Helpshift vs. Intercom

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.

Incentivized

Intercom will help you achieve your goals in managing a large customer base with room to grow, where you need to add further processes and personalization to the customer support activities of your business. If you are starting, looking for customers and product-market fit, then you are better off starting with WhatsApp, which you can later load off into Intercom when the time comes.

Incentivized

• 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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• In-app communication: I can deploy tours, banners, checklists, tooltips, posts, and surveys in a matter of minutes.
• Knowledge Hub: I can write and publish a help article that can then be used to train the Fin AI agent to deliver accurate answers to our customers.
• Communicating in context with service/sales agents and customers: the Help Desk makes it simple for sales and service agents to pull me into a conversation with a customer to resolve product-related issues.

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• 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.

Incentivized

• Pricing - it is not a cheap product and more features could be included in lower tier packages
• Customer segmentation is not as simple as I would like it to be
• For being a help desk / customer support company, they are not the fastest at responding to any questions we might have

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

The Intercom interface has incredible usability; I love how it links everything you need when you need it. I would love for them to improve the CRM tools for journey tracking and add KanBan visualization to the tickets. That would be the icing on the cake—really great job.

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always there

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works perfect

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The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.

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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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Easy to know the learning path

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The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.

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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.

All of the apps I mentioned above are not even close to how Intercom is using its full power to show that it's very easy to use. I will never change my opinion about Intercom since I've been using it for over half a year and I'm used to it because of how simple it gets.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Faster customer onboarding: When we identified our biggest conversion factors, we were able to set up an onboarding sequence that helped people get started and converted faster.
• Adoption: It's much easier to showcase a new software feature. We build out a post and a tour for any new software features and prompt it to show up the first time they log in, all through Intercom.
• Money: It's saved us money in the long run considering how many softwares we would have needed to use in order to get the same features offered in Intercom.

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