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Deskpro

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Deskpro at a glance

Vendor
Deskpro Ltd
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 19 Oct 2026
Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Deskpro 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Deskpro is a customer service and helpdesk platform, strongest in omnichannel at 7-8: the WhatsApp page shows inbound messages automatically becoming tickets that share one history with email under the same SLAs. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 22 Sep 2026 to 19 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Integrator

Weighted verdict

Has to wire the helpdesk into a CRM, a shop and an identity provider that all predate it. Wants a documented API with rate limits, webhooks that retry, SCIM, and a sandbox. Reads a partner-contact form on an integrations page as a missing API.

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Scored by The Integrator

Panel median The Integrator This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Integrator
Ticketing, queues & SLA 3 of 5 3 of 5
Channels in one queue 4 of 5 4 of 5
Knowledge base & deflection 3 of 5 2.5 of 5
Customer data protection 2 of 5 2 of 5
Integrations & API 3 of 5 3 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5

Ticketing, queues & SLA

How this is scored

The engine: how work is routed, prioritised, escalated and measured — and whether an agent can find the ticket they need among ten thousand.

0 — A shared mailbox with labels; no ownership, no status model, no history beyond the thread.

3 — Tickets with assignment and open/closed status, but routing is manual, there are no SLA timers and search covers subject lines only.

5 — Queues with rules-based routing, priorities, a working status model, SLA timers with breach warnings, and full-text search across ticket bodies.

8 — Business-hours-aware SLA policies per queue or customer, escalation chains, macros and triggers, merge and split, and reporting on first-response and resolution time by agent and queue.

10 — The workload is managed rather than merely tracked: capacity-aware assignment, SLA per contract with reporting an account manager could show a customer, audit of every status change, and search that finds the ticket from a half-remembered phrase.

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The Integrator

Routing by request type, language, team and priority, workload distribution rules, macros and escalation triggers, plus SLA plans that apply to tickets with cross-channel SLA compliance reporting, are all on the record, and an OnHold status whose SLA treatment is being refined shows a working status model. I found no public information on business-hours-aware SLA policies, merge and split, first-response reporting broken down by agent and queue, or ticket search at all — and search is what makes ten thousand tickets findable. A solid mid-range engine, with the top tier of the capability unevidenced. 4 6 1

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Channels in one queue

How this is scored

Email, chat, phone, portal, messengers and social — judged on what actually lands in the same queue with the same history, not on how many channel logos the marketing page carries.

0 — Email only.

3 — Email plus one more channel, but the second lives in its own inbox: no shared history, and a customer who switches channel starts again.

5 — Email, a web form or portal and live chat all landing as tickets in one queue, with the customer's history visible whichever channel they used.

8 — The above plus telephony integration with call logging, at least one messenger (WhatsApp, Signal or similar) with its consent handling stated, and a customer portal where a requester can see their own tickets.

10 — Channel is an implementation detail: every channel including voice and messengers writes to one conversation with one history, agents answer from one screen, and the customer can move between channels mid-issue without repeating themselves.

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The Integrator

Every named channel — email, forms, live chat, voice with calls and recordings, WhatsApp and SMS, Facebook and Instagram, Teams and Slack — is claimed to land in one unified ticketing system, and the pages state a customer switching channel continues the same conversation without repeating themselves. The WhatsApp page is the operational corroboration I look for: inbound messages convert to tickets automatically, share ticket history with email, run the same automation engine and SLA tracking, and agents reply from inside one workspace. I found no public information on a portal where requesters see their own tickets, or on WhatsApp consent handling, which holds this short of the very top. 6 7 1

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Knowledge base & deflection

How this is scored

Whether the product reduces the number of tickets as well as organising them: public help centre, article workflow, suggestions to agents and to customers.

0 — No knowledge base; answers live in agents' heads and old tickets.

3 — A basic article list, public or internal, with no editorial workflow, no versioning and no link between articles and tickets.

5 — A searchable public help centre with categories, draft and publish states, and agents able to insert an article into a reply.

8 — Article suggestions to the customer before they submit and to the agent while they answer, multilingual articles, review dates that flag stale content, and reporting on which articles deflect.

10 — Knowledge is a managed asset: gaps identified from unanswered tickets, article performance measured against ticket volume by topic, versioned content with approval, and deflection reported as a number the team can act on.

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The Integrator

Real-time article suggestions while the customer types, with the explicit claim that many find what they need and never submit, plus article analytics on views, ratings and comments, show knowledge tied to ticket flow rather than a static article list. I found no public information on editorial workflow, draft and publish states, versioning, review dates for stale content, multilingual articles, agent-side suggestions or deflection reporting. That is a functioning help centre, but not yet knowledge managed as an asset. 8 1

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Customer data protection

How this is scored

A ticket archive is personal data written by the data subject. Retention, deletion, access control, subject rights, and what the vendor does with attachments — judged on what executes rather than what is promised.

0 — No retention policy stated, no deletion path, agents all see everything, and no DPA is published.

3 — A DPA on request and coarse roles; deletion is described as something the customer arranges, and there is no stated retention period.

5 — A signable DPA published, configurable agent roles and queue-level visibility, a stated retention period, and deletion of a requester's data that can actually be executed.

8 — Automatic retention rules per queue or data category, attachment handling stated, an audit log of who opened which ticket, documented support for access and erasure requests, and pseudonymisation or redaction of ticket content.

10 — Built for a data-protection audit: retention executed and evidenced per category, field-level redaction, full audit trail, subprocessor list published, and the vendor's own support access to customer instances documented and consent-gated.

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The Integrator

Deletion executes rather than being arranged: data is securely deleted immediately from primary stores on request, encrypted offsite backups are purged on a 60-day rotation, AES-256 at rest is stated, and comprehensive audit logs cover administrator changes. I found no public information on a signable DPA, configurable agent roles or queue-level visibility, a stated retention period for ticket data (the privacy notice gives only a legitimate-need and legal-requirement basis), attachment handling, or an audit trail of who opened which ticket. A real deletion path, but the buyer-facing paperwork and access controls are unevidenced. 2 3

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The systems a helpdesk has to reach — CRM, shop, order management, identity — and whether the API is documented for building or gated behind a partner conversation.

0 — No API and no named integrations; context is copied in by hand.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common CRM and shop systems, a documented REST API with keys, webhooks for the core ticket events, and SSO.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations, customer context from other systems shown inside the ticket, SCIM provisioning, documented rate limits and a sandbox.

10 — A component rather than a destination: versioned API with a deprecation policy, event streaming both directions, an app framework for in-ticket extensions, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The Integrator

A read-and-write API, outbound webhooks on new ticket, status change and reply sent, an Apps Marketplace, Zapier to a thousand-plus apps, SSO across SAML, LDAP, Okta, Azure and JWT, and custom apps built in the agent interface with JavaScript and HTML — that is a platform I can build on, and the in-interface app framework is the standout. But I found no public information on SCIM provisioning, documented rate limits, a sandbox, API versioning or a deprecation policy, or on native named integrations for common CRM and shop systems; context arrives through Zapier and an in-built CRM instead. The one captured community page about the user API is marked archived with a last update of 2010, which tempers my confidence in the freshness of the public developer surface. 3 12 13 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the ticket archive lives, who the contracting entity is, which subprocessors touch it, and whether vendor support can read customer data. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated or non-EU, subprocessors unnamed.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option while the contracting entity is non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — support tooling, analytics, AI features — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, full subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and a self-hosted or private-cloud option for buyers who need the archive on their own infrastructure.

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The Integrator

Cloud accounts deploy exclusively into a customer-chosen US, EU or UK region as standard, on named AWS infrastructure, with enterprise customers choosing from 22 countries and self-hosted, on-premise, VPC and sovereign-cloud options including private AI; transfers are safeguarded by Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK's international data transfer agreement. But the captured pages state no contracting-entity jurisdiction, I found no public information on a published subprocessor list or on whether vendor support can read customer instances, and the certifications listed belong to the data-centre provider rather than the vendor. A strong hosting story with the chain above it unverified. 2 3 10 1

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a support lead can compute the real annual invoice for their agent count — including the channels and features they actually need — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-agent headline exists, but the tier where the needed channel or SLA feature begins is unstated, or light-agent and contact limits are not mentioned.

5 — Per-agent prices public for the main tiers with billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed capability (telephony, messengers, SLA policies) sits in an unpriced bundle.

8 — Every tier and add-on priced publicly with per-agent maths, billing period, minimum term and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom enterprise work lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator or table producing the annual invoice for a given agent count and channel selection, including usage-metered channels and overage.

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The Integrator

The captured pages name the cloud and private deployment offerings but attach no price to any of them, and I found no public information on per-agent prices, billing period, minimum term or VAT treatment. A support lead cannot begin to compute an annual invoice from public pages, so as far as this evidence goes, every plan is an unpriced conversation. 1 1

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

Questions about Deskpro

Is Deskpro European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Deskpro is based.

Where does Deskpro store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 19 Oct 2026.

Does Deskpro have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 19 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Deskpro?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates Zendesk (3.5/5), Intercom (3.5/5) and HubSpot Service Hub (3/5) highest among the other 28 Customer Service & Helpdesk products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Zammad (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Deskpro alternatives.

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Sources (13)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 +2 earlier captures: 13 Oct 2026, 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Legal notice — found from the homepage www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Security / trust page — found from the homepage www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Ticketing, queues & SLA — found from sitemap support.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Ticketing, queues & SLA — found from sitemap support.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Channels in one queue — found from sitemap www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Channels in one queue — found from sitemap www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Knowledge base & deflection — found from sitemap www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Knowledge base & deflection — found from sitemap support.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Customer data protection — found from sitemap www.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Customer data protection — found from sitemap support.deskpro.com Checked 19 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & API — found from sitemap www.deskpro.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integrations & API — found from sitemap support.deskpro.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →