Tickets are the core of the help desk. Each ticket has a status, a priority, and an automatically assigned number.
You can create a ticket on behalf of a requester from Tickets → New, and tickets also arrive automatically from your connected inboxes and the customer portal.
Reply from the composer, where you can insert macros (canned replies) and pull in knowledge-base articles to answer faster, and attach files where needed. Keeping statuses accurate as you work is what makes your reports and SLA tracking meaningful.