eGain vs. Helpshift

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
eGain
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
eGain is a cloud-based customer engagement hub (CEH) used by contact centers to facilitate omnichannel sales and customer service. It includes call tracking, click to call, live chat and cobrowsing, social media customer service, email support ticket management, social offers, and a knowledgebase for agent enablement and/or customer self-service. It can be integrated with Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise to extend Cisco's voice capabilities with web self-service, chat, knowledgebase, and…N/A
Helpshift
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Helpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.
$150
per month issue
Pricing
eGainHelpshift
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$150.00
per month Issue
Enterprise
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Growth
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
eGainHelpshift
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Flexible Consumption-Based Pricing for Your Changing Needs. Only pay for the number of issues created each month. An issue is a customer problem or inquiry that is directed to an agent or a bot. Customers with greater usage receive a reduced per issue price. All packages come with 1,000 issues per month to get you started.
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eGainHelpshift
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Features
eGainHelpshift
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
eGain
-
Ratings
Helpshift
6.4
4 Ratings
21% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings3.64 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.53 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
eGain
-
Ratings
Helpshift
5.0
4 Ratings
42% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
eGain
-
Ratings
Helpshift
4.5
4 Ratings
52% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings5.53 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings2.74 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
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User Ratings
eGainHelpshift
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
eGainHelpshift
Likelihood to Recommend
eGain Corporation
Search function Global Synonyms Guided Helps. Documentation does a great job of describing features but lacks the big picture of how things relate to one another. Strong consulting partnership and customer focus. There are areas where they need to improve - Improve compliance & risk management plus Improve customer relations/service.
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Helpshift Inc.
If you need a good way for players to send in support tickets that propagates in real-time, Helpshift would be a service I'd recommend.
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Pros
eGain Corporation
  • Multiple options to choose channel of your convenience
  • The product capabilities are very good. Easy for integration and deployment
  • Strong consulting partnership
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Helpshift Inc.
  • Their customer support is very responsive. If they have any problems, they fix them quickly.
  • They are constantly trying to improve and expand their offering, which is beneficial to our growing company.
  • It is very user-friendly and easy to manage. The analytics are pretty good as well.
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Cons
eGain Corporation
  • Service and support needs to be done better.
  • Compliance and risk management needs to be improved
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Helpshift Inc.
  • While I am not an engineer; it is known that Helpshift can be a bit of a pain to get it implemented into our applications.
  • There are some issues with the badge when it comes to the notifications of messages that let the user know they have a reply from customer service.
  • The website dashboard that is used to respond to customers has trouble sometimes and is very slow.
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Usability
eGain Corporation
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Helpshift Inc.
Helpshift is really easy to use and set up. We enjoy the automation to automatically route certain issues to different smart folders. There's just a lot of flexibility in the functionality to make things work for our team in the best way. I didn't give it a 10/10 just because we need SMS/Apple Business Chat and Helpshift doesn't yet offer that. They also don't currently support social media channels but they are working on releasing that soon.
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Support Rating
eGain Corporation
No answers on this topic
Helpshift Inc.
The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.
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Alternatives Considered
eGain Corporation
While searching for a Customer Experience software, eGain came first in the search and we were pretty satisfied with the product features it has. We liked the support and customer service which made sure all our queries were answered in a very short turnaround time.
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Helpshift Inc.
Zendesk is used for customer communication via email and Helpshift is used for chat, they are for the same purpose but with different response times.
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Return on Investment
eGain Corporation
  • eGain helped in improvising our customer engagements
  • Customer retention was made possible as the tool helps us analyse the painpoints of the customer
  • Social Media Marketing helped to gain a lot of customers with minimal cost incurred.
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Helpshift Inc.
  • The ability to properly organize and delegate work to customer service representatives has been a very positive ROI after using Helpshift.
  • The customer service reps are much happier with this system over the previous system of a general company email address and other CS software tools.
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