Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ClientSuccess
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ClientSuccess, from the company of the same name in Lehi, is presented by the vendor as a simple yet sophisticated solution for CSMs, and the Executive team. For the CSMs, ClientSuccess brings together the tools, best practices, insights and analytics needed to proactively manage customers. For the Executives, they deliver analytics, metrics and reports to provide a comprehensive view of the health of a SaaS business.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
ClientSuccessFreshdesk
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
ClientSuccessFreshdesk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
ClientSuccessFreshdesk
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.2
15 Ratings
5% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Role-based user permissions8.215 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
13 Ratings
1% below category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
API10.010 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com9.012 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Marketo7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua7.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
Comparison of Customer Data Extraction / Integration features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.9
16 Ratings
4% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Product usage8.414 Ratings00 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets9.412 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.6
17 Ratings
5% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
NPS surveys7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
Sponsor tracking9.411 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer profiles9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated workflow8.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal collaboration7.716 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer health scoring9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Customer segmentation9.016 Ratings00 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CSM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
8.4
17 Ratings
3% above category average
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Customer health trends9.015 Ratings00 Ratings
Engagement analytics8.113 Ratings00 Ratings
Revenue forecasting7.614 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboards9.017 Ratings00 Ratings
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ClientSuccess
-
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
ClientSuccess
-
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
ClientSuccess
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.3
138 Ratings
8% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.2116 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
ClientSuccessFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(18 ratings)
8.7
(213 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.8
(14 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(36 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(34 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(142 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.8
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ClientSuccessFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
ClientSuccess
Client Success is well suited to both growing and established companies who know what they want and need to track for their clients. With the broad ability to support numerous accounts, have multiple users, and its custom success cycles to map a clients progress, it would be a great solution for any Client Success team. I think that teams that are unaware of what they need to track wouldn't find Client Success as useful, and organizations that require a large number of custom client descriptions and variables would find certain limitations a barrier to successfully using this tool.
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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
ClientSuccess
  • ClientSuccess makes it easy for our customer success managers to manage their workflows and provides excellent visibility into our company's customer activity and engagement. We're able to log into CS and regularly check segments of our customers that need to be engaged with on a daily basis, log customer health, and be aware of approaching subscription renewals in order to pay appropriate attention to the right customers.
  • The user interface is easy to use, friendly in design, and quick to learn. They make it look attractive with bright color schemes without overdoing it too much.
  • As a customer success manager myself, I am appreciative of how this tool has kickstarted our fairly-new Customer Success department and made us much more organized and knowledgeable as a customer-facing entity.
  • Their customer success/support teams are excellent as well - which is to be expected. We've felt very well taken care of since we became customers of ClientSuccess.
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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
ClientSuccess
  • The support view takes a few steps to get to the meat and potatoes.
  • The success score model can be improved to include smaller one-off campaigns. Success score is good for a campaign that has existed for a while but not for the one-off projects.
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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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
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
ClientSuccess
They are SUPER responsive...even for late night inquiries.
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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
ClientSuccess
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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
HubSpot is excellent as it was an easy expansion from the sales and marketing work we were using it for. It meets our needs but isn't entirely as geared towards customer success like ClientSuccess. ClientSuccess has more bells and whistles that are out of the box vs. HubSpot, where the capabilities may exist but require a little more leg work.
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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
ClientSuccess
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
ClientSuccess
No answers on this topic
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
ClientSuccess
  • Within the first week, leadership was able to have more visibility into the lifestage and health score of each client
  • We needed to become more proactive as an organization and this platform has allowed us to do so with real-time metrics and reporting.
  • We needed to find a way to scale our approach, especially as our Client Success organization continues to grow, and this is already helping.
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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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