Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChurnZero
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
ChurnZero is a Customer Success platform designed to help subscription businesses succeed through improved customer experiences. ChurnZero helps Customer Success team spot potential churn risks early and see renewal and expansion opportunities faster. Its automation and personalization, in-app communications, and Customer…N/A
Freshdesk
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…
$0
Up to 10 agents per user
Pricing
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Free
$0
Up to 10 agents
Growth
$15
per month per agent
Pro
$49
per month per agent
Enterprise
$69
per month per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Considered Both Products
ChurnZero
Chose ChurnZero
It is easy to integrate with our systems and it has all the required fields as well.
Chose ChurnZero
Security parameters are good with churnzero security certifications are available with ChurnZero. Ease of use is a USP of ChurnZero datapoints are very much easy to add data point customization is available. We are using it along with a lot of other systems via integration. …
Chose ChurnZero
Similar but ChurnZero is more focused on customer success managers, as HubSpot CRM feels more as a tool for all departments.
Chose ChurnZero
Much more robust with plays, segmentation, and in-app messaging capabilities. Also, better sales experience. Churn Zero took the time to learn our business and that made our implementation more customized for us. There were also integrations to other systems that we use that …
Chose ChurnZero
We wanted to replace Amity and ChurnZero was the only tool we seriously evaluated after qualifying out some other options.
Freshdesk

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
8.7
190 Ratings
0% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.7190 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
8.2
202 Ratings
4% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
API8.1164 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com8.3168 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
7.9
218 Ratings
10% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Product usage8.0215 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets7.9174 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
7.5
223 Ratings
10% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
NPS surveys8.1195 Ratings00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking4.677 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer profiles8.0208 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflow8.0215 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal collaboration7.3182 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer health scoring7.9220 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer segmentation8.2214 Ratings00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
7.2
223 Ratings
13% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Customer health trends7.9212 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.1207 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting5.769 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards7.1217 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.4
145 Ratings
6% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.7141 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.195 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.8142 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.7142 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.3
130 Ratings
7% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.4116 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.3120 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
ChurnZero
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.3
138 Ratings
8% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.1116 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.143 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.572 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings8.7138 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.284 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(226 ratings)
8.7
(212 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.7
(5 ratings)
9.8
(14 ratings)
Usability
6.2
(130 ratings)
8.9
(35 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
5.9
(122 ratings)
8.6
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
7.3
(2 ratings)
7.9
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.5
(3 ratings)
8.4
(142 ratings)
Configurability
6.4
(1 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.3
(1 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChurnZeroFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
ChurnZero
If you are a SaaS business with a high volume of customers, having ChurnZero is a must. If you have a subscription based business and a customer success or account management function in your company, I would highly recommend ChurnZero.
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Freshworks Inc
Using a collection of Skill Based Ticket Assignment, Ticket Allocation, and alerts, we’ve been able to bring our average resolution time to under half our previous time. This is done by making sure the right tickets get to the right agents, and by ensuring agents are followed up on to ensure they do not forget deadlines on tickets in their queue. Furthermore, tickets which would be open for weeks due to lack of a client response are now closed automatically following a prompt email to the end-user
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Pros
ChurnZero
  • ChurnZero has excellent customer success! They worked very hard to ensure a successful implementation and launch.
  • The CZ platform gives a detailed view of customer usage. We know exactly how clients are using our platform which allows us to provide excellent customer success services. This allows helps our product team understand the needs of clients and the success of new features.
  • We are able to create plays based on usage which provides a customized and personal experience for each user. CZ makes it possible to give our clients what they need when they need it.
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Freshworks Inc
  • Follow up on all conversations that enter and are easy to use by the employee and save responses ready for use.
  • Find out the average rate of the number of conversations that occur in the company and conduct the analysis.
  • There is a feature it allows one to take a permit in the name of the employee who responds to the conversation and to know the problem faced by the customer and the solution.
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Cons
ChurnZero
  • When composing an email out of segments, the ability to save it as a draft to review later would be awesome, instead of needing to set up a Play
  • In the admin section, I love that we can have a color palate - but we'd like the color palete to be applied in other areas so CZ has more of our companies branding
  • The content templates can be hard to stylize if you don't know html
  • Add the Merge Fields functionality to tasks, especially tasks made by playbooks
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Freshworks Inc
  • Ticket templates and canned responses should be able to be used interchangeably. We frequently have the same response in both fields.
  • The spam filter can be a little too aggressive. We have had issues with tickets being accidentally marked as spam then filtering incorrectly for weeks at a time.
  • Freshdesk doesn't quite have the right integrations with our other providers (Vonage, and Avochato, to name a few).
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Likelihood to Renew
ChurnZero
Our team is very happy with the product after evaluating multiple vendors, including Gainsight, Totango and Planhat. We like the additional functionality that CZ offers on its enterprise version. We were strongly considering other products if the price was right and functionality worked, but the change management would have been too heavy and taken too long. The ChurnZero team has been a good partner to rely on and allowed us to free up our time and resources to focus on more pressing matters
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Freshworks Inc
We are extremely happy with Freshdesk and can foresee using it for the next year. We might only consider using a different platform if our average daily ticket volume reaches four digits and its AI isn’t enough to handle our needs by then. While we haven’t tested this yet, we have read reviews that it’s AI capabilities are lacking
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Usability
ChurnZero
ChurnZero makes my work life a complete game changer. I say it all the time ChurnZero is a one stop shop for data! I don't fumble through numerous different programs, try to remember different passwords, I literally login to CZ and it is right there in front of me
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Freshworks Inc
I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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Reliability and Availability
ChurnZero
Quick response by the CZ team.
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Freshworks Inc
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.
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Performance
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
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 fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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Support Rating
ChurnZero
I recently had the opportunity to interact with ChurnZero's customer support team, and I must say, I am thoroughly impressed. Their responsiveness and willingness to solve problems are exemplary. From the moment I reached out, their team displayed a level of professionalism and dedication that truly stood out.
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Freshworks Inc
The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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In-Person Training
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
In-person training is provided to all the agents and it is very easy to learn the basics of the Freshdesk interface. Solving tickets via dashboards, replying to the guest queries in bulk via Freshdesk. The training which is a bit hard is creating the logic according to the ticket flow and intergeration.
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Online Training
ChurnZero
The training and onboarding have been very helpful. Since I was not a part of the team when ChurnZero was implemented, it was important to get brought up to speed as quickly as possible and our CSM has been incredibly receptive in that regard.
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Freshworks Inc
This tool is no doubt easy to learn but in-person training is a lot better than online training. It takes time to grasp things in the online training, however, in pandemic we have done all the training online. Apart from a bit more time we haven't faced any issues with online training.
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Implementation Rating
ChurnZero
I implemented CZ in 4 months. When I look back, this is not a long time where I needed to get to know CZ by myself (as I did not have knowledge of it at all..) study the Academy, playing around in the test environment and setting up in live environment.
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Freshworks Inc
Not applicable. I have never used a support desk system before and FreshDesk had already been implemented at my company before I joined. I am not involved in financial decisions and I have no opinion on buzzwords like "time to productivity" and "time to value"
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Alternatives Considered
ChurnZero
Gainsight CS - you need a team to manage this tool; not intuitive to use, and you're not able to be as agile once configured GUIDEcx - One of my favorites in the space, and so easy to set up, configure, customize, and scale. Able to connect onboarding milestones to SFDC cases, and share out as a customer portal. Mixmax has been purchased in past companies to help fill in gaps of other tools (gives us scheduling links, in-inbox email templates, SFDC lead/contact and task management)
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Freshworks Inc
FreshDesk was the best combination of ease of use and price. While inexpensive, even the lowest tier offered more functionality than the other guys, and the learning curve is almost nonexistent so it's easy to add new agents and get them up to speed quickly instead of having them spend days getting use to the UI.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
ChurnZero
No answers on this topic
Freshworks Inc
The pricing we had taken is on yearly basis but the subscription and billing frequency that we have is on monthly basis. I would not want to make any changes to it, it is a seamless process with all the contract terms and we both agreed on it. It should be as per the customer's need.
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Scalability
ChurnZero
Easy to escalate.
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Freshworks Inc
The product they have developed is amazing. They have made different products for emails, tickets, chats & calls as well. It is flexible according to multiple departments. The finance team can use it, the Customer support team is using it, we can use it in call centres, emails etc. We can use these tickets internally as well to create child tickets and assign them to different departments for query resolution.
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Return on Investment
ChurnZero
  • ChurnZero has transformed our NPS strategy, helping us get in front of unhappy customers faster
  • ChurnZero has reduced confusion and data cleanliness issues across our CS org
  • Their customer support has helped us implement and get up and running with Churnzero in excellent time.
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Freshworks Inc
  • Freshdesk is certainly better than nothing, or a simple shared inbox
  • Freshdesk is frustrating to incorporate social media with
  • Freshdesk excels at ticket management
  • Freshdesk needs to do more to bring it into alignment with business, rather than 'just' service desk needs.
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ScreenShots

ChurnZero Screenshots

Screenshot of A control room built for CS leaders to manage every detail of the customer journey while simultaneously providing an overview of everything in progress.Screenshot of Custom Dashboards, to collect, analyze and turn customer data into actionable insights.Screenshot of SuccessCenters, to reach customers when and where they need it most is within the tools themselves.Screenshot of Playbooks make it possible to scale without sacrificing the high-touch service customers expect.Screenshot of Account Insights for both internal and external teams. ChurnZero's collaboration feature makes it possible to keep all groups in the loop. ​