Ratings Breakdown
User Reviews Overview
Feature Ratings
Ease-of-use
4.0 / 5
Value for Money
5.0 / 5
Customer Support
4.0 / 5
Functionality
4.5 / 5
Pros
"I love their free platform and allowing self hosting. Its kept our tickets neat and clean and we get them out fast. It has a user interface that is pretty easy to navigate and my customers love it"
"Great feature packed helpdesk used to track and log support questions from our website. Easy to direct questions to the correct departments for replies."
"Solution that is free, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use. Has most of the features of the paid solutions. Easy to tie to company websites for customers to open tickets."
Cons
"The search functionality needs some work. It's difficult to search for specific customers or even ticket ID, but overall, is OK."
"Can be a bit tricky to install but once its up its easy to do."
"Reporting can be better. Since its a free app, it's not fair to complain."
osTicket Reviews
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June 2017
Kyle from The Systems Group
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
June 2017
Great Help Desk Ticket System
Pros
oS Ticket has been a great IT Help Desk system for our company. Users can easily send in a help request via email, and oS ticket automatically creates a ticket and alerts our help desk. The system allows for tickets to be assigned to different technicians, change hands, and keeps a detailed note/tracking of everything associated with the ticket. There are a lot of great reports as well, including # of tickets closed, average response time, etc.
June 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2018
Rock solid, no problems or outages related to the software for over 9 years!
This software gives our employees a place to report problems to multiple departments and receive timely answers to their technical issues. It allows us to measure metrics for performance, and see trends in issues. Importantly it also allows us to have a historical reference of all problems, outages, etc.
Pros
osTicket is the best open source ticking system out there. Did I mention that it's free? It's fairly easy to customize and is very intuitive! It has an active support forum and community supporting it. There are third party developers that have created (free and paid) plugins and modifications to help others customize their system to their environment and companies needs. Need paid support or hosting? Need custom installation services? Have a feature that isn't available that you need? Enhancesoft, the parent company that owns and pays developers to work on the project, offer all of that.
Cons
There are a couple of features that I think are important that this type of product has, and they [the developers] have been really slow to implement them. Responsive Themes being the biggest of these. While you can modify it to make your own themes this type of feature is needed. note: Devs have promised this with the forth coming 2.0 release.
November 2016
Giorgi from Deeper
Time Used: Free Trial
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
3.0
November 2016
Probably Best Free Customer Support Platform ever.
OSTicket is so far my beloved customer support system when it comes to free platforms and easy of use functionality. I have spent over 1 year of managing and using OsTicket with 18 different agents and 4 separate departments. Thus, I will share my review of the system below in few words. (Please note this is about the self-hosted package of OsTicket, not Cloud-based.) The main advantage of the system is its nature of being equipped with all the necessary functions to maintain the medium sized companies support platform. It is a convenient system to carry out daily support-related tasks, answer tickets, have an unlimited number of cases/departments/agents, etc. In terms of simplicity, OSTicket is really user-friendly and easy to use platform that perfectly realises its own purposes of being reliable ticketing system. It is easy to install and maintain, the internal admin and agent user face are user-friendly as well. The main disadvantage of the system might be its lack of statistical measurements. It was the main aspect I was lacking while using the OsTicket. It is really hard to get the valuable statistical data from OSTicket regarding the agents, their working levels, times, etc. Basically, there is just one simple page of "Statistics" that shows the quantity of the tickets and some basic stuff and that's all. Nothing else about the statistics. Furthermore, another disadvantage is its lack of social integration. The reason I decided to move my company to another platform was that I couldn't integrate the OsTicket with Facebook & Twitter platforms. There are other little disadvantages, however, not worth mentioning as they don't make a big different. All in all, if not the aforementioned disadvantages of the system, OSTicket would be one of the best solutions for the small and medium-sized companies' support system needs. However, as it's completely free I'm nothing but grateful to the developers who developed this wonderful system and share it for free.
January 2018
Anonymous
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
2.0
Functionality
4.0
January 2018
Free and easy to setup support ticket system to deliver a great user support experience.
Pros
Being free to use and easy to implement and setup, osTicket is suitable for non-profit and small business. osTicket offers large set of features and options that enables to customize and deliver great user support experience for example you can create custom departments, customize support system pages and modify ticket fields like adding additional ticket fields. osTicket is a very customizable support ticket system that offers many options to help customize all aspects of user support experience like the ability to customize departments, emails sent to user, pages and alerts. osTicket offers an easy to setup knowledge base of frequently asked questions to help minimize support requests.
Cons
osTicket lacks some important options and features like the option to automatically close tickets after a certain period of time, an option to disable Overdue behavior and the lack of custom themes of both user and agent interfaces.
July 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
July 2018
Perfect software for my ecommerce website support portal
Pros
When my ecommerce business started to take off and we were placing 400 orders a day, we needed something better than just an email inbox to manage customer service. With osTicket, I can manage my several customer service managers and inboxes to ensure we are utilizing our time in the best way possible, and serving our customers needs effectively. osTicket was the perfect addition to our toolbelt, and after trying alternatives, this was still the front runner.
Cons
The setup is a bit involved. There are a lot of out of the box settings that need modified in various places in the interface. It does take time to get used to the interface, but once you get the hang of it, the software is set and forget style. Works well for me anyway.
February 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2019
Backbone Ticketing For Tech
Overall OSTicket lets our tech and maintenance teams address issues in a timely fashion. It is pretty simple to use and therefore easier than some systems for our less technical staff.
Pros
The software allows our staff to create trouble tickets for both tech and maintenance. The incorporation into out email system (Gmail) easily lets staff create these tickets through simple emails. More advanced users can log into the portal and track all of their open tickets.
Cons
Our previous software was harder to setup but had a few more features. It would be nice to have a heftier reporting feature or trend management built in. Inclusion of asset tracking would be a plus too.
June 2018

William from Third Hatch Inc
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Functionality
4.0
June 2018
Support tickets, email notifications, mobile app, all relatively easy to use
Support ticket software, for free. But not the best feature set around.
Pros
Ticket tracking and email notification Tasks can be added to tickets for additional steps before a ticket can be closed. User management is fairly easy, and users can be organized by teams and departments Files can be attached to the ticket. A Paid Mobile app allows for simple ticket management.
Cons
Notifications and team/department access seems haphazard and a bit of an afterthought. It could be much better organized. Mobile app is very limited and very pricey for what little it actually accomplishes.
April 2018
Jose from overseas supplier
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
3.0
April 2018
It gets the job done without the clutter
Pros
The installation is really easy being a PHP application. It lacks some features present in other support management applications, but it has the minimum necesary to get the job done without complications. It has a very ease to use API to make osTicket work with external systems like call center and CRM.
Cons
The search functionality needs some work. It's difficult to search for specific customers or even ticket ID, but overall, is OK.
August 2018

Eric from Cloudonix.io
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2018
Great tool forticketing
Pros
Solution that is free, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use. Has most of the features of the paid solutions. Easy to tie to company websites for customers to open tickets.
Cons
You need to know how to set it up and host it your self.
May 2018

Adam from Firefly Legal, Inc.
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Legal Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
2.0
Functionality
5.0
May 2018
Best open source Ticket system EVER!
love it Free and Great helpdesk software !
Pros
I love this software. We use to use Zendesk but at a user, it wasn't worth it. osTicket save us a ton of time with the FAQ feature that allows our end users to look up and answer without submitting a ticket. We have about 500 FAQ's entered into the system. The ticket system has great integration with gmail allowing tickets to be emailed of submitted via a form. The software is open source so if you are tech savvy you can just install it for free. We run in AWS for / month and have 5 IT Techs on the system. Regular updates are released so we won't be left with an outdated product
Cons
No major cons. I wish they would modernize the UI. The UI is about 10 years behind as of 5/2018. Also the API is not full featured on certain actions can be done in the API :( IF you don't want to integrate into existing software this will not matter for you.
December 2019
Shawn from Devenish
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Industrial Automation
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2019
osTicket
Overall osTicket has significantly helped me streamline our IT support in a mid-sized company.
Pros
osTicket is an open-source help desk ticketing system. It has all the best features, is easy to set up, deploy, and maintain and is fully customizable. I needed a help desk platform that could be hosted on-site and osTicket has fit the bill perfectly.
Cons
I really don't have any cons for this software. It's open-source and the developers monitor their support forums well so issues can be resolved in a timely manner.
March 2018
Tyler from Tykisson IT
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2018
Free and Easy!
Pros
This software is easy to deploy, just git clone from https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket Feature packed and ready for SMB deployment on your own servers. Community support is active and easy. Also available as an install package on Synology NAS
Cons
For out of the box ticketing system, this software has no real downsides. Some have said its hard to install but I did not have any issues getting it up and running. The fact that you can install this as a package direct from Synology package store makes it even easier.
August 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
August 2019
It suited our needs at the time
Like a I said in the title it fitted our needs at the time, but as we improved our system we found that we had outgrown the software.
Pros
It's easy of use is second to none. Everything is very intuitive and you can't fault it for that. It does the job it sets out to do, provide a space to view any issues that come into your service desk
Cons
The system just lacks a polished finish. From a visual perspective it looks out of date and it's lacking feature which people nower days probably want like reporting.
December 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2018
osTicket
So far great experience.
Pros
Great simple application for support ticket. I am using this app for the past 8 years or more. For someone looking for a basic ticketing system, this is the one. Since the app is opensource, no need to pay for it. lately they have paid hosted versions. I am running mine in my own server. For me this works perfectly as a ticketing platform. You can create web tickets or email tickets.
Cons
Reporting can be better. Since its a free app, it's not fair to complain.
January 2019
Anonymous
Company Size: 501-1,000 employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
January 2019
Great software
We implemented this software to better track the problems encountered by our clients and to better assist them.
Pros
Open sourced, customizable, very easy to use and multi-user. You get reports so you can keep track of your statistics. Its easy to setup and install and you can host it on your own servers.
Cons
Search function is terrible. Feels a bit unfinished but they are always doing upsates and improving.
December 2018
Gerson from Globe Digital Ventures
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
5.0
Functionality
5.0
December 2018
Flexible and very user friendly software
It's a good and free platform!
Pros
Being free to use and easy to implementation gives us a huge savings in our organization. osTicket offers large sets of free plugins and options that enables to customize the osTicket dashboard based on your organization. For example, you can customize the user support like email sents, knowledge based or FAQ in front of the report ticket dashboard.
Cons
Initial installation can be difficult if you have never do this before. There are many services to be setup just to get it work.
March 2018
Sean from Bed and Breakfast Property Management
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2018
We use multiple instances of this software from IT tickets to Purchase orders
It is versatile. We use it for multiple things like IT support, Customer complaints, and contractor purchases.
Pros
Once it is setup, it runs itself with almost no tweaking. It has all of the same features as paid helpdesk suites.
Cons
Initial configuration can be difficult if you have never done it before. There are so many things to setup just to get it working.
March 2018
rafeeque from houseofanitadongre Ltd
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
2.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2018
osticket open source and easy to implement
Pros
its a open source PHP easy edit to program don't need any PHP professional development skill reporting system is excellent we can customize as per ours requirement
Cons
sms integration should be there and email response excellent need more option for alert ticket reporting and user base very comfortable
November 2018
Steve from Sticker Boost
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Automotive
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
November 2018
Os ticket keeping our tickets sorted easily
Pros
I love their free platform and allowing self hosting. Its kept our tickets neat and clean and we get them out fast. It has a user interface that is pretty easy to navigate and my customers love it
Cons
Can be a bit tricky to install but once its up its easy to do.
April 2018
Ron from Sanico Cleaning Solutions
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Logistics and Supply Chain
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2018
Awesome Ticketing System Once Set Up
Pros
I love that this can be used for various types of jobs, and that you can use it for multiple job types at once. For instance I use osTicket as my IT helpdesk to assign tickets and track the progress of the issue resolution with a written record. But not only that, we have a separate service department for cleaning equipment that can use it as well. All running from the same install.
Cons
Learning curve and initial set up. It is a long process to get through all the settings and features available. Once you do you won't regret it though.
December 2018
Stuart from Think Shift
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
December 2018
Helpdesk made easier
Pros
Nice and easy to review tickets sent in. Can configure multiple emails to receive them.
Cons
Found some limitations with file types and sizes
January 2020
James from Xcobean Systems Limited
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
January 2020
Open source flexible ticket and asset management system
The software worked well when used in support for services that required SLAs. With that, it was easy to analyze how efficient our support was.
Pros
Has open source version in case you have an internal development team and would like to increase functionality Simple to use hence has manageable learning curve
Cons
The initial setup and configuration to match an organization requirements takes quite sometime. But once setup everything's fine.
July 2018
Josh from JetStream Radio
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Media Production
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
July 2018
Amazing free software
Pros
+ Free + Supports many email addresses + Ticket filters come as a bonus to allow automatic assigning to staff
Cons
- Appears to be quite clunky in regards to making changes - Staff backend is quite outdated and doesn't perform above standards - Some minor bugs here and there
February 2018
Anonymous
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
February 2018
Open source and free
Pros
It has most of the functionalities you will require from a ticketing system, moreover it is open source so you can always change things the way you want, develop additional functionalities. Easy to install and customize, the menus are understandable. Creating agents, permissions, access rights, most of the things are just as needed. You can customize the templates without going into core files. There are many people in the forum answering to your trouble issues as well as admin himself.
Cons
There are only a few plug ins, I think people should be guided to develop more plugins. There is still some development pending like PHP 7.1 compatibility, archiving of tickets etc. But again, you can always find developers and change the system
March 2018
Raúl from Rolvas
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2018
Free self hosted version helped us organize support
Better management of issues for free.
Pros
There are many help desk (AKA support ticket system) but this one is open source and full featured. We managed to integrate seamlessly with the design of our web (with coding and took us a while though). It works perfectly and we can even manage support tickets and answers by sending emails to our support email account. It's been a real improvement since now we can follow up on statuses and history of the issues our customers face.
Cons
The initial setup took us more than we spected but it was worth it as now we save a lot of time and customers are happier.
October 2018
Ericus from SVI ISC
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2018
The free version works perfectly
Pros
It's a complete system, despite being free. Documentation is more than enough to get it functional and in production.
Cons
It's not easy to setup which is understandable for free software. The learning curve is pretty steep.
November 2017
sai from EXXAT LLC.
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Computer Software
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
3.0
November 2017
Its easy and user friendly
Pros
The way of answering the tickets is prety much easier on os tickets and ot helps the user to assign the tickets to any one from staff and the notification of alerts look good
Cons
Filters doesn't work good its really hard to filter tickets based on the name or client name it should be done better and add few addtional options to advance filter
February 2019
Joe from Grant Community High School
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Education Management
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
4.0
February 2019
osTicket, the free opensource helpdesk solution
Overall, this is an OK helpdesk. The biggest benefit is that it can be hosted internally and it is free. However, for free you can use another solution (such as FreshDesk) which is much easier to setup.
Pros
The product is free, open-source, and self-hosted. This allows me to control every aspect, including any data entered into the system.
Cons
Setting this up is a pain. I am familiar with Linux, but it took a good bit of troubleshooting to get this working in LTS 18.04.
April 2021
Claudio from ESC Consulting
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
3.0
April 2021
A simple ticket management
It solved the problem of keeping track of customer inquiries at a low cost.
Pros
It is easy to configure and even the most inexperienced user still manages to enter a simple request.
Cons
It is elaborate to assign the correct companies and roles and also the creation of display rules are not immediate
August 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
5.0
Customer support
1.0
Functionality
5.0
August 2020
checking
Pros
checking from internet and find for system make test
Cons
internet recommend to check and try for testing
October 2018
Anonymous
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2018
Free tickets system
Pros
I like that is free, the installation is easy and the software is user friendly. osTicket is a customizable ticket system that offers some nice features like email notifications.
Cons
It took me quite some time to configure.
August 2018

Dustin from Elk Grove Park District
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Functionality
4.0
August 2018
Pretty good for FOSS
Used osTicket to offer helpdesk services for people I did side projects for. It worked great for it's purpose and being open source, it didn't cut into my bottom line as a freelancer.
Pros
- Free - Easy to set up on my own VPS instance - Required minimal customization to make it fit my needs
Cons
- Being free, it's hard to get support (but there is a vibrant community of users that can help)
November 2018
Lakshmi Deepak from TrustLogics
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Human Resources
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
November 2018
Ticketing software for supporting customers
Pros
Ticket management solution for supporting end users of a company
Cons
for open source, only community support is needed.
March 2018
Paul from Archway Theatre
Company Size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Arts and Crafts
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2018
Great feature packed helpdesk system.
Pros
Great feature packed helpdesk used to track and log support questions from our website. Easy to direct questions to the correct departments for replies.
Cons
Not easy to configure, took me a while to get my head round configuration, possibly a simpler interface would be good.
December 2016
Chau from VED Co. Ltd
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
December 2016
osTicket is a great customer support tool
It's got everything we need to help our customers, from the basic ticket system with classifications to a functional knowledge base.
Pros
osTicket is extremely versatile, and for the SMB market (or for a small dev team) it is a very powerful tool with the ability to extremely customize the tool, all with no price tag.
Cons
As with any free tool, while the community support is great, larger issues can take longer to resolve
February 2017
Ken from SeaGrass Information Systems Inc.
Time Used: Free Trial
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
February 2017
osTicket Review
I have been self-hosting osTicket for about a year and it has lived up to and exceeded my expectations and requirements in every way. A very well designed and developed system. The online support and user groups is very helpful especially during the configuration phase.
May 2018
Victor
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Construction
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: GetApp
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
May 2018
February 2017
Paul from ATC
Time Used: Free Trial
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
February 2017
Just the ticket!
Use this on my website for handling customer contact us pages and directing them to different people in the team. Really great to use and great functionality.
Pros
Easy to use. Does what it says
February 2018
Alejandro from Alo Global Technologies
Company Size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
3.0
February 2018
Difficult to install, you need a webmaster to do so, very proficient on Apache and php.
Only for companies that have almost zero budget but have a good developer in-house
Pros
Its free, most of the features are in there. if you have the time nas resources you can modded to become what you want but as it is is too simple and not intuitive, interface is too simple and not intuitive sometimes. still. its free.
Cons
Too difficult to install, its not abandonware but its close, even when its can be modded and have some community behind it . again... will need a full time programmer to do so and will take some time.
April 2018
Jason from Community College of Philadelphia
Company Size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Higher Education
Time Used: Free Trial
Review Source: GetApp
April 2018