Will the original assignees, message authors and created dates be preserved?
Yes. Created-time metadata is carried across, and so are assignees and message authors who have a user account in Desk365. Where Desk365 cannot store one of them natively, it is kept as embedded metadata on the migrated record.
If the new system can't natively support an old record type, what are my options?
We handle it case by case. While mapping your data, we identify every record type without a direct counterpart in Desk365, review sample records from it and propose how it can be represented, based on what Desk365 supports: map it to the closest native object, create a custom field or object, fold it into the parent record as text or a note, attach it as a file, or keep it in a read-only archive. You choose the approach, we write the migration scripts to place the data there, so it comes across in the form you choose instead of being left behind, and you see how it looks in a sample migration before we run the full set.
Do you migrate our Jira Service Management workflows, triggers and automations to Desk365, or just the tickets?
They can be part of the migration. We recreate your existing Jira Service Management triggers and automations in Desk365 using its own conditions and actions, and agree the exact list of rules with you during scoping. Designing new workflows beyond the ones you have today is separate, and is best done by your team or your implementation partner.
Can we still find tickets by their old Jira Service Management ticket IDs in Desk365?
Yes. Each migrated ticket keeps its original Jira Service Management ID in a Source Ticket ID field, and after the migration we deliver a mapping file that pairs every Jira Service Management ticket ID with its new ID in Desk365. Any old ID referenced in past conversations can be traced to the migrated ticket.
Are the times of each Jira Service Management comment, reply and update preserved in Desk365, not just ticket creation dates?
Yes. Each ticket's creation time is preserved exactly, and so is the time of each comment and reply, so the history shows when every update happened. The one possible exception is the ticket-level 'last updated' field, which some platforms set themselves when a ticket is written, so it may show the migration date; the original update history stays in the comment timestamps.
Do our Jira Service Management ticket attachments come across to Desk365?
Yes. Attachments are migrated along with the ticket conversations they belong to, not just the text. We can also carry over reference fields such as the original ticket number and a link back to Jira Service Management, so your team can cross-check any record. You can review attachments and dates in the sample migration before the full run.
Our Jira Service Management setup has custom ticket statuses that Desk365 doesn't have. How do they get mapped?
We map every Jira Service Management status to a status in Desk365 and send you a proposed mapping for the ones that need a decision. You confirm or correct it before the full migration, and the sample migration shows exactly how your tickets' statuses land.
Will the migration set off automations or send emails or notifications to customers, our team or anyone else?
No. Before the sample or full migration starts, we confirm with you that nothing in Desk365 will send messages about the migrated data: we import with notifications switched off wherever Desk365 allows it, and either pause any automation that could send them for the migration window or give it a condition, such as a suppression tag, that skips migrated records, which lets your live automations keep running for new records. We only proceed once you have confirmed it. If you want anyone told about the move, that message is sent separately, once the migrated data has been checked.
Will you migrate our Jira Service Management knowledge base articles as well as tickets?
Yes. Knowledge base articles can be part of the same migration as your tickets, and move into your Desk365 knowledge base.
Can we migrate only our Jira Service Management contacts who have tickets, not our whole contact list?
Yes. We pull your tickets first, collect the distinct requesters from them, and migrate only those contact records. Contacts with no ticket history are not added to Desk365.
Can you migrate data that Desk365 can't take in through an API?
In many cases, yes. Where something can't be written through an API, we recreate it through Desk365's user interface where the interface allows it, and where that work is repetitive we script and automate it. We tell you up front which items are handled this way, because recreating them through the interface can add time to the schedule.
If we don't recreate all our Jira Service Management custom fields in Desk365, will that data still be kept on our old tickets?
Yes. We can write custom field values onto each migrated ticket as an internal note, laid out as readable field-and-value pairs. Your team can still see that information on every historical ticket, and only the fields you plan to keep using need to be recreated.
Will full Jira Service Management ticket conversations come across, or only notes on each ticket?
We migrate the full conversation on each ticket, not a summary saved as notes. Where Jira Service Management's API doesn't expose part of the history, our engineers retrieve it from Jira Service Management directly and work out a route to load it into Desk365. You check the result in a sample migration before the full run begins.
What happens if Desk365 requires fields our Jira Service Management data doesn't have?
We check the destination for required fields your source data cannot fill and bring each one to you before those records are migrated. Together we agree how each one is handled, such as a mapping from an existing field, a default value, or, where Desk365 lets that field be made optional, setting it to not required for the migration so you can make it required again once the migration is complete. The migration then runs with that rule applied, so no records are rejected or left behind.
What happens if some Jira Service Management tickets fail to migrate?
Every ticket that errors is logged. We review it, fix the cause and re-sync it, then validate the result before cutover. When the migration is complete you receive a list of every migrated ticket, so you can check it against Jira Service Management.
What happens to Jira Service Management comments written by agents who have since left the company?
Their comments migrate with the rest of the ticket history. If the original author does not have an account in Desk365, we can add a line at the start of the comment naming who wrote it, so it stays attributable.
How will we tell migrated records apart from the ones already in Desk365?
We can mark every migrated record in Desk365, for example with a custom checkbox field such as "Migrated from Jira Service Management", so your team can tell migrated data apart from records created there. We agree the marker with you during scoping so it fits how your team uses Desk365.
Do internal notes and system-generated notes from Jira Service Management migrate to Desk365, or only customer-facing replies?
Internal notes can come across, and so can system-generated notes where Jira Service Management's API makes them available. During scoping you choose which notes to include, so Desk365 holds the history your team will actually use.
Can you assign migrated tickets to Desk365 groups based on the email address they were sent to?
Yes, where Jira Service Management's API shows which address each ticket was sent to and Desk365's API lets us set each ticket's group. Routing rules like "every ticket sent to this address goes to that group" are written into the migration script, so tickets arrive in Desk365 already in the right groups. You confirm the rules with us up front and check the result on the sample migration before the full run.
Can you map our Jira Service Management ticket categories or field values to different ones in Desk365?
Yes. You give us the mapping, including what blank values should become, and we apply it in the migration script so every ticket arrives in Desk365 with the new values. You check the mapping on the sample migration before the full run.
Can we keep spam and sales emails out of Desk365?
Yes. We agree filtering rules with you up front so spam and sales emails are excluded rather than imported. Afterwards you receive a list of every ticket we pulled from Jira Service Management, with excluded tickets marked as skipped.
Will emojis and special characters in our Jira Service Management tickets come through correctly in Desk365?
Yes, as long as Desk365 can store them. Our scripts carry emojis and special characters across intact, and we can clean out stray encoding characters left behind in older tickets before anything is written to Desk365. You can check the result in the sample migration before the full run.
Can you migrate hundreds of thousands of Jira Service Management tickets and contacts to Desk365?
Yes. Every migration is a custom script built for your project, so volume is something we plan for, not a limit on what can move. At large volumes, run time is set mainly by how fast Jira Service Management's and Desk365's APIs accept requests, and we plan the full run around that. Before the full run, we test the mapping and throughput with a sample migration.
We use a lot of custom fields in Jira Service Management. Can you map them to Desk365?
Where Desk365 has a place for them, yes. Each migration is a custom script written for your project, so your custom fields and structure are mapped to Desk365's model rather than forced through an import template. Where field types differ, such as a value stored as text in Jira Service Management that Desk365 needs as a number, the script converts it. We agree the mapping with you and prove it on a sample migration before the full run.
Can you combine data from Jira Service Management and other support tools into one Desk365 account?
Yes. Each tool's data is extracted separately and written into the same Desk365 account. How records from the different tools fit together is settled in the data mapping before the build. The sample migration includes data from every source, so you can check the combined result before the full run.
Can you fix Jira Service Management tickets that are linked to the wrong company during the migration?
Yes, where Desk365 lets a company be set on each ticket. Each migration runs as custom scripts against the source and destination APIs, so we can set the correct company on each ticket as it is written to Desk365. We agree the assignment rules with you first. The corrected links show up in the sample migration, so you can check them before the full run.
Will links from our Jira Service Management tickets to Jira issues in other projects survive the move to Desk365?
Yes, as references. We write the key of each linked Jira issue into a custom field on the migrated ticket in Desk365, so every link moves with its ticket and stays visible there. We confirm the field and its contents on the sample migration before the full run.
Can Jira Service Management ticket watchers or followers be migrated to Desk365?
Yes. We read the watcher list from each Jira Service Management ticket and, where a watcher has an agent account in Desk365, matched by email, add them as a watcher on the matching migrated ticket. You confirm the result on the sample migration before the full run.
Will our Jira Service Management ticket formatting, including HTML content, carry over to Desk365?
Yes. The migration script converts ticket content, including HTML, into the format Desk365 expects, and our verification checks compare migrated tickets with the originals, including how the HTML renders. The sample migration lets you compare migrated tickets side by side with the originals before the full run, and if anything renders differently, such as HTML appearing as raw text, we adjust the script and re-run the samples until you sign off.
Our Jira Service Management account already holds tickets imported from an earlier migration. Will that cause problems when we migrate to Desk365?
It can make the number of tickets we pull differ from the count Jira Service Management shows, so tell us about the earlier import during scoping. We compare those two numbers before the full run, so if earlier-imported history makes them differ, we find out why first. When the migration is complete, the reconciliation report accounts for every ticket.
Are deleted Jira Service Management tickets included in the migration?
Only if you want them. You decide during scoping whether deleted and spam tickets are included, and we apply that choice to every run, including the final delta sync. Some platforms keep deleted tickets as scrubbed records with no remaining content; we flag any we find and migrate them only if you ask.
Will Jira Service Management tickets that have no customer email address, or whose contact can't be found, still be migrated to Desk365?
Yes, if you want them. We look the contact up again before leaving any ticket behind: when a ticket can't be linked to its contact on the first pass, we run a second lookup, also checking elsewhere in the ticket's data, and attach the requester before the ticket is migrated. Some help desks need an email address or telephone number to create the customer a ticket belongs to, so we flag every ticket whose requester still has neither, including where Jira Service Management's privacy settings hide the email from its API, and send you the list. You can then give us the right email for each requester, or have the tickets migrated with placeholder email addresses, and we migrate them that way.
Can you migrate Jira Service Management tickets that belong to private or restricted categories?
Yes, once the migration's connection can reach them. If a category or group is private or restricted in Jira Service Management or Desk365, the account we connect with may not be able to read or create tickets in it, so we flag every ticket this affects. You can then lift the restriction or give the connection the access it needs, such as an admin-level account, and we migrate the remaining tickets, or tell us to leave them out.
If we have Facebook and Instagram comments in Jira Service Management, will they keep the right author and show where they came from in Desk365?
Yes, as far as Jira Service Management records it. Each message is attributed to the author Jira Service Management's API reports, and messages from your team show under the right agent as long as that agent's account exists in Desk365 before the tickets are migrated; otherwise they fall back to the default agent. We also carry over the message source in as much detail as the API provides, for example telling comments on Instagram posts apart from comments on Instagram ads.
Can you also migrate email threads from our email account, such as Gmail, that never became tickets in Jira Service Management?
Yes. Once your email account, such as Gmail, is connected, we can pull selected email threads directly from it, for example for a date range you choose, and migrate them into Desk365 as tickets. We share the list of threads with you to confirm before anything moves. Because they were never tickets, some details can look different from tickets migrated from Jira Service Management.
Will Jira Service Management tickets that have no messages or comments still be migrated to Desk365?
Yes, if you want them. Some help desks can't create a ticket without at least one message, so we flag every ticket that has none and send you the list rather than skipping them silently. We first check whether the content is stored elsewhere in Jira Service Management, such as a ticket description we can use as the first message. Otherwise we can migrate the ticket with a placeholder message, or leave it out if you prefer.
Do you download attachments for every Jira Service Management ticket, or only for the tickets being migrated?
It depends on the source platform. For some sources, our scripts fetch attachments at the time each ticket is migrated rather than during the initial data pull, so files are downloaded only for the tickets in scope. For others, attachments are pulled along with the initial data. Either way, only the tickets you choose are migrated.
Will a customer in Jira Service Management with several email addresses or telephone numbers end up as duplicate contacts in Desk365?
Not if we agree the merges with you first. We identify records that share an email address or telephone number and propose merges in the migration checklist, where you confirm each one and choose which address stays primary. Each merged set becomes one contact holding all of that customer's tickets and, where Desk365 allows it, all of their email addresses. We don't merge on a guess, so records you don't confirm stay as they are.
Will our customers be able to see their migrated conversations in Desk365, for example in a customer portal?
It depends on Desk365. Migrated tickets are attached to each customer's contact record like any other ticket, so where Desk365 has a portal that shows customers their own tickets, the migrated ones can appear there, while internal notes stay private to your agents. Some portals only show tickets or replies set up in a particular way, so we confirm during scoping how imported tickets show to customers in Desk365 and check it in the sample migration.
Can our agents reply to customers from migrated Jira Service Management tickets in Desk365?
Yes, where Desk365 treats migrated tickets as regular tickets and your support email is connected to it. An agent's reply from a migrated ticket then goes out to the customer, and the customer's next reply continues on that same ticket. Some help desks keep imported tickets read-only, so we confirm this for Desk365 and test it on your account before your team relies on it.
Will the information that integrations show in our Jira Service Management tickets be migrated to Desk365?
Not if that information lives in the integration rather than in Jira Service Management. Widgets and similar panels are often drawn live by the integration, and where Jira Service Management doesn't store that data or return it through its API, it can't be migrated with the tickets. The tickets and their conversations migrate as normal, and your team reconnects each integration to Desk365 after cutover.