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    Freshdesk

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFreshdesk (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

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    Kustomer

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AKustomer is a customer service CRM platform built for managing high support volume by optimizing experiences throughout the customer service journey. Kustomer was acquired by Facebook in late 2020, but spun out in 2023 and re-launched as an independent entity, Kustomer, LLC.

    $8,544

    per year for 8 users (minimum)

    Talkdesk

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ATalkdesk® supports CX with Customer Experience Automation (CXA), using AI agents to replace manual workflows. Powered by the Talkdesk Data Cloud, CXA delivers real-time context and fast deployment—to transform CX without a rip-and-replace.

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    Pricing
    FreshdeskKustomerTalkdesk
    Editions & Modules
    Growth
    $18
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $59
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    $95
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    $89
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Ultimate
    $139
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Digital Essentials
    $85
    per month per user
    Voice Essentials
    $105
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Elite
    $165
    per month per user
    Industry Experience Clouds
    $225
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FreshdeskKustomerTalkdesk
    Free Trial
    YesNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsAll plans require an annual subscription and 8 users minimum.*Talkdesk also offers per hour login consumption pricing and concurrent pricing. Prices are based on a minimum 3 year commitment to these Editions. Additional telco and usage fees not included. Due to foreign exchange rate approximation, list price is not the exact price that will be quoted.
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    Community Pulse
    FreshdeskKustomerTalkdesk
    Considered Multiple Products
    Freshworks Inc
    Chose Freshdesk
    Kustomer is great, however, is missing the mark when it comes to managing multiple service lines/unique stores under one account. Freshdesk's ability to do exactly this makes them a superior product.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshdesk
    In my opinion, Salesforce offers infinitely more customisation and integration opportunities than Freshdesk. That said, Freshdesk is a more straightforward user-friendly option that may be better suited to teams with less technical backing as its limited customisation …
    Incentivized
    Kustomer, LLC
    Chose Kustomer
    We selected Kustomer because we'd been using Slack for inner office communication, Talkdesk for phone calls, and Front for emails. Kustomer has unified our communications and allowed us to eliminate some tools. I have used Asana in a previous job and I preferred some features …
    Incentivized
    Chose Kustomer
    I find it baffling how little data can be stored or associated with a customer in many other systems, and how difficult that can be to set up. It is fine if you already have a robust CDP that you can hook up and use to power your CRM, but it is rare that an organization has the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Kustomer
    The support we get with Kustomer is light years ahead. I was not an admin at the time we had Desk.com, but from a users point of view, Kustomer is a lot easier to use and much more intuitive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Kustomer
    The sales rep did a great job of making us feel heard and instilling trust. We felt that we would be valued as a client instead of just one of thousands, and a small company at that. When we signed they promised and delivered on an additional channel that they hadn't previously …
    Incentivized
    Talkdesk
    Chose Talkdesk
    Used Freshdesk at another business and Talkdesk is definitely better! Virtually no reporting with Freshdesk in comparison, and listening to calls was difficult as if you moved your cursor around, it would stop the call and you would have to start at the beginning.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Freshcaller was a very poor product. Very limited scope for integration with other internal systems (other than Freshdesk) which still left a lot to be desired. Talkdesk was selected by our manager and has been a positive move.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    I like both Freshdesk and Close.io in addition to Talkdesk, but the main difference is Talkdesk is better for midsize-to-large enterprises. Close.io works well for 10 people, and Freshdesk can work well for just 1 or 2 support reps, but Talkdesk was the right software for a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    They're all basically the same
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    The Talkdesk interface is much more convenient than what we used earlier, calls arrive more often, and there are fewer technical errors. However, at the time when I used Mac os, I was an ordinary employee and I don't know what offers there were for managers and what pros and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    I prefer Talkdesk as it allows us to be more agile in responding to rapidly changing aspects of our industry. While you can get the basics from any of these the ability to pivot and quickly update and control our own setup without waiting for others to do it for us is so …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    The transfer features available to us in Aircall were nearly impossible to use. Agents had to be in a wide-open status that allowed both inbound calls and transfers to be routed, requiring a complex ballet of "turn on your availability and get the transfer" within a split …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Talkdesk allows us a lot more flexibility and control over users. When we made the move to Salesforce, Talkdesk came hand in hand, and works best with the systems we use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Similar ease of use but Talkdesk has more functionality in my opinion.
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Although I didn't choose Talkdesk, it is my understanding that it is a cheaper alternative to the tool Zendesk and not only that but is constantly improving their reporting and analytics for calls, as there are functions that we now rely on daily that a year ago were still in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Talkdesk
    Freshphone was terrible. Unusable over 50% of the time. Talkdesk is vastly superior.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    213 Answers
    88%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    345 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    207 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    275 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    213 Answers
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    347 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    147 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    195 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    174 Answers
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
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    Features
    FreshdeskKustomerTalkdesk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshdesk and Kustomer and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.6
    210 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.3206 Ratings8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory7.9140 Ratings8.212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.812 Ratings8.611 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.115 Ratings8.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.0207 Ratings8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.1207 Ratings8.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Freshdesk and Kustomer and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.0
    185 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Kustomer
    8.5
    13 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base8.1169 Ratings8.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.0173 Ratings9.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Freshdesk and Kustomer and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    8.3
    197 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Kustomer
    8.1
    15 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Talkdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal8.3169 Ratings8.710 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR8.563 Ratings8.69 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.2105 Ratings7.313 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support8.6197 Ratings10.015 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.8126 Ratings6.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Freshdesk and Kustomer and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    7.8
    498 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings00 Ratings7.2477 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8418 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings00 Ratings8.0437 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2429 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings00 Ratings8.2396 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5452 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings00 Ratings8.9230 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings00 Ratings8.5320 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings00 Ratings6.4253 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings00 Ratings7.5227 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings8.3445 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings00 Ratings6.2327 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1379 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Freshdesk and Kustomer and Talkdesk
    Feature
    Freshdesk
    -
    Ratings
    Kustomer
    -
    Ratings
    Talkdesk
    7.8
    482 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8442 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings00 Ratings7.0321 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings00 Ratings8.8466 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1424 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings8.1438 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.8446 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.4439 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings00 Ratings7.3248 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings6.8282 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (277 ratings)
    9.0
    (36 ratings)
    7.9
    (512 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (25 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (40 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (42 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.3
    (328 ratings)
    Availability
    7.5
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.6
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (41 ratings)
    9.4
    (7 ratings)
    5.6
    (132 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.6
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.7
    (207 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    7.2
    (224 ratings)
    Configurability
    6.5
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.5
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.9
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (8 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.7
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FreshdeskKustomerTalkdesk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    I would say the greatest strength of Kustomer is its flexibility. In the hands of a skilled admin, it can be adapted to tons and tons of different use cases. I've been able to make custom displays for different groups of agents, produce complex cross sections of users, draw interesting data relationships combining marketing contacts and customer-initiated contacts. For example, there's really no other data source in our company which could tell you which users received a specific promo code and checked out with it, received their delivery within 14 days and then can related that to the number of times they contacted us about using our product. At the intersection of communication, marketing, data, and relationship-management, Kustomer shines at the center. I would say it falls short when you are trying to coordinate multiple "side conversations" with multiple sources to resolve an issue. This is a tough task for any type of platform, but if you're maintaining 3 different email chains with a 3PL partner, the customer, and a separate internal conversation, it would be confusing anyway!
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    Talkdesk
    As a growing company, we did not have customer service contacts set up like a traditional contact center, even though we were trying to operate like one. Talkdesk made the transition simple to orchestrate the new setup, allowing customers to have their contacts answered quickly. As Talkdesk has continued to roll out new products such as Copilot and AI Autopilot, we are implementing and continuing to realize the benefits.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • 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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • All customer data (past orders, communication with customer service, rewards account data) is in one place. This helps agents avoid confusion and reduces the number of tabs they need to open.
    • The Knowledge Base (or K Base) is very helpful. Any time we roll out a new policy or have a limited-time promotion, we can add all the relevant information and worksheets there for the convenience of the agents. That way they can stay in a chat while looking up the answer to a question.
    • We can seamlessly move from chat into email if the customer leaves or the queue times are too long. All the interactions will stay on the customer profile page, so they are kept up to date.
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    Talkdesk
    • Talkdesk excels at reporting. It offers a wide range of reports, such as Aux, AHT, and productivity reports, which are great for monitoring performance.
    • Talkdesk has speech-to-text analytics. This is an AI transcript system. The AI detects speech and transcribes it.
    • Talkdesk is easy to integrate with other apps. Such as Calabrio and Zendesk.
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • Freshdesk is buggy, full stop. I don't know how many support tickets I submitted related to user login.
    • There can be a language barrier with support and sales.
    • There were a couple of hours-long outages that significantly impacted my company's customer experience.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • For our team, the feature that defaults all notes to begin in "done" status is difficult. Throughout each day we need to have notes open and assigned back and forth to different teams, and we have to remember to manually "open" each note. There is too much room for human error with this setting, and it is easy for important notes to be missed if a user forgets to open the note.
    • Similarly, it can be hard to remember to assign emails/notes to a particular team in addition to a user. We almost exclusively work out of team inboxes, and if someone on Care writes an email to a customer, the email will automatically be "done" when it is created, and it will be assigned to the user who wrote it, but not also to the user's team. There are instances where an email needs to be snoozed for several days/hours with further action needed, and unless the user remembers to assign the email to their team it may "awake" from the snooze and not be visible to anyone except the user who created it. Similarly to my first comment, this leaves a lot of room for human error and is not very intuitive.
    • Personally, I do not love that all tickets/emails/notes are jumbled together in the same inbox. While this gives visibility to everything on the "to do" list at the same time, it can be visually overwhelming. We have created unique folders for certain types of projects or categories of work, but have experienced tech glitches or just the awkwardness of another step to manually read the note, determine what type of category it is, and then manually assign it to another folder. Would love to have things auto-sort and take out this manual lift.
    • I love the idea of the autopilot setting, but we have not been able to use this for our work because it sorts items based on time, and not based on priority. In our line of work, we may have an urgent situation arise that needs attention before an email that was sent in 60 minutes ago. The autopilot feature would push the email to my associates sooner than it would the urgent situation from 5 minutes ago. Due to this, we manually monitor inboxes and assign work to ourselves and others.
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    Talkdesk
    • From experience, customer service is terrible, we've had 5 account executives over 18 months, extremely difficult to get timely answers to pressing issues.
    • Integration with other tools, such as ServiceNow, is not truly integration (in my opinion). There was a marked difference between what the salesperson communicated during the evaluation period and what we actually got once we purchased and implemented the product.
    • We continue to have stability issues which force our agents to restart the Talkdesk client. I frequently receive vague error messages ('something went wrong') that can be frustrating as there's no actual detail to what happened. To be fair, it has improved since we implemented the tool, but if you were to ask our agents what frustrated them, Talkdesk would be at the top of their list.
    • Being a multi-channel platform was one of the things that drew us to Talkdesk; however, the chat channel lags way behind voice in customization and reporting.
    • Lack of training resources. The 'Talkdesk Academy' is often very out-of-date. Would be nice to have actual webinars or online training (even paid training) for various functions of the tool like reporting, WFM, IVR, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because there's no other tool like Kustomer
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    Talkdesk
    One of the best tools our there to tackle alot of our needs or issues within the organisation's and is value for money as you find alot of the features already in bedded and the Ai features are user friendly no need for additional training and Talk desk support when any issues arise is amazing
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    There is a learning curve, but it is more than worth it, especially to have a dedicated resource pointed at Kustomer and any other software it interacts with. The basic implementation is useful, and powerful - certainly a MASSIVE upgrade over taking care of your customers in an email inbox or shuffling between multiple windows and applications! It is also set up really well to grow and reconfigure with your business. I'm a big fan.
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    Talkdesk
    As a user, the Talkdesk system is pretty easy. However, as a leader or an admin, the system can be difficult to navigate. Talkdesk appeared to integrate different solutions into their environment. While the overall skin of the environment is pretty seamless, it's easy to see that some solutions are segregated off into their own area of the Talkdesk ecosystem. This is pretty evident with Identity, WFM, and System Analytics, where you have to navigate to their respective areas to pull reports and gather data. Where many other reports are available in Explore
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    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because Kustomer is available when you need it
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    Talkdesk
    Talkdesk is very handy but, sometimes we do face issues were the system can just kick you out and not be able to do calls or receive calls but, what I like about the system once you start refreshing or troubleshooting, everything becomes normal it is a unique system and very modern we don't usually have system issues with Talkdesk.
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    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because ages load quickly, reports complete in a reasonable time frame, given their complexity
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    Talkdesk
    reports are good until a report is a big one in size then the wait is longer and some call reports delay by an hour or so which is not ideal as we pull these hourly and need them from Work force management perspective and Quality reports are perfectly fine
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    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
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    Kustomer, LLC
    I did not reach out to Kustomer support when we had an issue. Still, whenever we provide feedback to our manager regarding what can improve based on our experience using Kustomer, our manager always comments that Kustomer support always replies with some positive feedback based on our suggestions.
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    Talkdesk
    If Talkdesk had a dedicated phone support line I would have given this rating an overall 10. Their knowledge base is absolutely HUGE and at times very helpful. It's easy to search through and their customer support chat system works perfectly fine, but there are just some times that you need to speak to a human on the phone to ensure you are always on the same page.
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because they are very hands-on in training us and very approachable
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    Talkdesk
    The training that was given to us was very smooth and professional. I give my trainer 10/ 10 rate the training was so smooth and very helpful she would make sure we also watch videos of how to use the system which made it very easier for us and what was interesting it is because, the system is also easy.
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    Online Training
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    It was very easy to understand.
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    Talkdesk
    Nothing is perfect!! Needing the ability to repeat the training so everyone was on board was important. Not real sure how many people had to repeat the training as they trained on their own and given 30 minutes at a time.
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Nothing really because it is easy to use. After an hour of using it, we're already getting the hang of it.
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    Talkdesk
    We were very satisfied with the implementation of Talkdesk. The team was able to gather all the data and information about the system we had in place at the moment and delivered us a Talkdesk plan that suited our needs. We had a few calls after implementation where our questions were answered and gave us the confidence to continue using the system.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Apps like Intercom, Zendesk, and Gorgios all treat customer inquiries as tickets, just tracking that one issue or interaction with a customer. Kustomer treats each customer as an individual, which allows us to provide top-notch customer service. Customers love that we're able to be more conversational and informal, while still solving their issues quickly. It also helps us build relationships with customers and increases repeat orders.
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    Talkdesk
    Call recordings, quality assessments, feedback, coaching, and monitoring, the call flow is effortless and painless, changing statuses from after-call work is updated to be qued so you cannot change after aftercall work is finished, shows you the company metrics, SLA, abandonment, number of calls taken and record occupancy for you and the team. Many more features make Talkdesk an innovative software compared to its competitors.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
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    Talkdesk
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    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.
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    Kustomer, LLC
    Because customer is flexible and scalable
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    Talkdesk
    talk desk has helped us massively with flexibility of one system giving us all the relevant information we need to be able to drive improvement and also good service from work force management to quality improvement to the reporting of the work and inputs going in and assess outputs to determine the success of our work and remaining development areas
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    - good customer support
    - personal contact
    - usage limited to basic product features, individually designed solutions seem unlikely
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    Kustomer, LLC
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    Talkdesk
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    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
    • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
    • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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    Kustomer, LLC
    • We’re getting so much positive feedback — which is not something you traditionally associate with a customer care team — because we’re making it effortless for customers to deliver both positive and negative feedback, and we can now resolve the bad feedback really really quickly.
    • Primarily from our increased efficiency with Kustomer, we’ve seen a significant reduction of $3 to $4 for every cost per contact.
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    Talkdesk
    • Reduced hold times with callback feature = better CX
    • Easy transfer option between teams where we can talk rep-rep first before bringing the caller in = less repeated information the customer has to provide = better CX
    • Modified call dispositions allows for better call management & organization = less work on our end!
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    ScreenShots

    Talkdesk Screenshots

    Screenshot of Talkdesk Guardian™, which is an AI-driven, native cloud compliance solution that enables contact centers to gain visibility and take control of their WFH and hybrid workforce.Screenshot of Talkdesk Autopilot™, which is a tool that handles common customer queries, like orders, returns and billing, and automatically responds with conversational answers. And when complex cases are detected that need human empathy and expertise, the virtual agent will redirect customers to a human agent.Screenshot of Talkdesk AI Trainer™, which equips customers with tools to observe, simulate, and put guardrails on AI, according to their needs. This way, generative AI can be used responsibly, preventing AI mishaps, and protecting the brand from potentially poor AI experiences.