Freshdesk vs. ProcedureFlow vs. Zendesk Guide

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
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 agent
ProcedureFlow
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
ProcedureFlow in Saint John offers their cloud-based knowledge management application designed to make company procedures easier to understand and faster to learn by providing instant ready access to expert knowledge.N/A
Zendesk Guide
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Zendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Growth
$18
per month per agent
Pro
$59
per month per agent
Enterprise
$95
per month per agent
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Freshdesk
Chose Freshdesk
more features, can update in bulk, has a solutions text box at the top of the ticket.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk is a solid alternative
Chose Freshdesk
We evaluated Odoo before; it was a good tool with more features than Freshdesk, making it an all-in-one solution. But it is exactly because it is an All-in-one tool that Freshdesk has more refined features for request management and the portal we have considered.
Chose Freshdesk
WhatsApp flow creation for customer engagement definately gave us edge over other software.
Chose Freshdesk
Far more straightforward than Salesforce which has too many features and modules and is very hard to navigate, making it too complicated for our organization. Similarly for Zoho, but not nearly as bad as Salesforce. Zendesk, for us, is quite similar to Freshdesk. The key reason …
Chose Freshdesk
We actually use both JIRA and Freshdesk, and Freshdesk has been a great tool for our clients and our internal users to have visibility over both the big picture and the individual issues at play.
Chose Freshdesk
We use Intercom for 70% of our inbound, its a great tool that has many inbuilt and easy to use out the box features like their knowledge base, live chat, tool tips, product tours etc. We primarily use freshdesk for the customers that want to use our email to raise issues etc
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk offered a faster time-to-value and a more intuitive, easier-to-administer UI for the mid-market team size we targeted. It was more affordable without significant feature lock-in. Freshdesk had a more polished omnichannel experience, and its reporting/analytics were …
Chose Freshdesk
Unfortunately, Freshdesk is the only one I have used. Gmail was the main one before this.
Chose Freshdesk
It had a good set of features and tight integration with other Zoho apps, but the UI felt less modern, and some customizations were a bit clunky. That said, Zoho Desk is still a great option, especially for teams already deep into the Zoho ecosystem or those looking for a …
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk, Zendesk and ServiceNow are all excellent. Other products have good points and bad points, but, in my opinion, are clearly inferior. It really comes down to implementation and how well the ticketing system is integrated with other systems, and customized for your …
Chose Freshdesk
We wanted to move our entire support on a single channel and manage all the support via a single channel so this is where omni channel helped us.

Additionally, knowledge bases and the AI agents are also on the same platforms, so these things help us to improve the quality of …
Chose Freshdesk
I use Freshdesk over other similar products I've tested because the price difference and ease of use for the end user seem to me to be the most suitable for achieving a better return on investment within my company. I also found the various AI-powered automation tools to be …
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk is way beyond these tool. The solution and technology provided is more more step ahead with the shared product.
Chose Freshdesk
We felt that Freshdesk offered better value in terms of pricing and offered a matching feature set. It was also highly recommended by a member of a team that had used Freshdesk in their previous organisation. Lastly the fact that it could integrate into Hubspot (that we use as …
Chose Freshdesk
We use all Freshdesk, Freshchat, and other Freshworks tools—they’re all great. Freshchat is awesome for real-time support, while Freshdesk handles tickets, automation, and multi-channel queries really well. Using them together gives us a complete, seamless customer service …
Chose Freshdesk
its better in terms of pricing for sure as others are completely to high costly.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk was the easiest to set up and was the most straightforward product of all the products we evaluated. It had a better user interface for agents, and provided a great solution to meet our needs at a lower cost than the other products that we evaluated. Freshdesk offers …
Chose Freshdesk
Ultimately we ended up switching from Freshdesk to Zendesk, and then from zendesk to devrev. We're still trying to find the right fit for us - Freshdesk covers the same options as Zendesk, if you use the whole suite it's probably a good option.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshworks desk is very easy to use and understand.
The biggest strengths if Freshdesk as it's usability, Affordability and the vast number of features it provides for its clients.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk lacks some of the functionality of costlier IT tool suites but makes up for it in value. Yes, that means you may have to use two tools to do the job of one complete suite, but for the price and the functionality, Freshdesk does what it does at the best value point.
Chose Freshdesk
As saied before, Freshdesk is very simple to use. It is very agile to our needs and uses, based on the requests are made from our employees only. So, everything they demand, is a well know task or activity in our duties. Zammad does it very well, but needs an on premises …
ProcedureFlow

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Zendesk Guide
Chose Zendesk Guide
Zendesk Guide is less expensive as compared to other community platforms, it provides sufficient features to fulfill our community requirements. If operated nicely it has better ROI as compared to other platforms. Zendesk Guide is easy to use and it is easier for developers to …
Chose Zendesk Guide
We are still exploring switching to Intercom Guides. I believe we picked Zendesk Guide because they were the top player at the time. However, what we've found is that they have fallen behind in innovation and especially adding AI options that make updating content easier for …
Chose Zendesk Guide
Zendesk (ZD) is one of the most popular help desk software solutions on the market.
Zendesk tends to handle complexity better than Freshdesk, when it comes to automation.
Both platforms (ZD and Freshdesk ) offer machine learning bots that analyze tickets and pull in relevant KB …
Chose Zendesk Guide
Freshservice also provides similar features to Zendesk Guide, however, I believe that it is not as good as Zendesk Guide. For example, in Freshservice, manageable and visibility permission can only be set at the folder level and not at the article level. Also security …
Chose Zendesk Guide
It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication …
Features
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Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.6
Ratings
5% above category average
ProcedureFlow
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Zendesk Guide
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Organize and prioritize service tickets9.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications7.00 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation9.00 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response8.90 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
Ratings
5% above category average
ProcedureFlow
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Zendesk Guide
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External knowledge base8.40 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.50 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.8
Ratings
10% above category average
ProcedureFlow
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Zendesk Guide
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Customer portal8.70 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR9.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.50 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.10 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.70 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Front
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
RWS Tridion Sites
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
SysAid
SysAid
Score 8.9 out of 10
RWS Tridion Sites
RWS Tridion Sites
Score 9.0 out of 10
RWS Tridion Sites
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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7.4
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Likelihood to Renew
8.4
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Usability
9.0
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Availability
7.3
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Performance
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Support Rating
8.5
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8.0
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In-Person Training
8.2
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Online Training
7.0
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Implementation Rating
7.8
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Configurability
6.3
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Ease of integration
7.8
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Product Scalability
6.7
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Vendor post-sale
7.5
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Overall, it does a great job of handling support, which is our user case. It is best for narrowly focused issues and issues that are resolved in a few interactions. When issues are broad and have several paths of issues and/or corrections it is not easy to segment off the work and responses necessary. This makes it hard to have several support personnel work on an issue that is more diverse and requires multiple skill sets.
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[Zendesk Guide] is well suited for any telecommunications company, especially in a work from home scenario. Zendesk Guide is basically an incentive for employees to not slack off and continue to provide excellent skills and services they were trained to do. The application is not necessarily appropriate for business's that don't utilize over the phone or web chat interactions.
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Pros
  • Follow up on all conversations that enter and are easy to use by the employee and save responses ready for use.
  • Find out the average rate of the number of conversations that occur in the company and conduct the analysis.
  • There is a feature it allows one to take a permit in the name of the employee who responds to the conversation and to know the problem faced by the customer and the solution.
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  • Easy to organize articles
  • Easy to preview and publish
  • Easy to edit
  • Ability to add other users at different permission levels
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Cons
  • Data Security.
  • SLA Policies where it is not customer / contract driven but agents / groups driven.
  • Audit Trail is not available in Pro version makes the tool adoption difficult from compliance perspective.
  • Chat Bot and Fresh Chat Services has greater potential to explode, but the pricing model tagged to chat bot sessions .are illogical as it limits the ability to use the fresh chat feature
  • Agent Logon Screen use earlier version of Captcha as it is annoying for the agents to login. Very frustrating experience.
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  • Some improvement needed to reviewing articles, as we can't do the reviews in the same place where we write and publish the article.
  • Central KBs need to support version history, which some time lacks to give track of multiple review.
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Likelihood to Renew
My company that used Freshdesk was acquired by another company that uses Salesforce, so our only reason to keep Freshdesk would be records, but migrating the tickets, notes, and company details from Freshdesk to Salesforce was straightforward enough. Had the acquisition not occurred, we would have renewed Freshdesk because the cost of switching would've been too great in terms of price, time, and sunk cost (our Freshdesk customizations would not port over well).
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Usability
I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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Reliability and Availability
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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Performance
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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Support Rating
The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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In-Person Training
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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Online Training
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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Implementation Rating
Our team easily implemented Freshdesk, and as soon as we started, we were pros with it. In a matter of days, we had integrated signatures and canned responses. The biggest problem was the Help Center part, but after some time, that was also integrated. We did not know some features when we started, but that is normal.
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Alternatives Considered
We evaluated Odoo before; it was a good tool with more features than Freshdesk, making it an all-in-one solution. But it is exactly because it is an All-in-one tool that Freshdesk has more refined features for request management and the portal we have considered.
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Freshservice also provides similar features to Zendesk Guide, however, I believe that it is not as good as Zendesk Guide. For example, in Freshservice, manageable and visibility permission can only be set at the folder level and not at the article level. Also security permission in Freshservice cannot be created from tags. This mean that without API calls or integration, admin has to assign employees to the specific manageable and visiblity permission group which is inconvenience and extremely manual. In our company, when there are more than 10 movements in a day as well as many employees hired and left in a month, doing this manually is not preferable
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Scalability
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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Return on Investment
  • We automate all the questions and concerns our clients may have, and we have countless solutions ready thanks to this platform.
  • It allows us to help our clients in any language with automatic translations on both sides, making it easier to provide solutions to clients and potential clients' needs.
  • It allows for centralized ticket-based query management, where we can apply resolutions and follow up on cases without resorting to tedious emails, all through live chat.
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  • After the community came to us and we redesigned and made it more SEO-friendly and performance-efficient, its engagement increased by 30-40% in 1 Year based on different factors.
  • It has returned the Invested money in best way possible and given the product a global name by distributing the queries and solutions to lakhs of community users.
  • Increase in Page views by 32% in 1 year
  • Increase in Community visits by 29% in 1 year
  • Increase in Average Member online time by 54% in 1 year
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