Setup guide · about an hour
Your first workspace, one working request at a time.
Nine steps from sign-up to a request that has been answered, resolved and written up. Labels match the product as of September 2026; your role and plan decide which settings you can change.
- 01
Create the workspace
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- Sign up. You land in your new workspace — no card is requested.
- It starts on the Free plan with a 30-day Pro trial, so five members and Pro features are available while you set up.
You’ll know it worked when you see the workspace’s ticket list, possibly empty.
- 02
Say what kind of work it manages
Prompt: “What kind of work will this workspace manage?”
- Pick the closest profile — MSP / IT Support, Internal Services / Operations, Marketing / Creative, Product Development, Finance / Procurement, or Custom / Mixed — and choose Continue.
- Change it later under Settings → General. Use Fine-tune this workspace to rename terms or switch modules.
You’ll know it worked when menus and labels use your profile’s words, and a starter request type exists.
- 03
Connect email
Welcome dialog → Set up email forwarding · or Settings → Channels
- Every workspace gets a ready-to-use request address. Share it, or forward an existing shared inbox to it.
- To use your own mailbox address, add it as a channel and complete the verification and DNS steps shown.
You’ll know it worked when an email you send to the address appears as a new request.
- 04
Shape one request type
Settings → Request Types
- Open the starter type for your profile. Add the fields your team always asks for — Short text, Long text, Number, Date, Single select, Multi select, Checkbox, Email or Web address.
- Mark the answers you cannot work without as required.
- Under Conditional visibility, show a field only when an earlier choice matches — for example Material only when the deliverable is Print.
You’ll know it worked when the form preview shows only the questions that apply to each choice.
- 05
Open a portal
Header → Client portals → Manage portals
- Create a portal for an organization and choose its request types.
- In Branding & content, add your logo, colour and welcome text. In Request experience, choose Guided steps or All questions.
- In Access & defaults, decide who may submit: Anonymous, SSO (Microsoft or Google), Require SSO, and any allowed email domains.
- Optional: turn on a requested due date, and Schedule & alerts for busy-day warnings and reminders. Your own domain is under Domain & links (Pro).
You’ll know it worked when the portal opens at its address and shows your branding and form.
- 06
Invite the team
Team → Invite
- Invite teammates as Admin, Technician or Viewer.
- On Pro, limit a member to specific clients, knowledge, portals or email channels.
You’ll know it worked when invited people can sign in and see the queue.
- 07
Check the AI settings
Settings → AI Settings
- Automatic analysis and categorisation are on. Set the confidence a category needs before it is applied.
- Leave automatic responses off while you learn how the suggestions read for your work.
You’ll know it worked when new requests show an analysis panel after they arrive.
- 08
Follow one fictional request all the way through
Your portal, then the ticket
- Submit a fictional request through the portal, as a requester would.
- Open it from the queue. Read the analysis, assign an owner and add an internal note.
- Send a reply and check it appears in the requester’s portal view. If a decision is needed, use Request approval.
- Resolve it. Under How was this resolved?, choose Save & Generate KB Article, then review the draft in the knowledge base.
You’ll know it worked when you have a resolved request, a reply the requester saw, and a knowledge-base draft.
- 09
Automate one repeatable step
Automations → templates
- Start from a template such as Stale Ticket Reminder or Resolution Feedback Request.
- After it runs, open its execution history to see what happened and why.
You’ll know it worked when the rule shows recent executions with a result for each.
And Copilot?
Copilot is activated per workspace, separately from plans and the trial. Once it is on, it can build portals and email channels from what you describe, answer from your records with sources, and propose changes for you to confirm.
Ask about Copilot access