HelpDeskKit — Start Kit Filament 5.x and Laravel 13.x

About HelpDeskKit

HelpDeskKit is a robust starter kit built on Laravel 13.x and Filament 5.x, designed to accelerate the development of help desk and support ticket applications with a ready-to-use multi-panel structure and integrated ticket management.

Features

• Laravel 13.x — The latest version of the most elegant PHP framework
• Filament 5.x — Powerful and flexible admin framework
• Help Desk System — Full ticket management powered by filament-help-desk
  • Ticket creation, assignment, comments, attachments, and history
  • Departments, categories, canned responses, and email channels
  • Priority and status workflows with bulk actions
• Multi-Panel Structure — Includes four pre-configured panels:
  • Admin Panel (/admin) — System administration and help desk oversight
  • Operator Panel (/operator) — Support agents managing tickets
  • App Panel (/app) — End users creating and tracking tickets
  • Guest Panel — Public-facing interface for visitors
• Multi-Auth Guard — Three independent authentication guards:
  • admin — Admin model with full system access
  • operator — Operator model for support agents
  • web — User model for application users
• Environment Configuration — Centralized configuration through the config/helpdeskkit.php file

System Requirements

• PHP 8.3 or higher
• Composer
• Node.js and PNPM

Installation

Clone the repository

laravel new my-app --using=jeffersongoncalves/helpdeskkitv5 --database=mysql

Using FilaKit CLI

Or use FilaKit CLI for a simplified setup:

filakit new my-app --kit=jeffersongoncalves/helpdeskkitv5

Install FilaKit CLI: composer global require jeffersongoncalves/filakit-cli

Easy Installation

helpdeskkit can be easily installed using the following command:

php install.php

This command automates the installation process by:

• Installing Composer dependencies
• Setting up the environment file
• Generating application key
• Setting up the database
• Running migrations
• Installing Node.js dependencies
• Building assets
• Configuring Herd (if used)

Manual Installation

Install JavaScript dependencies

pnpm install

Install Composer dependencies

composer install

Set up environment

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Configure your database in the .env file

Run migrations

php artisan migrate

Run the server

php artisan serve

Installation with Docker

Clone the repository

laravel new my-app --using=jeffersongoncalves/helpdeskkitv5 --database=mysql

Move into the project directory

cd my-app

Install Composer dependencies

composer install

Set up environment

cp .env.example .env

Configuring custom ports may be necessary if you have other services running on the same ports.

# Application Port (ex: 8080)
APP_PORT=8080

# MySQL Port (ex: 3306)
FORWARD_DB_PORT=3306

# Redis Port (ex: 6379)
FORWARD_REDIS_PORT=6379

# Mailpit Port (ex: 1025)
FORWARD_MAILPIT_PORT=1025

Start the Sail containers

./vendor/bin/sail up -d

You won’t need to run php artisan serve, as Laravel Sail automatically handles the development server within the container.

Attach to the application container

./vendor/bin/sail shell

Generate the application key

php artisan key:generate

Install JavaScript dependencies

pnpm install

Authentication Structure

HelpDeskKit comes pre-configured with a multi-guard authentication system that supports three types of users:

• Admin — Full administrative access, help desk oversight, user/operator management (/admin)
• Operator — Support agent access, ticket management and assignment (/operator)
• User — End-user access, ticket creation and tracking (/app)

Each guard uses its own database table, model, login page, and password reset flow.

Development

# Run the development server with logs, queues and asset compilation
composer dev

# Or run each component separately
php artisan serve
php artisan queue:listen --tries=1
pnpm run dev

Customization

Panel Configuration

Panels can be customized through their respective providers:

• app/Providers/Filament/AdminPanelProvider.php
• app/Providers/Filament/OperatorPanelProvider.php
• app/Providers/Filament/AppPanelProvider.php
• app/Providers/Filament/GuestPanelProvider.php

Each panel can be enabled or disabled in config/helpdeskkit.php.

Themes and Colors

Each panel can have its own color scheme, which can be easily modified in the corresponding Provider files or in the helpdeskkit.php configuration file.

Configuration File

The config/helpdeskkit.php file centralizes the configuration of the starter kit, including:

• Panel routes
• Middleware for each panel
• Branding options (logo, colors)
• Authentication guards

Help Desk — jeffersongoncalves/filament-help-desk

HelpDeskKit includes a full-featured help desk system powered by filament-help-desk:

• User Panel (/app/tickets) — End users create tickets, track status, and view responses
• Operator Panel (/operator/tickets) — Support agents manage assigned tickets, change status/priority, add comments
• Admin Panel (/admin/tickets) — Administrators oversee all tickets, departments, categories, and settings

Help Desk Features

• Ticket creation with departments and categories
• Ticket assignment to operators
• Comments and attachments
• Status and priority workflows
• Ticket history and audit trail
• Canned responses
• Email channel integration (Mailgun, Postmark, Resend, SendGrid)
• Bulk actions (assign, change status, change priority)

Configuration

• config/help-desk.php — Core help desk settings (models, tables, features)
• config/filament-help-desk.php — Filament UI settings (navigation, slugs, icons)

User Profile — joaopaulolndev/filament-edit-profile

This project comes with the Filament Edit Profile plugin integrated for all panels (Admin, Operator, and App). It adds a complete profile editing page with avatar, language, theme color, security (tokens, MFA), browser sessions, and email/password change.

• Routes (defaults in this project):
  • Admin: /admin/my-profile
  • Operator: /operator/my-profile
  • App: /app/my-profile
• Navigation: by default, the page does not appear in the menu (shouldRegisterNavigation(false)). If you want to show it in the sidebar menu, change it to true in the panel provider.

Where to configure

• Panel providers

  • Admin: app/Providers/Filament/AdminPanelProvider.php
  • Operator: app/Providers/Filament/OperatorPanelProvider.php
  • App: app/Providers/Filament/AppPanelProvider.php In these files you can adjust:
  • ->slug(‘my-profile’) to change the URL (e.g., ‘profile’)
  • ->setTitle(‘My Profile’) and ->setNavigationLabel(‘My Profile’)
  • ->setNavigationGroup(‘Group Profile’), ->setIcon(‘heroicon-o-user’), ->setSort(10)
  • ->shouldRegisterNavigation(true|false) to show/hide it in the menu
  • Shown forms: ->shouldShowEmailForm(), ->shouldShowLocaleForm([...]), ->shouldShowThemeColorForm(), ->shouldShowSanctumTokens(), ->shouldShowMultiFactorAuthentication(), ->shouldShowBrowserSessionsForm(), ->shouldShowAvatarForm()

• General settings: config/filament-edit-profile.php

  • locales: language options available on the profile page
  • locale_column: column used in your model for language/locale (default: locale)
  • theme_color_column: column for theme color (default: theme_color)
  • avatar_column: avatar column (default: avatar_url)
  • disk: storage disk used for the avatar (default: public)
  • visibility: file visibility (default: public)

Migrations and models

• The required columns are already included in this kit’s default migrations (users, admins, and operators): avatar_url, locale and theme_color, using the names defined in config/filament-edit-profile.php.
• The App\Models\User, App\Models\Admin, and App\Models\Operator models already read the avatar using the plugin configuration (getFilamentAvatarUrl).

Avatar storage

• Make sure the filesystem disk is configured and that the storage link exists: php artisan storage:link
• Adjust the disk and visibility in the config file according to your infrastructure.

Quick access

• Via direct URL: /admin/my-profile, /operator/my-profile, or /app/my-profile
• To make it visible in the sidebar navigation, set shouldRegisterNavigation(true) in the respective Provider.

Reference

• Plugin repository: https://github.com/joaopaulolndev/filament-edit-profile

Default Credentials

After running php artisan db:seed, use these credentials:

Resources

HelpDeskKit includes support for:

• User, admin, and operator management
• Multi-guard authentication system (3 guards)
• Help desk ticket system with full lifecycle management
• Tailwind CSS 4.x integration
• Database queue configuration
• Customizable panel routing and branding

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Credits

Developed by Jefferson Gonçalves.