Linked tickets

One incident, forty customers, a single source of truth

When an outage or a shared root cause produces a wave of tickets, link them to a parent. Work the parent, keep each customer's ticket separate, and close the set together.

  • Parent and child relationships visible from either side
  • The links panel shows status, owner and SLA of every related ticket
  • Useful for incidents, migrations, onboarding projects and escalations
  • Related tickets stay individually reportable and individually answered

Ticket linking

Live in your workspace

Active
  • Parent / child model
  • Incident handling
  • Project tickets
  • SLA stays per customer
  • Find related work

Inside the workspace

What your team actually sees

The right-hand context panel lists linked tickets with live status, so an agent can see the parent incident while replying to one affected customer.

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  • HD-418212m left

    Invoice total looks wrong

    Priya - Northwindbilling
  • HD-4181breached

    Cannot sign in to the portal

    Marcus - Arclightaccess
  • HD-41781h 40m

    Order SO-88213 never arrived

    Dana - Kestreldelivery
  • HD-41743h 05m

    How do I add a teammate?

    Sam - Fielderhow-to
  • HD-41706h 12m

    Refund request for March

    Ana - Looprefund

Invoice total looks wrong

HD-4182 - Northwind Ltd - priority: high - owner: Rae S.

first response 12m

Priya Raman - customer

09:12

Our March invoice shows 14 seats but we only have 11 active agents. Can you check before we pay?

Internal note - not visible to the customer

Billing exported the seat log: 3 seats deactivated on 12 March, pro-rata credit due.

AI draft - grounded in docs + 42 past resolutions

Hi Priya, you are right - three seats were deactivated on 12 March. I have raised a pro-rata credit of £186 against invoice INV-2291 and it will appear on your next statement...

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Reply to Priya... (⌘↵ to send, N for internal note)

Capabilities

Built for this job, not bolted on

Parent / child model

A ticket has one parent and any number of children, kept consistent in the database.

Incident handling

Post the root-cause update once on the parent, then work each child reply.

Project tickets

Break a migration or onboarding into child tickets that roll up to one owner.

SLA stays per customer

Each child keeps its own clock: linking does not merge promises.

Find related work

Jump between linked tickets from the panel without searching again.

Audited

Link and unlink events appear in the ticket history like any other change.

How it runs

From arrival to answer

  1. 1

    Identify the pattern

    Several tickets share a cause, or one large piece of work needs breaking down.

  2. 2

    Link them

    Set a parent from the links panel, or add children to an existing parent.

  3. 3

    Work centrally

    Investigation and updates happen on the parent ticket.

  4. 4

    Close out

    Each child gets its own reply and resolution, with the parent as evidence.

Detail

The small print that matters

Where it lives

Linked tickets panel on the right of the ticket thread.

Data model

A parent reference on the ticket record plus a link table for wider relationships.

Limits

Children cannot form loops; a ticket cannot be its own ancestor.

Related

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