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Helpdesk Pricing Comparison, Vision Helpdesk turns out to be most economical

Vision Helpdesk July 9, 2010

Recently I stumble upon TechCrunch article that reads — “Z endesk Raises Prices, Pisses Off Customers”

I was wondering, how a company could ever think of raising price for just adding few features? Not at all a good business practice. The article also mentions that Zendesk later realized their mistake and they decided to run the same pricing for existing customers where as new customers will be still paying higher cost.

Vision Helpdesk could never think of raising price for adding features – Just like we have released Vision Helpdesk Mobile App and that is completely FREE!!

The article has also raised questions about the SaaS methods and What SaaS should practically be doing is reducing overall help desk management cost ? Isn’t it? With Zendesk becoming overpricy that doesn’t seem so 🙁

Some random comments from post —

ZenDesk Shame

Interestingly, the article has received several comments, One that mentions the comparison of pricing between several paid helpdesk softwares (screenshot below ) shows Vision Helpdesk is the only Economical Helpdesk Software that offers EVERYTHING UNLIMITED at just $30 per month. (On Top of it we offer FREE WHMCS Software worth $15 per month 😉

We appreciate CCBTools who have posted the nice pricing comparison.

Vision Helpdesk is open for Zendesk Refugee Discounts – please contact us on our Live Chat or email us for Zendesk Refugee Discounts.

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Vision Helpdesk V2.6.4 Stable Released

Vision Helpdesk May 17, 2010

Today we have released Vision Helpdesk V2.6.4 Stable Release — this includes fixing of some important bugs in V2.6.2 and some new features added.

Its recommended to upgrade as it will fix below listed bugs in your installation.

Features added in V2.6.4

Admin Access
DST – Day Light Saving Time
Ticket open on clicking entire row
Edit staff’s password for admin in manage staff section
Client portal forgot password
Email template for reply
Option to make a client as group manager
Make group as self/ shared / managed
Now attachment images displayed as thumbnails in ticket
Fetch WHMCS Admin and User notes in to Vision Helpdesk ( This is with respect to Fetching WHMCS fields module)

Bug fixes in V2.6.4

Cyrillic characters supported
Pop3 attachment issue
Software info graph no of tickets in a month
Login integration edit-update password
WHMCS users created multiple times
WHMCS view tickets domain wise
Blank tickets created if ticket submitted through Google chrome
Search option for assigned user in tickets gives execution error
View’s display domain wise
Mass action for status changes gives execution error
If attachment file name consist slashes (single quote) it failed to display attachment name
If parser failed to parse attachment should display failure log
IE8 issue for staff reply display
Attachment file name having space cannot be downloaded

Change Log

You can find the list of files that were edited during version change V2.6.2 to V2.6.4

http://thevisionworld.com/forums/index.php/topic,283.0.html

How to Upgrade to V2.6.4?

Auto Update

Vision Helpdesk offers Auto upgrades from Admin Panel Click on >> Software Information >> Available Updates will shows updates available for upgrade.

Note : While upgrading it will ask you ftp path –by default it takes complete path to your manage folder which needs to be changed to — ftp path.

Example : A client having path — /home/username/public_html/support/manage/

This path should be changed to — /public_html/support/manage/

(In above example we assume ftp access is given from public_html folder and its sub folders.)

Manual Upgrade :

Step1) Login to http://secure.visionhelpdesk.com

Step 2) From Product and Services >> View Details >> Download zip – Update from 2.6.2 to 2.6.4

Step 3) Unzip above file and upload it to your installation — that is overwrite files on your installation — make sure if you ftp files then it should be in binary format.

Step 4) Run http://yourdomain.com/support/manage/upgrade.php in browser that will update to V2.6.4

That’s it..

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Refreshing Change!! Vision Helpdesk V2.6.2 Stable Released

Vision Helpdesk May 1, 2010

Vision Helpdesk V2.6.2 is not just a regular bug fix or feature release it has something more, In our past releases we have talked lot about new features and bug fixes but V2.6.2 brings younger and a fresh design right from Login screen to Staff and Admin Manage Portal.

Internet website design trend is changing more and more websites / social media sites / forums / collaboration sites are adapting WEB2.0 techniques, considering the change we want to put Vision Helpdesk on top of latest techniques — You can explore the new refreshing Vision Helpdesk version and feel the difference.. The new version offers more improved design and a clean user interface that you will fall in love 🙂

Vision Helpdesk Login We recommend users to upgrade to V2.6.2 stable.

We will soon update this post with the list of bugs fixes and features added..

How to Upgrade to Vision Helpdesk V2.6.2?

Auto Update :

Vision Helpdesk offers Auto upgrades from Admin Panel Click on >> Software Information >> Available Updates will shows updates available for upgrade.

Note : While upgrading it will ask you ftp path –by default it takes complete path to your manage folder which needs to be changed to — ftp path.

Example : A client having path — /home/username/public_html/support/manage/

This path should be changed to — /public_html/support/manage/

(In above example we assume ftp access is given from public_html folder and its sub folders.)

Manual Upgrade :

Step1) Login to http://secure.visionhelpdesk.com

Step 2) From Product and Services >> View Details >> Download zip – Update from 2.5.2 to 2.6.2

Step 3) Unzip above file and upload it to your installation — that is overwrite files on your installation — make sure if you ftp files then it should be in binary format.

Step 4) Run http://yourdomain.com/support/manage/upgrade.php in browser that will update to V2.6.2

That’s it..

Addon Domain Upgrade :

You can download addon v2.6.2 setup and upload it to your addon installation make sure you don’t overwrite config.php

Can I preview V2.6.2 before upgrade?

Yes, You can take a glimpse of V2.6.2 stable on our Online Demo.

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On Demand Private-Branded Help Desk

Vision Helpdesk May 1, 2010

Vision Helpdesk offers unique feature — “Satellite Helpdesk” that allows you to manage multiple companies support operations from one place – the key thing is Vision Helpdesk creates a logical separation among each company staff, users, tickets, knowledge-base and almost everything,.

Vision Helpdesk has central database and single Admin / Staff Portal where each company admin / staff log’s in and can view respective assigned company departments / tickets. Same way each company has its own client portal which allows that company clients to submit / view their tickets / knowledgebase / news / downloads etc and of course each client portal can be branded as per company name and design.

Apart from scalability Vision Helpdesk has opened up various options for IT companies to manage their support operations.

Talking about options and how companies can use Vision Helpdesk’s Satellite feature, One of our client ( TurnKey Internet ) trust Vision Helpdesk to offer On Demand Private-Branded Helpdesk to their Reseller, VPS and Dedicated hosting clients.

TurnKey Internet uses Vision Helpdesk Owned Ultimate Plan that offers adding UNLIMITED domains / companies. They have installed Vision Helpdesk on a generic domain every time a reseller sign up with their hosting services they add that Resellers domain as a company in their Vision Helpdesk and provision Reseller with their own Private Branded ( Reseller can have their own company logo ) Ready to use Helpdesk.

Again this is just one way how Vision Helpdesk Satellite feature can be used, If you explore Vision Helpdesk more you will find some more facet of Vision Helpdesk 🙂

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CrystalHost Reviews Vision Helpdesk

Vision Helpdesk March 1, 2010

Recently we signed up with Vision Helpdesk and moved from the internal WHMCS helpdesk, previously Kayako, which I have no problems with only that it no longer serves our needs. We offered managed support to some of our resellers recently with a mixed response but the general feel was sometimes they were unable to help with support requests and had to submit us a support ticket making them feel like the middle man sometimes.

So we looked around and found Vision Helpdesk offer Satellite desks. It also white labels them so their customers don’t know that we even exist. We trialled it with a few resellers now and for an extra couple of bucks per month they are interested in taking it up on a regular basis.

Effectively we can install a master helpdesk and create satellite helpdesks from that, the satellites cannot talk to each other and don’t know each other exists, It has a Superuser/Admin/Domain login hierarchy. Excellent for companies sporting more than one website! As you know WHMCS is limited to the site the billing software is installed on, Kayako is Domain specific and requires a license per domain. Vision work it different, for a low cost you can have the Pro license that we started with which allows you the master site, and the 5 x domain addon sites. They are very inexpensive also.

So what if you have WHMCS, or your resellers. guess what. It integrates each satellite domain to their own WHMCS!! meaning their customers think the tickets are being replied to by their own staff as the replies come from [Staff]. Of course the operators are tracked by their proper names on the helpdesk itself.

Also each Satellite can have its own KB, Downloads, Troubleshooter, Calendar, etc etc. You get the idea.

These guys also allow you to talk live on Gtalk with them for urgent issues. They have excellent customer care, even when we were on the 30 day trial they were just as happy to talk to you, even tho they were not initially making any money from you.

Most of the resellers who tested it have their own VPS’s or shared reseller accounts on our servers, so we have the DB held on our system as the master desk is the only DB. All other satellites link back to it for central storage.

Guys, if you are looking for a very good alternative to Kayako or WHMCS internal system that’s scalable then I would definitely give these guys a try. I will be definately using them from now on.

One con is they have no live Support client but hey, no ones perfect. Al tho I am sure you guys will all agree, there are hundreds of varieties of helpdesks out there!

Just my 2ps worth of information. Check them out at: https://www.visionhelpdesk.com/

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