Beetil: gives businesses a full helpdesk in 2 minutes
From what I've seen of NZ helpdesks, most companies fit their round-peg small company needs into square-hole enterprise software, that, or simply rely on the noncommittal line "try our online help forum". Beetil is here to move the helpdesk experience online, and bring a simple AJAX-ian interface to the process of recording and resolving problems for customers, perfect for its target: companies with 5-20 employees, regularly servicing clients. Beetil charges a pay-as-you-go US$25/user/month with no contract. For that, you get a clean yet powerful online application with a basic public-facing interface, right off the bat, for your customers to enter problems, meaning you can have a proper helpdesk set up and running a couple of minutes after signing up for Beetil online - pretty nice if you're a small web app team rolling out a new product and want to offer professional-looking support that goes beyond a help forum for example. Beetil brings collaborative online features to helpdesk-ing: joint, wiki-style solutions to problems, and automatic suggestions linking a new problem with a previously solved problem are characteristic. In the video below: numerous suggested links appear after entering a problem, as the system digs up matching past incidents (and solutions):
Having said that, you should check the credentials of any company claiming they can safely put your sensitive customer data on the web. Youdo, the makers of Beetil have that proven track record having built the Powershop online application for buying/managing power credits.
Related (international) services: Zendesk http://www.zendesk.com/