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Customer Support Contact Form (Help Desk)

Live chat plugins start at $50-100/month per seat. For low-volume support, a structured contact form that webhooks into Linear or Help Scout does the same job for free.

1,000/mo free·no card·works on any host
form.htmlhtml32 lines
01<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
02 <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
03 <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New support ticket">
04
05 <label for="name">Your name *</label>
06 <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
07 <label for="email">Email *</label>
08 <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
09 <label for="phone">Phone (for urgent issues)</label>
10 <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142">
11 <label for="order_id">Order / account ID (optional)</label>
12 <input id="order_id" type="text" name="order_id" placeholder="ORD-49281">
13 <label for="severity">How urgent is this? *</label>
14 <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
15 <option value="">Choose…</option>
16 <option>Critical — blocking us</option>
17 <option>High — losing time</option>
18 <option>Medium — annoying</option>
19 <option>Low — heads-up</option>
20 </select>
21 <label for="description">What's wrong? *</label>
22 <textarea id="description" name="description" placeholder="Steps to reproduce, error messages, screenshots if you have them." required></textarea>
23
24 <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
25 <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
26
27 <button type="submit">Send</button>
28</form>
29
30<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
31 Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
32</p>
1,000
submissions / mo, free
6
fields, ready to ship
5
code outputs
60s
from copy to inbox
Customer Support Contact Form (Help Desk) — example splitforms template with submissions inbox
§ 01Why it mattersthe qualifying-fields argument

Support tools (Zendesk, Intercom, Help Scout) start at $20-100/seat/month. For early-stage SaaS handling 10-50 tickets a week, a structured support form that webhooks into Linear / Notion / Slack handles the volume without the subscription. The form captures ticket category (billing / bug / feature request / account access / general), urgency (blocking / high / medium / low), account email, and description. Routing the categories to different Slack channels or Linear teams turns the form into a triage layer. As you scale, switch the webhook target to Zendesk or Intercom and the form stays — same UX, different backend. SLA tracking still works because submission timestamps are stored.

Webhooks into Linear / Notion / Help Scout / Zendesk · category-based routing.
✦ at a glance
  • Customer support · 6 fields
  • HTML, JS, React, PHP, cURL outputs
  • One POST endpoint, no SDK
  • Honeypot + classifier, no CAPTCHA
§ 02Live previewinteractive · sandboxed · no key required

See exactly what your visitors see — and you’ll receive.

Left: the rendered form, fully interactive in a sandboxed iframe. Right: the email and dashboard view that lands the moment a visitor submits.

preview · customer-support-formlocalhost:3000
✦ what you’ll see in your inbox

Every submission becomes an email plus a dashboard row. The fields below are the exact payload your form will send. Reply-to is wired to the visitor’s email so hitting reply goes back to them.

dashboard · new submission14ms · 200 OK
SUBJECT · New support ticket
Your name
Maya Iyer
Email
maya@studio71.co
Phone (for urgent issues)
+1 415 555 0142
Order / account ID (optional)
How urgent is this?
Critical — blocking us
What's wrong?

Iframe is sandboxed — submit doesn’t actually fire. Get your access key to wire it up live.

§ 03Three steps3 steps · ~60 seconds

Generate, embed, receive.

Three actions stand between you and your first lead. None of them require a backend, a database, or a CAPTCHA library.

STEP 01GENERATE

Capture ticket category

Required: category (billing / bug / feature / account / general), urgency, account email, description. Optional: screenshot upload (Pro), order/invoice number for billing.

Create your form
key=sk_live_••••••••
STEP 02EMBED

Route by category

Webhook branches on category — billing goes to finance Slack; bugs to engineering Linear; feature requests to product Productboard. Each team owns their queue.

snippethtml
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  …
</form>
STEP 03RECEIVE

Auto-confirm with SLA

Auto-respond with ticket number and SLA promise ('we'll reply within 24 hours on weekdays'). Sets expectations and reduces the 'have you seen this?' follow-up email two days later.

inbox · 1 newjust now
FROM contact@yoursite.com
New support ticket
Maya Iyer maya@studio71.co
Loved your last open house in Hayes — looking for similar with parking. Pre-approved through Wells Fargo.
§ 04Copy & ship5 languages · same endpoint

Five outputs. One backend.

HTML by default. Click open the language you ship in — every variant POSTs to the same /api/submit endpoint.

01HTMLform.html32 lines
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
  <input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
  <input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New support ticket">

  <label for="name">Your name *</label>
  <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
  <label for="email">Email *</label>
  <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
  <label for="phone">Phone (for urgent issues)</label>
  <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142">
  <label for="order_id">Order / account ID (optional)</label>
  <input id="order_id" type="text" name="order_id" placeholder="ORD-49281">
  <label for="severity">How urgent is this? *</label>
  <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
    <option value="">Choose…</option>
    <option>Critical — blocking us</option>
    <option>High — losing time</option>
    <option>Medium — annoying</option>
    <option>Low — heads-up</option>
  </select>
  <label for="description">What's wrong? *</label>
  <textarea id="description" name="description" placeholder="Steps to reproduce, error messages, screenshots if you have them." required></textarea>

  <!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
  <input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">

  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
  Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
</p>
02JavaScriptform.js48 lines
<form id="lf-form">
  <label for="name">Your name *</label>
  <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required>
  <label for="email">Email *</label>
  <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required>
  <label for="phone">Phone (for urgent issues)</label>
  <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142">
  <label for="order_id">Order / account ID (optional)</label>
  <input id="order_id" type="text" name="order_id" placeholder="ORD-49281">
  <label for="severity">How urgent is this? *</label>
  <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
    <option value="">Choose…</option>
    <option>Critical — blocking us</option>
    <option>High — losing time</option>
    <option>Medium — annoying</option>
    <option>Low — heads-up</option>
  </select>
  <label for="description">What's wrong? *</label>
  <textarea id="description" name="description" placeholder="Steps to reproduce, error messages, screenshots if you have them." required></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

<p style="margin-top:12px;font-size:11px;color:#888;text-align:right">
  Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" style="color:#888;text-decoration:none" target="_blank" rel="noopener">splitforms</a>
</p>

<script>
  document.getElementById('lf-form').addEventListener('submit', async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    const data = new FormData(e.target);
    data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
    data.set('subject', 'New support ticket');

    const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: data,
      headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
    });

    const json = await res.json();
    if (json.success) {
      e.target.reset();
      alert('Sent!');
    } else {
      alert('Error: ' + (json.message || 'Try again'));
    }
  });
</script>
03React / Next.jsForm.tsx63 lines
'use client';

import { useState, type FormEvent } from 'react';

export default function SupportForm() {
  const [status, setStatus] = useState<'idle' | 'sending' | 'sent' | 'error'>('idle');

  async function onSubmit(e: FormEvent<HTMLFormElement>) {
    e.preventDefault();
    setStatus('sending');

    const data = new FormData(e.currentTarget);
    data.set('access_key', 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY');
    data.set('subject', 'New support ticket');

    const res = await fetch('https://splitforms.com/api/submit', {
      method: 'POST',
      body: data,
      headers: { Accept: 'application/json' },
    });

    const json = await res.json();
    setStatus(json.success ? 'sent' : 'error');
    if (json.success) e.currentTarget.reset();
  }

  if (status === 'sent') return <p>Thanks — we&rsquo;ll be in touch.</p>;

  return (
    <>
    <form onSubmit={onSubmit}>
      <label htmlFor="name">Your name *</label>
      <input id="name" type="text" name="name" placeholder="Jane Builder" required />
      <label htmlFor="email">Email *</label>
      <input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="jane@example.com" required />
      <label htmlFor="phone">Phone (for urgent issues)</label>
      <input id="phone" type="tel" name="phone" placeholder="+1 415 555 0142" />
      <label htmlFor="order_id">Order / account ID (optional)</label>
      <input id="order_id" type="text" name="order_id" placeholder="ORD-49281" />
      <label htmlFor="severity">How urgent is this? *</label>
      <select id="severity" name="severity" required>
        <option value="">Choose…</option>
        <option>Critical — blocking us</option>
        <option>High — losing time</option>
        <option>Medium — annoying</option>
        <option>Low — heads-up</option>
      </select>
      <label htmlFor="description">What's wrong? *</label>
      <textarea id="description" name="description" placeholder="Steps to reproduce, error messages, screenshots if you have them." required />

      <button type="submit" disabled={status === 'sending'}>
        {status === 'sending' ? 'Sending…' : 'Send'}
      </button>

      {status === 'error' && <p>Something went wrong. Try again.</p>}
    </form>

      <p style={{ marginTop: 12, fontSize: 11, color: '#888', textAlign: 'right' }}>
        Powered by <a href="https://splitforms.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style={{ color: '#888', textDecoration: 'none' }}>splitforms</a>
      </p>
    </>
  );
}
04PHPsubmit.php28 lines
<?php
// Drop into a PHP page. Receives a form POST and proxies it to splitforms.com.
// Useful when you want to add server-side validation or rate limiting.

if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] === 'POST') {
    $allowed = ['name', 'email', 'phone', 'order_id', 'severity', 'description'];
    $payload = ['access_key' => 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'];
    $payload['subject'] = 'New support ticket';

    foreach ($allowed as $f) {
        if (isset($_POST[$f])) $payload[$f] = $_POST[$f];
    }

    $ch = curl_init('https://splitforms.com/api/submit');
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($payload));
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Accept: application/json']);
    $response = curl_exec($ch);
    $status   = curl_getinfo($ch, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE);
    curl_close($ch);

    header('Content-Type: application/json');
    http_response_code($status);
    echo $response;
    exit;
}
?>
05cURLtest.sh10 lines
curl -X POST https://splitforms.com/api/submit \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -d "access_key=YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" \
  -d "subject=New support ticket" \
  -d "name=Jane Builder" \
  -d "email=jane@example.com" \
  -d "phone=+15555555555" \
  -d "order_id=Jane Builder" \
  -d "severity=Critical — blocking us" \
  -d "description=Hello from cURL" 

Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. That’s the only edit.

§ 06FAQ4 answered

Things people ask before they ship.

Direct answers, no marketing fluff. Missing one? Email hello@splitforms.com.

01Should I integrate with Zendesk / Intercom / Help Scout?
When ticket volume crosses ~50/week, the dedicated tool's UX (queue management, canned responses, customer history) starts paying back the subscription. Below that, webhooks into Linear or Slack handle volume cheaper. Switch when you outgrow the simpler tools, not before.
02How do I handle SLA tracking without a help desk?
splitforms timestamps every submission. A daily Zapier / Make automation flags any unresponded submission older than your SLA threshold and pings the owning team in Slack. Crude but effective for small teams. At scale, switch to a tool that tracks time-to-first-response natively.
03Can I integrate with Linear / Notion / Productboard?
Yes — webhook the JSON. Linear and Notion both accept issue / database creation via API. Productboard accepts feature requests via Zapier. Routing categories to the right tool (bugs to Linear, features to Productboard) means each gets triaged in the place that team works.
04What about phone support / live chat?
Phone support requires staff on shift; live chat is the same. The form is async — best for product / SaaS where most issues aren't time-critical. For e-commerce or services where customers need immediate answers, layer a chat widget (Crisp, Intercom) on top, and use the form for after-hours overflow.
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