Cerb is a fast and flexible Web-based platform for business collaboration and automation. It helps you remember anything about anyone, collaborate from anywhere, deftly reply to a flood of email, automate, stay informed, capture feedback, track time, flag opportunities, manage tasks, share expert knowledge, and otherwise execute efficiently.
| Tags | helpdesk Email Information Management Customer Support customer service Issue Tracking Email Clients (MUA) Communications dashboards groupware Commercial |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Devblocks Public License |
| Operating Systems | Solaris Mac OS X Windows Windows Windows Windows BSD FreeBSD Linux |
| Implementation | HTML jQuery MySQL AJAX PHP 5.3+ |
| Translations | English German Russian Spanish Italian Dutch Portuguese |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This maintenance update includes 13 bugfixes and usability tweaks. Custom fields and fieldsets can be selectively set while replying to tickets. During a reply, the "Would you like to move this conversation?" question clearly shows the current group and bucket. Recurring events may specify a starting date. A floating calendar is available for making selections on date fields. This release fixes an issue with knowledgebase workspace tabs. UTF-8 encoding is used when displaying HTML attachments in the browser. Custom fieldsets can be deleted. This release fixes an issue with the "Help me create a page" wizard.


Release Notes: This major update includes 118 new features. Related custom fields can be grouped into optional fieldsets. Workspace pages, tabs, widgets, and Virtual Attendant behaviors can be imported and exported. Workspace and calendar data can be read from the API. Widget data is exportable from the UI. New widgets provide calendars, clocks, and countdown timers. Multiple calendars can be created by roles, groups, and workers. Virtual Attendants can use calendars to schedule dates in "working hours". Recurring event patterns are more flexible. Plugins are auto-updated during an upgrade.


Release Notes: This maintenance update includes five bugfixes and usability tweaks. The 'nobody' shortcut on the ticket peek popup now works properly in IE8. An issue where malformed HTML attachments were being truncated when displayed in the browser was fixed. An issue with purified HTML attachments having their ID attributes stripped when displayed in the browser was fixed. When hovering over an attachment, a download option is now revealed. An issue in the scheduler where only one job would run per request if PHP lacked permission to use the set_time_limit() function was fixed.


Release Notes: This maintenance update includes nine bugfixes and usability tweaks. Virtual Attendants can use the 'Send Email' action in organization, knowledgebase, and time tracking behaviors. An informative error message is displayed when the database connection is lost. An issue in Firefox where the reply box no longer focused was fixed. The first available reply-to address will be used where there is no default. An issue where PHP was expiring inactive sessions earlier than the browser cookie was fixed. Issues with keyboard shortcuts on the reply and compose forms when selecting text with Ctrl+Shift were fixed.


Release Notes: This major update includes 64 new features. Virtual Attendants now track usage statistics. Virtual Attendants can set cross-record custom fields, add headers to sent mail, add recipients to mail, set organizations on tickets, and post comments as their owner. Macros integrate jQuery for automation while replying. Workers may upload multiple attachments at once. URLs can link directly to messages. Comment creation triggers events. Calendars can plot dates from any worklist. Admins can list sessions. Snippets track daily usage. The Web API can upload files, search comments, and compose mail.
Recent comments
26 Mar 2013 20:01
@g2mk Thanks for summarizing our licensing information! I'll edit the record to use the 'commercial' tag.
The editors tend to filter out pricing information in the descriptions (which makes perfect sense). It's front and center on our website. As you've mentioned, the software defaults to a single seat at no cost, and that's a perpetual license that will never expire. By filling out the quick intro survey after installation we bump that to 3 seats at zero cost -- and that contact information is just used to keep in touch about new project updates. We offer higher seat licenses at no cost to charities and open source projects. For commercial/educational/government use, we have paid seats. The license is perpetual, so the right to use the versions you've paid for will never expire. Seats may be renewed annually to provide a combination of support and software updates.
26 Mar 2013 19:52
@simog Hi there. From the project information on the right, you'll notice that we've maintained a record here for 11 years. Our project is commercial open source. The full source code is on GitHub under a permissive license, which has always been permitted here. The brand on Freshmeat changing to _Freecode_ is very recent compared to how long we've used the site, but I believe that their use of 'free' continues to refer to liberty and not zero cost.
20 Feb 2013 08:54
The software is very nice indeed, but sadly it isn't a free one. It's commercial open source.
01 Feb 2013 19:13
Tagging this kind of software as commercial (or something) would allow to save some time... Here is (below) essential - but unfortunately not quite easy to find - licensing information:
"Seats determine the maximum number of workers that can use the software at the same time."
"Register
In the final step of the installer you are given the opportunity to introduce yourself to the Cerb development team in exchange for a free 3 seat (simultaneous workers) license to help you get started. There are no strings attached. This free license provides full functionality, with no expiration, but it does not include future updates. We hope that you find the software useful, and we’re looking forward to growing along with you.
If you choose not to register your copy of Cerb then the software will default to Free Mode which is limited to a single seat but has no other restrictions.
Complete the short survey in exchange for your free license and then click the Register button."
26 Jan 2013 22:02
This site is called freecode. Not free advertising for your paid application.
A flexible and manageable operating system for PCs, notebooks, and thin clients.