Ticketing

What is Ticketing?

Ticketing refers to the process of capturing, tracking, and managing requests, incidents, or tasks through a structured system — often called a ticketing system. Each ticket represents a single issue or request, complete with relevant details like status, priority, assignee, and communication history.

In internal operations, ticketing allows teams like IT, HR, facilities, and finance to handle employee requests in a clear, organized, and trackable way. Instead of ad hoc Slack messages, emails, or verbal requests slipping through the cracks, ticketing provides a formal workflow that improves visibility, accountability, and resolution times.

Key Takeaways

• Ticketing is the structured process of capturing, managing, and resolving internal requests and issues
  
  
• Each request becomes a “ticket” that’s trackable, prioritized, and assigned to the right person
  
  
• Helps internal teams (IT, HR, Finance, Ops) avoid lost or forgotten requests and improves response times
  
  
• Enables visibility, accountability, and performance tracking with SLAs, queues, and analytics
  
  
• Siit makes ticketing seamless with Slack/Teams intake, automated routing, approvals, and rich integrations with tools like Zendesk, Jira, and Okta

Why Ticketing Is Essential for Internal Support

Without ticketing, everything becomes reactive. You rely on memory, scattered messages, or whoever saw the request first. That might work in a small team for a little while, but once requests start coming in from multiple departments, locations, or time zones, it’s a recipe for confusion.

Ticketing solves this by creating a single source of truth for every support request. It makes life easier for everyone:

• Employees know where to go for help — and can track their request status
  
  
• Support teams have clear queues and workloads
  
  
• Managers get visibility into team performance, request volumes, and recurring pain points
  
  

But ticketing isn’t just about control — it’s about creating a better support experience. It ensures that nothing gets lost, ignored, or half-resolved. Every request has a home, a timeline, and an outcome.

Ticketing in Action

Let’s say someone on your finance team needs access to an internal dashboard. In a ticketing system, they submit a request with the type of access needed, their role, and the urgency. That request gets logged, assigned to the right admin, tracked for SLA compliance, and eventually resolved — all within a single interface.

Now multiply that by hundreds of requests a week — device issues, new hire onboarding, VPN access, policy clarifications. Ticketing isn’t just nice to have. It’s the backbone of scalable, structured internal support.

What Makes a Good Ticketing System

A solid ticketing system isn’t just about opening and closing tickets. It should support the full lifecycle of a request: from submission and triage, through approvals and collaboration, to resolution and reporting. Key elements include:

• Multi-channel intake (Slack, Teams, email, forms)
  
  
• Clear ticket statuses and priorities
  
  
• Assignee tracking and escalation paths
  
  
• SLA timers and performance analytics
  
  
• Integration with your broader tool stack
  
  
• A friendly, searchable request history for employees
  
  

The best systems stay out of the way — they guide the process, not complicate it.

How Siit Makes Ticketing Actually Work for People

Siit takes the pain out of internal ticketing by embedding it directly where your teams already work — Slack, Microsoft Teams, and email. Employees can submit requests without switching tools, while support teams manage everything from one clean interface.

With features like Dynamic Forms, Private Requests, Request Followers, and Rich Text Comments, Siit makes it easy to collect the right context up front — and collaborate until resolution. You can visualize progress using the Kanban View, snooze low-priority tickets, and define SLAs that auto-track deadlines.

Thanks to native integrations with tools like Zendesk, Jira Service Management, ClickUp, Asana, and more, your ticketing process stays in sync across departments and systems.

And for IT teams juggling user access, software approvals, or device issues? Siit’s integrations with Okta, Rippling, Jamf, and Intune make it easy to trigger actions directly from the ticket — no context switching required.

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