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## Support Tiers
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| Plan | Support |
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| Trial & Hobby | [Community](#help-station) only |
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| Pro | [Community Priority Threads](#priority-threads) and [Business Class](#business-class) |
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| Enterprise | [Custom](#enterprise) & all of the above |
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We prioritize support requests based on the plan you're on and the urgency of your request.
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## Help Station
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### Trial & Hobby
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Railway conducts its support over our [Help Station](https://help.railway.com) platform.
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Trial & Hobby plan users are only eligible for community support over [Help Station](#help-station) or [Discord](#discord). Railway may respond to community threads, but a response is not guaranteed.
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It hosts our community of 500,000+ users and developers. It is where you can find answers to common questions, ask questions, and get in touch with the Railway team.
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### Pro & Business Class
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Pro & [Business Class](#business-class) customers can select the urgency of their request when creating a new thread in [Help Station](#help-station) or [Slack](#slack).
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Please ensure that you've searched for your issue before creating a new thread, follow the guidelines in [How To Ask For Help](#how-to-ask-for-help), and abide by our [Code of Conduct](https://help.railway.com/community-code-of-conduct).
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| Level | Description | Eligibility |
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| -------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- |
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| Low | Questions about how to use Railway or general feedback | Pro |
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| Normal | Issues with Railway, such as bugs or unexpected behavior | Pro |
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| High | Issues that are blocking you from using Railway | Pro |
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| Critical | Production outage or platform issues blocking your team from using Railway | [Business Class](#business-class) |
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### Priority Threads
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## Help Station
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For Pro plan users, threads created in the [Help Station](https://help.railway.com) are treated as **High Priority**. These threads are guaranteed a response from the Railway team within 1 business day (if community members are unable to help).
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Railway primarily conducts its support over our [Help Station](https://help.railway.com) platform.
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We pay special attention to threads created by Pro users and ensure that questions or concerns are resolved in a timely manner.
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It hosts our community of 500,000+ users and developers. It is where you can find answers to common questions, ask questions, and get in touch with the Railway team.
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alt="Screenshot of Railway Help Station - Priority Threads"
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For teams and companies requiring SLOs and higher-priority support over chat, sign up for [Business Class](#business-class).
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Please ensure that you've searched for your issue before creating a new thread, follow the guidelines in [How To Ask For Help](#how-to-ask-for-help), and abide by our [Code of Conduct](https://help.railway.com/community-code-of-conduct).
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### Private Threads
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### Visibility
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You create a **Private Thread** on [Help Station](https://help.railway.com/support) if you need to share sensitive information, such as invoices or personal data. Private Threads are only visible to you and Railway employees.
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You can create a **Private Thread** on [Help Station](https://help.railway.com/support) if you need to share sensitive information, such as invoices or personal data. Private Threads are only visible to you and Railway employees.
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Private Threads have a slower response time (at most 2 business days) because only Railway employees can see them. We recommend you to only create a Private Thread if you need to share sensitive information.
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Private Threads have a slower response time because only Railway employees can
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see them. We recommend you to only create a Private Thread if you need to share
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We may make the thread public for community involvement if we determine that there is no sensitive information in your thread.
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We may make the thread public for community involvement if we determine that
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there is no sensitive information in your thread.
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## Discord
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## Slack
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Railway offers Slack channels to companies and prospective customers. Customers can raise issues, coordinate their migration over to the platform, and provide feedback within a Slack connect channel.
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All teams can create a Slack channel within the Team settings page.
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Railway offers Slack channels to companies and prospective customers. Customers can raise issues, coordinate their migration over to Railway, and provide feedback within a Slack Connect channel.
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All users within a Slack connect channel can invite their team members within the Slack interface or press the create Slack channel button again to initiate an invite to the channel.
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### Slack Account Linking
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All teams can create a Slack channel within the Team settings page:
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Users in a Slack Connect channel can invite their team members using the Slack interface or by pressing the `Join Slack` button again to initiate new invites.
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### Slack Account Linking
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We highly recommend connecting your Slack account if you have a shared Slack Connect channel with us. Doing so allows us to get insight into issues affecting your workloads without having to ask for additional information.
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Connecting your Slack Account to your Railway Account allows the team to get insight into issues affecting your workloads without having to ask for additional information. [To link your Slack account to your Railway account, you can navigate to your Account settings page on Railway and follow the instructions provided.](https://railway.com/account)
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To link your Slack account to your Railway account, navigate to your team's [settings page](https://railway.com/account) on Railway.
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_Permissions_ - Railway only asks for permissions to link your Slack ID and your Workspace ID, our integration only can see messages within the shared Slack Connect channel.
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_Railway only asks for permissions to link your Slack account's ID and your Slack Workspace's ID. Our integration can only see messages within the shared Slack Connect channel_.
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## How To Ask For Help
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### Business Class SLOs
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We prioritize Business Class customers over all other support requests.
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| Severity | Acknowledgement Time |
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| P1 (Outages, Escalations) | One hour - 24/7 |
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| P2 (Bugs) | Same Business Day |
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| P3 (Integrations, General Questions) | Two Business Days |
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For Business Class customers with a shared Slack Connect channel with us, you have access to
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"Critical" urgency level support requests:
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This allows you to page our support on-call directly for an immediate response.
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Please only use this for production outages or critical platform issues
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