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Category median

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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Smartsupp s.r.o. · smartsupp.com

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Counts the channel logos on the marketing page, then asks which of them share one queue and one history. Reads for the tier where SLA policies begin, what a "light agent" may actually do, and whether the AI summariser is included or metered.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Skeptic

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 Skeptic

The captured page shows a unified chat dashboard with agent team organisation, assignable roles and performance tracking, but we found no public information on ticket statuses, routing rules, SLA timers, escalation or ticket search. There is also no priced tier where SLA policies might begin and nothing on what any limited agent seat may do. As evidenced, this is a chat inbox with team structure rather than a managed queue. 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 Skeptic

The page says to "unify all messages into a single dashboard" and "manage multichannel chats efficiently", yet the only channel it actually names is the live chat widget; we found no public information on email, phone, messengers, social or a customer portal landing in that queue. Visitor conversation history and site journey are visible, but only within chat, so a customer moving to another channel starts again as far as the captured material shows. 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 Skeptic

Deflection is attempted through the Mira chatbot, trained on FAQs and web-scraped content, claiming to answer up to 80% of common questions with configurable handover to a human. But we found no public information on a public help centre, article workflow, versioning, review dates, multilingual content, or reporting on which content deflects — and no evidenced link between articles and conversations. 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 Skeptic

A data privacy & GDPR page exists and agent roles can be assigned, but we found no public information on a stated retention period, a signable DPA, an executable deletion path for a requester's data, audit logging or attachment handling. Only the page title is captured, so nothing here shows what actually executes rather than what is promised. 1

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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 Skeptic

Shopify, WordPress, Prestashop, WiX and Magento are named, alongside counts of 40+ integrations and 80+ platform integrations, and contacts can be exported to "any application or CRM system" — a one-way export, not a live link. We found no public information on a documented API, webhooks, SSO, rate limits or a sandbox, and the named integrations are web and shop platforms rather than CRM, order-management or identity systems. 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 Skeptic

No sovereignty attributes are on record: we found no public information on hosting location, the jurisdiction of the contracting entity, a named data-centre provider, a published subprocessor list, or whether vendor support can read customer data. A GDPR page is not a substitute for an evidenced hosting and subprocessor chain, and the "Member of ABUGO Group" line names no jurisdiction. 1

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Pricing transparency

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 Skeptic

The only public price signals are a free account and a 14-day all-features trial with no credit card required; we found no public information on paid tiers, per-agent rates, billing periods, VAT treatment or minimum terms. A support lead cannot compute an annual invoice for any agent count from the captured page. 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.

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What we left out

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Sources (9)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page smartsupp.com Checked 29 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Terms of service — found from the homepage help.smartsupp.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy — found from the homepage help.smartsupp.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Channels in one queue — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Channels in one queue — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Knowledge base & deflection — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Knowledge base & deflection — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations & API — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations & API — found from sitemap www.smartsupp.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →