Location
Remote / United States
Industry
Salesforce Consulting Partner
Suptask ITSM on Slack Brings Clarity and Structure to Internal Support Workflows
Chris Tucker
Director of Strategic Technology

Overview

Kicksaw is a full-service Salesforce consulting partner helping SMB and mid-market companies drive measurable business outcomes through advisory, implementation, and managed services.

With more than 120 employees, Kicksaw relies on Suptask to manage internal support and operational requests for four departments: Business Systems, Finance, Marketing, and People Operations.

The challenge

As Kicksaw grew, internal requests became fragmented across Slack DMs, shared channels, emails, and spreadsheets. Important work was easy to miss, ownership wasn’t always clear, and tracking requests required manual follow-ups.

What worked at a smaller scale started to introduce friction and operational risk. The Business Systems team needed a way to support multiple departments and critical workflows—without adding new tools or increasing administrative overhead.

How Kicksaw uses Suptask

Suptask is Kicksaw’s central system of record for internal support and operational requests, used daily across teams.

Each department owns its own inbox with intake forms and workflows, allowing them to:

  • Collect structured requests directly in Slack
  • Automatically route work to the right owners
  • Manage approvals and dependencies
  • Track status, history, and trends in one place

This setup is especially important for employee lifecycle events such as onboarding, role changes, and terminations, where multiple teams need to coordinate with shared visibility and clear ownership.

Employees simply submit a request to the appropriate department - no need to know who owns what. Suptask handles routing, tracking, and collaboration behind the scenes.

Fast to adopt, easy to scale

Because Suptask runs natively in Slack, onboarding was straightforward and adoption was immediate. Employees didn’t need to learn a new system or change how they work - once forms and workflows were set up, usage became natural almost instantly.

Hands-on, responsive support from the Suptask team helped Kicksaw quickly refine workflows and get value faster, ensuring teams were set up for success from day one.

The impact

By centralizing requests and standardizing intake across teams, Kicksaw has seen clear improvements:

  • Faster response times and smoother handoffs
  • Fewer missed or forgotten requests
  • Less back-and-forth to gather missing information
  • Clearer expectations for employees submitting requests
  • More time spent executing, not organizing

Most importantly, Suptask delivers control and clarity at scale. Internal teams can collaborate in context, track progress end-to-end, and support a growing organization with greater consistency and lower operational risk - all while staying entirely inside Slack.

Turn Slack into a help desk your team will actually use

Frequently asked Questions

What is a Slack ticketing system?

A Slack ticketing system is help desk and service desk software that integrates with Slack. Any department, from IT and HR to finance, can submit, track, and resolve internal requests without ever leaving their main workspace. Using Slack as your help desk, your messages can turn into tickets, so you never have to leave Slack to manage your tickets.

Can Slack be used as a ticketing system?

Yes, Slack can be used as a ticketing system by integrating dedicated apps like Suptask to Slack. This allows teams to create, track, and manage requests all in one place.

What teams are Suptask built for?

Suptask is built as a solution that works for any team.

We have proven examples across many organizations where teams such as IT (ITSM), Product, Engineering, Finance / Billing, Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, and HR are using Suptask to improve their ticketing experience on Slack.

How do I use a help desk in Slack?

To use Slack as a help desk using Suptask, Sign up and install Suptask, then simply ask for help in a designated channel (e.g., #support) or add a ticket emoji to any message.

How to automate ticket management directly in Slack?

You are able to control tickets without leaving Slack. The set-up requires no knowledge of coding. Here's the procedure.

  • If any new messages are automatically treated as tickets in Slack channels, automate ticket creation. Users can transform previous Slack messages into tickets by using a specific emoji (e.g., "🎫 ").
  • Automate ticket assignments using rules. Tickets must be assigned to the appropriate persons or groups. Suptask offers round-robin assigning, the fewest-open-tickets rule, and keyword-based routing.
  • Automate updates/notifications by automatically notifying requesters about their tickets, new tasks for agents, and responding in threads so that there is full transparency on status changes and resolution processes, etc.

How to create tickets from Slack?

You can create tickets from Slack from any conversation with multiple methods:

  • Post in a Request Channel: Send a note to a channel called #it-support. Suptask will turn it into a ticket.
  • Use an Emoji Reaction: React with a ticket emoji (like 🎫). Suptask will turn that message into a ticket.
  • Use a Slash command: Write /suptask or /helpdesk to create a ticket anywhere in Slack.
  • Message shortcut: On any message, select the short "Create a ticket" from Suptask to turn it into a ticket.