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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Intercom

    Score8.8 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

    OTRS

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/AOTRS offers companies industry-independent solutions for structured communication in customer service, IT service management and security management. In addition to the core product OTRS, the security solutions STORM and CONTROL ensure efficient cybersecurity incident management and transparent documentation in accordance with standards such as ISO 27001.N/A
    Pricing
    IntercomOTRS
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IntercomOTRS
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUp to a 26% discount for annual billing.—
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    Community Pulse
    IntercomOTRS
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    87 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    69 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    84 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    57 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IntercomOTRS
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Intercom and OTRS
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.0
    17 Ratings
    2% below category average
    OTRS
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.215 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.410 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.211 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.316 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response7.717 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Intercom and OTRS
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.1
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    OTRS
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.618 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.614 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Intercom and OTRS
    Feature
    Intercom
    6.9
    17 Ratings
    14% below category average
    OTRS
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal6.515 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR6.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration8.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support5.716 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.813 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    IntercomOTRS
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Intercom
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IntercomOTRS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (152 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (60 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IntercomOTRS
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    OTRS Group
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    Pros
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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    OTRS Group
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
    Incentivized
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    OTRS Group
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    Return on Investment
    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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    OTRS Group
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