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API integration

Ship Helpdesk features without building the integration. Full Freshchat API access via Proxy, normalized data through Unified APIs — extend models and mappings to fit your product.

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Use Cases

Why integrate with Freshchat

Common scenarios for SaaS companies building Freshchat integrations for their customers.

01

Power AI-driven customer service copilots with live agent context

If you're building an AI platform that automates customer support, your users need you to connect with their Freshchat instance. Use Truto to sync contacts, identify agents, and route escalations — so your AI can resolve queries and hand off to the right human when needed.

02

Enrich CRM profiles with messaging context

Sales and marketing CRMs can offer their customers a native Freshchat integration to automatically map chat contacts to CRM leads. This ensures sales reps always see the latest support interactions before engaging a prospect.

03

Build support QA and agent coaching dashboards

Workforce management and QA platforms can sync agent rosters and team structures from Freshchat to run performance analytics. Pulling agent identities and group assignments lets you build coaching dashboards without your customers manually exporting data.

04

Automate user and agent provisioning across helpdesk tools

If your product manages employee onboarding or identity across SaaS tools, integrating with Freshchat lets you provision and deprovision agents and sync group memberships programmatically — keeping your customers' support org in sync with their source of truth.

05

Centralize multi-channel support data for analytics platforms

Analytics and BI products can pull user, agent, and team data from Freshchat alongside other helpdesk tools through Truto's unified models, giving their customers a single pane of glass over their support operations without building bespoke connectors.

What You Can Build

Ship these features with Truto + Freshchat

Concrete product features your team can ship faster by leveraging Truto’s Freshchat integration instead of building from scratch.

01

Unified agent roster sync

Automatically sync Freshchat agents into your product using the Unified Ticketing API (Users), keeping your internal agent directory up to date without manual CSV imports.

02

Cross-platform team and group mapping

Pull Freshchat teams and collections via the Unified User Directory API (Groups) to map support groups to your product's internal team structure for routing, analytics, or access control.

03

Contact directory synchronization

Keep your product's contact database aligned with Freshchat's customer contacts using the Unified User Directory API (Users), so downstream workflows always reference the latest customer identity data.

04

Role-based access auditing

Sync Freshchat permission roles via the Unified User Directory API (Roles) to surface who has admin, supervisor, or agent-level access — useful for compliance dashboards and security reviews.

05

Agent-to-team performance aggregation

Combine agent data from the Unified Ticketing API with group data from the Unified User Directory API to build team-level performance views, enabling managers to benchmark groups like 'Billing Support' vs. 'Tier 2 Technical'.

Unified APIs

Unified APIs for Freshchat

Skip writing code for every integration. Use Truto’s category-specific Unified APIs out of the box or customize the mappings with AI.

Unified User Directory API

Groups

Groups are a collection of users in the source application. In some applications, they might also be called Teams.

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Roles

The Role object represents a role of a User.

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Users

The User object represents a User.

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Unified Ticketing API

Users

Users represent the people using the underlying ticketing system. They are usually called agents, team members, admins, etc.

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How It Works

From zero to integrated

Go live with Freshchat in under an hour. No boilerplate, no maintenance burden.

01

Link your customer’s Freshchat account

Use Truto’s frontend SDK to connect your customer’s Freshchat account. We handle all OAuth and API key flows — you don’t need to create the OAuth app.

02

We handle authentication

Don’t spend time refreshing access tokens or figuring out secure storage. We handle it and inject credentials into every API request.

03

Call our API, we call Freshchat

Truto’s Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Freshchat API. You call us, we call Freshchat, and pass the response back in the same cycle.

04

Unified response format

Every response follows a single format across all integrations. We translate Freshchat’s pagination into unified cursor-based pagination. Data is always in the result attribute.

FAQs

Common questions about Freshchat on Truto

Authentication, rate limits, data freshness, and everything else you need to know before you integrate.

What authentication method does the Freshchat integration use?

Freshchat's API supports API key-based authentication (Bearer token). When your end users connect their Freshchat account through Truto, they provide their API credentials and Truto handles token management and secure storage.

What Unified APIs are available for Freshchat today?

Freshchat currently maps to the Unified User Directory API (supporting Groups, Roles, and Users) and the Unified Ticketing API (supporting Users, which maps to Freshchat Agents). No additional tools are available yet, but custom tools can be built on request.

What's the difference between Users in the User Directory API and Users in the Ticketing API for Freshchat?

In the Unified User Directory API, Users maps to Freshchat Contacts — the end-customers engaging in chat. In the Unified Ticketing API, Users maps to Freshchat Agents — the internal employees who respond to messages.

Can I access conversation or message data through Truto's Freshchat integration?

Conversation and message retrieval are not currently covered by the available Unified APIs. However, Truto can build custom tools on request to interact with Freshchat's conversation and messaging endpoints if your use case requires it.

Does Truto handle Freshchat's API rate limits and pagination?

Yes. Truto abstracts away Freshchat's API-specific pagination and rate limiting behavior, so your application receives consistent, paginated responses without needing to implement retry logic or cursor management.

Can I request additional Freshchat API capabilities beyond what's currently supported?

Absolutely. Truto builds tools on request. If you need access to conversations, messages, proactive campaigns, or webhook subscriptions, you can request a custom tool and Truto will scope and build it for your use case.

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