Integrations4 min readBeta

Connecting FreshDesk

Connect your FreshDesk account to Symbi so your agents can handle support tickets automatically.

Info

The FreshDesk integration is currently in Beta. Connecting and ticket handling work today, but a newly connected company has no automatic queue discovery yet — see the Limitations section below for what that means in practice.

Prerequisites

Before connecting FreshDesk, make sure you have:

  • A FreshDesk account with admin access
  • Your FreshDesk API key (found under Profile Settings in FreshDesk)
  • Your FreshDesk subdomain — just the yourcompany part of yourcompany.freshdesk.com, not the full domain

Connect Your Account

  1. Open Settings → Connectors and click the FreshDesk tile
  2. Click Configure FreshDesk
  3. Enter your FreshDesk API key and subdomain
  4. Click Connect. Symbi verifies the credentials against the FreshDesk API and only saves them if the check passes — there is no separate save step. If verification fails, nothing is stored and the error names what to change

Only Owner and Admin users can configure connectors.

Connecting also creates a webhook endpoint for your company: a URL and a signing secret, both shown on the Freshdesk connector card.

Security

Your FreshDesk credentials are encrypted with AES-256 before being stored. After saving, your API key is never shown again in the UI, and it's decrypted only when needed to communicate with FreshDesk on your behalf.

Webhook Events

Symbi does not create anything inside Freshdesk for you — you paste the webhook URL and secret from the connector card into Freshdesk's own automation rules. Once you have, Symbi accepts:

  • ticket_created — a new ticket is submitted by a customer
  • ticket_updated — an existing ticket's status or fields change
  • note_created — an internal or public note is added to a ticket
  • reply_sent — a customer or agent reply is posted on a ticket

When any of these fire, Symbi receives the payload, enriches it with your company context and knowledge base, and routes it to the assigned agent.

In each rule's webhook content, include Contact email. Agents that look up the customer's own records — such as orders in a connected WooCommerce shop — use it to know who they are helping, and look nothing up when it is missing.

What Your Agent Can Do

Once connected, a FreshDesk agent can:

  • Reply to Ticket — generate and send customer-facing responses
  • Add Note — leave notes visible only to your support team
  • Update Ticket Status — move a ticket through your workflow, including resolving and closing it
  • Get Ticket / Get Conversations — read a ticket and its full conversation history
  • List Tickets — browse tickets beyond the one in hand (off by default)

List Tickets ships switched off; turn it on per agent from the What it does card on the agent's page.

Inline Images and Attachments

Your agent can see up to 10 images per ticket — inline images embedded in the ticket body, plus image attachments — for additional visual context. PDF, Word, and Excel attachments on a Freshdesk ticket are not read by the agent; only images reach it.

Tip

Test with a single agent in Always Review mode before graduating to Confidence-based or Autonomous. This lets you validate the quality of responses on real tickets before giving the agent more autonomy.

Limitations

  • No resource discovery — Symbi cannot list your Freshdesk queues automatically. The agent's Apps card will say so; ask your Symbi contact to register one

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