Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk
Score 8.5 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 user
SafeOpt
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
AddShoppers provides social log in solutions to online merchants. Some key features include: Automated Email Responses, Dynamic Content, and Lead Segmentation.
$0
Up to 5,000 Monthly Uniques
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
Pro
$17
Per each 5,000 Monthly Uniques
Enterprise
$500+
Priced based on usage
Community
Up to 5,000 Monthly Uniques
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$500 per brand
Additional Details
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Features
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Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.3
202 Ratings
1% above category average
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Organize and prioritize service tickets9.2197 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.1134 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications7.06 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.67 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.3198 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response8.9198 Ratings00 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
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External knowledge base8.4162 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.4167 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.7
189 Ratings
8% above category average
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Customer portal8.7160 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR9.059 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.4102 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.0188 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.5119 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(260 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.3
(25 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(42 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
6.9
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Performance
7.2
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.5
(41 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.1
(192 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
6.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.7
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.5
(6 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Professional Services
8.3
(2 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.4
(5 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
7.4
(5 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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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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AddShoppers
It [AddShoppers Social Login] is well suited for those who are looking to grow their business and able to target the] right customers who visit their websites. They also provide tons of tools and templates to work with. Their email marketing tool will also help to grow [the] customer base very much. They [AddShoppers Social Login is] also very good at creating brand awareness by running multiple campaigns. The customer service which they have is remarkable.
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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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AddShoppers
  • Easy to implement and work with.
  • Excellent customer support with lots of creative ideas.
  • What they promise is what they do .
  • They [are] able to increase website conversion rate thereby it increase[s] our sales.
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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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AddShoppers
  • [The] dashboard has a limited number of details where we [are not] able to fetch for what we need.
  • Social sharing could have been much better.
  • Sometimes it does slow down our sites when we install their widget, but having [the] best customer support helps us to overcome this issue.
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
We never used [any] other product for our marketing purpose. We thought of giving a try to improve our sales and increase our brand awareness. We never regret of choosing this as our priority. They always backup us with their customer support with great ideas and plans which is very effective to improve our sales.
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
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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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AddShoppers
  • I see only positive impact when started using it.
  • It increased our organic sales in short period of time.
  • Brand awareness was done properly.
  • We are able to focus on right customer at right time.
  • Only thing they need to improve is their dashboard feature.
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