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The Helpdesk category covers customer support tools: Zendesk, ServiceNow, Zoho Desk, Gorgias and Help Scout. It returns the tickets (tickets, incidents, conversations, depending on the tool) your customer’s support team works, with the requester who opened each one. Issue trackers and project tools such as Jira live in the separate Tasks category. Use it to: show a customer’s open support tickets next to your own records, sync tickets into an analytics or QA tool, or link a ticket to the account it came from.

Endpoints

Parameters and full schemas: Unified API reference.

Example: list tickets

Page through all tickets with after. See Pagination.

Response notes

  • status and priority are the provider’s own names (open, pending, New, 1 - Critical…). Map them in your product if you need fixed categories.
  • requester is the customer who opened the ticket. email is null on ServiceNow, which only returns the caller’s name.
  • id is what you pass to GET /v1/helpdesk/tickets/{id}. On ServiceNow it’s the incident’s sys_id, not its INC… number.

Provider differences

  • What a “ticket” is depends on the tool: a ticket (Zendesk, Zoho Desk, Gorgias), an incident (ServiceNow) or a conversation (Help Scout).
  • description is the full ticket body on Zendesk and ServiceNow, a preview of the latest message on Gorgias and Help Scout, and null in Zoho Desk lists (fetch the single ticket to get it).
  • priority is always null on Help Scout, which has no priorities.
  • Page size is fixed at 25 on Help Scout; limit is ignored there.
  • Writes (replying, changing status, assigning) aren’t part of the Unified API. Use the Proxy.