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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

    ServiceNow Customer Service Management

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on the Now Platform, ServiceNow offers their Customer Service Management solution through the Standard and Professional Customer Service Management bundles. Both include agent workspace, knowledge management, survey and assessment module, and the community module, oriented in this edition to support customers rather than internal employees. The Professional bundle also includes performance analytics, predictive intelligence, and related tools to support customer support agents improvement…N/A
    Pricing
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    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
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    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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    Community Pulse
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    87 Answers
    90%
    Would buy again
    9 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    69 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    84 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    10 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    57 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    Features
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Intercom and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.0
    17 Ratings
    2% below category average
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    9.3
    10 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.215 Ratings9.210 Ratings
    Expert directory8.410 Ratings8.88 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.09 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.211 Ratings9.49 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.316 Ratings9.810 Ratings
    Ticket response7.717 Ratings9.310 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Intercom and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.1
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    9.6
    9 Ratings
    18% above category average
    External knowledge base7.618 Ratings9.68 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.614 Ratings9.69 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Intercom and ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Feature
    Intercom
    6.9
    17 Ratings
    14% below category average
    ServiceNow Customer Service Management
    9.4
    10 Ratings
    17% above category average
    Customer portal6.515 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    IVR6.45 Ratings9.87 Ratings
    Social integration8.29 Ratings8.98 Ratings
    Email support5.716 Ratings9.89 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.813 Ratings9.59 Ratings
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    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Intercom
    Score8.8 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
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (152 ratings)
    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (60 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IntercomServiceNow Customer Service Management
    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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    ServiceNow
    It is well suited for medium to large companies that manage different teams and need to communicate constantly and track progress in a timely manner. It is less suited for small enterprises as it will overwhelm users with the features and functionalities embedded.
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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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    ServiceNow
    • We manage internal tickets through ServiceNow Customer Service Management. We raise tickets with IT and other team
    • We manage our datapipe customers through ServiceNow Customer Service Management and it efficiently manages our customer interactions
    • ServiceNow Customer Service Management helps us manage projects and tasks and keep a log of all our migration customers
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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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    ServiceNow
    • Adding in additional chat features would be nice
    • Viewing where you stand in priority
    • Having a way to automate more of the processes
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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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    ServiceNow
    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.
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    ServiceNow
    Bottom line is that it does what you need it to do. We've been using Service Now as a ticket managing tool for a few years now. There's really not much it can't do when it comes to recording interactions. It has been nice using inventory tracking for software licenses and hardware as well.
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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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    ServiceNow
    Support has been very good. Any time there has been a real issue, the team has responded very quickly and identified the issue without a lot of repetitive questions that I've seen from other services. There is a great external community and internal knowledge base that covers pretty much anything you need.
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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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    ServiceNow
    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.
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    ServiceNow
    Atlassian Jira lacks certain features and process which was delivered by ServiceNow Customer Service Management. Also, flexibility to customise was a point to select ServiceNow Customer Service Management tool. Cost which was high than Atlassian Jira compensated as it improved overall customer satisfaction and reduced resolution time by taking help of Knowledge base integration
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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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    ServiceNow
    • The negative impact for my team is the delay in team completing tickets but not a system issue.
    • A positive impact for my team is we can easily view the status of tickets and the follow-up emails are beneficial to maintain records of tickets.
    • Negative impact is that there is no user job aid or helpful tools for new users.
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