"Helpdesk agents" (AKA "technicians" or "techs") is a common term in help desk software used to describe a person who "handles" tickets. By "handling” we mean responding to customers, closing tickets, changing ticket details, moving tickets from one category to another, adding tags, etc. Simply put, an "agent" is a person who works with customer requests, while a regular user - is a person who creates them.

We don't charge "per-agent" unless indicated

Now, we don't charge per "helpdesk agent" on smaller pricing plans. The number of agents you can have in the hosted version is still limited by your current Helpdesk plan. To clarify let's say your plan includes up to four agents, this means that you can have four people handling customer requests, viewing reports, managing knowledge base and so on.

Agents vs. regular users

Agents are not to be confused with regular users. We do not limit the number of users or the number of tickets they can create. You can have a million customers, each creating hundred tickets per day, it doesn't matter. What is limited is the number of people who respond to customer requests.

In Jitbit Helpdesk

In Jitbit Helpdesk UI we refer to agents using the term "technician" or "tech". A Technician is a user with permissions to a particular category. This approach lets you have groups of technicians working with their tickets completely separately from each other. For example you can have sales and IT departments working together in a single helpdesk app and they will not see tickets in each other's categories, unless you want them to.

For billing purposes, "administrator" users are also considered "agent".

"What happens if I exceed my number of agents?"

The helpdesk app will stay operational but we'll show you a warning message reminding to upgrade your pricing plan.