Helpjuice vs. Kayako

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Helpjuice
Score 9.0 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
Score 6.2 out of 10
N/A
Kayako 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
Pricing
HelpjuiceKayako
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Kayako One
$79
per month
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HelpjuiceKayako
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
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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Community Pulse
HelpjuiceKayako
Features
HelpjuiceKayako
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Helpjuice
8.3
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Kayako
2.0
11 Ratings
122% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.34 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Expert directory9.35 Ratings1.05 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.26 Ratings1.08 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation7.15 Ratings1.07 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.54 Ratings7.011 Ratings
Ticket response8.64 Ratings1.011 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Helpjuice
8.3
8 Ratings
3% above category average
Kayako
1.0
9 Ratings
156% below category average
External knowledge base8.17 Ratings1.09 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.55 Ratings1.08 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Helpjuice
7.2
6 Ratings
11% below category average
Kayako
1.0
10 Ratings
156% below category average
Customer portal9.06 Ratings1.07 Ratings
IVR6.01 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Social integration4.02 Ratings1.04 Ratings
Email support8.95 Ratings1.010 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.01 Ratings1.06 Ratings
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User Ratings
HelpjuiceKayako
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(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
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
2.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
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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