ChatBot vs. Helpshift

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ChatBot
Score 8.1 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
ChatBot is an all-in-one platform to create, deploy, and track chatbots across channels. With it the vendor states users can create chatbots in minutes with diverse templates and automate key tasks right away, or easily drag-and-drop new elements to adapt any template to your needs. ChatBot is ready to work out of the box, while AI algorithms help users improve responses over time. Design conversational experiences to build better relationships with customers.…N/A
Helpshift
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Helpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.
$150
per month issue
Pricing
ChatBotHelpshift
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$150.00
per month Issue
Enterprise
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Growth
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChatBotHelpshift
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details—Flexible Consumption-Based Pricing for Your Changing Needs. Only pay for the number of issues created each month. An issue is a customer problem or inquiry that is directed to an agent or a bot. Customers with greater usage receive a reduced per issue price. All packages come with 1,000 issues per month to get you started.
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Community Pulse
ChatBotHelpshift
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
ChatBotHelpshift
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
-
Ratings
Helpshift
6.4
4 Ratings
21% below category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings5.54 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings3.64 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings6.43 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings4.53 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
-
Ratings
Helpshift
5.0
4 Ratings
43% below category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings1.04 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.13 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
ChatBot
-
Ratings
Helpshift
4.5
4 Ratings
52% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings5.53 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings2.71 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings2.74 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings4.52 Ratings
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ChatBotHelpshift
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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Score 10.0 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
ChatBotHelpshift
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChatBotHelpshift
Likelihood to Recommend
LiveChat
Most suited: Frequent duties can be automated. services can be improved by analyzing customer feedback. Load and Heavy tasks can be reduced. Less workforce is required. Less Suited: Specific product queries and their proper answers. When the user uses those words that are misspelled or have a long sentence it finds difficulty in giving them proper information.
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Helpshift Inc.
If you need a good way for players to send in support tickets that propagates in real-time, Helpshift would be a service I'd recommend.
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Pros
LiveChat
  • Superb for interactive form filling.
  • Great for standard messages and relaying information.
  • Out-of-house assistance and redirecting or capturing followup details.
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Helpshift Inc.
  • Their customer support is very responsive. If they have any problems, they fix them quickly.
  • They are constantly trying to improve and expand their offering, which is beneficial to our growing company.
  • It is very user-friendly and easy to manage. The analytics are pretty good as well.
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Cons
LiveChat
  • Solution should also have a dashboard to view the customer analytics
  • some times user typed long sentences it should decipher most common word from it.
  • Options to use native UI
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Helpshift Inc.
  • While I am not an engineer; it is known that Helpshift can be a bit of a pain to get it implemented into our applications.
  • There are some issues with the badge when it comes to the notifications of messages that let the user know they have a reply from customer service.
  • The website dashboard that is used to respond to customers has trouble sometimes and is very slow.
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Usability
LiveChat
No answers on this topic
Helpshift Inc.
Helpshift is really easy to use and set up. We enjoy the automation to automatically route certain issues to different smart folders. There's just a lot of flexibility in the functionality to make things work for our team in the best way. I didn't give it a 10/10 just because we need SMS/Apple Business Chat and Helpshift doesn't yet offer that. They also don't currently support social media channels but they are working on releasing that soon.
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Support Rating
LiveChat
Full end-to-end support is critical to maintain the ongoing service, robustness, training and customer service Chatbot offers.
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Helpshift Inc.
The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.
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Alternatives Considered
LiveChat
ChatBot is more stable and enhanced as compared to other rivals which are new in this segment and also provides a lot of details which is missing in other products like report etc. Also, chatBot is more commonly used so support wise it is also great and you can find multiple examples on the internet and from your peers as well.
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Helpshift Inc.
Zendesk is used for customer communication via email and Helpshift is used for chat, they are for the same purpose but with different response times.
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Return on Investment
LiveChat
  • Good customer engagement levels (positive intent recognition).
  • Positive CSAT.
  • Not enough volume yet to have a cost ROI.
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Helpshift Inc.
  • The ability to properly organize and delegate work to customer service representatives has been a very positive ROI after using Helpshift.
  • The customer service reps are much happier with this system over the previous system of a general company email address and other CS software tools.
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ScreenShots

ChatBot Screenshots

Screenshot of Chatbot conversations are automatically archived, allowing users to analyze and improve their story flows.Screenshot of With ChatBot you can control the entire conversation flow.Screenshot of Improve your chatbot day by day using the training tool.Screenshot of Save your time importing a ready to use template and turn it into your own bot assistant.Screenshot of Stories are an intuitive way to tell the bot how to react to different situations. Create Stories for frequent questions and cases to save more time for the difficult ones.Screenshot of To create a fully operating chatbot you don’t need any other tools or apps. The scenario tree structure and drag and drop interface are very intuitive.