Fin by Intercom vs. Strikedeck (discontinued)

Fin by Intercom is suited for all customer support scenarios. The major part is responsible of the business to feed a well equipped KB covering all the product/platform features, process steps and FAQs. If the KB is well equipped Fin can easily address incoming customer queries which it is able to do in our case and help us touch deflection rate of 85%.

Incentivized

The system is good for Customer Success teams to get started and if all the users are updating it responsibly. There are not many checks and balances in the system so your team will have to be disciplined. The reason why I have not been generous with my rating is only because of the slow nature of support and upgrades to the product.

Incentivized

• The ability to control who and where Fin engages through Workflows.
• It can be a one-size-fits-all for your volume, or you can control the audience/topics that Fin will be active in.
• Pricing is negotiable, and while you contract to a minimum, there aren't severe penalties for overages.

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• Automating tasks within Playbooks
• Combine multiple sources of customer data
• Makes it easy to track and review customer status
• The Customer Support is outstanding - knowledgeable, helpful, responsive

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• Simplified answers for different products/tiers. It handles this but not easily
• Ability to ask Copilot questions without being in a conversation
• Provide users with a more obvious prompt to watch a help video if there's a help resource that directly answers their question

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• The knowledge base with content and videos is still work in progress.
• The support team was very responsive, but not consultative. I had to create from scratch most of the time.
• It was confusing to use.

Incentivized

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

FIN is extremely capable and the UI is very intuitive. There are some things that involve using Data Connectors - for example there's a FIN workflow for when a customer creates a ticket but it doesn't give you access to the Ticket ID. You have to create a data connector to fetch that data - just seems a little convoluted.

Incentivized

I think the only thing holding me back from a 10 is the fact that I don't have that next step field and integration seems to break at times.

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always there

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works perfect

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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.

Incentivized

When we get issues with Strikedeck, we raise it internally with the Strikedeck admin team. They then contact Strikedeck and raise a support ticket. The turnaround time is quick quick. But from my personal use of Strikedeck, I have only come across few situations where a support ticket is raised with Strikedeck.

Incentivized

Easy to know the learning path

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The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom.

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In my experience, what Intercom has done with Fin by Intercom is far more innovative and forward thinking than other tools I've used. It's intuitive, easy, and they are always releasing new things to make Fin by Intercom even more powerful.

Incentivized

The lower price was why we went with Strikedeck over Gainsight or Totango.

Incentivized

• I like how I don't feel like I need to constantly be monitoring support, especially on weekends
• It's great that the user will get some response right away, I just need to hope that the response they do get is good enough if I'm awk

Incentivized

• Helps in better forecasting of revenue & customer retention.
• Provides Customer Success specific MIS.
• NPS survey help gauge customer pulse.

Incentivized