Helpshift vs. Fin by 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

Fin by Intercom is suited for all customer support scenarios. The major part is responsible of the business to feed a well equipped KB covering all the product/platform features, process steps and FAQs. If the KB is well equipped Fin can easily address incoming customer queries which it is able to do in our case and help us touch deflection rate of 85%.

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.

Incentivized

• The ability to control who and where Fin engages through Workflows.
• It can be a one-size-fits-all for your volume, or you can control the audience/topics that Fin will be active in.
• Pricing is negotiable, and while you contract to a minimum, there aren't severe penalties for overages.

Incentivized

• 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

• Simplified answers for different products/tiers. It handles this but not easily
• Ability to ask Copilot questions without being in a conversation
• Provide users with a more obvious prompt to watch a help video if there's a help resource that directly answers their question

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

FIN is extremely capable and the UI is very intuitive. There are some things that involve using Data Connectors - for example there's a FIN workflow for when a customer creates a ticket but it doesn't give you access to the Ticket ID. You have to create a data connector to fetch that data - just seems a little convoluted.

Incentivized

always there

Incentivized

works perfect

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

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.

In my experience, what Intercom has done with Fin by Intercom is far more innovative and forward thinking than other tools I've used. It's intuitive, easy, and they are always releasing new things to make Fin by Intercom even more powerful.

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

• I like how I don't feel like I need to constantly be monitoring support, especially on weekends
• It's great that the user will get some response right away, I just need to hope that the response they do get is good enough if I'm awk

Incentivized