Best support software in 2026: Why B2B teams choose Pylon

Updated December 25, 2025 | 15 min read

After deals close, support software helps B2B teams manage customer conversations across Slack, Teams, email, in-app chat, and other channels at scale. A platform like Pylon centralizes tickets, automates manual workflows with AI, and turns scattered customer interactions into actionable insights for your entire post-sales team.

Many legacy support platforms treat tickets as isolated problems for teams to resolve and close once. But we'll cover how modern support software connects all your support interactions to account health, retention strategy, and revenue — and which features to look out for when you're evaluating platforms.

Key takeaways

• Modern support software like Pylon connects your support data to broader account health and revenue insights. This goes beyond traditional help desk tools, which typically treat each ticket as an isolated incident.
• AI agents automate ticket routing, draft issues responses, track sentiment, and detect support anomalies to help B2B teams handle omnichannel support more efficiently. 
• Omnichannel support  centralizes conversations from Slack, Teams, email, and chat into unified views, so you don't miss any messages and get a  history of customer interactions.
• When you use a support system that integrates with CRMs or product usage analytics, your support data can reveal expansion opportunities and churn risks. This also creates a shared system of record for your whole post-sales function.

What is support software for B2B post-sales teams?

Support software is a central hub where your team handles tickets and conversations from Slack, Teams, email, or any other channels your customers use. (It's different from IT help desks, which allow technical teams to manage internal software infrastructure.)

Historically, many legacy support systems treat each ticket as a one-off problem to reactively solve and close. But modern platforms like Pylon take a different approach.

We bring support and customer success teams into the same place by unifying context from all your customer channels. So you handle immediate support issues right where you track customer health, identify upsell opportunities, and monitor churn risk.

Pylon combines omnichannel support with:

• AI agents that automate busywork
• AI assistants that help your team respond faster
• AI knowledge management that surfaces answers instantly
• Account Intelligence that turns scattered customer signals into actionable insights

Now we'll take a closer look at these different parts of a support system.

How AI agents and assistants transform your customer support

AI agents and assistants can handle repetitive workflows in the background. This gives your team more bandwidth to troubleshoot complex issues or focus on long-term relationship building.

Agents are autonomous system that can deflect tickets or route issues. AI assistants are human-in-the-loop systems that draft responses, help you catch large issues early, or update your knowledge base.

Automated ticket routing and prioritization

AI agents assign incoming tickets to the right person based on expertise, current workload, or account ownership. They also flag urgent issues by analyzing keywords, customer sentiment, and account value. Your team can focus on high-priority situations instead of sorting through a messy inbox.

Smart response suggestions

Instead of writing every reply from scratch, AI assistants suggest responses based on past support interactions and knowledge base resources. Your team can then review and edit the drafts, instead of writing every response from scratch. This adds up when you're handling hundreds of conversations a day.

Sentiment analysis for churn prevention

AI agents detect frustrated accounts by analyzing tone across conversations. When they spot negative sentiment patterns, they alert your customer success team to step in. You can intervene before the customer actually churns.

Anomaly detection

AI agents spot patterns across your support data, like a sudden spike in tickets about the same bug. Pylon's issue anomaly detection automatically surfaces patterns like these so you can resolve outages or fix major problems before most customers are affected.

Feature request tracking

AI analyzes customers conversations to identify product feedback and feature requests. It groups similar requests together and shows you exactly which customers asked for what.

And after clustering feature requests and gathering customer mentions, Pylon's Product Intelligence automatically quantifies each feature's business impact. This way your support team already has all the context and evidence to bring to product.

Provide true omnichannel support

When you support some accounts over Slack and others over email, you need a platform that will consolidate all these conversations — so you can actually scale support operations. Here's how modern support software helps you manage omnichannel support.

Native Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord support

Support software like Pylon directly connects with modern B2B channels like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Discord. We have native integrations where messages sync bidirectionally between Pylon and each of these channels. So when customers start a thread in Slack, you can track it and answer from Pylon.

Unified email, in-app chat, and ticket forms

We also support traditional and enterprise channels like email, live chat, and ticket form submissions. In Pylon, conversations across these channels become trackable tickets in a single view — and you can create additional customized views (filtering by channel, issue type, or other custom fields) to track the issues you're working on.

Essential features for modern support software

When you're evaluating different platforms, make sure it can support your team's actual workflows. For example, Pylon offers:

• Ticketing: Converts every issue into a trackable ticket with status, priority, and assignment
• Shared inbox or custom views: Gives your team visibility into conversations across channels and team members
• Knowledge base: Self-service help center, so customers can find answers before contacting you for simple issues
• AI and automated workflows: On top of native AI workflows, triggers you can customize to send follow-ups after customer meetings or escalate tickets to the right people
• Reporting and analytics: Custom dashboards so you can track response times, resolution rates, team performance, or other metrics that matter for you

Here's a deeper dive into some features to look for.

Unified views across all channels

Unified issues views consolidate messages from Slack, email, chat, and other channels. Your team sees context from every customer interaction in one place.

In Pylon, you can customize both shared views for collaboration and individual views (from layout to filters to sorting), so everyone easily finds the tickets that matter for their workflows.

Customer health scoring

Support software can calculate health scores by tracking ticket volume, sentiment trends, and engagement patterns. With Pylon, you can create custom formulas based on any factors you care about: ticket frequency, account sentiment, product usage, and more.

Team collaboration tools

Internal threads, @mentions, and ticket assignments help your team work together on complex issues. For example, if you need to loop in your engineering team in Pylon, you can start internal threads that sync directly to Slack. Or you can configure shared issues views, automated notifications, or assignment rules to keep collaboration smooth.

Turn support conversations into customer intelligence

Support software like Pylon doesn't just help you manage tickets. It surfaces insights from customer conversations to inform your customer success strategy. This is where support and success can work together, instead of operating in silos.

Track account health scores

Support interactions feed into account health scores. You see which customers need proactive outreach based on patterns like increasing ticket volume, declining satisfaction, or mentions of competitors.

Identify expansion opportunities

Support data can reveal upsell signals: Maybe a customer asked about features in higher tiers, mentioned growing their team, or requested integrations that are only available on enterprise plans. Pylon's AI can automatically track and flag these signals, so your customer success team can act on them.

Predict and prevent churn

Analyzing ticket frequency, sentiment trends, and resolution times helps you step in before churn happens. You can configure Pylon's AI to mark accounts that are at risk based on factors like usage data or sentiment.

Critical integrations for your support stack

In order for you to get complete context on each of your accounts, you also need your support system to connect with the other tools in your stack. Otherwise, your team wastes time context switching between platforms or manually copying data.

Besides natively connecting with platforms like Slack and Teams, Pylon has integrations across several other categories:

CRM and customer data platforms

We pull in data from Salesforce, HubSpot, or other CRMs so you see deal history or account details right where you manage support. Your team can see contract values, renewal dates, and relationship histories all in one place.

Product management tools

You can connect Linear, Jira, or Shortcut to link customer feedback directly to product tickets. This makes it easier for post-sales and product to collaborate on projects — and support knows exactly when to let customers know about a fix or new feature.

Call recorders

Pylon is the only support platform that natively integrates with call recorders like Gong, Fathom, or Google Meet (and 4 others!). This means our AI can use conversational data from your customer meetings as context for health score calculations or churn detection.

Product usage data

You can sync data from from warehouses like S3 or Snowflake, so your support interactions are supplemented with context on a customer's product usage.

Support software pricing and ROI considerations

Most support platforms follow one of these 3 pricing models:

• per-seat pricing
• tiered plans based on features and support volume
• usage-based pricing that scales with volume

Per-seat models often offer predictable costs, but could get expensive as your team grows. Tiered plans provide feature upgrades at specific price points. And for many platforms like Pylon, sales will work with you on custom quotes or pricing.

The pricing differences between platforms usually reflect:

• the number of communication channels they support
• AI capabilities and workflows
• how much you can customize AI or other parts of the platform to your specific needs
• depth of integrations

For your team, project what the ROI is for your team: is it reduced response times that improve customer satisfaction, lower churn rates from proactive intervention, or team efficiency gains from automation?

How to choose the right support platform

When you're ready to choose a platform, here's a framework you can follow to make your decision. 

Step 1: Map your current support workflows

Document how your team currently handles tickets, which channels customers use most, and where manual bottlenecks are slowing down support. This baseline helps you identify which features will deliver the biggest impact.

Step 2: Define non-negotiable features

List your must-haves based on team workflows. You need a Slack integration if most customers reach out there, or AI workflows if your team is overwhelmed with issue volume. Separate these from nice-to-have features that you can live without.

Step 3: Evaluate integration requirements

Check which tools you need to connect (CRM, product management tools, data warehouse) and confirm that the support systems offers integrations. Ask whether the integrations are native or require you to set up third-party tools like Zapier.

Step 4: Calculate total cost of ownership

Look beyond base contract price and consider implementation time, training costs, fees for any consultants you'd need, or add-on costs for premium features. Some platforms seem cheaper upfront but will require expensive customization and internal resources to implement.

Step 5: Run a trial or proof of concept

Before you commit to a full rollout, have your team test the  software with  real support interactions. This will show you whether the platform actually fits your workflows, or if there are friction points you didn't catch in the demo.

Implementation timeline and success metrics

To implement a new support system, you typically have to go through setup, data migration, team training, and go-live. The timeline will vary based on your team size, integration complexity, and how much historical data you're migrating. Some teams have migrated to Pylon within a week.

Track these metrics post-launch to measure impact:

• First response time: How quickly your team sends the first reply after a customer reaches out
• Resolution time: How long it takes to fully resolve issues from initial contact to closure
• Customer satisfaction scores: CSAT or NPS ratings showing whether customers are happy with support quality
• Ticket volume trends: Whether self-service and automation are reducing tickets reaching your team

Remember to establish baselines before implementation so you can actually quantify improvement.

FAQs

How long does support software implementation typically take?

Implementation timelines vary based on team size and complexity, but most B2B teams complete setup and training within a few weeks to a couple months. Simpler deployments with fewer integrations can go live faster; if you're migrating from a legacy system with lots of historical support date, things could take longer.

Many teams implement Pylon within a week. 

What's the difference between support software and a CRM?

Support software helps you manage customer conversations and tickets, with features like shared issue views and knowledge bases. A CRM tracks sales pipeline and account relationships through deal stages and forecasting.

Some modern platforms increasingly overlap in functionality — especially for post-sales teams who want to do support and customer success in the same place, with shared account insights.

Can support software actually reduce customer churn?

Yes! Many modern support platforms can surface at-risk signals from support interactions. this could be flagging a spike in ticket volume or a sudden drop in sentiment — and it helps your team proactively reach out the customer to find out what's happening. The key is connecting your support data to customer success workflows.

How many support team members justify investing in support software?

Even small teams of 2 to 3 people benefit from centralized ticket management and automation. A support system will help you prevent missed messages or duplicate work. And when your team and customer base scale, you'll see ROI increase significantly as automation and efficiency gains compound.

What security certifications should I look for in support software?

Look for SOC 2 compliance, GDPR readiness, and data encryption standards, especially if you handle sensitive customer information or serve enterprise clients. Ask vendors about their security practices around data access, retention policies, and breach notification procedures.

Why teams are choosing modern platforms like Pylon

The shift from legacy help desks to modern support platforms reflects how B2B post-sales work has evolved over time. Traditional support software treated tickets as reactive cases, with no connection to long-term customer retention or relationships.

But modern platforms like Pylon connect support interactions to account health, retention strategy, and revenue growth. Signals in your support data help you spot churn risks or expansion opportunities earlier.

The biggest advantage is having a single, shared system of record for your entire post-sales team. Support tickets inform how you drive retention, and context from customer success calls inform how you provide personalized support to each account.

Pylon is the modern B2B support platform that offers true omnichannel support across Slack, Teams, email, chat, ticket forms, and more. Our AI Agents & Assistants automate busywork and reduce response times. Plus, with Account Intelligence that unifies scattered customer signals to calculate health scores and identify churn risk, we're built for customer success at scale.

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