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Web+Center

Score8 out of 10

5 Reviews and Ratings

What is Web+Center?

Web+Center is a suite of open source, web-based help desk applications that run onsite or in the cloud and support all browser-based devices, including PCs, Macs, smart phones and tablets. With access to 100% of the source code, organizations can create the ideal customized solution for their unique business needs for applications such as IT help desk, customer support, asset tracking and facilities management. According to the vendor, community colleges, hospitals, small businesses, non-profits and government organizations love Web+Center’s rich feature set and ease of use. 

The vendor’s value proposition is that their help desk offering is unique in that it offers a high return on investment by providing users with a solution that they can grow with while customizing it into a very efficient help desk for minimal cost.  The vendor says it can offer this longer-term offering by providing users with 100% of the source code that is designed to be customized to include the user’s specific business functions.


Categories & Use Cases

Media

Tech+Mobile Interface - Mobile app for techs

Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.7

  • Ticket creation and submission

    Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.

    Category average: 9

  • Ticket response

    Agents can easily follow up with customers.

    Category average: 8.8

Areas for Improvement

  • ITSM collaboration and documentation

    Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.

    Category average: 7.8

  • Expert directory

    Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts

    Category average: 7.6

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 7.9

Web+Center is Worth Checking Out

Pros

  • Work orders or tickets. Easy to create, search and reference in the future.
  • Asset management. Keep track of all your assets, who they are assigned to, purchase date, price, vendor. Assets can also be linked to work orders so you can reference the number of issues you had with a particular device.
  • Projects are a nice feature. If you have a project that involves work spanning multiple work orders, you can add them to a project and have all information in one location without the need to spend hours searching for each work order associated with a large job.

Cons

  • I have read reviews where some people comment that the interface "looks dated". I am a believer in function over form. The interface is just eye candy and if it works well, why would you want to re-code software just to make it look different? I like the interface and can quickly find the functions I need. As for room for improvement? Well, that would depend on your location and what types of data you prefer to have access to. For me, the program is great the way it is.

Return on Investment

  • I looked for years trying to find a great software package that did not require a loan to purchase. Web+Center was the perfect fit. Pricing is very affordable even for very small organizations. It is dependent on the number of technicians, not the number of customers.

Web+Center for Ease of Setup, Reliability and Use

Pros

  • Web+Center keeps a searchable knowledge base of all past issues. This makes it easy to search for solutions to recurring issues.
  • Web+Center makes it easy to see where techs are spending their time and also to see which techs are your top producers.
  • The automated email and text message alerts are great to alert techs right away to reported problems.

Cons

  • It would great to have an app for iphone and/or Android.

Return on Investment

  • Having a specific tool for internal customers to report issues allows for a better response time to solve problems for both IT and other assets such as MHE and/ fleet. This allows techs to solve solutions more quickly, thereby increasing up-time for equipment. Reduced down-time = more time spent being productive and making money.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 365, Camtasia, Snagit