Groove by OptimizeCX is a shared inbox for small and mid-sized SaaS teams. It’s presented as a help desk built for speed and not complexity, and is designed to help manage customer conversations across channels.
$87
per quarter per user
Zoho Desk
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.
$9
per month per user
Pricing
Groove by OptimizeCX
Zoho Desk
Editions & Modules
Standard
$29
per month (billed quarterly) per user
Plus
$45
per month (billed quarterly) per user
Pro
$70
per month (billed quarterly) per user
Free
$0
Express
$9
per month per user
Standard
$20
per month per user
Professional
$35
per month per user
Enterprise
$50
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Groove by OptimizeCX
Zoho Desk
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
Required
Additional Details
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A discount is offered for yearly billing.
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Features
Groove by OptimizeCX
Zoho Desk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Groove by OptimizeCX
1.4
6 Ratings
142% below category average
Zoho Desk
8.5
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets
1.26 Ratings
9.05 Ratings
Expert directory
1.23 Ratings
7.34 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
1.03 Ratings
7.34 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
2.03 Ratings
10.01 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission
2.05 Ratings
8.75 Ratings
Ticket response
1.15 Ratings
8.75 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Groove by OptimizeCX
1.4
5 Ratings
141% below category average
Zoho Desk
9.4
5 Ratings
16% above category average
External knowledge base
1.44 Ratings
9.45 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
1.44 Ratings
9.45 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Groove is great for people who are wanting to provide accountability and organization for teams across your business. It is suited well for an organization that has many email requests coming in every day, because you can assign tickets to specific team members. It would not be suited for an organization that utilizes more phone support, than email support
Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
Creates Tickets when someone emails in or you can create a ticket within the groove system.
They have great reports on response times and the average amount of time it took for a ticket to close. You can even see individuals average response times as well as specific teams.
We use their Knowledge Base which is a great tool for creating FAQ and sending people to that.
The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
I'm giving them a 3 for the really great support they gave for general questions. They also have a good knowledge base. I'm giving them only a 3 though because of my last customer service when I need a billing resolution. I was very disappointed in how they handled that. I also find it very bad practice to send out ONE email notice that they were raising my rate three times as much at the end of the month. When I was with Desk.com, I had numerous emails over months letting me know their billing plans were changing. Even worse than refusing to refund me the difference was that they just stopped responding to me.
As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
We also use Trello for project management. I have used both systems and we like Groove because it allows for our clients to contact us via email. They do not have to go to a ticket submission page, they can just email us directly and it will create a ticket. Groove also provides analytics on how long it takes to respond to tickets
We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
