10 Best Awesome Support Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Awesome Support has 6,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Awesome Support
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Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk
Closest match4.3 (27) 400+ active installsLet customers submit tickets, assign agents, set priorities, track status, and get instant email notifications. All from your website.
Shares the helpdesk, Support Ticket, ticket system tags on WordPress.org. 400+ installs against 6,000+, last updated July 21, 2026.
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4.0 (58) 100+ active installsWATS is a ticket system, used by helpdesk staff to deliver support. WATS stands for WP Advanced Ticket System.
Shares the helpdesk, support, ticket system tags on WordPress.org. 100+ installs against 6,000+, rated 4.0 against 3.5, last updated October 12, 2025.
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Fluent Support – Helpdesk & Customer Support Ticket System
4.6 (69) 10,000+ active installsFeature Rich and Super Fast Support and Customer Ticketing System for WordPress.
Shares the helpdesk, Support Ticket tags on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, rated 4.6 against 3.5, last updated 19 days ago.
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SupportCandy – AI Customer Support Ticket System & Live Chatbot Agent
4.9 (289) 10,000+ active installsEnhance your WordPress site with our AI Powered customer support ticket system. Manage customer support, tickets, and email tickets efficiently.
Shares the helpdesk, support tags on WordPress.org. About 1.7 times the installs, rated 4.9 against 3.5, last updated 6 days ago.
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Events Manager – Calendar, Bookings, Tickets, and more!
4.2 (548) 60,000+ active installsEvents calendar with bookings, scheduling, appointments, event registration, tickets, recurring events, and venue management.
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, rated 4.2 against 3.5, last updated 11 days ago.
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MembershipWorks – Membership, Events & Directory
4.4 (37) 2,000+ active installsAll-in-one membership, directory, events and donations for organizations. Secure member profiles, renewals, upgrades and limit member only access to c …
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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Event Espresso – Event Registration & Ticketing Sales
4.4 (135) 600+ active installsThe best events plugin with event registration, free and paid ticket sales, event registration forms, PayPal payments, automatic emails, and more!
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. 600+ installs against 6,000+, rated 4.4 against 3.5, last updated July 17, 2026.
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Tickera – Sell Tickets & Manage Events
4.5 (289) 2,000+ active installsSell tickets, manage events, and handle event registration on your site — PDF tickets, QR/Barcode check-in, and seamless ticket sales for WordPress.
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, rated 4.5 against 3.5, last updated 11 days ago.
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WP Event Manager – Events Calendar, Registrations, Sell Tickets with WooCommerce
4.0 (248) 20,000+ active installsLightweight, scalable and full-featured event listings & management plugin for managing events & tickets from the Frontend and Backend.
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, rated 4.0 against 3.5, last updated July 22, 2026.
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Event Tickets Manager for WooCommerce
Paid version available4.7 (32) 1,000+ active installsUse this powerful WordPress event plugin to create and sell events, manage tickets, check-ins, recurring schedules, venues, and attendee details with …
Shares the tickets tag on WordPress.org. 1,000+ installs against 6,000+, last updated 24 days ago.
Switching from Awesome Support: common questions
What is the best alternative to Awesome Support?
Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 400+ active installs with a 4.3 out of 5 rating.
Which Awesome Support alternative has the most users?
Events Manager, with 60,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Awesome Support alternative is rated highest?
SupportCandy, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 289 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Awesome Support alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Awesome Support score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Awesome Support on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Customer Support Ticket System & Helpdesk is the closest match to Awesome Support by the data we track, and Events Manager has the widest reach with 60,000+ active installs. SupportCandy shipped the most recent release, on September 1, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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