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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    ProProfs Help Desk

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    ProProfs Help Desk is a customer support tool that promises to help agents track and resolve customer-care-related issues. The cloud-based software aims to enable businesses to deliver a delightful customer experience. This becomes possible with faster and effective ticket resolution. Key benefits and capabilities include: Timely resolution of customer queries: Customers feel delighted with timely responses. ProProfs help desk ticketing system allows managers and system…

    $29.99

    per month per user

    Pricing
    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
    Free
    $0
    Unlimited Users
    Team
    $29.99
    per month per user
    ENTERPRISE
    $ 499 per month
    Unlimited Users
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsUp to a 26% discount for annual billing.—
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    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    ProProfs
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    91 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    71 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    88 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    59 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    69 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Intercom and ProProfs Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    7.8
    20 Ratings
    4% below category average
    ProProfs Help Desk
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.218 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Expert directory9.011 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.912 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation6.813 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission6.919 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Ticket response8.220 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Intercom and ProProfs Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    7.7
    22 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ProProfs Help Desk
    8.2
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    External knowledge base7.822 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base7.618 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Intercom and ProProfs Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    7.5
    21 Ratings
    6% below category average
    ProProfs Help Desk
    7.7
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Customer portal7.518 Ratings00 Ratings
    IVR7.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration7.911 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support6.720 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.815 Ratings7.31 Ratings
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    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Intercom
    Score7.5 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.7 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.4
    (156 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.1
    (64 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (8 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IntercomProProfs Help Desk
    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!
    Incentivized
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    ProProfs
    As this tool is an affordable option, this help desk software is best suited for startups to deal with their customer base and build customer-centric brand value. This helps in not only helped me increase customer loyalty but also ensured customer retention, increasing my company’s profits substantially. But, this tool does have a few minor drawbacks. The most important feature, for me, that is missing from this tool is skill-based routing. Without this feature, our agents lose a lot of time in replying to just one customer question. Sometimes, the ticket needs to be reassigned to a specialized agent - and until they are available, the ticket remains open.
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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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    ProProfs
    • Sometimes customers ask questions that require more than one agent to look into the matter. For such situations, ProProfs Help Desk has the “child ticket” feature. This literally made my life so so easy! Whenever I was in this situation, all I had to do was create a child ticket and assign it to another agent and give him a heads up on what has been going on. Answering a customer’s question accurately becomes really easy with this feature.
    • Our entire team’s performance was always static. We never knew how anyone was performing or was anyone making any difference in the overall company’s value. With this tool, it became easy to see how every agent is performing and whether there was any positive impact on both - the company and our current customer base.
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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
    Incentivized
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    ProProfs
    • This tool does route tickets, but the one drawback is that the tickets are;t assigned to a specialized agent. It is randomly assigned to any available agent, and if he doesn’t have expertise in terms of the customer question, it becomes hard to give an accurate answer.
    • Giving automatic responses to customers makes our life easy, but we can’t personalize these messages. This sometimes makes our customers feel that they are talking to a bot, making it difficult to answer their questions without them having a hostile reaction to the automated answers.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    ProProfs
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    ProProfs
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ProProfs
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Salesforce
    The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.
    Incentivized
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    ProProfs
    No answers on this topic
    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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    ProProfs
    I shifted from Kayako to ProProfs Help Desk for mainly two reasons, UI and features. ProProfs Help Desk definitely has a more user-friendly interface and the features offered by this tool are also more compared to Kayako. A few features that aren’t available in Kayako but are available in ProProfs Help Desk are multiple shared inboxes, private notes, and email ticketing.
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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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    ProProfs
    • High customer retention.
    • Optimized average response time.
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