Open-source alternative  ·  Helpdesk

Replace Zoho Desk with Zammad.

Modern helpdesk with email, chat, phone, and social media channels. Knowledge base, SLAs, automation rules, and reporting. Self-hosted Ruby app, no per-agent fees.

You'd keep~R51 600 to ~R88 800/year

Current licence  ·  Helpdesk

Zoho Desk

~R51 600 – ~R88 800/yr

10-user estimate

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Zammad

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R88 800/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Zoho Desk's prices.

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

Professional

R51 600/yr

R430/user/month

With Zammad

Keep R51 600/yr

Enterprise

R88 800/yr

R740/user/month

With Zammad

Keep R88 800/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.

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

R0kR39kR79kR118kR158kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R143kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.61M

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

How this migration runs

Zoho DeskZammad, 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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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.