Answerbase vs. Zoho Desk

Zoho Desk

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Answerbase	Score 8.0 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Answerbase is a knowledge management platform for customer support and e-commerce, allowing users to ask questions, receive quality answers, and browse content and articles to meet their demand for information about your products and services. Each system comes with administration and moderation tools that are designed to help companies customize, manage and grow an engaging platform. According to the vendor, advanced features like moderation, user group management, actionable content insights,…	$49 per month
Zoho Desk	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.	$0

Pricing

Answerbase

Zoho Desk

Editions & Modules

Basic: $49
per month
Professional: $149
per month
Business: $399
per month
Enterprise: Quote
per year

Free: $0
Express: $9
per month per user
Standard: $20
per month per user
Professional: $35
per month per user
Enterprise: $50
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Answerbase	Zoho Desk
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Required

Additional Details

Answerbase Enterprise allows for 100% custom adaptations and developments to take whatever ideas, new functionalities or integration requirements you may have and make them a reality. Our knowledgeable team will manage setup, integration, and provide web-based education and training to make sure your team has all the tools and information they need to successfully manage and grow your site. Therefore, we organize a quote on a per customer basis only for customers interested in an Enterprise implementation.

A discount is offered for yearly billing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Answerbase	Zoho Desk
Considered Both Products	Answerbase NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Chose Answerbase Just from a personal viewpoint, I feel that the ease of use with Answerbase is amazing and with first class customer service support team, that could not be more friendlier and helpful. The decision was easy and they designed specific requirements that met our needs. It has … Incentivized Helpful?	Zoho Desk Greg Rellaford Account Manager and Retention Specialist Chose Zoho Desk We used HubSpot before, and it didn’t work very well for our needs. Zoho Desk is part of a much larger Zoho implementation. We’d like to have everything in one place, and Zoho provides that ability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho provides more bells and whistles comparted to the other platforms I have tried. The setup was easier and the transition was smoother. The support was much better as well. Whenever we would get stuck on something, support was a chat away and we always got the solution we … Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Zoho Desk I have used Asana and Zoho desk and decided to go with Zoho due to the ease of intergration into other applications and platforms, the more affordable costing, a faster mobile application and for the slightly better automation capabilities. Asana is nice but the cost and … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Almond Head of Customer Success Chose Zoho Desk We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow … Incentivized Helpful? Humayun Farooqi Customer Success Manager Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is easily a winner for trouble ticket handling as Bitrix24 was not offering any dedicated trouble ticketing tool and we had no option but to use the Tasks section of Bitrix24 to handle our existing customers. Also Bitrix24 neither did have any dedicated mobile … Incentivized Helpful? Rose Carmela Project Manager Chose Zoho Desk Vision Helpdesk and WixAnswers.com Incentivized Helpful? Sofia Martinez Accounting Consultant Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is always good at building different platforms for automation, so this one is also the best help desk platform available in the market. I can easily add the feedback with a report to easily convey the message accordingly. It can easily integrate with your existing … Incentivized Helpful? HK Hildah Kay Help Desk Technician Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk has an interface that is extremely simple and practical to use, for even clients who are not skilled. Again, Zoho Desk has no lead time, when customers air their views or complaints. Finally, Zoho Desk works/integrates effectively with several other products for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Over the years I have used a few different support software applications. One being Remedy software. That was pretty nice, but they lacked an isp version. I am currently a user of Atlassian Jira and am not a big fan at this point. It is very cumbersome to use. Incentivized Helpful? David Yates President Chose Zoho Desk After trialing and using Zoho Desk, we decided to move onto another product. Zoho has many features that make it a great product, but ease and intuitiveness of use was lacking for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk The quality of support provided by Zoho Desk is brilliant. Ease of setup is a very easy process. Also it meets all the requirements that can be expected from such kind of software. Zoho Desk is a company that can be easy to do business with. It is really headed in the right … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho [Desk] has much more quality of the information we required for our business than FreshDesk. It was also easy to work with Zohos different modules albeit based on department specific products than it was when we used Freshdesk. The Project management module was a … Incentivized Helpful? Jack Mattheus Human Resources Management Chose Zoho Desk • In the acquisition of Zoho Desk I did not have the final decision but I have contributed as my analysis in the implementation. We decided to switch services since this tool is much more complete in terms of functionalities that help us to easily resolve and follow up on our … Incentivized Helpful? María Fernanda Cruz Coordinator Chose Zoho Desk Value for money simply beats the rest. Also, as part of the Zoho Suite, integrations are wonderful, for example to CRM or consolidating Reporting with other apps such as Zoho Projects. Integration to advanced Analytics is also very helpful. In terms of features, they are pretty … Incentivized Helpful? Leonard Johnson Technical Support Chose Zoho Desk Atera had a lot of features. You could install an agent to monitor updates, and you could deploy AV. Zoho Desk was easier to go through tickets and replies. It felt like Atera had more features, so it was slower. At times you would want to search for an old ticket in Atera, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is easy to set up for small business needs, and its dashboard is well-suited for our organization's needs. We are on a social network, which also helps us to get users' and applicants' queries through the social platform. Another factor to start with it is its trial … Incentivized Helpful? Julien Bras Innovation Team Leader Chose Zoho Desk We have selected Zoho Desk because we already using Zoho CRM. Incentivized Helpful? Khashi Rahmani Territory Manager Chose Zoho Desk Desk.com was too complicated and was cost prohibitive. We had switched from Desk by Salesforce to Zoho Desk Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk comes at a better price, and it offers integration with other Zoho applications so you can keep your information in a single place. Their support is good and will guide you through many things. Also their API is similar to other Zoho platforms, so employees can … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Answerbase

Zoho Desk

Incident and problem management

Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
	Answerbase - Ratings	Zoho Desk 8.5 Ratings 3% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Expert directory	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications	00 Ratings	7.10 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Ticket response	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

Self Help Community

Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
	Answerbase - Ratings	Zoho Desk 9.7 Ratings 19% above category average
External knowledge base	00 Ratings	9.70 Ratings
Internal knowledge base	00 Ratings	9.70 Ratings

Multi-Channel Help

Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
	Answerbase - Ratings	Zoho Desk 6.6 Ratings 19% below category average
Customer portal	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Social integration	00 Ratings	6.80 Ratings
Email support	00 Ratings	6.10 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration	00 Ratings	5.50 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Answerbase	Zoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.8 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Answerbase	Zoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend	We implemented a Q&A board since we felt this would be the best way to create high quality content for our team when discussing the next sales strategy process. Really aids customers who have purchased a product from our company to navigate any problems they experience as they can seamlessly check the community question board Increases networking opportunities Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy. Incentivized Greg Rellaford Account Manager and Retention Specialist Read full review
Pros	Increases your team to collaborate with each other as you are available to post questions that more people can answer to express and opinion or idea Browse existing community pages to see if your question has been answered Allows you to share relevant documents with specific staff Excellent customer service support team that are always on hand to help Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Report features give the all insights of the customer team and customer support which enables us to make changes according to it. The best thing about Zoho Desk is that it has a very beautiful and fully designed dashboard. I have been using this software for a very long time in my organization, it is very easy to use with having the interface created on a very advanced module. It is completely a feature rich platform. Incentivized Sofia Martinez Accounting Consultant Read full review
Cons	Onboarding checklist would be a great addition as setting up can be complicated Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	When utilizing as a ticketing system, it would be nice to have a better way to monitor when something is due. It's just a little cumbersome. Search Functionality - The search functionality could use a tweak or two. Too many times I am unable to find tickets. This would also be very helpful for the "Recycle Bin" when you just need to find that ticket you accidentally deleted (we are all human!). :) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	Zoho Desk on operational capacity is the most effective help desk we have come across, as it is suitable for businesses of all forms and shapes, from large to small. Again, Zoho Desk captures the attention of all clients, and on time, offers solutions to their demands without failing. Lastly, Zoho Desk requires no extra skill to execute the program. Incentivized HK Hildah Kay Help Desk Technician Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	Their support is excellent. They are always available to answer all your queries and doubts. Be it a call or email or even live chat. You will always get a prompt response from their customer support executives. They are very much familiar with the product and all its functionality. Sometimes you get stuck and don’t know what to do. They are always there for your questions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Just from a personal viewpoint, I feel that the ease of use with Answerbase is amazing and with first class customer service support team, that could not be more friendlier and helpful. The decision was easy and they designed specific requirements that met our needs. It has really complemented our workforce and saved time. Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	Zoho Desk is easily a winner for trouble ticket handling as Bitrix24 was not offering any dedicated trouble ticketing tool and we had no option but to use the Tasks section of Bitrix24 to handle our existing customers. Also Bitrix24 neither did have any dedicated mobile application for on the go usage which Zoho Desk has easily handled with applications for both Android and IOS devices. Incentivized Humayun Farooqi Customer Success Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Increased collaboration in the workplace Saved time on staff asking the same questions Provides customers a 'live' community to liaise with Incentivized NB Nathan Brown Sales Manager Read full review	By running reports based on ticket, we can see how much time is spent on each customer and can manage these customers better based on what we see are there issues We can also run reports based on the types of queries customers are coming in with which allows us to develop our product based on actual customers needs as a whole. Automatic reporting once set up saves many man hours as new customers can be added automatically if required, and it saves having to build these reports monthly or possibly weekly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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