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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Desk.com (discontinued)

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ADesk.com was a helpdesk, ticketing, and customer support product offered by Salesforce, and oriented towards the needs of small businesses. It is no longer sold and support has been discontinued. Salesforce recommends its modern Service Cloud as a replacement.N/A

    Helpjuice

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Helpjuice is a web app that companies can use to keep their help pages up-to-date. Instead of answering the same question repeatedly, companies can use Helpjuice to keep track of content. This app includes analytics that enable businesses to see the content their users are searching for the most as well as content that needs improvement. The vendor says that companies that manage a support page full of FAQs and user guides can benefit from using Helpjuice. This app can be integrated…

    $120

    per month

    Pricing
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Every Plan Comes With A 100% Money-Back Guarantee, No Questions Asked. Starting price includes up to 4 users.
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    Community Pulse
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    11 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Helpjuice
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.35 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.46 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Helpjuice
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    8.4
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Desk.com (discontinued) and Helpjuice
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    Ratings
    Helpjuice
    7.3
    6 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (38 ratings)
    9.4
    (8 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.4
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (19 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    8.2
    (21 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Desk.com (discontinued)Helpjuice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    Once I had to search the logs to find cases and data on a particular keyword, but I was not able to do so as there was no search tool available, nor was there a sort or filter tool. I was totally frustrated as I had to skim through the data to complete my task manually.
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    Helpjuice
    Helpjuice is an excellent platform when you’re looking to modernize the way you create documentation. Many companies, especially larger corporations, are stuck in the past, utilizing PDFs and share drives to house and access procedures. With Helpjuice, we now have a centralized web-based platform that provides everything from analytic functions to standard templates, user-specific features, and more. My team specifically chose Helpjuice during the pandemic, when all the tech writers from my company (including myself) were moved into a single team. We needed to find a platform that would allow us to align our publishing standards while also moving us forward in the way we publish procedures. That platform was ultimately Helpjuice. Helpjuice certainly offers a variety of features, but one of the few drawbacks is that it does not incorporate or seem to integrate with any specific ticketing tool. While this isn’t an issue for me or my team, as we are required to use a specific tool internally, I can imagine that someone looking for a complete package with multi-step workflows and an intake process would not find Helpjuice adequate.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Desk.com automatically tracks analytics on all cases coming in and going out.
    • Desk.com helps prevent multiple people from working on the same case. However, it does allow us to assign the case to someone else if we feel that person is more qualified to address the case.
    • Desk.com has very few bugs or server issues that we've seen. This helps prevent any delays in communicating with our customers.
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    Helpjuice
    • We were looking for a publishing feature where there would be some required oversight.
    • We have really enjoyed the AI Tool of Wizardshot as it has helped reduce the time spent writing articles.
    • The analytic dashboard to see who has contributed what and which articles are the most clicked on is wonderful
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    Cons
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    • Internal knowledge tools are clunky and annoying to access, outside the regular workflow of everyday staff
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in business rules and custom fields
    • Arbitrary and confusing limitations in case handling - for example, if you begin a case as a phone call you CANNOT email the customer from the case. As though no one working at Desk has ever sent a follow-up email...?
    • Not very good for B2B, mid-to-large businesses. Difficult to set business rules based on company information (for example, service level/tier) and nearly impossible to track key stakeholders and get clear insight into the relationship at a high level
    • Reporting tools are clunky, slow, and just all-around pretty useless
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    Helpjuice
    • Article feedback disappears when resolved, would like to see a integration with Jira which we now use to track feedback changes.
    • Analytics for the AI search would be appreciated. Currently we have no idea how many people are actually using this feature.
    • A way to train the AI search bot. Currently there is no way to up/down vote answers or indicate how accurate or helpful an answer is.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Discontinued Products
    We will be very likely to renew our contract with Desk.com. It is easy to use, and provides us with everything we need to keep our customers and employees happy. They have also been very helpful in catering the application to our specific and unique needs, including working across brands and adding specific content for our products
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    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Discontinued Products
    Desk.com and Salesforce Service Cloud's usability is seamless to get up and running, administer, and scale across the organization. It allows us to get up and running in days rather than weeks and has transformed our customer support teams globally into efficient, world-class teams. The best practices that the Salesforce and Desk.com teams provide are also very valuable, as we have the right case studies and tips to implement right away in our organization.
    Incentivized
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    Helpjuice
    HelpJuice is really amazing as a starter knowledge base vendor. They have great customer service and the ability to customize your website is endless. However, it is difficult to scale up.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Discontinued Products
    We've never had a problem with Desk.com's availability.
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    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Discontinued Products
    Fast, responsive, gorgeous, and fun. It's always run like a thoroughbred for me.
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    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Discontinued Products
    Their support leaves much to be desired. They do not respond quickly and do not follow up with feature requests. There is also a lack of on-demand or live training available for the teams to use as they learn a new tool. Because there is so much customization, a lot of questions do come up regularly.
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    Helpjuice
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    Implementation Rating
    Discontinued Products
    As I stated earlier, implementation of Desk.com went more smoothly than most. The resources in the "Support Center" are fantastic, and I never ran into anything that left me stumped, angry, or disappointed.
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    Helpjuice
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Overall, it performs a lot better than all three combined, with a lot fewer glitches and a lot more user-friendly and user experience efficiency. Any new link that needs to be done, takes a lot less time to execute on desk compared to the three others. Simply advanced when it comes to execution this platform is.
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    Helpjuice
    Prior to using Helpjuice, I was using Microsoft Publisher to create all the training materials and manuals for multiple divisions within my company. It was awful. It would lag whenever I opened larger manuals, it operated like software from the late 90s, it was not intuitive, from a design perspective, and after migrating to a MacBook Pro as my work computer, I discovered that the program was NEVER created for Mac OS, requiring me to run Windows on my MacBook whenever I had to update any procedures that hadn’t yet migrated to Helpjuice. What a nightmare.
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    Return on Investment
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    • Better customer service and employee efficiency when dealing with cases
    • It's so universal, meaning that everyone can use it and it's easy to understand.
    • The only negative impact is that our IT department who is assigned tickets has responded to customers instead of to the local reps and we have to ensure they know to change the email if it's assigned to them.
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    Helpjuice
    • As I mentioned, my productivity in terms of working around issues, asking for help, etc. is greatly reduced on a DAILY basis.
    • I spend as much time finding bugs and filing tickets as I do writing content, and this was especially true at the beginning.
    • The Doc Center looks nice, so you'd never know the pain behind it.
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