Freshdesk vs HelpSpot

• Creates great value for the organisation by providing a great managed portal for support and grievance.
• Provides an amazing ticket-based system and gives an ability to get issues of the users which can be tracked and resolved through the system.
• A wide range of integrations available, particularly for us the API-based integration has been performing really well.

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• HelpSpot was great for organization. Having different queues allowed each of my team members to organize their conversations with the customer and quickly retrieve the history of the ticket.
• HelpSpot is a fairly simple tool that has a friendly user interface. With it's more modern look, it made it easier for me personally to navigate and train team members on how to use it successfully.
• HelpSpot allowed our team to view the responses section, which allowed our team to cut down on the time we spent responding to a ticket.

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• One of the things that persuaded me to choose Freshdesk was the inclusion of a user type called "Ticket Collaborator." This user type allows managers and members of other teams to read tickets and leave private comments without having to use up a paid seat. However, collaborators must be added manually to each ticket for visibility, even if they have permission to see all tickets. It would be much more useful if there could be a "Ticket Collaborator" user type that has access to all tickets automatically, without the need to be manually added to each and every ticket.
• Ticket fields cannot be configured with default settings, specifically text boxes. To aid customers in providing an appropriate level of information, we wanted to add a template for them to use. However, this functionality is not provided by default, and we were only able to do this via scripting, kindly provided by Freshdesk's Support team. Other ticketing systems have the ability to set a default value or template text for ticket fields as standard, and adding this feature would make Freshdesk even more awesome.
• The Jira plug-in is pretty decent, but there are some improvements that could be made. First of all, it would be good if syncing used some kind of default administrator account such that comments synced from Jira to Freshdesk appeared from "Freshdesk Admin" instead of the Freshdesk administrator who set up the account. Secondly, when the plug-in creates a Jira ticket, the text of the description in Jira often appears different from that of the original Freshdesk ticket description and has to be manually formatted to make it readable (bullet points and line breaks specifically). These are minor points but would help to make the plug-in more robust and make for a better user experience overall.
• Reporting functionality does not have any way of visualizing cumulative totals. So while it is possible to generate reports on incoming ticket number that is filtered by week/month/quarter/year, there is no simple way of seeing a cumulative total over time to see trends better.
• There is no simple way to manage attached files. If you want to see attached files in a ticket, then you have to go through every single response with an attached file and then manually download the files one by one. Yes, there is a paid extension that helps with this, but this kind of functionality should be built into the product itself.

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• The UI is a little dated but to be fair, shows most of the pertinent information at a glance on a well designed dashboard.
• The UI can also be buggy at times with controls appearing in strange places. These glitches are usually corrected within a reasonable amount of time.

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• It gave back a lot of time to managers by automatically routing or allowing teams to pick up tickets
• Freshdesk was a less expensive alternative to Zendesk which is near identical
• If you are getting more than 1 request a day, this is a no [brainer]

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• Improved ticket response time
• Workload reporting to upper management
• Ticket category reporting to identify training opportunities

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