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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Front

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AFront is a communication hub that helps businesses keep the human touch in every interaction.

    $29

    per month per user

    HappyFox Help Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AHappyFox is a web-based customer support ticketing system hosted in the cloud. It helps track and manage all customer support requests across multiple channels like email, chats, social media and phone in a centralized ticket support system.

    $29

    per month per user

    Pricing
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29
    per month per user
    Growth
    $79
    per month per user
    Scale
    $99
    per month (billed annually) per user
    Premier
    $229
    per month (billed annually) per seat (50 seat minimum)
    Basic
    $29
    per month per agent
    Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Enterprise Plus
    $89
    per user/per month
    Pro
    $119
    per month per agent
    Growth - Unlimited Agents
    $23988
    per year 20,000 Tickets / year
    Scale- Unlimited Agents
    $47988
    per year 150,000 Tickets / year
    Scale Plus - Unlimited Agents
    $71988
    per year 1,000,000 Tickets / year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount for annual pricing on Starter and Growth plans. Scale and Premier plans are annual price only.Discounts are offered for annual and biannuall billing on per agent plans.
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    Community Pulse
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Front
    Chose Front
    Zendesk is by far the market leader here and offers a tremendous solution. It is, of course, very expensive -- especially if you require multi-brand support. Many of the other solutions (except Groove) offer some flavor of multi-brand support but they are not as good as Zendesk.…
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    HappyFox Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    93%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    15 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Front and HappyFox Help Desk
    Feature
    Front
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    7% below category average
    HappyFox Help Desk
    9.6
    5 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.26 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.74 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.74 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Ticket response7.74 Ratings9.55 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Front and HappyFox Help Desk
    Feature
    Front
    7.0
    6 Ratings
    13% below category average
    HappyFox Help Desk
    9.1
    5 Ratings
    13% above category average
    External knowledge base7.06 Ratings9.24 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Front and HappyFox Help Desk
    Feature
    Front
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    9% above category average
    HappyFox Help Desk
    9.1
    3 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Customer portal8.33 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Social integration9.43 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Email support9.24 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.42 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.42 Ratings
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    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Kustomer
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (35 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FrontHappyFox Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Front
    I think Front is very useful for every company with multiple teams working together on different emails from clients. Not so useful if a lot of different teams need to work on a request at the same time, because when an email is sitting in multiple shared inboxes things can get messy. Also would not recommend for teams that work is individualized, as team work is the main point of Front.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    Happy Fox works well in companies that want a full look at all of their tickets in one place. It may be better suited to smaller companies who can check or double check their tickets and have the time to spare. For bigger companies, I think there are better, more robust solutions.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Front
    • Even if you are just trying to compose a single email, Front gives a smart system that has options such [as] organized templates, tags, alerts, [and] changing your outbound dpt email.
    • Tasks- with Front you will not miss any interaction. When you are required to get assistance from a coworker, you only need to mention him/her and that notification will appear automatically in their inboxes.
    • Smart Notifications- sometimes we are just overwhelmed about the several notifications on our devices that we tend to miss some of them, but Front offers a new way to notify every email, discussion, mentioning, or tag that you really would not want to miss.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    • Smart Rules - Easily create triggers that run based on a variety of criteria. This allows for easily moving tickets through our process. An awesome example is our manager's ability to assign tickets to technicians right from their email simply by responding to the ticket in a certain way. This prevents the opening of a web browser or the mobile app to complete basic functions. Removing one step from the process has already saved us countless hours.
    • Easy to use and clean interfaces all around. Whether it's the web interface, mobile web interface, or one of the mobile apps, HappyFox is all around intuitive. Plenty of things can be made to be updated in two or fewer clicks (Assigned to, due date, priority).
    • HappyFox allows our users to easily create tickets on behalf of customers. Any person who has previously contacted the Help Desk is stored as a contact and can be referenced again quickly.
    • While the portal they provide is basic, it can be quite heavily customized with color schemes and logos. Ours ended up looking better than almost anything else we host both internally and externally. It's clean, simple and provides an easy way for users to input a ticket.
    • Between the Smart Rules and SLAs it's easy to make sure every ticket gets the attention it deserves. Automatic reminders can be sent to technicians based on criteria. Reports can be run to ensure that service levels are being met. These two things alone have greatly increased the quality of service.
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    Cons
    Front
    • Their integration to Salesforce is lacking. As the owner of our productivity tools and how they are used, I have very little control over what things to enforce, or even change what objects are available. For example, we don't use Cases in Salesforce but with the Salesforce integration the Cases object shows up. There's no need to have that there. I've heard there is a roadmap improvement forthcoming.
    • One of our uses is for our sales development reps to prospect with visitors. Because of the high volume of inquiries it's difficult for our reps to efficiently manage all their follow ups. It would be nice if we could run a "scheduled campaign" where a predesigned cadence of email follow ups can be sent automatically. To be clear, they do have a scheduling capability, but it just can't be used as a prebuilt option.
    • Integrations to other systems require you have a user account to those systems. We have SSO and therefore we don't always have a user account. For example, out integration to Jira uses SSO so we don't each have individual Jira logins. This is an outage for us.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    • There are a few features that I would hope to be standard that are not yet accessible. For instance, having different time zones isn't a choice, and clients aren't able to create their own reports, only staff can. So, my staff is required to run those reports for our clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Front
    We are very happy with Front and don't anticipate changing
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    HappyFox Inc.
    The way we have our implementation customized has allowed us to tailor the application to exactly how we would like to use it. We didn't have to change our procedures and fear the potential of poor adoption. Instead we customized the application to be used the way we already ran our help desk. From there on out we reaped the benefits of quicker resolutions, increased transparency, and much happier end users. After setting up Smart Rules, HappyFox does a lot of thinking for us. Tickets go where they need to go, close when they are supposed to close and even remind techs of inactivity. This removes the necessity for micromanagement, which is appreciated by our employees and managers alike
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    Usability
    Front
    It's very easy to understand and use by new customer support agents as well. Be it a technology, product, or marketing person, we have trained most of the company folks to read and respond to customer conversations in their free time with the help of the Front app. It is also easy to set up for an admin and manage his/her team with communication rules.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Front
    The support is good, and it's definitely prompt, but still lags when it comes to technical requirements, as I guess they are slow in developing newer features fast. So no complaints in terms of responsiveness, but yeah, at times it's not very helpful when you need certain features or are blocked on things which can't be unblocked.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Front
    This is something I am not familiar but it seems like it is [available] in Gmail. Thus I cannot give any feedback about it. What I am sure about is Front works for our team and I see Zoom using the service in the Customer Success Organization in a long run.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    HappyFox delivered a more cost effective solution and asset management had no limit. The main problem I saw with the various other services I demoed, was the up charges. The pricing seems manageable until you see that they charge for every 100 or so of this and 100 of that. HappyFox is truly a one-stop shop for us.
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    Return on Investment
    Front
    • Saved our executive team considerable amount of time chasing support questions through different channels.
    • Gave our team clear accountability for who was lead on a support issue and how to escalate.
    • Customer regularly say our support is the best in the industry.
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    HappyFox Inc.
    • Through Email support, the company conducts a marketing plan, through sharing of catalogs.
    • Survey and feedback are conducted and attained from HappyFox.
    • HappyFox supports live chat, an easy way to perfect the satisfaction of clients.
    Incentivized
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