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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

    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks offers a set of free tools for IT network management and help desk support ticketing. The inventory management system essentially provides comprehensive device information for asset management.

    $0

    (free for 1-5 Seats)

    Pricing
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Editions & Modules
    Essential
    $39
    per month per seat
    Advanced
    $99
    per month per seat
    Expert
    $139
    per month per seat
    Core Plan
    $0
    Premium
    $6
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    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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    Community Pulse
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Salesforce
    No answer on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    87 Answers
    97%
    Would buy again
    35 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    69 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    35 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    84 Answers
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    34 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    57 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    27 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    66 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    31 Answers
    Features
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Intercom and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.0
    17 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.1
    56 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.215 Ratings8.855 Ratings
    Expert directory8.410 Ratings5.548 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications8.09 Ratings4.843 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation8.211 Ratings9.346 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission7.316 Ratings10.055 Ratings
    Ticket response7.717 Ratings10.054 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Intercom and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    8.1
    18 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    9.5
    53 Ratings
    17% above category average
    External knowledge base7.618 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.614 Ratings9.549 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Intercom and Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Feature
    Intercom
    6.9
    17 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Customer portal6.515 Ratings9.847 Ratings
    IVR6.45 Ratings4.512 Ratings
    Social integration8.29 Ratings9.028 Ratings
    Email support5.716 Ratings10.047 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration7.813 Ratings10.029 Ratings
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    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
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud Help Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (152 ratings)
    10.0
    (84 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (29 ratings)
    Usability
    7.2
    (60 ratings)
    9.8
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    8.7
    (26 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.9
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IntercomSpiceworks Cloud 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!
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    It's a great helpdesk solution - we currently have five years of data within it, roughly 25,000 tickets. The older edition is a great inventory and software license tracking tool. It is easy for users to use the interface and submit tickets and requests on the web, and its email integration is solid. The new version is a below-average system monitoring tool, only giving up/down status and a few other metrics.
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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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    • It helps to multitask, even on the go with the mobile App.
    • We can customize to meet your needs with automated responses, notifications, and templates.
    • Detailed reports allow managers to keep track [of] and analyze data.
    • Allows for a database to store notes helpful for future tickets.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • I have always wanted a way to redirect a support request into another IS bin, such as a development task.
    • It's possible to extract the data from the Spiceworks database, but it would be helpful if the process to do so were easier.
    • Improved ability to customize the system generated emails to improve the formatting and company branding.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is a free tool, so there would be no hesitation if we are required to upgrade it. We have installed Spiceworks on a dedicated server with more than enough resources to get the most from this tool, so we will have this running in our department for years to come.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks is user friendly and easy to set up. It can be customized to suit your needs. If there are any problems, you can go to the community forums for support and be in contact with many IT Pros, as well as the Spiceworks support staff and development teams who are always happy to help users out
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    Reliability and Availability
    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    We use it both locally on our own server so up time is decided by us and we also use the hosted help desk. We have never had an outage of that.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks has been working out of the box, and some of the basic customizations have been successful with just our internal staff handling. We don't have any other issues with the tool. It provides us with the inventory information we want in a quick and concise report in a variety of formats for our team.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    If you can spin up a VM to run it on, you'll thank yourself later. If you have remote sites, set up a local server (or dedicated computer) at each site and set them up as remote collectors for the main site. You'll save time and bandwidth
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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.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    EGroupware UI is clunky and hard to use, Jira is great but the pricing is expensive in comparison with spice works that has a free version and you can test it out properly before buying and make a correct decision based on your business plan and company objectives with the right software.
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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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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Positive - Allow organizations to implement structured Help Desk procedures.
    • Positive - IT can begin to quantify their tickets and uncover needs within the organization.
    • Positive - IT can develop a solid roadmap with [the] management of future needs, equipment refresh schedules, etc.
    • Positive - IT can pinpoint employees who may need extra training or updated equipment based on historical ticketing data.
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