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326 Ratings
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Based on 326 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
- Help Scout ranks higher in 3 feature sets: Incident and problem management, Self Help Community, Multi-Channel Help
Incident and problem management
9.7
Help Scout
97%
7.6
Salesforce Service Cloud
76%
Help Scout ranks higher in 4/6 features
Help Scout ranks higher in 4/6 features
Organize and prioritize service tickets
8.8
88%
17 Ratings
8.3
83%
55 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
10.0
100%
10 Ratings
7.1
71%
47 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission
10.0
100%
16 Ratings
8.0
80%
56 Ratings
Ticket response
10.0
100%
17 Ratings
8.0
80%
55 Ratings
Expert directory
N/A
0 Ratings
7.1
71%
40 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
N/A
0 Ratings
7.2
72%
42 Ratings
Self Help Community
8.5
Help Scout
85%
7.1
Salesforce Service Cloud
71%
Help Scout ranks higher in 2/2 features
Help Scout ranks higher in 2/2 features
External knowledge base
9.0
90%
15 Ratings
6.8
68%
46 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
8.0
80%
14 Ratings
7.3
73%
51 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
8.2
Help Scout
82%
7.7
Salesforce Service Cloud
77%
Salesforce Service Cloud ranks higher in 4/5 features
Salesforce Service Cloud ranks higher in 4/5 features
Email support
10.0
100%
17 Ratings
8.1
81%
56 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration
6.5
65%
10 Ratings
8.1
81%
49 Ratings
Customer portal
N/A
0 Ratings
7.4
74%
39 Ratings
IVR
N/A
0 Ratings
7.3
73%
25 Ratings
Social integration
N/A
0 Ratings
7.9
79%
34 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- Help Scout is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Usability
- Salesforce Service Cloud is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Renew
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
Help Scout
92%
17 Ratings
8.1
Salesforce Service Cloud
81%
62 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
Help Scout
70%
1 Rating
9.6
Salesforce Service Cloud
96%
4 Ratings
Usability
9.0
Help Scout
90%
1 Rating
8.4
Salesforce Service Cloud
84%
11 Ratings
Availability
Help Scout
N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
Salesforce Service Cloud
87%
7 Ratings
Performance
Help Scout
N/A
0 Ratings
8.6
Salesforce Service Cloud
86%
7 Ratings
Support Rating
Help Scout
N/A
0 Ratings
7.4
Salesforce Service Cloud
74%
29 Ratings
Online Training
Help Scout
N/A
0 Ratings
9.0
Salesforce Service Cloud
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Help Scout
Help Scout gets major brownie points for "eating their own dog food." They are all about the Customer Experience, and they live up to this philosophy by delivering not only a very easy to use and modern product, but answering support inquiries right away (and thoroughly), and publishing an extremely helpful and insightful industry blog. So when you buy into Help Scout, you're not just getting a great software product, but also getting a great organization running behind it. Aside from that, I love how Help Scout delivers a great customer experience to our customers. It gets out of the way. Customers are not aware that we use it, in fact, they believe they are emailing directly with me. Transactions are fast and lightweight, there are not as many bells and whistles to complicate the process and slow down the support workflow.
Acting Project Manager
Goto.com.pkConsumer Goods, 501-1000 employees
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud is excellent as a CRM, a case management system, multi-channel contact centre support application, service and ticketing application as well as helping automate back office processes. If you want to extend Service Cloud into Sales, Self-Service or Digital Marketing, you need to purchase additional services which can be relatively high cost.
Head of ICT Solutions
Arvato UKOutsourcing/Offshoring, 1001-5000 employees
Pros
Help Scout
- The interface is extremely good. It's fast, it's smart and it's easy to use. In one week we dominated it completely, with every function. It's very intuitive, which helped us onboard the hole team very quickly.
- Tagging and in general organizing tickets. It's easy and visible
- Workflows (or automatic triggers) have MANY options and you can get very efficient by using them
- Their support is very good and effective
- Docs (FAQ manager) is easy to setup and maintain. It is well linked with the other parts of HS, like answering emails or chat
- Chat is new to us (with Beacon) but so far is working fine. It's in beta and needs more features, but I'm sure they're on it
Cofounder / Marketing, Growth, Technology, Experience
VestuáRetail, 11-50 employees
Salesforce Service Cloud
- Flexibility of data tracked, displayed, reported on, and customized.
- Single source of truth for support, implementations, sales and management.
- Ability to integrate through built-in app exchange and easy API.
- Reporting and emailed reports with direct links to drill down into data.
- Do virtually whatever you "need" to do.
Director of Product Development
BeyondPay, Inc.Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Cons
Help Scout
- It is a bit slow sometimes, but not very often.
- I've noticed more network errors with their server in the past year.
- Small annoyance - they use a lot of lightbox popups and if you click outside the box all of your work is lost.
Community Manager
eCommerceFuelInternet, 1-10 employees
Salesforce Service Cloud
- Incredibly complex to set up and configure.
- Multiple points of potential failure.
- Things Desk.com did out-of-the-box require customized code and components in Service Cloud.
- Front-facing community is extremely difficult to configure and comes with many limitations.
- No help is provided by Salesforce without expensive Premiere Support plans.
- Expensive! Hidden costs and development costs are going to make Service Cloud far more expensive than almost any other Help Desk provider out there.

Verified User
Technician in Customer Service
Hospital & Health Care Company, 11-50 employeesPricing Details
Help Scout
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$0
Help Scout Editions & Modules
Edition
Standard | $201 |
---|---|
Plus | $351 |
Company | Contact sales team |
- per user/per month
- none
Additional Pricing Details
—Salesforce Service Cloud
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$65 per month
Salesforce Service Cloud Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Help Scout
Help Scout 7.0
Based on 1 answer
We are receiving feedback from the organizational level that they may want us to transition to a different solution to provide consistency across the company.

Verified User
Director in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesSalesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud 9.6
Based on 4 answers
Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.

Verified User
Analyst in Information Technology
Information Technology and Services Company, 51-200 employeesUsability
Help Scout
Help Scout 9.0
Based on 1 answer
It is simple and intuitive. I haven't run into difficulty using any of the features that I have wanted to use. Additional help in the form of documentation or support is available as needed, and their response times are pretty good :)

Verified User
Director in Product Management
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesSalesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud 8.4
Based on 11 answers
I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.

Verified User
Manager in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesReliability and Availability
Help Scout
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud 8.7
Based on 7 answers
Salesforce has a more than 99% uptime rate and Salesforce Service Cloud is no exception. I have never had any issues experiencing outages or service degradation when it comes to using the Service Cloud product (that I can remember). Always reliable and easy to use, I would recommend this product as your go-to for helpdesk, service desk, incident management, call center, and other business process needs.

Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employeesPerformance
Help Scout
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud 8.6
Based on 7 answers
There are issues with page load performance and database performance for sure, but we are a very complex setup with a lot of automation and processing for 2000+ users so this is not surprising. We are also global, so the issue with distance from the regional servers is a problem.
Technical Support Manager
Videojet TechnologiesPrinting, 1001-5000 employees
Support Rating
Help Scout
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud 7.4
Based on 29 answers
It depends on what support package you buy from Salesforce. That can be good or bad. It's highly flexible to your needs pricing wise. If you have devs on staff then don't buy support. If you don't, then sfdc offers support for a cost.

Verified User
Project Manager in Marketing
Automotive Company, 5001-10,000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Help Scout
Only have minimal experience with G-Suite for a much smaller company. This worked well for that organization but did not have similar specialization functions that suite our larger organization very well. Help Scout's pricing makes sense, and continues to service our needs well. Minimal usage of other programs, but have no need to explore alternatives at this time.
Customer Experience Advocate
OpendoorReal Estate, 1001-5000 employees
Salesforce Service Cloud
I have used Microsoft Dynamics in the past and I feel that Salesforce compares positively to it. While both software offers cloud based service and a mobile app, Microsoft Dynamics doesn't support integration with Gmail. One of the reasons we like Salesforce so much is that it can integrate with your email.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Building Materials Company, 1001-5000 employeesReturn on Investment
Help Scout
- We are able to retain our customer base due to the outstanding customer service our Customer Experience department provides. Without an organized tool like Help Scout, this would not be possible. We pride ourselves in quick response times to customers and are able to do so by effectively routing tickets to the right agents.
Manager, Support
GatherComputer Software, 51-200 employees
Salesforce Service Cloud
- While I don’t have a dollar value because I’m not the manager of the support team, I have heard many accounts of how the use of Service Cloud has made us much more efficient at delivering customer support
- Using Service Cloud has had a big impact on removing silos between departments because it’s much easier now for non-support users to interact with cases
- We now have a lot of automation of other features that we didn’t have before Service Cloud, for example, integration with our customer survey tool

Verified User
Program Manager in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees