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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 3rd, 2026 # Reviews of JIRA Service Management Ease of use 4.2 Customer Service 4.3 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews BT Benjamin T IT-SystemadministratorTelecommunications, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “It integrates seamlessly with other tools in the Atlassian ecosystem and allows teams to build highly tailored workflows and automations.“ May 1, 2026 DG Damian G CTOInformation Technology and Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Due to specific usage in company im missing a feature of sth like saving specifics tickets in kind of folder just to me or tags for better filtering“ March 15, 2026 EW Emma W Marketing ManagerE-Learning, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “What I really like about Jira is the ability to create multiple boards for different teams, which keeps workstreams clearly organized and easy to manage.“ February 22, 2026 EW Emma W Marketing ManagerE-Learning, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “One challenge I’ve experienced with Jira is that, as a ticket submitter, it can be difficult to easily find and keep track of all the requests I’ve submitted to different teams.“ February 22, 2026 RK Raul K Group Director of TechnologyNon-Profit Organization Management, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “It has a wide range of API integrations, and has excellent tools such as Confluence, Jira Software and Kanban boards that make the whole Atlassian ecosystem such an excellent platform for IT departments and businesses to use.“ November 2, 2025 AP Adam P Managing consultantManagement Consulting, 10,001+ employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “The main drawback for me was the complexity that comes with its flexibility. While the customisation options are powerful, they can make the system feel clunky for everyday users, especially when workflows or forms become overly layered.“ June 16, 2026 ES Elias S Marketing CoordinatorFinancial Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “I like how Jira Service Management streamlines project management, support tickets, prioritization, and SLA tracking in one efficient workflow.“ September 9, 2025 SR Shilpa R QAInformation Technology and Services, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: More than 2 years. “Unable to create folders or sub folders within the test cycles like how we can create for test cases in the repository“ October 13, 2025 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 770 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Eric T. Director, Digital Transformation Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A Great Tool in the Atlassian Universe" January 27, 2026 4.0 JIRA Service Management is a pretty simple tool to configure and use. It is user friendly and its integration with Confluence make it a powerful tool. Being able to tie KBs to the customer interface is extremely helpful. Pros As a Atlassian shop, it was easy to integrate, provision and manage JIRA Service Management within the Atlassian platform. Cons User management is tricky. I found that users were automatically assigned as users to JIRA Service Management. I didn't realize what was happening until I received the invoice for additional users. Alternatives considered [Freshdesk](https://www.capterra.com/p/124981/Freshdesk/)[Zendesk Suite](https://www.capterra.com/p/164283/Zendesk/) Reason for choosing JIRA Service Management Primarily, we selected JIRA Service Management because we were using Atlassian in other areas of the organization. Integration with these components was critical. Review Source RK Raul K. Group Director of Technology Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Highly customisable solution supporting omnichannel environments" November 2, 2025 5.0 I have deployed Jira service management at a couple of organisations I have worked at. It has a wide range of API integrations, and has excellent tools such as Confluence, Jira Software and Kanban boards that make the whole Atlassian ecosystem such an excellent platform for IT departments and businesses to use. Pros Jira Service Management and the Atlassian suite of cloud products provide great value for money for an ecosystem of tools which is rich in features and provide many capabilities such as, ITSM in Jira Service Manage, asset management, project management, agile and scrum features within Jira Software. Cons As the tool is so highly customisable, it can take some time to configure as you require it. On the plus side, there are many third-party partners and consultancy services that can configure the platform to work exactly how you require it to work. Alternatives considered [Freshdesk](https://www.capterra.com/p/124981/Freshdesk/) Reason for choosing JIRA Service Management It allowed us to support multiple project projects or instances for different organisations within the same workspace solution. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Sr People Ops Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Ticket Management and workload distribution in one place" November 8, 2025 3.0 Overall, It's a good experience and teams definitely need a platform to receive their tickets and distribute workload among members. Although it's a bit expensive, the customer support and capabilities of the platform are somehow worth it. Pros JIRA Service Management allows all teams to get their service desk/team support tickets in one place and distribute workload efficiently. It's key for teams that work with agile methodologies or scrum. Cons Being able to customize everything is an amazing thing but it also requires a lot of training or external documentation to read and learn before taking action. We are always afraid of messing things up and affecting somebody else's issues or requests. It's also a pity that we Admins always get to see the content of spaces, because in the HR team we want to have onboarding/offboarding tasks but some of them are confidential and we can't risk having IT or Tech members reading it. Review Source BT Benjamin T. IT-Systemadministrator Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Powerful but Complex ITSM Solution for Growing Teams" May 1, 2026 4.0 Overall, Jira Service Management is a robust and scalable ITSM solution that works particularly well for teams already familiar with Jira. While it may require time to fully set up and optimize, it delivers strong long-term value through its flexibility, automation, and integration capabilities. Pros The flexibility and customization options are standout features. It integrates seamlessly with other tools in the Atlassian ecosystem and allows teams to build highly tailored workflows and automations. Cons The initial setup and configuration can be complex and time-consuming. Pricing can also become expensive as your team grows or requires advanced features. Switched from [Inventory360](https://www.capterra.com/p/10006518/Inventory360/) Featurelist is the most important and Jira offers too many features that inventory360 is missing. Review Source RR Richard R. IT Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "JIRA good Start and a simple but effective Service Management Tool" July 1, 2025 4.0 Good to start with, served its purpose and worked as a basic service desk tool. Would have liked more integration and better dashboard reporting. Overall as a starting point, it worked, but the group as a whole needed a more elaborate solution with a focus on more detailed reporting for different tiers of management. Pros Ease of configuration and customization was relatively easy and and the box experience initially worked well. The team was up and running in a matter of hours, not days. Cons Not as easy to get integrating,you have to purchase apps or plugins to gain what should be relatively straightforward connections to 3rd party apps. Alternatives considered [Freshdesk](https://www.capterra.com/p/124981/Freshdesk/)[SolarWinds Service Desk](https://www.capterra.com/p/129478/Solarwinds-Service-Desk/) Reason for choosing JIRA Service Management We trialled for over a year as the group was using this as a service management tool. Eventually the group migrated to Freshdesk from Freshworks. Review Source MG Mike G. Member of Technical Staff Computer Hardware Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great software for IT/HR" January 11, 2026 3.0 Overall, this is a fantastic software with many usecases. I really see that this can be super helpful for IT administration or even HR/Benefits cases. Pros Very efficient service management panel. You can easily create and assign IT service request. Largely bug free and has all the features. This is basically a scaled down version of service now. Great customer support from atlassian and great integration with the regular jira feature. Cons Sometimes moving item and assigning it to different sprint from a service request is not the most convenient. Alternatives considered [ServiceNow](https://www.capterra.com/p/254088/ServiceNow/) Reason for choosing JIRA Service Management Already integrated with jira so very convenient and more cost effective to go with atlassian Review Source VF Valentino F. CEO Entertainment Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Like it, useful" July 8, 2025 4.0 Overall, it's a powerful tool that helped our team streamline support, reduce delays, and improve response times. Pros I love how easy it is to manage and prioritize support tickets. The automation saves us tons of time daily. Cons The learning curve was steep at first. Setting up workflows took time and required outside help from IT. Switched from [Freshdesk](https://www.capterra.com/p/124981/Freshdesk/) JIRA offered deeper integration with our dev team and better workflow customization. Review Source Swathi J. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Powerful and Flexible tool for Project Management" June 27, 2025 5.0 My experience with Jira Service Management is very good and positive. It helps me customize workflows and automate repetitive tasks, improving the overall team efficiency. Pros Jira is helpful for linking service-related tickets to development issues, which improves visibility between support and engineering teams. Its easy to configure and use. Cons Administration is complex for a new user. Pricing is getting expensive, and reporting is flexible but can be unintuitive without add-ons. Switched from [ServiceNow](https://www.capterra.com/p/254088/ServiceNow/)[Zendesk Suite](https://www.capterra.com/p/164283/Zendesk/) Ease of usability and easy to navigate in managing a project. Review Source JK Jarosław K. Director of Support Services Translation and Localization Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Flawed but functional" February 28, 2025 3.0 While the automation and workflow management is the biggest winner, Atlassian's product severely lacks in both utility and UX. Industry-standard features are stuck in the forever wishlist queue, and it takes years for them to be developed, e.g. "Canned responses" were introduced somewhere around 2 years ago while the rest of the industry had them as early as 2017. Atlassian's product \[sensitive content hidden\] seem to have little experience in ticketing jobs, and they focus the development roadmap on less impactful developments like "easier Zoom calls" and leaving out basic functions like ticket splitting and merging. This product is also rarely able to cover your scenarios to the full unless you have an engineer ready to create 3rd party applications or plugins. To give an example, JSM allows us to automate ticket assignment but is unable to take into account employee unavailability- we needed to create a separate panel where we would auto-upload data from our HR software just to let the JSM know about who is unavailable on a given day- a feature other ticketing systems resolved through "if you go on a holiday, push this button to mark yourself as unavailable". I could go on and make this section more tl;dr; Pros JSM allows the creation of robust automated workflows. The framework is flexible and allows it to be modified or extended through the application of 3rd party scripts or plugins. Cons Limited ability to customize and change both the customer portal and the agent's view. Switched from [Freshdesk](https://www.capterra.com/p/124981/Freshdesk/) Freshdesk had limited automation and workflow management, which put significant ticket management overhead on our employees. The ticket portal was very basic. Review Source AA Adebayo A. Engineering Lead Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 2+ years ### "An Excellent Service Management Tool For Small and Large Organizations" February 12, 2025 5.0 Overall, it's a wonderful tool and it has helped make the team more efficient. The ease with which we can accept requests, track progress, and also notify customers has really helped us to remove the difficulty we had with resolving customer issues. It's also great that requests can be linked to Jira tickets allowing for easy reference to existing and collaboration between our customer support team and our technical team. Pros We have used Jira Service Management for a while to manage IT requests in my organization and the part I love most about it is the simplicity of use. From the dashboard, it's easy to have an overall view of pending requests and easily manage the requests. With Jira Service, our support team is quickly able to triage, diagnose, and resolve any ticket within the organization. Cons While it's a great tool, we sometimes have issues with the email component. Our customers send requests via email and widgets and the widget works perfectly. But sometimes, we don't get the issues sent via email on the Service Desk Dashboard. In some rare cases too, when we reply to a customer, the customer doesn't get the email and this leads to a breakdown in communications and support. Switched from [Trello](https://www.capterra.com/p/211559/Trello/) We didn't have as much customization and feature as needed Review Source GT Gary T. Cloud Architect Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Powerful and Flexible ITSM Tool" April 30, 2025 4.0 It’s a powerful and flexible platform that works well for managing service requests, incidents, and change workflows. Pros How well it integrates with the broader Atlassian ecosystem (like Confluence and Jira Software) Cons Initial setup and configuration can be quite complex, especially for teams without prior Atlassian experience. Alternatives considered [ServiceNow](https://www.capterra.com/p/254088/ServiceNow/) Reason for choosing JIRA Service Management The native integration with other Atlassian products! Review Source AH Aaron H. Sales and Inventory Analyst Consumer Goods Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Jira can keep pace with any company!" October 22, 2024 5.0 JSM will take your company's organization in projects and IT requests to a new level! We used to miss deadlines and small details that came back to bite us all the time. Since switching to JSM, those are few and far between! Pros JSM allows customization of workflows to match the needs of your organization. This helps tailor incident, request, and problem management processes. JSM also provides built-in automation, allowing repetitive tasks to be automated, saving time and reducing human error. The platform can scale from small teams to large enterprises, making it suitable for organizations of various sizes. Cons Customizing workflows, automating tasks, and configuring the system can be complex for beginners or teams without experience in Jira. It might require dedicated resources for setup and management. JSM can generate excessive notifications, which can be overwhelming for end-users if not properly configured. Switched from [ProofHub](https://www.capterra.com/p/118040/ProofHub/) Need something that was more sophisticated and could scale with our growing company's needs Review Source RM Robert M. Cybersecurity Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Revolutionize Customer Experience with Jira Service Management." July 24, 2025 5.0 Offer robust features that helps to improve the customer experience and reduces workload on customer support team. Pros It offer a user friendly interface that allow support team to effectively and effortlessly manage service request and deliver quality support.Automate workflow that eliminate the management of routine and time consuming customer service tasks.Omnichannel support feature ensure customer have variety of options for reaching support team.Provide great dashboards and reports that gives data needed for decision making about service operations .Its customization feature allow creation of custom workflow,fields and forms. Cons Jira Service Management cost is a bit higher especially for a organization with big number of support agents . Review Source SK Sandrine K. Account Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Best Service Management Tool I have Experienced." July 15, 2025 5.0 The platform have a quick set up and is highly adaptable Also help to deliver exceptional customer experience so fast. Pros This tool has an intuitive and clean interface that make it easy to get started with ticket management and service request.Provide customizable workflows that fit every specific need.Excellent reporting and analytics. Cons Jira Service Management lacks seamless integration with some of our platform that we use in our organization. Review Source SS Sheni S. Course Advisor - sales Education Management Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Jira for service management! " March 27, 2026 4.0 Customer support is very responsive when it comes to assisting with thd initial learning and implementation. Once thr initial learning is done, it is very easy to use. Pros Easy to use project management tool with several features on a user friendly interface. Supportive and responsive customer service. Cons There is a steep learning curve that make it difficult to implement in large organizations. Implementation is tome consuming and costs are high with necessary add ons. Review Source MP Mario P. QA Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great for IT teams but a bit tricky to get started" December 13, 2024 4.0 Overall, it’s a good platform for managing IT requests and incidents. Once you get the hang of the setup, it really helps streamline communication and ticket resolution. It’s reliable, but it could definitely be a bit more user-friendly. Pros I like how customizable it is. You can set up workflows and automate processes to fit your team’s needs. The integration with other Atlassian tools is a huge plus, making it easy to track and resolve issues. Cons It can feel a bit complicated at first, especially if you're not familiar with the Atlassian ecosystem. The user interface is not as intuitive as I’d like, and some tasks take more clicks than necessary. Review Source LN Luciano N. Senior Film Technician Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Good for workflow" March 9, 2026 4.0 Really good and easy, ticketing is good and being able to allocate work & comments are helpful over long periods of time Pros good to organise tickets & help team members to complete the tasks. We have team meetings that help to clear any outstanding tickets Cons not much comes to mind as I am just a on the ground worker, load times sometimes take a while & website sometimes doesn't update Review Source BM Bharath M. Technical Support Expert Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Enterpise development management" March 5, 2025 4.0 Overall, the product is extremely helpful and supportive in removing problems that came to understand and track the progress of ongoing development and fixations on multiple issues and products of the large enterprises, mainly for other department people. It gave the facility to manage and ask questions as well. Pros 1- Jira dashboard is extremely wide that it covers all the development related problems under one roof. 2- The product is very secure for confidential updates and information of product development cycle and give a ease to see and manage those securely. 3- Extremely wide reporting and customization support provided. Cons 1\. All just due to wide features and functionality the complexity of product understanding increases. 2. I feel missing feature of graphics more to be added in the dashboard for more easy understanding. Review Source AT Alejandra T. BU Hybrid IT Regional Sales Manager Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Very well known and practical tool for Service Managment" May 30, 2025 5.0 It is a very usefull, easy and secure tool to use as a platform to provide services to multimple customers Pros It is actually a Standard and very well known tool in Latam. Is generally used as a platform to provide Services to different customers. Cons Some configurations are tricky, but using API Management, you can easily solve the issues. Nevertheless, the tool is very easy to implement and use. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Quality engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best project management software" January 30, 2025 5.0 Its great and i am using Jira from last 7 years and it make my work easy Pros Project managemrt and tracking and the way how jira follow agile Cons Customizations is a bit heard in jira. Learning new tool Review Source PS Paola S. product designer Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "JIra could do better" March 17, 2025 5.0 first it all, I was so easy to understand the sections but no the same with some small plugins or gadgets.But forme was a good experience with some practice Pros the most awesome about JIra Service Management is the design and the clarity of section of timing and scalable map of projects Cons mmm I think the product will be good is It will be able to connected for more platform for designer Review Source KR Kyle R. Systems Administrator Luxury Goods & Jewelry Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Jira Service Management is great but pricey" February 7, 2025 4.0 Jira is a great service management system that is highly customizable. It takes a while to get the hang of it. Would like it a bit more user-friendly but for everything it does, if price is not an issue, it is well worth it. Pros The customizations, automations and all of the integrations Cons Pricing, Support can be slow at times, Not very user-friendly when just starting out, Log information is very spread out Review Source MM Megan M. Owner Commercial Real Estate Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "JIRA management services " June 30, 2025 5.0 Pros What i did like the most about JIRA Service management, its customization options and integration capabilities Cons What i didnt like the most about JIRA Service Management is that it's complexity snd initial set up challenging Review Source FV Filippo V. CTO Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Too complicated to be used" April 30, 2025 5.0 Interesting, but to complicated. I am not very convinced to use it unless the setup will be simolificated Pros It is a very complete product, it can really help you to manage the assistance in your company. Cons It is very difficult to set up. We spent days in figuring out how to configure everything Review Source LM Lachlan M. IT Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "It completed our needs " April 13, 2025 5.0 Excellent, open support tickets and management in a queue. Pros It is simple to integrate into its own management space and updates are rolled out regularly. Cons The support is slow, sending emails but never getting responses. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.