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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    HelpSpot

    Score2 out of 10
    N/AHelpSpot is an affordable, web-based help desk system. It is available as a SaaS product or can be hosted by the customer behind a firewall. Pricing is by named user.

    $49

    per month

    Intercom

    Score7.5 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
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Up to a 26% discount for annual billing.
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Considered Both Products
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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
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    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
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    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
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of HelpSpot and Intercom
    Feature
    HelpSpot
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Intercom
    7.3
    19 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.01 Ratings8.017 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.01 Ratings6.418 Ratings
    Ticket response9.01 Ratings7.919 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.410 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.311 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings6.112 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of HelpSpot and Intercom
    Feature
    HelpSpot
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Intercom
    8.0
    20 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Internal knowledge base9.01 Ratings8.416 Ratings
    External knowledge base00 Ratings7.720 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of HelpSpot and Intercom
    Feature
    HelpSpot
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Intercom
    7.2
    19 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Email support9.01 Ratings6.218 Ratings
    Customer portal00 Ratings7.316 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings6.45 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings8.29 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Small Businesses
    Intercom
    Score7.5 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
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.5
    (154 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.3
    (2 ratings)
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.8
    (62 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    HelpSpotIntercom
    Likelihood to Recommend
    UserScape
    HelpSpot is well suited for streamlining support ticketing within the organization. By providing a single point of contact to email for support, we were able to increase response time and case resolution by approximately 30% through the increased efficiency of ticket routing via workflows and the ability for IT support staff to grab tickets from the queue instead of having them pile up in a mailbox that contains other emails as well.
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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
    UserScape
    • HelpSpot was great for organization. Having different queues allowed each of my team members to organize their conversations with the customer and quickly retrieve the history of the ticket.
    • HelpSpot is a fairly simple tool that has a friendly user interface. With it's more modern look, it made it easier for me personally to navigate and train team members on how to use it successfully.
    • HelpSpot allowed our team to view the responses section, which allowed our team to cut down on the time we spent responding to a ticket.
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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
    UserScape
    • The UI is a little dated but to be fair, shows most of the pertinent information at a glance on a well designed dashboard.
    • The UI can also be buggy at times with controls appearing in strange places. These glitches are usually corrected within a reasonable amount of time.
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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
    UserScape
    My current job does not use this platform as it is not necessary for my job function.
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    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
    UserScape
    No answers on this topic
    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
    UserScape
    No answers on this topic
    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
    UserScape
    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
    UserScape
    HelpSpot appears to be more of an old-school product but much of the recent technology is running under the surface. It has much of the compexity and customization available with Jira in tandem with the easy communications interface, not unlike Zendesk ,and some of the potential archival intelligence (in the works) of Fogbugz
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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
    UserScape
    • Improved ticket response time
    • Workload reporting to upper management
    • Ticket category reporting to identify training opportunities
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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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