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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ChatBot.com

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    ChatBot.com is a cloud-based conversational automation platform for customer service, ecommerce, and lead generation. Organizations configure AI Agents using their websites, help centers, product documentation, uploaded files, and manually created articles as knowledge sources. Key Capabilities Automated Customer Service: AI Agents answer customer questions using organization-provided content rather than general internet…

    $25

    per month

    Help Scout

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/AHelp Scout is help desk software. The vendor’s value proposition is that that their solution reduces time spent on training users because Help Scout is simple to use and set up and scales like any enterprise product. This solution includes multiple mailboxes to support as many email addresses as needed in order to work collaboratively across teams, and manage several products or brands from one account. Reports on conversation trends, team performance, productivity, and customer happiness are…

    $30

    per month starts with 100 contacts

    Pricing
    ChatBot.comHelp Scout
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $25
    per month
    Growth
    $99
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Standard
    $30
    per month starts with 100 contacts
    Plus
    $90
    per month starts with 200 contacts
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ChatBot.comHelp Scout
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ChatBot.comHelp Scout
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of ChatBot.com and Help Scout
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    7.8
    2 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Help Scout
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics7.52 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of ChatBot.com and Help Scout
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.7
    23 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.123 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.113 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.522 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of ChatBot.com and Help Scout
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.5
    21 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.720 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.219 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of ChatBot.com and Help Scout
    Feature
    ChatBot.com
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.5
    23 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Email support00 Ratings9.623 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SAP Conversational AI (discontinued)
    Score6.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    AWS Chatbot
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ChatBot.comHelp Scout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.6
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    ChatBot.comHelp Scout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Text
    Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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    Help Scout
    Small businesses that want a conversational type of customer support experience. Nothing wrong with support tickets, but it does make you feel like a number. Also, we needed to get up and running quickly so the "inbox" feel of the dashboard was already familiar with the team so they could adopt the new software quickly.
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    Pros
    Text
    • Routing rules
    • no code workflows
    • UI/UX is excellent for a newbie to start on
    • Their Chat support is very helpful
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    Help Scout
    • Extremely simple to use and understand as a user - treats communications like human beings and provides a much more personal feel to communication (as opposed to making people feel like numbers).
    • The email newsletter.
    • They are super responsive. They are pretty rad and transparent: if something goes wrong on their end they are not afraid of admitting fault. Which leads me to trust them because I can believe them. I know that tells you very little about the product, but as leadership, that's something that I really need
    • Help Scout does exactly what it needs to (facilitate organized, efficient conversations between customers and support people) without getting in the way.
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    Cons
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    • Having enough conversational data to train the chatbot.
    • Really understanding intent.
    • Understanding emotion.
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    Help Scout
    • Trying to group tickets is a bit unflexible. You can create folders which can be part of a workflow (automatic trigger) but you can't create a folder based on tags. This needs to be improved because there's a need to create smarter segments and mix them.
    • Metrics are useful but there needs to be more details about them. You can drill down in some but others are still not very actionable or visible (ok, that number went down, but what was the cause? what's the criteria with what you measure that?)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Text
    As long as budget is not an issue - we renewing this solution.
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    We are receiving feedback from the organizational level that they may want us to transition to a different solution to provide consistency across the company.
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    Usability
    Text
    Since I deployed this solution end to end for my organisation, I would speak from my experience that since I was a newbie to this platform I took ample support from their team, their training resources. However, the product's UI/UX was simply very intuitive that it helped me to get a lot of hand-on practice on the product well. This helped me with the timely deployment of this solution.
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    Help Scout
    Help Scout is a great solution for support teams. There are many articles and webinars to help you learn how to use Help Scout. There are also many features to help make your workflows easier and more efficient. I would readily recommend Help Scout to any small or medium-growing support teams.
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    Support Rating
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    Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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    Help Scout
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Text
    ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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    Help Scout
    Only have minimal experience with G-Suite for a much smaller company. This worked well for that organization but did not have similar specialization functions that suite our larger organization very well. Help Scout's pricing makes sense, and continues to service our needs well. Minimal usage of other programs, but have no need to explore alternatives at this time.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Connecting to DB.
    • Customizable dashboards.
    • Automated reporting.
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    Help Scout
    • We are able to retain our customer base due to the outstanding customer service our Customer Experience department provides. Without an organized tool like Help Scout, this would not be possible. We pride ourselves in quick response times to customers and are able to do so by effectively routing tickets to the right agents.
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    ScreenShots

    ChatBot.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.

    Help Scout Screenshots

    Screenshot of Build better relationships with your customers, and work together better as a teamScreenshot of Tools designed specifically for team collaboration on customer supportScreenshot of Docs Knowledge Base provides self-service that sets your customers up for successScreenshot of The conversation report can change the conversation with your customers from problems to praise by pinpointing what they write in about and when.Screenshot of Productivity Reports track your team's customer-helping velocity and identify sticking points to push through with even greater momentum.Screenshot of Happiness Reports are the closest you can get to your customer's true feelings without hiring a telepath.