Create custom ticket statuses
Updated Nov 6, 2026
Available on: Growth, Pro, Enterprise.
Custom statuses refine the five status categories: New, Open, Pending, On-hold and Solved. For example, "Waiting for warehouse" in On-hold, or "Escalated" in Open. A ticket's status is always its custom status's category, so views, rules, SLAs and reports keep working.
Add a status
- Open Admin Center, Tickets, Ticket statuses and choose Add status.
- Pick the Category. It can't be changed after the status is created.
- Enter the Agent label and, if you like, an End-user label that customers see in the help centre. Leave it empty to use the agent label.
- Add a Description for agents and a Description for end users.
- Choose Create status.
Order statuses within a category with Move up and Move down. Make default marks the status used by default for its category.
Deactivate a status
Choose Deactivate. If open tickets use it, pick a status of the same category to move them to. Agents can no longer pick it.
Closed is a system status: tickets close automatically after being solved and keep their solved status.
What agents see
The Submit as menu shows your custom statuses, and the ticket list shows them too.
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