Outsourced Help Desk Services for Your Ticketing System

Help Desk

An Outsourced Help Desk That Resolves at First Contact

A staffed help desk running in your own ticketing system: multichannel intake, triage, level 1 and level 2 resolution, and a written SLA on first response and closure. Named agents on agreed shifts, with every ticket, article and report left in your tools.

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Run inside your own ticketing system and knowledge base · NDA and DPA signed before any access · Help desk outsourcing delivered from Dhaka, Bangladesh on UTC+6 with agreed shift overlap

Every Ticket Gets

  • A logged record with a category, a priority and a named owner
  • A first response inside the agreed SLA window
  • A resolution attempt at level 1 before any escalation
  • A note written in plain language, not internal shorthand
  • A closure check with the person who raised it

Scope

What Do EICRA’s Help Desk Services Cover?

Six parts of one desk: the people who answer, the system they answer in, the knowledge behind them, and the report that proves it worked. A help desk here means the staffed first and second line for your users; a service desk adds the ticketing design and reporting around it, and both are covered. Network monitoring, server administration and on-site work are not. Most clients take all six parts; each can be bought on its own.

01

Level 1 Service Desk

First response, triage, access and password requests, how-to questions and known fixes, resolved at first contact wherever the runbook allows.

02

Level 2 Technical Support

Deeper troubleshooting on applications, accounts, devices and integrations, with a documented escalation path when a ticket goes beyond the agreed scope.

03

Multichannel Intake

Email, phone, live chat, web portal and WhatsApp collected into one queue, so nothing is resolved in a private inbox and left unrecorded.

04

Ticketing System Setup

Categories, priorities, SLA timers, routing rules and automations configured inside your own Zendesk, Freshdesk, Zoho Desk or Jira Service Management.

05

Knowledge Base and Self-Service

Articles written from your real ticket history, so the questions asked repeatedly stop reaching an agent at all.

06

SLA Reporting

A weekly report on first response time, first-level resolution, backlog age and reopen rate, against the targets agreed at kickoff.

Who it is for

Who Uses an EICRA Help Desk?

Three kinds of buyer, three separately scoped queues. The mechanics are the same; the tone, the escalation paths and the knowledge are not, so each is agreed on its own. The desk is run by the managed services team inside EICRA’s IT division, alongside the content moderation queues that share the same staffing model.

IT

Internal IT Desks

Your own engineers stop answering password resets and how-to questions. EICRA agents take level 1 and level 2 inside your service desk, and anything that needs a release or a production change goes to your team with a written handover.

CS

Customer Support Desks

SaaS and e-commerce teams get a staffed first line for their customers inside Zendesk, Freshdesk or HubSpot, with macros and knowledge articles written from real tickets and a weekly report on response and reopen rates.

24h

Desks That Need Coverage Overlap

An in-house desk keeps its own hours while EICRA covers the rest. Dhaka sits on UTC+6, so Asia-Pacific and European business hours are covered directly, and the handover between shifts is written into the runbook, not left to chat.

Process

How Does a Ticket Move Through the Desk?

Six steps, the same every time, written into a runbook before the desk goes live. Nothing is handled in a side conversation, and nothing closes without the person who raised it saying so.

Intake

Whatever channel it arrives on, the request is logged once, categorised, given a priority and assigned to a named agent.

You receive: a ticket ID

Triage

The agent checks it against the runbook and the knowledge base, confirms what the user actually needs, and answers inside the SLA window.

You receive: a first response

Resolve at Level 1

Anything inside the runbook is fixed on the spot. Escalating a ticket a level 1 agent could have closed is treated as a defect, not a normal outcome.

You receive: a fix or a plan

Escalate

If it needs level 2, your engineers or a vendor, it moves with a written handover: what was tried, what was ruled out, the logs and the user’s own words.

You receive: an escalation note

Verify and Close

The ticket stays open with us until the requester confirms it is resolved. Closed by timeout is not a resolution.

You receive: a closure confirmation

Learn

Anything asked repeatedly becomes a knowledge article or a problem record, so the same ticket stops arriving every week.

You receive: a knowledge article

Tools

Which Ticketing Systems Do You Work In?

Yours. We staff and configure the system you already pay for, rather than moving your users to a portal that suits us. If you have no system yet, we help you choose one and set it up in your own account.

Zendesk Full desk: intake, macros, SLA timers, views and reporting.
Freshdesk Full desk, automations, portal and knowledge base setup.
Jira Service Management Queues, request types, SLA rules and links into engineering.
Zoho Desk Full desk inside the Zoho suite you already use.
HubSpot Service Hub Ticketing tied to the customer record in your CRM.
No system yet Selection, setup and migration, opened in your own name.

Scope boundary

Which Tier Resolves Which Ticket?

Every escalation costs the step it left as well as the step it arrived at. Agreeing the boundary in writing is what keeps a desk affordable. The tiers follow the service desk practice described in ITIL 4 service management, with the line between level 2 and engineering drawn for your systems rather than copied from a template.

Tier Typical tickets Who handles it
Level 1 service desk Access and password requests, how-to questions, known errors, status checks, licence and hardware requests logged and routed. EICRA agents
Level 2 technical support Application faults, permission and account problems, device, email and integration issues that need investigation rather than a known fix. EICRA agents, within the agreed scope
Level 3 engineering or vendor Code defects, data fixes, infrastructure changes and anything that needs a release, a config change in production or a vendor case. Your engineers or the vendor
What we do not do. A remote help desk does not cover on-site hardware repair, physical network or server administration, or anything needing someone in the building. In Dhaka that work sits under our on-site IT support service; elsewhere it stays with your engineers or your local provider. We also do not change production systems outside your own written change process, however urgent the ticket looks.

Why EICRA

Why Outsource Your Help Desk to EICRA?

Industry research from HDI and MetricNet shows that the cost of a ticket rises each time it is escalated past the level 1 service desk, because every tier it touches adds its own handling cost on top of the last (HDI / MetricNet on first-level resolution). A desk is cheap or expensive depending on how much it resolves itself, which is why first-level resolution, not ticket count, is the number this desk is run on.

Named Agents, Not a Shared Pool

You know who is on your queue and who leads them. The same people learn your systems, your vocabulary and your exceptions, instead of reading a script cold every shift.

First-Level Resolution Is the Target

We measure how much the desk closes itself, not how many tickets it touches. An escalation that a level 1 agent could have handled is reviewed as a defect in the runbook.

Your Tool, Your Tickets, Your Knowledge

Everything is built in your own system. The ticket history, the macros and every knowledge article stay with you, and our named accounts are removed at handover.

An SLA in the Contract, Not a Deck

First response time, resolution targets, coverage hours and escalation routes are written into the agreement, with a weekly report that shows the misses as well as the hits.

Data and access

How Is Ticket Data Protected?

Your ticket data never leaves your own system. The desk is staffed by named people under accounts you control, with the paperwork signed before the first login.

Where the Data Lives

In your Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira Service Management, Zoho Desk or HubSpot account, in your region. Nothing is exported to EICRA servers; agents work inside your tool, and every ticket, macro and article stays yours at handover.

Who Can See It

Only the named agents on your queue, each under an individual account with the permissions you set. You can audit and revoke any account at any time, and all accounts are removed when the engagement ends.

What Is Signed First

A non-disclosure agreement and a data processing agreement before any access is granted. For clients in the EU and UK, EICRA acts as a processor under the terms set out in Article 28 of the GDPR, with your instructions written into the agreement.

What Happens on an Incident

Any access or handling incident is logged as a ticket in your own system, reported to your named contact, and shown in the weekly report. We do not change production systems outside your written change process, however urgent the ticket looks.

FAQs

Help Desk Questions Buyers Ask First

Cost is at the top, because that is the question everyone opens with. Data, switching and the honest limits of a remote desk follow.

How much do help desk services cost?

Help desk is $2,000 per level 1 agent and $2,600 per level 2 agent per month. Shift coverage, languages and ticket volume set the number of agents. Your ticketing subscription stays in your own name and is paid by you. How the engagement is structured is set out on the pricing page.

What hours can you cover?

Whatever your users need, agreed at kickoff. We are on UTC+6, which covers Asia-Pacific and European business hours directly, and we staff US shifts where the volume justifies it. Coverage, overlap hours and out-of-hours rules are written into the contract.

Do you work in our ticketing system or yours?

Yours. We work inside your own Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira Service Management, Zoho Desk or HubSpot. The tickets, the macros and the knowledge base stay with you, our agent accounts are named, and they are removed when the engagement ends.

What is the difference between level 1 and level 2 support?

Level 1 is the front line: it answers, logs, triages and resolves anything covered by the runbook. Level 2 investigates application faults, permissions, devices and integrations. Level 3 is your own engineers or the vendor, for code defects and infrastructure changes.

How do you measure the desk?

Against targets agreed at kickoff: first response time, first-level resolution rate, backlog age, reopen rate and customer satisfaction. You receive a weekly report with the numbers and the misses, and the targets sit in the contract rather than in a sales deck.

Do you handle customer support as well as internal IT support?

Both, as separate queues. An internal IT desk and a customer support desk share the same mechanics but need different tone, different escalation paths and different knowledge. We scope them separately so that one does not quietly starve the other.

What happens to a ticket you cannot resolve?

It is escalated with a written handover: what was tried, what was ruled out, the logs, and the user’s own words. Escalation targets are agreed in advance, and the ticket stays open with us until the person who raised it confirms it is resolved.

How long does it take to go live?

Go-live follows a fixed sequence, not a fixed date: scoping and access first, then the runbook and knowledge build, then a pilot queue at low volume, then full coverage. Most delays come from access approvals on your side rather than from staffing.

Where does our ticket data live, and who can see it?

In your own ticketing system, under your account. Nothing is exported to our servers. Only the named agents on your queue hold access, each under an individual account you can audit and revoke, and every account is removed at handover. The NDA and DPA are signed before the first login.

How do we switch from our current help desk provider?

In four steps: 1. We read your ticket history and the incumbent’s runbook, if one exists. 2. We rebuild the runbook and knowledge base inside your own system. 3. Our agents run a pilot queue alongside the incumbent. 4. Coverage transfers queue by queue, and the incumbent’s accounts are closed. Your tickets never leave your tool, so there is no migration.

Can you fix our production servers or on-site hardware?

No. A remote help desk does not cover physical hardware repair, on-premises network or server administration, or production changes outside your written change process. Those stay with your engineers, your vendor or an on-site provider; on-site work in Dhaka sits under our office IT support service.

Do you use AI agents on our desk?

Only with your written approval, and never unattended. Where AI drafting is used, it runs under our human-in-the-loop review: a named agent checks every draft before it reaches a user, and the review record stays in your ticketing system.

What do you need from us in the first week?

Three things: 1. Named accounts in your ticketing system with the agreed permissions. 2. Your existing documentation, however rough, plus the last few months of tickets. 3. One escalation contact per system and a decision-maker for the runbook. Everything else is built from those.

Reviewed by Asma Sultana Minu, Local Corporate Counsel, Eicra Soft Limited. Informational only, not legal advice.

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