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Ticket Golem

A straightforward Discord bot for support tickets.

What's this?

Ticket Golem is a Discord bot created to help out with support tickets. Admins can send a default post, or specify their own post, for server members to interact with in order to open support tickets. You can invite them with this link.

When a ticket is opened, a brand new channel is created. Ticket Golem uses member-based permissions to allow and deny access to the channel, and members can be added/removed using appropriate commands.

Users can have a default of 5 tickets open at once, to prevent spam. By default, 10 server members (not including the ticket's opener) can be added to tickets by the bot. Both of these are configurable

Getting started

First off, invite the bot using the link in the above section.

After inviting them, make sure you create a category that you want tickets to go in. Here's a recommended setup:
A "tickets" category with "open-a-ticket" and "ticket-archives" as channels inside

Where the tickets category is overall only visible to mods, but the open-a-ticket channel is visible to everyone. The latter is where you'll want to put the reaction post. Also, make sure that Ticket Golem has the ability to Manage Permissions in that category- this permission can't be given with a normal invite link.

Next, we have some command setup. Using /config category, enter the name of the category (tickets in the above example) you want tickets to go in. Then, using /config archives, enter the name of the archives channel (ticket-archives above). You can skip this second step if you'd rather have archives DM'd to you.

To finish up, use /ticket post [channel] in order to post the starter message in the given channel. If you want a custom message, send that in the channel first, and then use /bind [channel] [message ID] to bind the reaction.

Now you're all set!

Features

(Mostly) unlimited tickets

TG has no hard limits on tickets. The only limit is the number of channels your server can have, which is 500 total and 50 per category. If you run out of ticket space in the category, you can createa a second one and set the config to create tickets there instead.

Configurable limits

While TG has no hard limits for the total number of tickets opened in a server, server owners can set limits for how many tickets users can have open at once. This is to prevent spam and to keep mods from being overwhelmed with tickets. You can also configure how many users can be added to a ticket via commands, and disable this entirely. Check out the ticketlimit, userlimit, and disable/enable commands for more info.

Deleting and archiving tickets will allow users to open more of them, so you shouldn't have to worry about limits as long as tickets are properly taken care of.

Channel deletion handling

Deleting a ticket's channel will automatically delete it from the tickets database. This is a quick shortcut to the /ticket delete command, in case you have a lot of tickets to delete at once.

Ticket names and descriptions

Users can edit their ticket to change the name or set a description. This will also change the channel's name/description for easier finding.

This comes with the added bonus of being able to search through tickets using /ticket find!

Button-based usage

Much of TG's ticket management features are button-based, making closing/opening, archiving, and deleting tickets all a matter of a few clicks. You can use commands for most of it as well, making the bot accessible for users that can't or prefer not to use buttons.

Self hosting

Requirements

Node: 16.6 or above
Postgres: any version
Tech: a VPS or computer that's often online. This bot does NOT run on repl.it
You'll also want some technical know-how, especially if you intend to make changes

Steps

(Assuming you have all the requirements set up)

  1. Download this repository and unzip (if applicable) to wherever you want it
  2. Open a terminal in the root folder and use npm i to install dependencies
  3. Copy the example.env rename it to .env. Fill it with the correct values
  4. Use node bot to run the bot

Support and links

Support server
Patreon
Ko-Fi

Commissions

We do commissions! If you're interested in a bot or website, check out this doc for more info!