OTRS – ticket and process management system

OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System (also well known as trouble ticket system) with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails.

The software lets you manage incoming inquiries, complaints, support requests, defect reports, and other communications.

The system is built to allow your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries.

Features include:

• Multilingual web user interface using its own templating mechanism called DTL (Dynamic Template Language):
  • Agent web interface for viewing and working on all customer requests.
  • Admin web interface for changing system things.
  • Customer web interface for viewing and sending infos to the agents.
  • Web interface with themes support.
  • Web interface with Single sign on (e. g. HTTPBasicAuth or LogonTickets).
  • Multi language support (Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese, Dutch, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish and Vietnam).
  • Customize the output templates (dtl) release independently.
  • Multi attachment support.
  • Easy and logical to use.
• Ticket:
  • • Custom queue view and queue view of all requests.
    • Ticket locking.
    • Ticket replies (standard responses).
    • Ticket autoresponders per queue.
    • Ticket history, evolution of ticket status and actions taken on ticket.
    • Ability to add notes (with different note types) to a ticket.
    • Ticket zoom feature.
    • Tickets can be bounced or forwarded to other email addresses.
  • Ticket can be moved to a different queue (this is helpful if emails are for a specific subject).
  • Ticket priority.
  • Ticket time accounting.
  • Ticket print view (PDF).
  • Ticket pending feature.
  • Ticket responsible feature.
  • Ticket bulk feature.
  • Ticket hook divider.
  • Ticket event module layer.
  • Generic agent to do automatically actions on tickets (based on scheduled jobs).
  • Content fulltext search.
  • Ticket ACL support.
  • Ticket workflow feature.
  • Ticket Overviews and global bulk action.
  • Master/Slave tickets.
  • Standard reports.
• Multiuser system.
• Highly scalable.
• Integrated functionality for creating, reworking and searching FAQ texts.
• Management Dashboard with plugins.
• AJAX based customer search and auto completion.
• Secure SMTP.

Website: Not known
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: OTRS Inc.
License: Affero GPL v3

OTRS is written in Perl and JavaScript. Learn Perl with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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