Perforce Technical Support

Contacting Perforce Technical Support Services

To contact Perforce Technical Support:

United States

Monday to Friday
8AM to 5PM, Pacific Time

Phone: +1 510.864.7400
Fax: +1 510.864.5340

UK

Monday to Friday
9AM to 5PM, London

Phone: +44 (0) 845 345 0116
Fax: +44 (0) 845 345 0117

Australia

Monday to Friday
8AM to 5PM, Sydney

Phone: +61 (0)2 8912-4600
Fax: +61 (0)2 9929-5590
Even if one of our offices is closed now, the next office to open will answer your email promptly.

Help Us Help You

When contacting Perforce Technical Support, you can help us diagnose your problem more efficiently by including the following pieces of information with your email:

  1. Include the server version and license information, usually found in Help>Show Connection Info, or the output of p4 info from the command line. This will give us helpful information about your server.
  2. If you are experiencing an error, please send the exact error message in your email. If the error is in P4Win or P4V you can copy the error message from the status pane at the bottom to your email.
  3. Whenever possible, include the steps that led up to the problem, or the steps you took to duplicate it.
  4. If your problem involves your operating system or a third party product, please include the version information on those items.

Perforce Support Service

At Perforce, we feel that when you buy our SCM system, you are putting your faith in both our software and in our technical support. Because the two go hand in hand, we promise:

  • You will always be treated with courtesy and professionalism.
  • When you call Perforce, we will make every effort to connect you immediately to a technical support person.
  • Our technical support staff will reply to your email, usually within two hours.
  • Support calls identified as "urgent" will be treated as urgent.
  • For defects or problems, Perforce will make its best effort to develop a fix or workaround in a timely fashion.

Comments On Our Service?

The Director of Perforce Technical Support is always available for your comments and suggestions concerning our service: just email tsdirector@perforce.com.

We believe we provide some of the best technical support in the business and your input can help us keep it that way.

What Customers Say About Technical Support

"Your web page suggests that your average turn around time for support email is 2 hours. I think this is a little inaccurate. I sent an email this afternoon which was answered (correctly I might add) in less than 2 minutes!"
Mark James - Radical Entertainment

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Features:

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