BotStar vs. Freshdesk

This is a perfect tool to help you save time with repetitive tasks, enhance customer experience. As long as you use Facebook Page or Website, BotStar is suitable for developing your business or project. While it is possible to create chatbots that can speak more naturally, it will require some programming knowledge as well as time to develop.

I believe Freshdesk is well-suited for companies that manage multiple accounts, such as those in the Business Process Outsourcing industry. It has all the necessary capabilities, such as ticket management that uses omnichannel to receive ticket requests from service requests (managed internally) in the system, emails, etc. There are also several workflow automations that can be built within the platform/system. What is lacking is the API documentation, which limits the possibilities for further automations. Overall, it is a highly recommended tool for managing employee productivity and timeliness.

Incentivized

• First of all, the design, as well as the ease of use, are definitely the biggest strengths of this platform. The drag and drop feature allows me to design the flow quite conveniently.
• Second, the step-by-step video, documented tutorials are simple and only took about 5-10 minutes.
• Third, BotStar created the feature which allows me to update CMS data automatically with CSV files.

• No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
• It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
• Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
• It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.

Incentivized

• BotStar updates regularly, but sometime it come with small bugs.
• Should consider update Smart delay feature.
• BotStar has lots of tools and integrations, so it would be great to have more documents or a place for people to share their ideas with those tools.

• Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
• There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
• There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.

Incentivized

New support agents can learn the system quickly, minimizing training time and maximizing productivity from day one. Agents are more willing to use a system that is simple, reducing resistance to change and ensuring all interactions are logged (a common problem with complex systems). The platform is known for being easy to set up and customize, allowing teams (especially smaller ones) to get started with minimal technical expertise.The platform makes it easy to set and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring customers get timely responses and helping managers enforce performance standards.

Incentivized

Freshdesk is extremely easy to use as implemented it on our own with average technical skills. A lot of the options are straightforward and Freshdesk provides easy-to-understand explanations for some of the more complex-sounding ones. We recently onboarded new specialists and they were able to learn Freshdesk with minimal training.

Incentivized

I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.

Incentivized

The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not f