily add, edit, and manage support agents with customizable permissions. Track their performance through detailed reports and assign tasks efficiently. Update or remove agent information whenever needed. Ticket Reports (Free) – Access detailed reports to optimize your customer support system. View detailed stats on tickets and agent activities. Analyze all ticket data to improve customer support ticket system efficiency. Email Notifications (Free) – Send customizable email notifications to customers and agents, including subject and body text. Response Templates (Pro) – Create pre-made reply templates for common customer inquiries, allowing your support team to respond quickly and consistently. Manage and customize templates easily, and insert them with a single click to streamline responses. Automation Trigger (Pro) – Automate responses to routine inquiries using customizable templates, allowing your team to focus on more complex issues. Create unlimited automation triggers with IDs and titles for different tasks, and use events, conditions, and actions to streamline ticket management. Custom Ticket Fields (Pro) – Customize ticket forms with fields like text, number, dropdown, radio, and checkbox to capture necessary details. Add options to each field to suit your needs. Agent Performance Reports (Pro) – Track agent performance with reports on opened, closed, and assigned tickets to improve decision-making and productivity. Integration Capabilities (Pro) – Hive Support is fully integrated with Telegram, Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp. Also integrates with WooCommerce, EDD, weDocs, BetterDocs, and OpenAI. 🛡️ GDPR Compliant Helpdesk Hive Support is a WordPress self-hosted helpdesk, that gives you full control and ownership of your data with no reliance on external SaaS. Stay secure and GDPR-compliant. 📌 Why Choose the Hive Support Plugin for your WordPress Website? ⏳ Improved Response Time Hive Support automates tasks like responses, ticket prioritization, and workflows to reduce response times and resolve issues faster. 📑 All-inclusive Analytics and Reporting Gain insights into common issues, response times, and customer satisfaction to improve your support services. 🛡️ Better User Experience Hive Support improves user experience with easy access to live chat, AI chatbot, FAQ, and support tickets, ensuring smooth interactions. 🔗 Integration with Other Tools Hive Support integrates with popular tools like Telegram, Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp, elevating your customer support system’s capability. 📍 Useful Guide for Integrations: Telegram Integration Slack Integration Discord Integration WhatsApp Integration ⚙️ How to Use Hive Support on your WordPress Site We have complete documentation for installing Hive Support on any WordPress website. Follow the tutorial – 👉 How to Install the Hive Support. 🎉 Other Plugins from WPCommerz We offer a range of essential plugins to help you grow your WooCommerce business more efficiently. ✳️ WP Guidant: Use WP Guidant to create multi-step guided selling processes and increase conversion rates effortlessly. ✳️ Darklup: Transform your site with Darklup’s smart dark mode, delivering a sleek and user-friendly experience. ✳️ wcEazy: Boost sales and update your store with wcEazy’s all-in-one solution and powerful modules. ❤️ Loved Hive Support? Join our Facebook Group Learn from our tutorials on Youtube Channel Or rate Hive Support on WordPress Privacy Policy Hive Support uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements. Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users. Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case. Learn more about how Appsero collects and uses this data.