One support desk for every client brand.
If you run support on behalf of many clients, you should not need a separate helpdesk login for each one. Solves puts every client brand in a single workspace and one unified queue, with per-brand mailboxes, sender names and signatures, a hard guard against replying as the wrong client, and pricing by team band instead of per seat.
Email-first support. No chat, phone or social inboxes, by design.
The short answer
Built for running support across a book of clients
Agencies and managed service providers answer support for other people's customers. The job is the same shape whether you run client websites, hosting, IT or a mix: many separate identities, many support addresses, one small team behind all of them. Solves treats that as a first-class case rather than something you bolt onto a single-brand helpdesk.
In Solves, each client is a brand. A brand owns its support address, from-name and signature, and your team works every brand from one unified queue with a brand badge on each ticket. You can filter to one client, group the queue by client, or work the whole book at once. The Agency/MSP band carries up to twenty-five client brands in a single workspace for GBP 299 a month, ex VAT.
This is the opposite of running a separate workspace per client, where every contractor needs an account each, context is split across logins, you cannot see backlog across the business, and someone eventually replies to one client's customer with another client's footer. Solves keeps every client in one place and makes that wrong-client mistake structurally hard to make.
What you get
Everything an agency or MSP needs to run many clients
Shipped today, scoped to support email. No fake marketplace, no channels we do not run.
One queue, every client
All open tickets across the client brands you can access, in one list, each row badged to its client, with filters for brand, mailbox, assignee, state, priority and tag.
Per-client identity
Each client brand has its own support address, from-name and signature, so replies always go out looking like the client the customer wrote to, not like your agency.
Wrong-client send guard
The composer is locked to the ticket's brand and mailbox. Sending as a different client is an explicit, audited admin action, never an accidental dropdown slip.
Per-client access
Decide which client brands each teammate can see and whether they can reply, add notes only, or manage the brand. A contractor on one account never sees another client's tickets.
Brand-scoped saved replies
Save the right wording per client or share it across your organisation, so the tone matches the client and your team is not retyping the same answer for every account.
SLA timers per client
First-response and resolution timers, with per-brand targets, surface a breaching view so client promises stay visible.
Contact history by client
A contact's previous tickets are grouped by client brand, and history a teammate is not permitted to see is never exposed across accounts.
Reports across the book
Open backlog, ageing, first response, resolution and created-versus-resolved, with brand filters, so you can report per client or across the whole business.
Guided mailbox setup
Bring each client onboard with forwarding-first setup and plain-English DNS steps. Live sending for a client stays gated until its checks pass or a founder override is recorded.
How it works
Add a client, connect its mailbox, work one queue
Add each client as a brand
Set up a brand per client: its name, colour, default from-name and signature. Clients share your workspace but stay separate to their own customers.
Connect a mailbox per client
Give each client its support address and run the guided, forwarding-first mailbox checks. Live sending for a client stays blocked until its DNS verifies or a founder override is recorded.
Set who sees which client
Use role presets and per-brand access so each teammate or contractor sees only the clients they work, with the right reply, notes-only or manage permission.
Work the whole book in one queue
Tickets arrive badged to their client. Filter to one client, group by client, or clear the whole queue, replying with the correct identity every time.
In practice
What multi-client support looks like day to day
Picture a small agency that runs support for three client shops, Harbour, Kiln and Meadow, plus its own accounts mailbox. Without a multi-brand desk, that is four inboxes, four logins, and a daily risk of mixing them up. With Solves it is one queue: a Harbour delivery question, a Kiln returns query, a Meadow login problem and an internal invoice all sit together, each badged to its client, each answerable with the right signature and inside the right SLA.
Agencies and MSPs are multi-brand by definition
If you answer support from more than one address as more than one identity, you are already running multi-brand support, usually the hard way. That covers a web agency maintaining several client sites, an MSP running a help desk for a handful of business clients, a marketing agency handling enquiries for client campaigns, and a studio that supports both its own product and a client's. The work is the same: keep each client recognisable to its customers while sharing the people, tooling and reporting behind the scenes.
Pricing that does not punish overflow helpers
The usual blocker for agencies is seat-based pricing. Most helpdesks charge per agent, so the freelancer who clears overflow on a launch week, or the account manager who only ever adds private notes, costs a full seat. Solves prices by GBP team band: the Agency/MSP band is GBP 299 a month, ex VAT, for up to twenty-five client brands, and you size the plan to the team rather than paying a per-seat tax for every occasional pair of hands. Pay annually and you get twelve months for ten.
Keeping client work watertight
When you handle other people's customers, the failures that hurt are sending as the wrong client, leaking an internal note, or missing a response a client was promised. Solves answers each directly: the composer is brand-locked so you cannot send as the wrong client by accident, public replies and private notes are hard-separated so an internal note never reaches a customer, and first-response and resolution SLA timers surface a breaching view before a promise is broken. Everything is encrypted at rest with per-organisation keys, and logs are metadata-only, so no client message body or email address is ever written to a log.
Honest comparison
Solves for agencies and MSPs vs a typical helpdesk
Where a single Solves workspace helps a small multi-client team, and where it deliberately stops.
| Solves | Typical helpdesk | |
|---|---|---|
| Many client brands in one login | Included; up to 25 on the Agency/MSP band | Often a higher-tier add-on or one account per client |
| How you pay for helpers | GBP team bands, no per-seat penalty | Usually per agent, per month |
| Wrong-client send prevention | Composer locked to the ticket brand and mailbox | Varies; often relies on agent care |
| Per-client access and visibility | Role presets plus per-brand access controls | Varies by plan; sometimes enterprise-only |
| Reporting across the whole book | One workspace, brand filters on every report | Hard when each client is a separate account |
| Phone, live chat and social | Not included, by design | Often available as add-ons |
Competitor facts last verified 13 June 2026. Re-check the vendor's current plans before deciding.
Solves does not claim feature parity with a full contact-centre suite. If a client needs phone, live chat or social channels at scale, a broader platform is the better fit.
Email-first, on purpose
Solves handles support email for your clients: tickets, ownership, notes, SLAs and multi-brand. It does not run live chat, phone or social inboxes. That focus is why a small agency or MSP team can run many client brands without spreading thin across channels.
FAQ
Agency and MSP questions
What is the best help desk for an agency or MSP?
The best help desk for an agency or managed service provider is one that runs every client brand from a single login and one shared queue, keeps each brand's sender identity separate, and does not charge a full seat for every occasional helper. Solves is built around exactly that: one workspace, up to twenty-five client brands on the Agency/MSP band, per-brand mailboxes and signatures, and a hard guard against replying as the wrong client.
How do agencies and MSPs handle support for many clients?
The clean way is one desk, many brands. Each client is set up as a brand with its own support address, from-name and signature, and your team works all of them from one unified queue with a brand badge on every ticket. That beats one helpdesk login per client, which splits context, makes reporting impossible across the book of business, and eventually leads to someone answering one client's customer with another client's footer.
Can a teammate reply to the wrong client by accident?
No. The reply composer is locked to the ticket's brand and mailbox, and the from-address is taken from that mailbox, never from anything the browser sends. Changing the outbound brand on a ticket needs an explicit, audited admin action, so a reply meant for one client cannot quietly go out as another. For an agency or MSP juggling many clients at once, that guard is the difference between a near miss and an embarrassing email to the wrong customer.
How does pricing work for an agency or MSP?
Solves prices by team band in GBP, ex VAT, not per agent. The Agency/MSP band is GBP 299 a month and covers up to twenty-five client brands in one workspace, with per-brand access and visibility controls. Because you pay for a band rather than a seat, the contractor who picks up overflow on a busy Monday does not add a per-seat fee. Pay annually and you get twelve months for ten.
Can clients log in to see their own tickets?
Not yet. Solves is email-first, so a client's customers reach support by emailing the brand's address, and your team works those emails as owned tickets. A self-service customer portal and a knowledge base are on the roadmap, not shipped, and we will not pretend otherwise. What is live today is the part that stops things slipping: ownership, SLA timers, private notes and a unified queue across every client brand.
Can I move our existing client inboxes into Solves?
You move off a shared inbox by pointing each client's support address at its Solves mailbox, which is forwarding-first and shipped today. Bringing historic tickets across from a previous helpdesk is guided and in pilot rather than a one-click transfer, so we set it up with you instead of promising an automatic migration that does not yet exist. The early-adopter pilot includes setup help and saved-reply migration.
Does Solves do live chat or phone for our clients?
No. Solves handles support email: tickets, ownership, private notes, SLAs and multi-brand. It does not run live chat, phone lines, WhatsApp or social inboxes for your clients. That focus is on purpose: it is why a small agency or MSP team can run a dozen client brands from one queue without drowning in channels. If a client genuinely needs a contact centre, a broader platform is the honest fit.
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