Freshdesk (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a customer service solution with enterprise capability. Freshdesk unifies channels, conversations, AI capabilities, customer insights, and advanced ticketing into the Freshdesk Command Center so agents are ready to resolve. With Freddy, People-first AI, customer service teams can take AI agents live in minutes to fully resolve complex and simple queries, get response and resolution assistance from AI copilot, and stay ahead with AI insights.…
$18
per month per user
Freshsuccess
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Freshsuccess (based on technology acquired by Natero by Freshworks in May 2019) is designed to help Customer Success Managers prevent churn, increase account expansion, and manage more customers with less effort. The vendor says features include: Customer 360 - See customer emails, chats, meetings, support tickets, billing history, and product usage, in one place. Predictive Alerts - Predict which customers are likely to churn, convert, or expand their…
$79
per month
Pricing
Freshdesk
Freshsuccess
Editions & Modules
Growth
$18
per month per agent
Pro
$59
per month per agent
Enterprise
$95
per month per agent
Estate
$79 billed annually
per month per user
Estate
$95 billed monthly
per month per user
Forest
$129 billed annually
per month per user
Forest
$150 billed monthly
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk
Freshsuccess
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Freshdesk
Freshsuccess
Features
Freshdesk
Freshsuccess
Incident and problem management
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Freshdesk
8.4
202 Ratings
2% above category average
Freshsuccess
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets
9.2197 Ratings
00 Ratings
Expert directory
8.1134 Ratings
00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
7.06 Ratings
00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
7.67 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission
9.3198 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket response
8.9198 Ratings
00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
179 Ratings
5% above category average
Freshsuccess
-
Ratings
External knowledge base
8.4162 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
8.4167 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
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Freshdesk
8.8
189 Ratings
10% above category average
Freshsuccess
-
Ratings
Customer portal
8.7160 Ratings
00 Ratings
IVR
9.159 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social integration
8.5102 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email support
9.0188 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration
8.5119 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
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Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Freshsuccess
10.0
5 Ratings
14% above category average
Role-based user permissions
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
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Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Freshsuccess
7.1
6 Ratings
20% below category average
API
00 Ratings
7.25 Ratings
Integration with Salesforce.com
00 Ratings
7.26 Ratings
Integration with Marketo
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Integration with Eloqua
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Customer Data Extraction / Integration
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Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Freshsuccess
8.6
6 Ratings
2% below category average
Product usage
00 Ratings
8.16 Ratings
Help desk / support tickets
00 Ratings
9.15 Ratings
Customer Success Management
Comparison of Customer Success Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Freshsuccess
7.1
6 Ratings
19% below category average
NPS surveys
00 Ratings
7.02 Ratings
Sponsor tracking
00 Ratings
7.01 Ratings
Customer profiles
00 Ratings
7.15 Ratings
Automated workflow
00 Ratings
8.06 Ratings
Internal collaboration
00 Ratings
5.35 Ratings
Customer health scoring
00 Ratings
8.16 Ratings
Customer segmentation
00 Ratings
7.25 Ratings
CSM Reporting & Analytics
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I believe Freshdesk is well-suited for companies that manage multiple accounts, such as those in the Business Process Outsourcing industry. It has all the necessary capabilities, such as ticket management that uses omnichannel to receive ticket requests from service requests (managed internally) in the system, emails, etc. There are also several workflow automations that can be built within the platform/system. What is lacking is the API documentation, which limits the possibilities for further automations. Overall, it is a highly recommended tool for managing employee productivity and timeliness.
Any SaaS company that needs to measure and track the health of client and user accounts will find the data provided by Natero extremely useful. If you have a support team that is tracking tickets, to-do-lists, etc. across different platforms, you'll be happy to know that you can consolidate most of those existing workflows into Natero, making this a single platform for your CES team to keep things running smoothly.
No prior experience with similar platforms is required to use Freshdesk. I found its interface to be quite intuitive, at least for the end user.
It's easy to connect with other platforms, so you can sync and manage data from other platforms because the integrations work correctly.
Freshdesk's technical support is quite responsive, with short and effective response times. They have easily handled my questions and issues.
It has tools for customizing automated chats, answering frequently asked questions before transferring to an agent. Its configuration is extensive and highly customizable.
New support agents can learn the system quickly, minimizing training time and maximizing productivity from day one. Agents are more willing to use a system that is simple, reducing resistance to change and ensuring all interactions are logged (a common problem with complex systems). The platform is known for being easy to set up and customize, allowing teams (especially smaller ones) to get started with minimal technical expertise.The platform makes it easy to set and monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), ensuring customers get timely responses and helping managers enforce performance standards.
Freshdesk is extremely easy to use as implemented it on our own with average technical skills. A lot of the options are straightforward and Freshdesk provides easy-to-understand explanations for some of the more complex-sounding ones. We recently onboarded new specialists and they were able to learn Freshdesk with minimal training.
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.
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.
Because I never worked with a company that responds so quickly to their customer! They are always fast at responding and very open to new ideas and quickly turning them around to include them in future releases. They walk us through when we need assistance and are very good at communicating. Overall top notch support
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.
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.
Was a fairly quick implementation for us. However, we are only doing email integration and not some of the more complex integrations that are possible. One clarification on an earlier question. I selected that Freshdesk doesn't have a given feature, but this is not true. I selected this because there wasn't a selection for I don't use the feature. This is a weakness in the survey.
Compared to Crisp, Freshdesk offers much more organization and is just much more helpful when it comes to having more than one region/team. Not that Crisp is bad, but with Freshdesk, internal communication and collaboration are much easier, which was quite important for our team to grow.
I highly recommend and prefer using Salesforce over Natero. Salesforce allows me to pull in as many fields into a report as I would like, compared to 14 different fields into Natero. I am able to view and make changes to information much quicker than Natero. I like Salesforce much more.
I was not very involved with the purchase/contract (my company purchased Fresjdesk before I was brought on), but I will say that pricing per agent made it difficult to grow our support team. Additionally, we were kind of disappointed after our upgrade because it didn't solve our pain points as much as we expected.
My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.