Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…
$0
Up to 2 agents
SAP Business One
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
SAP Business One is an integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for small and medium-sized businesses, The product encompasses functionality around sales, customer relationships, inventory, operations, financials and human resources.
$99
per month
Pricing
FreshdeskSAP Business One
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 2 agents
Growth
$15
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Limited
$99.00
per month
Starter
$110.00
per month
Pro
$132.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FreshdeskSAP Business One
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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FreshdeskSAP Business One
Features
FreshdeskSAP Business One
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.6
194 Ratings
4% above category average
SAP Business One
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.2190 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory8.1128 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.64 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.2190 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.0190 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
174 Ratings
5% above category average
SAP Business One
-
Ratings
External knowledge base8.4158 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.3162 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.8
183 Ratings
10% above category average
SAP Business One
-
Ratings
Customer portal8.8155 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR8.957 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.598 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support9.2182 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.6116 Ratings00 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
10.0
10 Ratings
30% above category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.4
38 Ratings
22% above category average
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.336 Ratings
Plug-ins00 Ratings9.436 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.0
42 Ratings
7% above category average
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings8.834 Ratings
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.141 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.2
43 Ratings
10% above category average
Dashboards00 Ratings7.338 Ratings
Standard reports00 Ratings8.443 Ratings
Custom reports00 Ratings8.839 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
5.7
44 Ratings
30% below category average
Accounts payable00 Ratings9.344 Ratings
Accounts receivable00 Ratings9.643 Ratings
Global Financial Support00 Ratings7.627 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers00 Ratings8.629 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations00 Ratings9.136 Ratings
Configurable Accounting00 Ratings9.134 Ratings
Standardized Processes00 Ratings9.139 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.3
43 Ratings
4% above category average
Inventory tracking00 Ratings8.943 Ratings
Automatic reordering00 Ratings7.029 Ratings
Location management00 Ratings9.139 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.1
41 Ratings
26% below category average
Pricing00 Ratings7.739 Ratings
Order entry00 Ratings8.941 Ratings
Credit card processing00 Ratings2.023 Ratings
Cost of goods sold00 Ratings8.140 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings8.731 Ratings
Subledger and Financial Process
Comparison of Subledger and Financial Process features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.9
37 Ratings
8% below category average
Billing Management00 Ratings8.732 Ratings
Cash and Asset Management00 Ratings9.028 Ratings
Travel & Expense Management00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
Budgetary Control & Encumbrance Accounting00 Ratings8.527 Ratings
Period Close00 Ratings9.533 Ratings
Project Financial Management
Comparison of Project Financial Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.0
19 Ratings
8% below category average
Budgeting and Forecasting00 Ratings7.017 Ratings
Project Costing00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Cost Capture00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
Capital Project Management00 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Customer Contract Compliance00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
Project Revenue Recognition00 Ratings6.116 Ratings
Project Execution Management
Comparison of Project Execution Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.9
16 Ratings
12% above category average
Project Planning and Scheduling00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
Task Insight for Project Managers00 Ratings7.012 Ratings
Project Mobile Functionality00 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Definable Resource Pools00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
Grants Management
Comparison of Grants Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.7
15 Ratings
5% above category average
Award Lifecycle Management00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
Procurement
Comparison of Procurement features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
8.3
18 Ratings
17% above category average
Bids Analyzed and Compared00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
Contract Authoring00 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Contract Repository00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
Requisitions-to-Purchase Orders Integrated00 Ratings9.014 Ratings
Supplier Management00 Ratings9.013 Ratings
Risk Management
Comparison of Risk Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.7
9 Ratings
15% above category average
Risk Repository00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
Control Management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Control Efficiency Assessments00 Ratings8.07 Ratings
Issue Detection00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
Remediation and Certification00 Ratings7.76 Ratings
Logistics
Comparison of Logistics features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.1
23 Ratings
4% above category average
Transportation Planning and Optimization00 Ratings8.116 Ratings
Transportation Execution Management00 Ratings7.514 Ratings
Trade and Customs Management00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
Fulfillment Management00 Ratings5.317 Ratings
Warehouse Workforce Management00 Ratings6.315 Ratings
Manufacturing
Comparison of Manufacturing features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
6.1
20 Ratings
19% below category average
Production Process Design00 Ratings2.018 Ratings
Production Management00 Ratings8.218 Ratings
Configuration Management00 Ratings2.014 Ratings
Work Execution00 Ratings4.016 Ratings
Manufacturing Costs00 Ratings5.016 Ratings
Supply Chain
Comparison of Supply Chain features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
7.3
25 Ratings
0% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings7.123 Ratings
Inventory Planning00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
Performance Monitoring00 Ratings7.119 Ratings
Product Lifecycle Management
Comparison of Product Lifecycle Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
SAP Business One
9.0
17 Ratings
21% above category average
Proposal Management00 Ratings4.913 Ratings
Product Master Data Management00 Ratings8.515 Ratings
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User Ratings
FreshdeskSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(253 ratings)
8.6
(49 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(22 ratings)
4.6
(9 ratings)
Usability
9.8
(42 ratings)
9.5
(13 ratings)
Availability
7.7
(6 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Performance
5.7
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(40 ratings)
9.0
(11 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
7.7
(2 ratings)
Online Training
8.1
(2 ratings)
4.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(184 ratings)
2.8
(24 ratings)
Configurability
6.6
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
6.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.5
(5 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
5.7
(5 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Professional Services
6.4
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
6.9
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
6.9
(4 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FreshdeskSAP Business One
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
I recommend Freshdesk for people who need to handle a large volume of inquiries through tickets and follow-ups. This platform provides tools that will improve problem-solving efficiency, ensuring customers are satisfied with the speed with which their issues are resolved. Overall, it will optimize customer service support operations and the resolution of their problems.
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SAP
SAP Business One would be more useful if it contained tools to acommodate the growing need of online sales. A more complete shipping module which handles tracking numbers with the common couriers would be great. A built in warehouse management system would be great designed to be used with barcode scanners
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • The price is great for small startups just large enough to need a support ticketing system.
  • This may seem minor, but many tools don't have this: the ability to link a contact to multiple companies/accounts.
  • Agent collision detection is great for making sure agents don't duplicate each others' work!
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SAP
  • SAP Business One is more suitable for small and medium scale enterprises
  • SAP Business One is : analytics, mobile technologies, cloud technologies
  • SAP Business One has exceptional performance in handling business functions such as purchasing and operations and customer relationship management
  • An important key features of SAP Business One is Reporting and Analytics.
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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • 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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SAP
  • Following a bench mark process - this seems contradicting to flexibility however we have wished we could follow more of an industry benchmark. Our challenge as a small company has been knowing how to properly use the system. We have discovered that we have set up the system wrong based and are using it improperly which has cause a lot work to correct.
  • Better live reporting options - current we are on prem SQL. Yes SAP is moving to HANA however smaller companies like ourselves are not ready for that. We need to be able to maintain our existing SQL DB. We also have a demand for live BI Reporting. It has been difficult to do this with our current set up.
  • Error handling - have found it very difficult to troubleshoot. Errors are not always clear and answers are hard to find.
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Likelihood to Renew
Freshworks Inc
We are extremely happy with Freshdesk and can foresee using it for the next year. We might only consider using a different platform if our average daily ticket volume reaches four digits and its AI isn’t enough to handle our needs by then. While we haven’t tested this yet, we have read reviews that it’s AI capabilities are lacking
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SAP
As I said before, it is a first level tool, well developed, and with very strong development support, although the learning curve, its implementation, the cost-benefit ratio, the price and the user experience is not the most suitable for small and medium-sized companies. It is a company with extensive experience, market positioning, technical support and expanded use
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Usability
Freshworks Inc
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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SAP
I would like to give 8 out of 10 rating for SAP Business One because SAP Business One is a good choice for the mostly used business management solutions for the small and medium-sized companies. SAP Business One can help in optimizing the existing business process and enables streamline business processes for the daily activities for all users across the entire organization. The importance realization of SAP Business One implementation is based on the selection of the good reputation partner and its approach for the entire implementation. SAP Business One is a user-friendly and easy to use Enterprise system that the organization can benefit its features and functionalities by utilizing it.
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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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SAP
The SAP Business One software is up and running every time
you need it as it was planned. In more than 6 years that we have been
using the product, it has never been unavailable and if it ever was, it was because of a planned maintenance window scheduled in the company.
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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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SAP
SAP Business One performance depends mostly on the speed of your internal servers, should you have the solution on premise as we do. Sometimes the system tends to be a little slower for some users when others are executing really big reports of performing some batch loads, but generally, the performance is acceptable to all the users.
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Support Rating
Freshworks Inc
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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SAP
I rate my experience with SAP Business One's support team as excellent (10). They are easy to contact and effortless to work with on any issue or concern. I like the support SAP provides for any of their products. SAP has a great backing and I would recommend them to any of my colleagues.
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In-Person Training
Freshworks Inc
Support Team's knowledge and understood the company's requirement, and always shared the insight of the usage of the tool to it s full potential, moreover the team checks periodically to check if we using the tool right and if we are facing any kind of challenges. Also they would update us on new features that can make the work easy.
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SAP
The training I get was a consultant level training, so it's basically a 6 weeks training covering every aspect and every module of the system. It covered most common use cases and exercise training so you can get along with the software, as well as examples so there culd be a better understanding.
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Online Training
Freshworks Inc
Video tutorials, questions answers round before and after testing and Fresh desk team would always share best practices on the needs. Furthermore would periodically check if we are able to work smoothly. Would send alerts to known any issues, send recommendation on new features. Freshdesk team always available when we need certain advise.
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SAP
Over the past two years SAP has added a great deal of new SAP Business One on-line training for version 9.0 and 9.1. Most of the training is very strong, but some is difficult to understand and follow. Additionally, SAP still has a few holes in their on-line training around Production, Bill-of-Materials, MRP and Service.
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Implementation Rating
Freshworks Inc
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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SAP
These implementations are not easy. Even a standard implementation can be difficult. With a never-been-done-before implementation, the implementation team and the user team need to be thorough with planning, make a decision on key points, and stick to them before any design happens. Our biggest challenge was not from StellarOne, rather it was from the mid-implementation decisions from our internal team. StellarOne did a great job warning us, implementing our decision, and then helping us adjust our SAP to handle the new direction we took.
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Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
Freshdesk has a more modern and intuitive user interface, while Help Scout's interface is simpler and more minimalist.In case of features, Freshdesk offers a wider range of features, includes omnichannel support, AI powered automations, and advanced analytics. Help Scout is more focused on providing a simple and efficient ticketing system.
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SAP
SAP provides the most robust solution, with modules available for all department managers and even options for customization according to the company's special needs. We especially used the Crystal reports options to provide reports for each module. Overall, even if it's not the least expensive option, it has the best value for money.
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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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SAP
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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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SAP
For most small businesses, the only way you outgrow SAP Business One is if the nature of your business changes radically. Going from 1 to 50 users is quite easy with SAP B1. Going beyond 50 may require moving to the Hana SAP B1 platform to maintain or improve performance, but the path is there.
Add-ons to SAP B1 can also be added as specific needs are encountered that are not closely met by the standard product. These may be required early in the product life because of the nature of your business, or as you expand the use of SAP B1.
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Professional Services
Freshworks Inc
Very professional, they would always ask for the steps followed and where we went wrong, they would politely share the video recording to review in case any other team member faces the same issue
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SAP
No answers on this topic
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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SAP
  • Employee efficiency has definitely increased with SAP Business One. This is attributed in a lot of ways to information visibility. Our employees are able to gather the data they need, quickly, and effectively.
  • Identifying inconsistencies in pricing has also been accomplished through use of reporting off individual tables. Previously, we weren't able to access our data in such a way as to enable us to write custom reports in-house.
  • We have also benefited greatly from having a single source of all business information. We utilize SAP Business One exclusively in-house. All documentation is attached to specific orders and Business Partners, as well as serialized equipment that has been sold.
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