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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Freshchat

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AA solution to engage customers with smarter conversations on any channel, designed so support, marketing, sales, and even bots to have conversations at scale with customers.

    $0

    per month free for up to 10 agents

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGenesys PureConnect was an omnichannel contact center platform that offered cloud-based or on-premise deployments. It featured a SIP-based architecture with VoIP capabilities, allowing companies to connect legacy voice systems and use existing phones. A legacy product, new users are encouraged to investigate Genesys Cloud.N/A
    Pricing
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    $19
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Pro
    $49
    per month (billed annually) per agent
    Enterprise
    $79
    per month (billed annually) per agent
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Freshworks Inc
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    95%
    Would buy again
    36 Answers
    60%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
    88%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    36 Answers
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    35 Answers
    57%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Freshchat and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    Freshchat
    7.4
    18 Ratings
    16% below category average
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting7.218 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics7.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Freshchat and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    7.9
    64 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings6.755 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings7.548 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings8.541 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings7.756 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings8.043 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings8.357 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings8.036 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings8.045 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings7.037 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings8.539 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings7.755 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings9.044 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings8.038 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Freshchat and Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Feature
    Freshchat
    -
    Ratings
    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    5.5
    54 Ratings
    41% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings6.551 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings6.539 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings4.552 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings4.546 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings3.043 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings5.052 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings6.548 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings8.035 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings5.030 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Small Businesses
    Olark
    Score10 out of 10
    Zendesk Talk
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho SalesIQ
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Genesys DX (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (42 ratings)
    5.3
    (116 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (18 ratings)
    7.3
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.3
    (3 ratings)
    4.0
    (12 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    6.1
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    8.8
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshchatGenesys PureConnect (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    It is best suited for having 24-hour support, where customers can interact easily, even using their phones, to raise concerns or inquire about information. This makes it easier than going through the documents portal as a source of knowledge or sending emails for worries. However, it can be less appropriate for scenarios when you need more formal communication, like emails, and when proper documentation is necessary.
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    Discontinued Products
    CIC is best suited for business models that rely on heavily leverage Data Integration especially one like ours that require real-time and high-speed data access for billing and customer integration. CIC is not well suited for small organizations < 50 where they are only answering phones in the course of doing business VS. the business is the phone.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • Real time customer support. During busy times all our available agents can jump on and handle large volume of customer interactions.
    • Automations and canned response features. With automation we can greet our customers the moment a chat gets assigned to an agent letting customers know they are being attended to similarly canned response helps us use templates for generic and commonly asked questions.
    • Dashboards and analytics. Freshchat's ability to build customized dashboards and analyze performance in a granular level helps us monitor workload and manage performance effectively.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Purely Software Based System: On Microsoft OS. It is an all software-based system making it easy to manage, integrate and interface with other systems
    • One Vendor: All modules, IVR, ACD, Dialer, WFM are from one vendor. So, no compatibility and latency issues at all.
    • Superb Notifier Service: You don't have to restart any process or service for a change to take effect.
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshchat is one of the best platforms, but still there are certain areas that require further improvement in order for the platform to become flawless.
    • I feel that the automated system in Freshchat is comparatively slow and due to this, it does not respond well according to all the requirements.
    • There are certain features in Freshchat which are not available for everyone and they can only be accessed by those who are paying the highest pricing tier.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Licensing can be challenging and very expensive.
    • Client templates are hard to administer and are built very different than the rest of the functionality.
    • Web desktop has been slow to come along and include all the features.
    • Optimizer is very sub-par product.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has met all our expectations and more. It has allowed our team to be more efficient with their time, field questions quickly, and escalate issues up the chain. We highly recommend freshchat as the perfect addition to anyone already using freshdesk or simply looking for a good solution for in app messaging.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    We are so embedded on Pure Connect that we like to progress with it. For instance, we are looking into ways to provide different solutions to our customers, help our business to succeed, and work in a better CX.
    One of the biggest advantages is that all is in one platform.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    I give it an 8 due to its usability. Yes, I had a few issues to begin with and needed some assistance from Freshchat agents, but considering this is something that is completely new to me, to set up what feels like a professional chat handling system complete with autobot within a day is really saying something I feel.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    The interface is only semi user-friendly on almost every front. Agent experience is lacking and we have found many limitations within the system. Workforce forecasting is not as robust as expected. Quality continues to be a struggle. Interaction searches are not robust.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat has always been available when I needed to use it.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    The application itself uses a hub and spoke model that can help isolate errors in one section of the application from the rest, creating a much more stable overall program. Of all of the outages that we've had with our contact center platform, I can count on one hand how often it was truly a Genesys issue rather than a network issue, server issue or issue with a platform relied upon for an integration (web services, db calls).
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshchat always loads quickly and communication is quickly sent and received.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Some of the client applications take a bit of time on initial load, but with the move towards web based applications that issue is alleviated. You can tell that effort really isn't putting into the desktop apps any longer and that the client development effort is being put into bringing Interaction Connect closer to feature parity with the desktop (and bringing wholly new features to Connect). As far as IVR operations, web service calls, database operations: they all operate reasonably.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    The experience we had in past for lets say 4-5 months with the support team and our TAM was really helpful. The changes in the bot flow has helped our bot to ensure we connect with customer easily.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Some cases are resolved quickly others are taking longer and the reseller sometimes has to chase support several times and explain the issue seen several times. While being a direct customer before, I recognise this and it seems that when a case moves to another engineer they don’t read the previous case notes or don’t understand what has been done. This, from a customers perspective, slows down resolution times.
    Incentivized
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    I liked the setup of the whole class. The instructor knew the topic well enough to answer questions from entry level to a more advanced one.
    Instructor encouraged participation of the whole class and was able to engage every one. Also provided "real live" examples so everyone can relate to it.
    Incentivized
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    Online Training
    Freshworks Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    The online training itself is good. You are provided resources and can self study to a certain point, but the pacing always felt off. Either snails pace or like trying to drink from a fire hose. I think this easily could have had to do with course material and my personal preparations, though. I would say my main gripe is that since the acquisition the team responsible for actually booking training is very unresponsive and often not knowledgeable about the courses they offer. Booking my last training was a real chore.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    I hope to show new users data because this can save a lot of time
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    Discontinued Products
    Don't try to go the perfect solution as a first target. Work on answer the more needs with a simple solution. Then analyse and try again to answer the most needs with adding a bit if complexity only if require. No needs to customise straight from the beginning or deployment takes too long.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Messaging across mediums - Freshchat integrates with majority of mainstream instant messaging apps. Like Facebook messenger, Telegram and WhatsApp . This makes it convenient for us to have a presence on the above-mentioned platforms and respond to messages from these platforms from a single Freshchat dashboard.its good app Freshdesk Messaging help me to contact the customer and contact the customer to inform my problem to solve it and is a good app and help full app and its easy to use uncomplicated and Freshdesk Helps me provide good quality to the customer and make customer feedback good for a company
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    Discontinued Products
    Call Manager, you had to buy all the components that are out of the box for PureConnect. The licensing model is more expensive on the Cisco side vs the Genesys PureConnect side. Lastly was on the Cisco side since you have to connect/integrate all the components on the cisco side you have to have so many vendors to install those parts. This drives the cost up even more so it was not worth going that route for our organization.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not help with the purchase
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    We only implemented the product in 1 way so I cant speak to this.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Genesys PureConnect's core and adjunct model allows for fairly easy growth in satellite locations via off site session managers, remote located media servers, remote content servers, etc to allow you to spread the infrastructure out while not pushing as much network traffic to your core data centers.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    Did not use
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • From the positive effect of working on it, it helps employees to speed up their thinking and writing.
    • One of the positive effects of our clients is that their problems are solved easily and quickly.
    • Each employee knows how many of his chats have been resolved.
    • There is no negative effect in general.
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    Discontinued Products
    • We're improving our CX by optimizing our call centers, using additional attributes and keys to identify the best rep for the job.
    • We are also streamlining the journey of each individual customer by using PureConnect as the central interface for omnichannel interactions, allowing us to pick up the conversation where we left off.
    • Using additional attributes that start with the contact center interaction, we're able to track a student journey and proactively step in - increasing our individualized support to focus on the student outcome.
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    ScreenShots

    Freshchat Screenshots

    Screenshot of Channel Freedom: The interface to engage customers on the channel of their choiceScreenshot of Unified Agent Workspace: Equips agents to deliver personalization at scaleScreenshot of Admin and Analytics: These drive informed decisions to help business scale

    Genesys PureConnect (discontinued) Screenshots

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