Front makes a shared mailbox pleasant to work in. rapidFOX makes it something you can measure.
Front is a well-designed collaborative inbox, and teams that live in email find it a relief. The design decision that defines it is also its limit: it stays an inbox. Statuses, SLA and reporting exist, but the mental model is the message rather than the case.
Strengths you can check – to the point.
Your data is stored and processed in Germany.
The AI assistant runs on your own server – ticket content is never sent to an external AI service.
Tenant separation, export and deletion functions and a data processing agreement are built in.
One clear price per booked seat – no feature ballast, no hidden add-ons.
An uncluttered interface with a guided start – expensive training is not needed.
Team questions and an automatic wiki keep what you know on the ticket instead of scattered across tools.
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The question is what you want to be able to say at the end of the month. "We answered 340 messages" is an inbox answer. "We resolved 210 cases, 94 per cent inside the deadline, average two hours" is a case answer.
rapidFOX is built for the second one – and keeps the first, because every ticket is still an email thread you can read top to bottom.
The move is deliberately undramatic. You start a free trial that comes with sample data and connect your support mailbox over IMAP/SMTP in a few minutes. From then on every incoming email becomes a ticket, and replies go back out as ordinary email.
What a clean switch looks like step by step is in the guide Introducing a ticketing system.
The rapidFOX AI assistant runs on your own server: drafting replies, shortening them, turning notes into full messages and suggesting solutions – ticket content is never sent to an external AI service. On or off whenever you like, and a person always approves.
That is the right worry and the answer is no – it was the design constraint. There is no form to fill in before replying; you type and send, and the ticket keeps the record itself.
Internal notes and team questions sit on the ticket, with who and when. Simultaneous shared drafting of one reply is not part of it.
Yes. The trial runs for seven days with sample data, and you can connect a second mailbox rather than moving the main one. Nothing has to be switched off first.
rapidFOX costs one fixed price per booked seat, with every function included and no tiers. What Front costs depends on the plan and the add-ons you need – compare it against the list price of the tier that actually covers your requirements.
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