# Converting an email to a ticket

## When To Convert an Email

Sometimes, a customer will email you directly to your personal or work email address.  If you want to **reply to that customer from your support mailbox**, then convert the email into a ticket.  Here's how it works. 

When you convert an email into a ticket, a copy of the email will be sent to your support mailbox and turned into a Keeping ticket.  It will arrive in your Keeping inbox as an "Open" ticket and sync'ed with your entire team.  You (or anyone else) can then reply as normal.

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Good to know: It can take a minute or two for the ticket to show up in your Keeping inbox after you press "Convert to ticket."  
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### Open the email you'd like to convert

Open the email you'd like to convert to a ticket, then click the Keeping logo on the right side of the screen to open the Keeping sidebar. Then click the "Convert to ticket" button.

![Click the Keeping logo when viewing an email to convert it to a ticket.](/files/kwpHpdgI98WKhcsfq4aw)

### Convert it to a ticket

After you click the "Convert to ticket" button, choose which mailbox you'd like to open the ticket in.  Click the blue "Create ticket" button and after a short wait, the ticket should appear **as an open ticket in your Keeping mailbox**.

![Choose which mailbox you would like to see the open ticket.](/files/DjlUMSkaEe9Jkkt67ZtN)


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