For teams that serve clients

The calm service desk.

Client emails become requests your whole team can see, answer and close, so nothing waits in one person's inbox. The desk below is running: SUP-238 falls due in 37:52.

Tickets · Email · Portals · Tasks · Assets · Time

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Who it's for

Made for small teams with clients.

If your clients email you for work and expect it done, one of these will look familiar.

01 · Agencies

Creative and marketing agencies

Turn quick-change emails into jobs with an owner, a sign-off and the hours behind them.

Sample requestBy email

SUP-318Swap the hero image on the spring landing pageOpen

  • Threaded email. Client replies land on the job, not in one person's inbox.
  • Approvals. Sign-off is recorded on the request before anything ships.
  • Time capture. Hours log against the client and export as CSV.
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02 · Practices

Bookkeeping and admin practices

Collect the statements, receipts and signatures clients owe you, without chasing by hand.

Sample requestRecurring

SUP-207March close - three statements outstandingWaiting

  • Document requests. A checklist of what the client owes, chased by email every three days.
  • Recurring requests. Monthly and weekly work opens itself on schedule.
  • Client portal. Clients see what is still outstanding, signed in by email link.
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03 · IT providers

Small IT providers

Answer each client's requests against what they actually run, and see renewals before they lapse.

Sample requestBy portal

SUP-412New starter Monday - laptop and accountsOpen

  • Assets. Hardware, software and renewals, kept per client.
  • Processes. Onboarding checklists that run the same way every time.
  • Service levels. Response targets measured as they are, worst first.
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Most helpdesks grow until nobody can find anything. Tend stays small enough to trust and fast enough to love.

Everything, nothing extra

Six things, done properly.

Not forty half-built modules. The parts a service team actually touches every day - and each one earns its place.

Unified inbox

Every request, one place, zero clutter.

SLAs that tell the truth

Breaches surface worst-first - no green dashboards hiding red tickets.

Customer portal

One clean, private portal - every customer sees their own requests, passwordless.

Assets

Track hardware, software, services, stock, and renewals for every client.

Processes & guides

Repeatable checklists and a self-serve guide library that answers before questions become tickets.

Time & costs

Capture time and expenses alongside the work, then export them for your accounting system.

Also in the box

  • Approvals
  • CSAT surveys
  • Ticket merge
  • Snooze
  • Scheduled send
  • Watchers
  • Time tracking
  • Expenses
  • Integrations
  • Email templates
  • Automation rules
  • Recurring tickets
  • Reports
  • Calendar
  • Custom forms
  • Tasks
  • Chat notifications
  • Importers
  • Dark mode
  • Audit log
  • CSV export
  • Backups

Day one

Live in three steps.

  1. 01

    Start free trial

    Confirm your email and name your workspace. Your queue, portal and first request are ready without a call.

  2. 02

    Try your first request

    Assign, reply and resolve a harmless starter request. Invite your team and tailor the details when you need them.

  3. 03

    Open the front doors and start resolving

    Forward your support address into Tend and share your portal - customers email or sign in with just an email link. No passwords, just work.

    Setup guides: Gmail · Microsoft 365

Your customers' front door

A private portal for your customers.
No passwords, ever.

Every customer signs in to their own view - their requests, their history, their whole organisation's when you allow it. They sign in with just their email: a link arrives, they're in. Nothing to set up, nothing to reset. The one here is working - click through it.

  • Isolated per customer - one tenant can never see another.
  • Passwordless sign-in - an email link on their side, nothing to manage on yours.
  • Org-wide visibility when you choose - a client lead can follow their whole company's requests.
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No seat minimums, no onboarding fees, no annual lock-in - start with one agent and leave whenever you like.

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