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Kayako vs osTicket: What are the differences?
What is Kayako? Kayako is a customer service platform that saves your team time so they can focus on building better customer relationships. Kayako a customer service platform that helps businesses connect with their customers and deliver a better customer support experience over the web, email, live chat and phone. Kayako is available in the cloud and on-premise.
What is osTicket? Open source support ticketing system. It seamlessly routes inquiries created via email, web-forms and phone calls into a simple, easy-to-use, multi-user, web-based customer support platform.
Kayako and osTicket can be primarily classified as "Help Desk" tools.
Some of the features offered by Kayako are:
- Support ticketing with email integration
- Live chat widgets for your helpdesk and your website
- Real-time visitor monitoring
On the other hand, osTicket provides the following key features:
- Custom Fields
- Rich text or HTML email
- Ticket Filters
osTicket is an open source tool with 1.69K GitHub stars and 1.15K GitHub forks. Here's a link to osTicket's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Kayako
- Easy to customize3
- Possible to host on your own3
- API access3
- Module based extensions3
- OS independent frontend3
- Customers can use it easily3
- Unlimited custom fields on forms3
- Simple, powerhouse and scalable.2
