Apps and software

Immedesk

Our own service desk platform, built for teams that have outgrown a shared support inbox.

The short answer

Immedesk is a service desk platform built by AR Digital Solutions for teams handling support requests at volume. It replaces the shared inbox with tickets that carry an owner, a status and a response clock, so you can see what's open, who has it, and how long it's been sitting there.

The job, before the feature list

Support software gets sold on screenshots. It gets judged on whether these hold up on a Tuesday with four people away.

  • Intake from every direction, because requests arrive by email, by phone, through a form and as a text to someone's mobile. Anything outside the system is invisible.
  • One name against every request. Not a team, not a mailbox.
  • A clock that starts by itself, since response targets nobody tracks automatically are decoration.
  • A status the requester can see, because most chasing emails are requests for information you already hold.
  • A record that outlives whoever wrote it: what was asked, what was tried, what fixed it.
  • Reporting on volume, speed, and who's carrying more than their share.

What a shared inbox costs you, and why nobody notices

A shared inbox works until roughly the moment two people are in it. After that it degrades in four ways, and none of them appear on a report, because a shared inbox doesn't produce reports.

Nobody knows who's handling what.

Two people open the same message, each assumes the other has it, and it sits all day. Or both answer. Reading an inbox isn't owning a queue, and the difference is that a queue tells you when something's been picked up.

The same customer gets two different answers.

One person offers a workaround, another promises a fix. The customer concludes your team doesn't talk to each other, which in that moment is true.

There's no record of how long anything took.

You can't tell a client you answer quickly, because you don't know. You can't tell which requests are eating the week, because nobody counted. When someone asks whether you need another support person, the argument gets settled by whoever sounds busiest.

The knowledge lives in one person's head.

Every team has someone who knows why that one server has a manual step. When they take leave the queue slows. When they resign, part of the business leaves with them.

What changes when tickets, ownership and targets are explicit is less dramatic than the demos suggest, and more useful.

The queue becomes a shared picture, so escalation stops depending on someone happening to notice. Priority gets set by rules rather than by whoever emailed most recently. Every exchange lands against a customer record, so the next person starts with the history instead of asking the customer to explain again. And the fix gets written down once, which is how a knowledge base actually gets built.

The reporting is the part that surprises operators. Once you can see first response times by day and by request type, staffing arguments get short. You also find that a handful of recurring issues account for most of your volume, and those are worth engineering away rather than answering forever.

We hold ourselves to a published number

AR Digital Solutions runs managed support with a 1 to 3 hour response commitment. That's a number we publish, so it's one we have to prove, per client, on the day. You don't hold that out of a shared mailbox. Immedesk came out of running a help desk under that constraint.

How a rollout runs

  1. We map your queue

    Where requests come from, who answers them, and what your response targets should be.

  2. We agree the configuration and the number

    Fixed scope, fixed price, dates in writing.

    3. We set it up and bring history across, so nothing gets stranded in the old inbox.

  3. We train, then stay close

    The first fortnight decides whether people use it or quietly keep replying from Outlook.

Who it's for, and who it isn't

It suits a team of five or more fielding requests, an internal IT desk supporting staff across sites, and any business that has promised a response time in a contract.

It isn't for a sole operator whose whole support load is a dozen emails a week. That's a folder structure, and we'll say so on the call.

Why bring this here

A development team that's ours.

The people who build the software also run the servers under it.

No lock in contracts.

Month to month. We'd rather earn next month than trap you in the last one.

One account manager who already knows your setup.

"We tried a help desk tool before and the team stopped using it."

Usually because it demanded more typing than the inbox did. Fewer required fields, sensible defaults, and intake that meets people where they already work. That's what the mapping stage is for.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Still wondering about something? Call 07 3067 8910 or 0425 879 379, mon to fri, 8:30am to 5:30pm.

  • A service desk platform built by AR Digital Solutions for teams that log, own and resolve support requests instead of reading them in a shared mailbox.

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