Guest Support for WordPress - Complete customer support ticket system for WordPress

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Plugin

  • Item Type: WordPress Plugin
  • Current Version: 1.1.0
  • First Released Date: Oct 8, 2022
  • Last Updated Date: Mar 3, 2024
  • Minimum WordPress Version Required: 5.5+
  • Last Compatibility Checked: Feb 16, 2024
  • Last WordPress compatibility-checked version: 6.4.3

 

Description

Guest Support is a complete customer support ticket system for WordPress. By using this plugin, you will be able to provide customer support very easily and smoothly where Users can create new Tickets and Replies and Agents can Reply to Tickets without any Login and Registration.

Features - Create new ticket:

  • Users can create ticket without any Login/Registration
  • Live WordPress Posts suggestions based on user's typing on the Subject input field through Ajax (Guest Support Addon required).
  • User can upload files with maximum allowed number of files, total files size and allowed file types/extensions based on settings.
  • Google reCAPTCHA 3 SPAM verification.
  • Verify email with OTP (One Time Password) through Ajax (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Internal email validation system to identify fake/mistyped/invalid and disposable temporary email addresses.
  • 99.9% SPAM free if you enable Email verification.

 

Features - Create reply:

  • After creating a new ticket, both User and support Agent will receive email notification with a unique ticket link.
  • Agent can reply to the ticket using the unique ticket link without any Login.
  • User can reply to the ticket using the unique ticket link without any Login.
  • Both User and Agent can edit last/all reply message(s) based on settings.
  • Both User and Agent can close ticket when submitting a reply.
  • Both User and Agent can close ticket using a Close Ticket link.
  • Both User and Agent can Re-open closed ticket if allowed in the settings.
  • On the single ticket view page, both User and Agent can see links of other submitted tickets of the same user based on the user's email address.


Features - Signature and profile photo (Pro Addon required):

Both User and Agent can set profile photo and default signature if allowed in the settings. Login/registration required to use this feature.


Features - Create ticket for users by Admin and Agent:

  • Admin can create tickets for other registered users from admin.
  • Agents can create tickets for other registered users from frontend (Guest Support Addon required).


Features - List of tickets:

  • Admins can see list of all ticket on the WordPress admin.
  • Agent can see list of all tickets submitted to the Agent's Department on the frontend (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Registered Users can see list of all tickets (Guest Support Addon required).
  • If you a user register later with an email address that was used to submit tickets, all of the user's tickets (before and after registration) will show on frontend tickets list page (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Filter tickets by ticket status 'Open', 'Pending', 'Closed' and Departments.
  • Sort tickets by 'Ticket Created Date A-Z', 'Ticket Created Date Z-A', 'Last Reply Date A-Z' and 'Last Reply Date Z-A'
  • Search tickets by subject and email address.
  • Users and Agents still able to see list of submitted tickets on the single ticket view page without Login/Registration.


Features - Admin - Department:

  • You can create/edit/delete unlimited Departments. One Department support in free version.
  • Assign support Agent to each Department.
  • You can show/hide Departments field on the frontend ticket submission form.
  • Add additional email notifications email addresses to each Department.
  • When new ticket submitted to a specific Department, the assign support Agent and additional email addresses will receive email notifications.


Features - Admin - Forms and Form Builder:

  • You can create/edit/delete unlimited forms with dedicated custom fields, features and options. One Form support in free version.
  • You can add different forms with different and dedicated custom fields to different pages and receive support tickets.
  • Dedicated Shortcode for each form.
  • Add unlimited custom fields (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Supported custom fields are:
    • Textbox
    • Email
    • Number Box
    • Textarea
    • Dropdown/Select
    • Radio Group
    • Checkbox Group
    • Hidden
    • Date Picker
    • Date and Time Picker
    • Content (Support HTML)


Features - Dedicated options for each form:

  • Add/edit/remove unlimited custom fields with field Name, Label, Placeholder, Error message etc (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Option to show the custom field on Ticket submission or Reply form or both (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Option to add/remove custom fields inputs on Email notifications (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Re-order all (core and custom) fields.
  • Arrange/re-arrange all (core and custom) fields with 1-3 columns.
  • Enable/disable File upload.
  • Enable/disable Google reCAPTCHA.
  • Enable/disable Email verification (Pro addon required).
  • Enable/disable WordPress Posts suggestions when typing on the Subject field (Guest Support Addon required).
  • Add your own CSS Classes for input fields and buttons.
  • Add your own buttons texts.


Features - Email settings and templates:

  • Support WordPress default email delivery system.
  • Support dedicated SMTP for this plugin only.
  • Dedicated and customisable new ticket and reply email templates for both Users, Agents and Additional email addresses with necessary placeholders.


How it works?

  • After creating a new ticket, a unique ticket link url will generate with 2 unique and dedicated random IDs and the ticket link url will send to Submitter and support Agent by email.
  • With the unique ticket link url both the User/submitter and the support Agent will be able to reply to the ticket without any login/registration.
  • When viewing and replying tickets, 2 unique IDs will be verified to give access to the ticket.
  • Ticket link url will send with email notifications and there is no other way to see the url.
  • Encrypted Agent information on the ticket link url to identify and verify Agent when replying as Agent.


Requirements:

  • WordPress 5.5+
  • PHP 7+

 

Available Shortcodes:

Submit ticket form:

[guest-support view=form id=1]

View single ticket:

[guest-support view=ticket]

View list of tickets on front-end (Pro addon required):

[guest-support view=tickets]

Changelog


Version 1.1.0 - Mar 03, 2024

  • Completely revamped the session management system used throughout the plugin.
  • Implemented a more robust and efficient session handling mechanism.
  • Fixed various bugs and issues related to session handling reported by users.
  • Overall performance improvements and optimizations in session-related operations.

Version 1.0.9 - Feb 22, 2024

  • Fixed issue with time elapsed display on the ticket view page.

Version 1.0.8 - Feb 16, 2024

  • Fixed issue with special characters in email subjects.

Version 1.0.7 - Feb 16, 2024

  • Changed the plugin author from WtThemes.com to RcaTheme.com as we have merged WtThemes.com with RcaTheme.com.
  • Improved OTP verification system. Now it combats spam more effectively.
  • Added ‘login required’ option to custom fields. Once enabled, the user or the agent needs to login to view the message of that custom field.
  • Moved email templates from Email Settings to Email Templates.
  • Added option to show confirmation message or redirect to the ticket view page after successfully submitting a ticket.
  • Added option to customize the confirmation message with necessary placeholders.
  • Added cron job in the Pro Addon to send pre-ticket closer email notification, close tickets, and send closer email notification after a certain number of days configured in the settings.
  • Hardcoded CSS for input and button classes to prevent conflicts with themes.
  • Overall improvements.

Version 1.0.6 - Oct 24, 2023

  • Enhanced the display of the success message after a ticket has been created.

Version 1.0.5 - Feb 26, 2023

  • PHP 8.2 compatibility fix.

Version 1.0.4 - Feb 23, 2023

  • Overal improvements.

Version 1.0.3 - Oct 19, 2022

  • Updated language file.

Version 1.0.2 - Oct 18, 2022

  • Bug fixed.

Version 1.0.1 - Oct 17, 2022

  • Bug fixed.

Version 1.0.0 - Oct 08, 2022

  • Initial release.