Free self-hosted Zendesk & Help Scout alternative

FreeScout Helpdesk

FreeScout is the super lightweight free open source help desk and shared inbox written in PHP7 (Laravel 5.5 framework). It is a self hosted clone of HelpScout. Now you can enjoy free Zendesk & Help Scout without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don't control.

Production Ready!

FreeScout is the perfect helpdesk solution for those who need to provide a professional customer support, but who can not afford to pay for Zendesk or Help Scout. FreeScout is a pure PHP/MySQL application, so it can be easily deployed even on a shared hosting.

No limitations on the number of users, tickets, etc.
100% Mobile-friendly.
Multilingual (English, French, Italian, Portuguese).
Seamless email integration.
Web installer & updater.
Starred conversations.
Push notifications.
Auto reply.
Saved replies.
Notes.
Email commands.
Forwarding conversations.
Phone conversations.
Sending new conversations to multiple recipients at once.
Pasting screenshots from the clipboard into the reply area.
Satisfaction Ratings.
Configuring notifications on a per user basis.
Open tracking.
Tags.
Editing / hiding threads.
LDAP integration.
Search.
Spam filter.
Slack integration.

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What People Say About FreeScout

I just want to say we have been using FreeScout for a few weeks now and so far its brilliant. Its been working well. So just want to say thank to the team for this system, its very good… So I look forward to more functionality added and more modules we can use. Thanks, great product.

Laurence Cope

Amity Web Solutions Ltd

Our team has been using FreeScout for the past month or so and it has been great! We came from no helpdesk solution since we have a Free/Open Source requirement for our project stack.

Tarek Loubani

Glia Free Medical Hardware

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