Open-source alternative  ·  Helpdesk

Replace Zendesk with Zammad.

Modern helpdesk with SLAs, email integration, and ticket workflows.

You'd keep~R118 800 to ~R248 400/year

Current licence  ·  Helpdesk

Zendesk

~R118 800 – ~R248 400/yr

10-user estimate

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Zammad

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R248 400/yr

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Today's licence price

3 tiers. Zendesk's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Suite Team

R118 800/yr

R990/user/month

With Zammad

Keep R118 800/yr

Suite Growth

R192 240/yr

R1 602/user/month

With Zammad

Keep R192 240/yr

Suite Professional

R248 400/yr

R2 070/user/month

With Zammad

Keep R248 400/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Zendesk grows around 10% per year on average. Zammad hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR110kR220kR330kR439kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R399kR25k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R1.76M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

ZendeskZammad, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Other helpdesk migrations.

Running one of these alongside? Same migration shop covers both.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.