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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Helpshift

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AHelpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.

    $150

    per month issue

    Intercom

    Score9.5 out of 10
    N/AIntercom Helpdesk is the support workspace where human teammates handle customer conversations and tickets. Fin, the customer agent, and Copilot work in that same Inbox, so a case can move from an automated reply to a teammate with the conversation history attached.

    $39

    per month per seat

    Pricing
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $150.00
    per month Issue
    Enterprise
    Please contact Helpshift
    per month Issue
    Growth
    Please contact Helpshift
    per month Issue
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFlexible 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.Up to a 26% discount for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Considered Both Products
    Helpshift Inc.
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    90 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    70 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    87 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    58 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    68 Answers
    Features
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Helpshift and Intercom
    Feature
    Helpshift
    6.4
    4 Ratings
    24% below category average
    Intercom
    7.3
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets5.54 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Expert directory3.64 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications6.43 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation4.53 Ratings6.112 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.13 Ratings6.418 Ratings
    Ticket response9.14 Ratings7.919 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Helpshift and Intercom
    Feature
    Helpshift
    5.0
    4 Ratings
    46% below category average
    Intercom
    8.0
    20 Ratings
    0% above category average
    External knowledge base1.04 Ratings7.720 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base9.13 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Helpshift and Intercom
    Feature
    Helpshift
    4.5
    4 Ratings
    56% below category average
    Intercom
    7.2
    19 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Customer portal5.53 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IVR2.71 Ratings6.45 Ratings
    Social integration7.31 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Email support2.74 Ratings6.218 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration4.52 Ratings7.813 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Small Businesses
    Intercom
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    9.6
    (154 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.9
    (62 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HelpshiftIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Salesforce
    Intercom is well suited to finding information that your colleague gets about one lead or User. It's less appropriate when you need some report that you can not custom, and the different categories are really not clear. Nevertheless, for the communication with your clients and feature clients, it's really perfect!
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    Pros
    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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    Salesforce
    • Intercom is great for tracking user engagement, support, and marketing. I love that you can see what a user is doing on your site and send messages (email or chat) based on specific criteria.
    • Intercom is simple, easy to use, and great for website chats. It is very easy for customers to interact with.
    • Makes your team very accessible, also makes the support process simple for the end users. Good integrations and useful statistics provided.
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    Cons
    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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    Salesforce
    • Exporting conversations - we need to do this for things like customer disputes and chargebacks, however the export is a simple unformatted text file, which is not an acceptable capture of the threads as it can be simply edited. A clean and neat PDF export would be fantastic.
    • Better/simpler spam and abusive user blocking, maybe based on IP address or sender domain
    • A lower cost - there are many free/low cost platforms now, and I feel your costs are high
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Helpshift Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    We have been and will be continuing our journey with Intercom and nothing too concerning has happened that I have experienced or heard of that has us on the edge yet. If it ever happens it will be something along the lines of "Outgrowing" the use of need of the platform.
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    Usability
    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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    Salesforce
    Customizability: Intercom is highly customizable, allowing users to tailor the interface to their specific needs and preferences. This can help to improve usability by ensuring that users have quick and easy access to the features and information they need most, this can be done by using Macros, generating custom events and etc.
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    Support Rating
    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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    Salesforce
    Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them.
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    Implementation Rating
    Helpshift Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Salesforce
    The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Salesforce
    Intercom is much easier to use. Even though HubSpot's Support hub is a fairly new feature, it lacks so much. It is quite complicated to use and lacks many features that Intercom can offer just for the focus of customer service.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Salesforce
    • Increase in demo sets and deals won by engaging with prospects that hadn't requested a demo yet.
    • Increase in efficiency for our support team to receiving tickets.
    • Boosting registration for our on going training webinars as well as those for new product announcements.
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