No. Support Portal will work equally well on any template you choose to download and install on your Joomla CMS.

For advice and information on installing Support Portal please check out our knowledge base.

This depends entirely on the size of your website. Support Portal has been designed to be completely customisable so you can alter every aspect to suit your individual requirements.

If you have a small website and want just a simple support section, require a small set of FAQs and knowledge base articles for example - it will simply take approximately 10 minutes of your time.

If however, you want to take the time to add a large number of knowledge base articles and FAQs then it will obviously take longer.

The initial set up of Support Portal will literally take just a few minutes - however depending on the size of your website and the detail you want to provide to your users - it can take anything up to several hours.

Whichever way you choose we are confident that you will be happy with the results and Support Portal will create a professional organised support section to your website of any size.

To view the extensice features of Support Portal and learn how you can create you unique support portal click here

In order to use Support Portal a knowledge of the popular CMS Joomla is required. Please click here to find out more about Joomla.

Support Portal has been designed to be very easy to use and can be completely tailored to suit your individual requirements.

If you do need help with any aspect of its use feel free to submit a support ticket to us and we will get back to you.

Please take a look at our knowledge base to find information and advice on installing and configuring Support Portal - we are hoping that all the information you will need to use Support Portal is covered in the FAQs and knowledge base.

Before you purchase Support Portal you need to have downloaded and installed the popular CMS Joomla.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.

Click here for more information on Joomla. Or if you haven't yet downloaded your copy of Joomla please click here.

As we use PayPal it is quite possible to get an invoice for your purchase through this system.

PayPal will automatically email you a sales invoice for your purchase.

It is possible to remove the "Powered By Support Portal" line from the bottom of your support portal.

Goto Components -> Support Portal -> Settings. Enable the first setting listed, "Hide 'Powered by Support Portal' text".

You can purchase Support Portal using PayPal.

PayPal is the only payment system we support because it is 100% secure and fully protects your valuable information.

You don't have to be a registered user to use PayPal as it also supports the following cards -

• Visa / Delta / Electron
• MasterCard / Eurocard
• PayPal Top Up Card
• Maestro
• Solo
• American Express

Having a knowledge base on your website is a great idea to provide your users with an area where they can visit and find out detailed information to their queries.

Each knowledge base article can be customised to your requirements, you can even upload files as attachments to each article, and they have a rating system so you can gain valuable feedback on their usefulness.

Knowledge bases can be useful for supporting documentation i.e. advice, legal information, basically anything you can think of!!

To see a full list of features for the knowledge base modules please click here

You can have an unlimted amount of knowledge base articles on your website. You can organise these by product and/or category which you can also have unlimited numbers of.

You can assign a particular article to more than one product or to all products.

To view a full list of features for the knowledge base please click here.

Captcha is is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process usually involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human (Wikipedia, )

Captcha is used in the ticketed support module, testimonials module and the knowledge base module (when users provide feedback). It can be turned on or off depending on your requirements.

To see the full features of Support Portal please click here.

Or to purchase Support Portal please click here.

Yes. You can add any type of attachment to the knowledge base articles, there is no restriction on file type. There are no limits on attachment size, however hosting generally has a limit of 8MB (this can be changed by your hosting provider if necessary).

This can be used to provide your users with images, spreadsheets, word documents or pdf's for example.

To find out the full list of features on the knowledge base module please click here.

An FAQ section is great idea to have on your website for a place where your users can go to get quick, simple answers to any possible questions they may have.

This will save your users time and you - instead of your users contacting you with small questions that can be answered quickly, they can browse an FAQ section and hopefully find their answer immediately. This will save them the time of contacting you directly and waiting for a response. It will also save you the time of responding to lots of small requests and allow you time for other things.

To see a list of the full features of the FAQ module please click here

You can have an unlimited amount of FAQs on your website, you can organise them all by categories which you can also have an unlimited number of.

To see the full list of features for the FAQ module please click here.

Testimonials sections are a great idea so your users can see feedback from existing users so they can get some peer feedback on products. Having positive testimonials on your website will urge new visitors to take action and possibly engage in a purchase decision or continue using the website/service.

Having votes of confidence from peers is a powerful selling tool as opposed to pure sales messages from the website itself. Testimonials just provide another dimension of sales/information for your users to take advantage of and to sell your product.

To see a full list of features for the testimonials modules please click here.

You can have an unlimited number of testimonials on your website, when you have the testimonials section as a module you can control how many are viewed at once.But you can have an unlimited number available in the back end.

To view the full list of features for the testimonials module please click here

Ticketed support systems provide a very professional feedback system for you and your users. Once a user submits a support ticket, they can be easily tracked by both parties, it is easy to reply to them, you can send documents back and forth without having to search through lots of emails and get confused.

Support tickets also require customers to specify which product/category they are referring to therefore making it easy for you to organise queries, users can set a priority so you know what tickets are more urgent and it provides a highly organised and very professional support system.

To see the full list of features for the ticketed support system please click here.

You can have unlimited numbers of open support tickets on your website. You can keep a highly organised set of open tickets,closed tickets and on-going tickets.

You can set up specific departments for your tickets to go to and they can be organised by product. You can even get automatic emails when you receive a support ticket and assign certain emails to certain departments or products, i.e. sales or technical support departments.

To see a full list of features for the ticketed support module please click here.

An announcements section will provide a great place for you to enter important notifications and news items for your users to read. Your users will know to keep checking the announcements section for important updates, especially as Support Portal allows you to have an annoucements section in any module position.

To see a full list of features for the announcements module please click here.

You can have unlimited numbers of announcements on your website, these can range from simple news items to important updates - anything your website requires.

If you set up announcements as a module, you can also set how many are displayed at once.

To see a full list of features for the announcements modules please click here.