Contacts & Companies

Hello everyone,We would like to understand the recommended procedure for deactivating contacts in Freshdesk.Specifically: Is there a way to deactivate a contact without permanently deleting it? What happens to existing tickets associated with that contact after deactivation? Are there any best practices to ensure reporting and historical data remain unaffected? Is bulk deactivation possible? We want to ensure we follow a clean and compliant process while keeping our historical ticket data intact.Thank you in advance for your guidance.

Hello!I am using Freshdesk, and have multiple customer companies. I have a portal set up for each company, with a custom url.I’m trying to get Freshdesk to be able to associate company A with company A’s portal and tickets, and company B with company B’s portal and tickets. I’d need the system to send the correct activation URL as well in the activation email. I am struggling to figure out how to do this. Is this possible? Should we only have one portal? If only one portal, how will the portal and system know to only show company A’s forms to company A users (and only show them tickets for company A as well). Thank you!

As pointed out by other customers, such as , the ability to convert an Agent to Collaborator or Collaborator to Agent is a glaring gap that was missedThe current advisory to first delete the agent and then make them a collaborator is flawed as it creates a situation that this users tickets are unallocated incorrectly, they are still within the company and did work on these items.Totally get the need to restrict collaborators from being asssigned on tickets going forward, but there are valid use cases for them to remain on historic ticketsSUB FORUM SELECTED IS INCORRECT BUT THERE IS NONE MORE ACCURATE

Hello !When we receive an email from a sender that is not already in the “contact” list, it does not work:no ticket created no trace of the email no auto reply to the customer (aknowledgment)but when we manually add the contact , prior to sending an email, then the ticket is properly created.The documentation says that a customer should be automatically added as a contact thought.Any idea? 

On the Freshdesk contacts page, how can I customize the fields/columns shown? I want to hide “Facebook” and “Twitter” and show a custom customer field (“Department”) that I created. Is this not possible on the Growth plan?

Hi guysFor years Freshdesk has been assigning the proper Full Name of new enquires to our contacts when new tickets were created.  But now it doesn’t use the full name, but rather the 1st half of the email address.  Eg. if someone fills out a form and their email address is lucky123@gmail.com, the contact in Freshdesk is created as “Lucky123” - even if they filled in their full name.This changed when we updated the website and change WordPress forms from Formiddle to Fluent Forms.Our process was simple:Website visitor completes form → form email gets fowarded to unqiue Freshdesk email address → Ticket and contact is created from form info → Name is created based on the Full Name on the form (which was set as the “Sender’s Name” in the email settings.As mentioned, now with Fluent Forms it only used the 1st half of the email address (before the @) as the name.  So we have to manually update each new contact / leads name.Freshde

We have thousands of contacts setup who have never created a ticket with us.  In 2025 we’re launching our customer portal, and I only want to invite people who have previously logged a ticket, rather than all people who were migrated from our previous system.Is there a way to easily identify which contacts have never logged a ticket, and delete them?

Hello,Our outgoing email has been blocked for 3 week now. We immediately opened a ticket #19378775, and one person told us it had been routed to the concerned team. After a week, someone joined the ticket and marked it as resolved without doing anything—we are still stuck. Now it’s been 3 weeks without any updates ! It's quite ironic for a SaaS company to have such poor customer service.Please fix this as soon as possible!

Hi,it is possible to set a customer can see the tickets of other customers associated with the same company?EG customer AA (Company XX’s director) can see his ticket and also customer’s BB ticket (same company) 

Hello,We trying to make integration users from Azure( active directory) to freshdesk, and we trying to make automate user creation.  But when we done everythink, we get error “cannot be logged in as this user is not part of this organization”. We trying to find solution, but we dont have time, we want to start using grown plan and we have 370 users, and we dont want to create users with hand. Thanks i will wait for your respond.

Hello everyone,As you can see in the picture, we have toggled off the User Activation Email in Freshdesk>>Admin>>Email notifications>>Requester NotificationsBut each new contact will be still Unverified. How can I solve this problem? 

What are people doing when you have a customer that is acquired or merges and starts going by a new name?  I’m finding there is no way to Edit existing names or merge with other companies, like you can for contacts.I would love to hear what other Freshdesk users are doing.

I would like to assign several companies to a contact because he is in charge of them. I used to be able to link multiple companies when creating a contact. Now it is no longer possible. Has something been adjusted ?

Hi,I’ve created a ticket form with many of customs fields, all of them are linked with a newly created ticket.In addition I have a few fields in the form (phone, telegram id, job title etc) which have to be linked with a user, not with a ticket. How to add information from these “user” fields to the Contact details?Thanks

Managing a support desk operating in one time zone only, but handling customers from multiple timezones, is a challenge. Let's imagine this:My helpdesk has 1 agent. This agent works in timezone EU. This agent handles both customers: Customer 1. Their contracted SLA with us uses business hours in EU, same as the agent.Customer 2. Their contracted SLA with us uses business hours in US, not the same as the agent. How can I set up Freshdesk to support this - so that:In a ticket queue sorted by "Due by" it is related to the specific customer's business hours, and not the agent group business hours? When I pull report on for example SLA violations, these SLA violations are related to the relative business hours of the customer?Example:Customer 2 reports a ticket that has a 1 hour resolution time. They report the ticket at 4PM (US time). The agent (working in EU time) resolves the ticket at

I am looking for an option to make contact fields conditional, similar to what you can now do with sections in the ticket fields configuration page:ExampleI have a pet YES (section) type of pet fish cat dog name of pet text field food text field NO (section) empty Final ResultI have a pet : yes type of pet : fish name of pet : nemo food : spaghetti Has anyone worked out a way to do this? We normally have a lot of contact fields, and I worry that without some kind of filtering, it will all be very difficult to parse for our team.

Hey everyone,I just got my first microcontroller and I’m excited to start learning! I have some basic coding experience but have never worked with Arduino Uno before. I’d love some advice on a good beginner project to get familiar with the board and its capabilities. What are some fun and easy projects to start with? Also, any tips on essential components I should buy (LEDs, sensors, etc.)?Would appreciate any guidance or links to beginner-friendly tutorials.Looking forward to your suggestions.

Hi, I have a customer in freshdesk who has two different projects. I wonder if I can have two different projects, alternative companies, on the same cuntomer with same email-address? If this doesn't work, what tips do you have for separating the cases under the company?

On FreshDesk I want to verify a user for them. So I do NOT need to send them a verification email. Is this possible. I do not care if the users can login, I just want to open tickets for them. I need their emails verified but they always end up in SPAM so I have to phone them anyway. Whats the point of software if I have to phone them anyway?

I would like to customize the fields shown in the contact details side panel when agents look at tickets. Is this possible? Here is my use case, I have all my users in the contact list and I have extra fields for them, such as what department they works in - say HR, Finance, Stores etc. and another field is what building they work in. Now I would this to be visible when I look at a ticket in the Contact details side panel - e.g. this screenshot. Some of this is visible when you press on view more info, but this is an extra step and should not be needed.Karl

FD is not user friendly in terms of contact and agent management . In compare to other tools , FD is not providing us to manage the contact , Even we can not download the filtered contact . Every time if you want to check your contacts , you need to download the all contacts . That will take 1-2 hr to generate the report , If you want to do bulk merging of contacts or bulk update of your agent data that is not possible on FD . We can not do analysis of agent or client.   

Hi,Is here anybody who successfully managed to sync their outlook contacts with freshdesk with the use of the market place app “Microsoft Outlook Contacts”? At my helpdesk the sync doesn’t start. I’m not even get asked to log in to my 365 account.best regardsSascha

Hello!A following use case example:Contact creates a ticket that comes to Freshdesk and a Contact record is created for the person. After x time period (for example, 6 months) and no other activity (like further tickets have been raised by the Contact), we would be able to hide/encrypt the identifying data from the Contact record (name, email, etc.) for legal reasons. If the contact would send a ticket again after this, the data would be again unhidden. All tickets data from should still be acccessable for reporting purposes, if needed. This would mostly be related to tickets that are “feedbacks” in nature.I understand that deleting a user would mark all upcoming contacts as spam. Is there any way to “just delete”, without marking as spam?Any other ideas on how to potentially approach this sort of a use case?

Experiencing a real headache when trying to merge client contacts under a single company. The company in question utilizes Netsuite custom email sender addresses - so every new ticket a contact creates also creates a new contact in Freshdesk. These are all some long variation of random numbers. So for example, we have a regular contact who often creates tickets - we now have 60+ separate Contact entries for this one individual. Normally, we would just merge these subsequent contact emails under the main contact, but the limitation of 10 email addresses doesn’t allow for this. Is this an issue others have dealt with, and if so, what was your solution? I think the easiest thing to do would be to lift the 10 email maximum per contact restriction, but not sure if FreshDesk is going to do that.

I have setup SSO for a new freshdesk account and am trying to work out how i have Freshdesk know about all our employees, so that when i go to create a ticket i can select and assign it to them.  i cannot see anywhere in the settings that seems to support this - can anyone advise?