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Freestyle Support Portal is a simple component to install and configure in record time. Well designed and structured, it is easy to customize it, even for a non-developer like me. The online documentation and forum, as well as the simple and straightforward configuration are just perfect. High value at little cost. Highly recommended!

This product does exactly what it says it does. Easy to install, use and administer. We discovered a very small issue when we were configuring the extension, submitted a ticket through their website (based on this product) and received not only a prompt reply but an amended version of the component was attached.

Very highly recommended - this is the first JED review I have ever felt compelled to write despite downloading many extensions over the years.

Thanks guys

Hi, this is one of the best Ticketsystem I've ever seen. The early Joomla3.0 Support is also verry nice

i have been using this component for sometime now and only thought it fair to offer a review

the component is worth every penny they charge . i use everything except the testimonial section on my site , replacing numerous other components , this has the benefits of having a uniform layout and only having to upgrade once.
i initially thought it maybe a jack of all trades , but its not , each component of the suite is as fully functional and in most cases more so than any stand alone component

the support is good and suggestions are taken on board and implemented in a timely fashion

i asked for a smart search plugin and was emailed within 48 hours with a link to the new install

buy with confidence

Very happy with this purchase as it does just what we need for it to do. I had some issues that arose when upgrading to the latest version and the support team had the issues resolved for me within an hour. Thank you very much!

A excellent component, very well structured and easy to configure. This component meets all the conditions needed for my site.
It would be nice to complement it with a live chat, i wait for it!

Forgive the 5 stars when I don't use the entire product, but I felt compelled to offer praise for these: The Knowledge Base and FAQ.

The KB is fantastic, a great way to organize your content. Although the phrasing of some items is rather market-specific (the term "products" referring to what are basically articles), there's no fuss in using it. It's highly configurable but extremely simple to use. I, my managers, and our customers especially like the ability to accordion articles under categories, and to display your KB categories in rows / columns to more effeciently use screen space.

The same can be said of the FAQs. You can accordion the articles within a single category like in the KB. Just be aware that, if you are using Google Analytics, it will only track the category and not the individual FAQs, since they already "exist" in the page. For this reason we reverted to a standard list of articles, but that's no fault of Freestyle.

These two parts of Freestyle alone have helped us make a site our users love, and support requests are handled quickly and politely. A great extension!

Truly simple and easy to use extension with some nice features. The support is friendly and helpful. There are some features that hopefully will be included in the near future such as ACL based articles, knowledgebase etc. Freestyle states they are still evolving their features and will be adding new ones soon. Check the site often and if you use it, keep it updated. Overall, good experience and great quality especially for the money.

The freestyle support component has all the required features for great user/customer support.
It can also import products from Virtuemart but it did not work for me as I have installed Virtuemart2. I contacted the support team and answered very promptly that they will update Freestyle Support quickly so it will integrated with VM2.
The template can be customized easily from the back end.
Tickets can be assigned by users, groups, languages,...
All in all a very very good component.

Very good extension. Its not classical support ticket, so can use for many things.

It is a good extension for joomla man and i bouht it. But it will be excellent if the ticket function is better than now which means the ticket not only fetch emails from email server like gmail app, but also can answer it automatically configuring a sticket # via smtp service. Like free and open source osTicket and other ticket systems doing.

Freestyle Support is the very first extension I purchased for our new Joomla website and I absolutely love it. It does everything it says and is very easy to use. We were so surprised to find a Support ticketing software that was so easy to use and so inexpensive. FANTASTIC Support!!! Once you get used to the time difference it is much easier to get the answers you need when you need them.

I can't believe this product is so far ahead of the others I researched! It's a great product, awesome value for money and adds a genuine business benefit. I try to add this to most of my sites. It's extremely customisable in terms of the functionality and I found their support to be some of the best I've had. They seem to be improving the support too, which can only make it even better. Extremely satisfied customer! I just need it to be fully 1.7 compatible now with ACL included. It has some included as standard but I'd prefer it to have deeper ACL. They have already taken some of my points on board and stated they'll make some available for the future, so I hope they'll keep working on this one too. Great work guys

Fantastic product. The ticketed support system has helped me manage support requests effectivly for my site. We have moved our documentation to the KB system, and the ratings have started to highlight where our documentation requires improvement.

Fully open source, which is great as it has allowed me to make some customizations to accomodate my site.

Would highly reccomend!

I say excellent because this tool offers so much for so little. The reason for the low mark is that I put in two support tickets and after two days I was simply ignored. I don't care how great an extension is if the developer does not support it then it loses value.

So if you need a fantastic support ticket system look no further. If you are not well versed in working with advanced extensions you might be in trouble if you need help.

I used the free Freestyle FAQs lite on our company page and was despite a few minor issues quite happy with it. So just recently bought the Freestyle Support Portal as it seemed a good, complex and nice way to give support for all the software and hardware products we offer.
But when I run into some problems I realized that it is not well documented and still has certain problems. This may be due to the still new Joomla 1.6 release.
The ticket system looks quite nice and useful and the amount of additional features, like Knowledge Base and Glossary cross-linking, is really good.
But Freestyles own support responds to their software is not so good (and it's the only thing you can turn too as the forum is much hidden and dead with lots of spam).
It's a little shame that their nice concept and look is a little bit lacking.
Still I hope that there will be soon a new release 2 as somewhere announced and my bug feedback helps to improve it.

Really wanna use this nice component without regret to have bought it.

So keep on developing it guys !!! ;-)

Even though it's a young product, I decided to give Freestyle Support a try because it is the first component I have seen that offers a comprehensive support portal.

The good stuff:
-It looks nice on the front end
-The FAQ function is awesome
-The knowledge base works great with the glossary
-The support has been helpful and relatively timely

A couple of things that I am looking forward to as they develop this product:

-integration with Community Builder (link to profile, tab for users to see their tickets, maybe even the ability to pull in CB field values to the ticket)

-A little more flexibility in the how the FAQ functions when accessed through the portal instead of a menu

-A support staff module that would show action item counts

-some ability to define the rules for auto-assigning tickets

-a little clean-up on the formatting of the ticket itself; it's a wee bit hard to read sometimes and doesn't always line up right

-a user forum where we can see the issues other people are having and how they were resolved, make feature requests, etc.

All that said, this is a great start, and I can't wait to see how this product matures. I look forward to coming back with a 5-star review!

This is an excellent support desk solution and I like it.
What I don't like is Thad it is not working proper in my site configuration with IE 9.
I contacted Freestyle Support and filed out a support ticked witch is still not answered. (4 days now )
If it works out of the box for you, you have a nice component, if not it seems you have trouble to get support.

This is an excellent support desk solution, however is there a chance of a Joomla 1.6 version coming out?

I tried to install the current version 1.7 in the stable Joomla 1.6 (January 2011 release) but it gives me PHP/database errors. No announcements (yet) on authors website either, about this.

Brilliant solution, nice interface & excellent support. Not far from being the ultimate support portal solution (& very cheap too).
Thanks.