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    Helpjuice

    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Helpjuice is a web app that companies can use to keep their help pages up-to-date. Instead of answering the same question repeatedly, companies can use Helpjuice to keep track of content. This app includes analytics that enable businesses to see the content their users are searching for the most as well as content that needs improvement. The vendor says that companies that manage a support page full of FAQs and user guides can benefit from using Helpjuice. This app can be integrated…

    $120

    per month

    Kayako

    Score6.8 out of 10
    N/AKayako is a help desk and customer support platform that helps businesses automate workflows, improve agent productivity, and deliver personalized customer experiences across email, chat, and social media.

    $79

    per month

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    HelpjuiceKayako
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    Kayako One
    $79
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    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsEvery Plan Comes With A 100% Money-Back Guarantee, No Questions Asked. Starting price includes up to 4 users.—
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
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    Implementation went as expected
    80%
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    Features
    HelpjuiceKayako
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Helpjuice and Kayako
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    8.6
    7 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Kayako
    2.0
    11 Ratings
    122% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.84 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    Expert directory9.35 Ratings1.05 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.46 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.45 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.84 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Ticket response8.94 Ratings1.011 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Helpjuice and Kayako
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    8.4
    8 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Kayako
    1.0
    9 Ratings
    156% below category average
    External knowledge base8.27 Ratings1.09 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.55 Ratings1.08 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Helpjuice and Kayako
    Feature
    Helpjuice
    7.3
    6 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Kayako
    1.0
    10 Ratings
    156% below category average
    Customer portal9.26 Ratings1.07 Ratings
    IVR6.01 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Social integration4.02 Ratings1.04 Ratings
    Email support9.25 Ratings1.010 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.01 Ratings1.06 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HelpjuiceKayako
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (8 ratings)
    1.0
    (22 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    2.1
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    HelpjuiceKayako
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Helpjuice
    Helpjuice is an excellent platform when you’re looking to modernize the way you create documentation. Many companies, especially larger corporations, are stuck in the past, utilizing PDFs and share drives to house and access procedures. With Helpjuice, we now have a centralized web-based platform that provides everything from analytic functions to standard templates, user-specific features, and more. My team specifically chose Helpjuice during the pandemic, when all the tech writers from my company (including myself) were moved into a single team. We needed to find a platform that would allow us to align our publishing standards while also moving us forward in the way we publish procedures. That platform was ultimately Helpjuice. Helpjuice certainly offers a variety of features, but one of the few drawbacks is that it does not incorporate or seem to integrate with any specific ticketing tool. While this isn’t an issue for me or my team, as we are required to use a specific tool internally, I can imagine that someone looking for a complete package with multi-step workflows and an intake process would not find Helpjuice adequate.
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    Kayako
    When it works, It's without a doubt a great help desk solution. It is perfect for our usage, and have rolled it out company-wide. It's great if you have multiple departments. We have it set up so most items come through a single desk that then hands out tickets to their proper department. There may be cheaper options for smaller organizations but for one that is as service-driven as ours, we really think Kayako is a great fit.
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    Pros
    Helpjuice
    • We were looking for a publishing feature where there would be some required oversight.
    • We have really enjoyed the AI Tool of Wizardshot as it has helped reduce the time spent writing articles.
    • The analytic dashboard to see who has contributed what and which articles are the most clicked on is wonderful
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    Kayako
    • Gives a very good report on an individual level of what is being done for a customer or corporate issue.
    • Easy to understand who has what, what the tickets are about, how long they have been opened and how many times the customer/employee have gone back and forth with each other.
    • Nice dashboard view.
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    Cons
    Helpjuice
    • Article feedback disappears when resolved, would like to see a integration with Jira which we now use to track feedback changes.
    • Analytics for the AI search would be appreciated. Currently we have no idea how many people are actually using this feature.
    • A way to train the AI search bot. Currently there is no way to up/down vote answers or indicate how accurate or helpful an answer is.
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    Kayako
    • Departments need a bit of work. Even though you can have multiple departments, the only changes that can be made are globally. If you want independent queues within the departments, you have to do a lot of work that can be very confusing.
    • Survey system is not up to speed. Kayako really needs to add Net Promoter Score into their system. Also, if a staff user removes their name from an incident ticket, it removes them from the survey so you really can't even get a good estimate of how well your staff is in the eyes of the customer.
    • Very difficult to implement when you already have a customer base. Setting them up in organizations is difficult. Also, the sign-up for new customers is quirky. If you send an email to Kayako, it will say you are not an authorized user, however, it will store your email address. If you try to send an email a second time, it will go through. This is one of many reasons why we decided to move from Kayako to Oracle Service Cloud.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Kayako
    • We are grandfathered in on their old Software-assurance pricing and our continued use costs us only a few hundred dollars a year (excluding hosting expenses)
    • Our team's processes are now heavily ingrained in the system
    • We have not been shown a more compelling option that is more cost-effective while still offering all the features we've come to expect
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    Usability
    Helpjuice
    HelpJuice is really amazing as a starter knowledge base vendor. They have great customer service and the ability to customize your website is endless. However, it is difficult to scale up.
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    Kayako
    I did not come from an IT background and I picked this program up quickly
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    Reliability and Availability
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Kayako
    They are really good, but it takes a while to get back, because of the large time difference to the Eastern US. However, they are very helpful.
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    Support Rating
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Kayako
    • We didn't have to use support too much, but when we did, they were able to assist us and help us make everything work.
    • Mostly we used their Online KB and step by step instructions to get all of our issues resolved.
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    Implementation Rating
    Helpjuice
    No answers on this topic
    Kayako
    Three years in we are about as happy with Kayako as we could be. We've had several employee's leave and on-boarding new hires was easier than it has ever been as things are uniform and consistent across the entire application.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Helpjuice
    Prior to using Helpjuice, I was using Microsoft Publisher to create all the training materials and manuals for multiple divisions within my company. It was awful. It would lag whenever I opened larger manuals, it operated like software from the late 90s, it was not intuitive, from a design perspective, and after migrating to a MacBook Pro as my work computer, I discovered that the program was NEVER created for Mac OS, requiring me to run Windows on my MacBook whenever I had to update any procedures that hadn’t yet migrated to Helpjuice. What a nightmare.
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    Kayako
    We were using Spiceworks for a few years before switching to Kayako but found that it wasn't as customizable or as user friendly for our customers. The SNMP scanning and inventory features with Spiceworks was nice but we needed more of a Help Desk that would allow us to scale our services to more companies.
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    Return on Investment
    Helpjuice
    • As I mentioned, my productivity in terms of working around issues, asking for help, etc. is greatly reduced on a DAILY basis.
    • I spend as much time finding bugs and filing tickets as I do writing content, and this was especially true at the beginning.
    • The Doc Center looks nice, so you'd never know the pain behind it.
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    Kayako
    • Tickets were definitely responded to faster once we implemented the audible alarm that would go off when new tickets came into the queue. This was possible because of the API.
    • Since the system was email based we could set our monitoring software up to generate tickets automatically via email for customers when it found something out of the ordinary.
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