Freshdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Freshdesk
Score 8.6 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 10 agents per user
Pricing
Freshdesk
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
Up to 10 agents
Growth
$15
per month per agent
Pro
$49
per month per agent
Enterprise
$69
per month per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Freshdesk
Considered Both Products
Freshdesk
Chose Freshdesk
We chose Freshdesk for the variety of capabilities and easy-to-use features. Jobber lacked the analytics, history, sales features, and easy-to-use options needed to grow our business. Zendesk was not user-friendly and many of the "integrations" could only be connected by people …
Chose Freshdesk
Not Available (Only used Freshdesk)
Chose Freshdesk
Value for Money and Ease of Use put it ahead of the competing products when making our decision.

Whilst they all offer similar services, our time to implement, set-up and get the platform running the way we needed was shortest. It was also an easy to use tool for agents - …
Chose Freshdesk
we need to work the History search also
Chose Freshdesk
We previously used SchoolDude to manage technology tickets. Freshdesk has many more features. One of the best is the ability to reply to a customer in a ticket. When you reply they receive an email which they can reply to instead of having to login to a portal and pull up the …
Chose Freshdesk
We have using UVdesk previously before using Freshdesk, after utilizing UVdesk for a year, we initiated a comprehensive review for our customer support tools as our organizational requirement continued to evolve. Despite our prior experience with UVdesk, the evolving needs of …
Chose Freshdesk
We didn’t review any other products as freshdesk just worked for us.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk is cheaper.
Zendesk would also allow customers to close tickets on their own and it also has functionality where a few solution articles are automatically recommended to the customer based on what they wrote and that might already solve the customers' request.
Chose Freshdesk
we decided to use Freshdesk based on the fact that a sister company was also using it and recommended we use it as well
Chose Freshdesk
I was not privy to the decision making process when Freshdesk was implemented. However, I can tell you both from a frontline perspective and a management perspective that the product provides GREAT value. Their support team is also pretty amazing - super prompt, friendly, and …
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk has less features but seems easier to set up and use. This benefits both end users and support agents.
Chose Freshdesk
FreshDesk was the best combination of ease of use and price. While inexpensive, even the lowest tier offered more functionality than the other guys, and the learning curve is almost nonexistent so it's easy to add new agents and get them up to speed quickly instead of having …
Chose Freshdesk
It is easier to start with, but less robust overall. Freshdesk has a better free tier, and had some advanced customization capabilities. Zendesk is easier to get to an advanced level with, has more and better integrations, and has a better data tool. HubSpot is comparable to …
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk is a cost-effective and seamless GUI-based interface with all along functionalities.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk is much more cost effective than competitors.
Chose Freshdesk
Freshdesk offers so much more support, integration and a great mobile app compared to ZenDesk.
Chose Freshdesk
We ultimately migrated to Freshservice because it was able to offer some of the things that FreshDesk didn't have out of the box, such as SLAs and reports.
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Freshdesk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
145 Ratings
6% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.7141 Ratings
Expert directory8.195 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.43 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.64 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.7142 Ratings
Ticket response8.7142 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.3
130 Ratings
7% above category average
External knowledge base8.4116 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.3120 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.4
138 Ratings
9% above category average
Customer portal8.1116 Ratings
IVR8.143 Ratings
Social integration8.672 Ratings
Email support8.7138 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.384 Ratings
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Freshdesk
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User Ratings
Freshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(212 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.8
(14 ratings)
Usability
8.9
(35 ratings)
Availability
9.1
(4 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
8.6
(33 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.2
(1 ratings)
Online Training
8.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.4
(142 ratings)
Configurability
8.5
(3 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.1
(3 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.8
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.1
(4 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.9
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
Freshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshworks Inc
Using a collection of Skill Based Ticket Assignment, Ticket Allocation, and alerts, we’ve been able to bring our average resolution time to under half our previous time. This is done by making sure the right tickets get to the right agents, and by ensuring agents are followed up on to ensure they do not forget deadlines on tickets in their queue. Furthermore, tickets which would be open for weeks due to lack of a client response are now closed automatically following a prompt email to the end-user
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Pros
Freshworks Inc
  • 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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Cons
Freshworks Inc
  • Ticket templates and canned responses should be able to be used interchangeably. We frequently have the same response in both fields.
  • The spam filter can be a little too aggressive. We have had issues with tickets being accidentally marked as spam then filtering incorrectly for weeks at a time.
  • Freshdesk doesn't quite have the right integrations with our other providers (Vonage, and Avochato, to name a few).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Implementation Rating
Freshworks Inc
Not applicable. I have never used a support desk system before and FreshDesk had already been implemented at my company before I joined. I am not involved in financial decisions and I have no opinion on buzzwords like "time to productivity" and "time to value"
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Alternatives Considered
Freshworks Inc
FreshDesk was the best combination of ease of use and price. While inexpensive, even the lowest tier offered more functionality than the other guys, and the learning curve is almost nonexistent so it's easy to add new agents and get them up to speed quickly instead of having them spend days getting use to the UI.
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Freshworks Inc
The pricing we had taken is on yearly basis but the subscription and billing frequency that we have is on monthly basis. I would not want to make any changes to it, it is a seamless process with all the contract terms and we both agreed on it. It should be as per the customer's need.
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Scalability
Freshworks Inc
The product they have developed is amazing. They have made different products for emails, tickets, chats & calls as well. It is flexible according to multiple departments. The finance team can use it, the Customer support team is using it, we can use it in call centres, emails etc. We can use these tickets internally as well to create child tickets and assign them to different departments for query resolution.
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Return on Investment
Freshworks Inc
  • Freshdesk is certainly better than nothing, or a simple shared inbox
  • Freshdesk is frustrating to incorporate social media with
  • Freshdesk excels at ticket management
  • Freshdesk needs to do more to bring it into alignment with business, rather than 'just' service desk needs.
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