Salesforce Service Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Salesforce Service Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Service Cloud is a customer service platform that helps businesses manage and resolve customer inquiries and issues. It provides tools for case management, knowledge base, omni-channel support, automation, and analytics, enabling companies to deliver exceptional customer service experiences.
$25
per month
Pricing
Salesforce Service Cloud
Editions & Modules
Starter Suite
$25
per month
Professional
$80
per month
Enterprise
$165
per month per user
Unlimited
$165
per month per user
Unlimited+
$165
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Salesforce Service Cloud
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Salesforce Service Cloud
Considered Both Products
Salesforce Service Cloud
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce provides a more robust set of features than most other alternatives. Since Service Cloud is part of the Salesforce platform and since our company has been on Sales Cloud for several years, it was an easy choice to select Service Cloud. The transfer of customer data …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Service Cloud is just a more comprehensive solution within a great ecosystem. It was natural to use Service Cloud since we're using Sales Cloud. It's a highly adaptable product that can grow with your business and it's needs whether it's adding users or entire pieces of …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Zendesk has it's own challenges in terms of Administrator difficulties and a completely different back-end than Salesforce Service Cloud. I would recommend Salesforce Service Cloud if you need a clean database of Companies and Contacts. Zendesk does not excel in overall CRM …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service Cloud has more unique customization features that benefit the organization as a whole.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
All of the software's are well established and good, but what gave the edge to us its easy integration capability with other systems, experience cloud integration and Einstein analytics which made us move forward Salesforce. Salesforce also have better service and industry …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
We have been using Salesforce Service Cloud for well over ten years.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce service cloud is more configurable than Zendesk and Freshdesk. It has its own inbuilt AI chatbot also which further improves service agent efficiency. Salesforce is more integration agnostic and has pre-built connectors with multiple 3rd party systems. However, in …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce Service offers the ability to customize the product to our business needs such as tracking workflow processes. While Zendesk is a good product it is limited to being more of a ticketing system, than a true overall Service application.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
We were after a robust and very scalable solution, which could be rapidly implemented. Salesforce Service Cloud not only fitted the bill, but it was much easier to source skills and find on-line learning to help achieve our goals. Although the other technologies could have …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Service Cloud is linked to our internal Salesforce CRM tool which is a huge advantage. It allows everything in one place and also allows us to integrate with other tools such as Kimble.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce allows a lot more visibility and allows us to build better reporting. It is initially trickier to set up and learn, however, comprehensive training and processes have lead to increased customer satisfaction and retention.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
This solution provided our organization a flexible platform. The other solutions were rigid or required complex integrations.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce is lightyears behind Zendesk. You have to be trained as a Salesforce admin to do anything, while Zendesk takes minutes to set up and is actually customer friendly. There are not native telephony options within Salesforce and the tools you use to integrate are …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
We previously used a home grown, proprietary system for our needs. This started to get costly and clunky as our database grew. We ended up going with Salesforce because they are purely cloud based. They also have a large footprint and very robust solution so they help us …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Well, I worked with SAP in the past when I was in other companies. It was way more complex and not user-friendly. You had to take a lot of steps in order to accomplish simple tasks and not everyone could work at the same time in the same program. I would 100% recommend …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Zendesk changed their agreements making us unable to continue with them due to our agreements with our customers. SalesForce allowed us to maintain our customer agreements.
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
I used other products in another company as a database and can say that Salesforce Service Cloud is much more user friendly for customer service needs and makes work faster to process than the named program before. Integration between departments is more clear and simple to …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
I wasn't involved with the selection of this tool, but I used ServiceNow at a previous employer and preferred the ease of use and workflow of ServiceNow. Both offer customized templates, which is great, but ServiceNow was simpler to design and change. Salesforce has more time …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
Salesforce provides infinitely more features than Freshdesk, particularly regarding reporting. We previously felt we had squeezed as much as we could out of Freshdesk, however the possible functionalities and customisation of Salesforce seems endless! That said, I think if you …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
I have used Microsoft Dynamics in the past and I feel that Salesforce compares positively to it. While both software offers cloud based service and a mobile app, Microsoft Dynamics doesn't support integration with Gmail. One of the reasons we like Salesforce so much is that …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
A CRM should be simple to set up and stable enough to develop with your business. Since they aren't designed to fit across all areas of your business or address more nuanced business needs, some CRM solutions that claim to be easy can actually trigger problems as you scale. …
Chose Salesforce Service Cloud
This product integrates other products to work alongside and inside it. We choose to go with Salesforce Service Cloud to work with our adapter of choice. This worked out so well, that when we eventually used a different adapter we already had Salesforce Service Cloud to …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Salesforce Service Cloud
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.8
68 Ratings
11% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.866 Ratings
Expert directory8.547 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications9.156 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.452 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.266 Ratings
Ticket response8.865 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
9.0
64 Ratings
15% above category average
External knowledge base9.157 Ratings
Internal knowledge base9.062 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Salesforce Service Cloud
8.9
68 Ratings
15% above category average
Customer portal8.948 Ratings
IVR8.531 Ratings
Social integration8.642 Ratings
Email support9.367 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.259 Ratings
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User Ratings
Salesforce Service Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(74 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.5
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(12 ratings)
Availability
9.5
(19 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(20 ratings)
Online Training
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Salesforce Service Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
Salesforce
This is great for cold calling and starting clients from scratch. A lot of entry is required to build a customer profile, but if you are diligent in entering this information, then it can be extremely useful, and you will thank yourself down the road for having an organized database with as many or few details stored. It is a little more challenging for existing customers who have a wealth of information on their files because the transfer of information can be quite tedious.
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Pros
Salesforce
  • Allows us to make changes quickly and with relative ease
  • Can be flexible enough to use among several teams who do very different work
  • Salesforce in general provides SO much training that anyone on the team can skill up and help maintain the system
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Cons
Salesforce
  • Incredibly complex to set up and configure.
  • Multiple points of potential failure.
  • Things Desk.com did out-of-the-box require customized code and components in Service Cloud.
  • Front-facing community is extremely difficult to configure and comes with many limitations.
  • No help is provided by Salesforce without expensive Premiere Support plans.
  • Expensive! Hidden costs and development costs are going to make Service Cloud far more expensive than almost any other Help Desk provider out there.
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Likelihood to Renew
Salesforce
Professional edition works best for a small company with lower call volumes and is very useful but as you grow exponetially I think it has limited ability to do all the things we want to - SLA management, defect, release management to name a few. Reports and dashboards being available in real time.
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Usability
Salesforce
I had Salesforce experience prior to using Service Cloud which made it a little easier to learn and navigate, but overall my team (some who had no Salesforce experience) caught on very quickly and found Service Cloud to be easy to use.
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Reliability and Availability
Salesforce
Salesforce has a more than 99% uptime rate and Salesforce Service Cloud is no exception. I have never had any issues experiencing outages or service degradation when it comes to using the Service Cloud product (that I can remember). Always reliable and easy to use, I would recommend this product as your go-to for helpdesk, service desk, incident management, call center, and other business process needs.
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Performance
Salesforce
There are issues with page load performance and database performance for sure, but we are a very complex setup with a lot of automation and processing for 2000+ users so this is not surprising. We are also global, so the issue with distance from the regional servers is a problem.
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Support Rating
Salesforce
It depends on what support package you buy from Salesforce. That can be good or bad. It's highly flexible to your needs pricing wise. If you have devs on staff then don't buy support. If you don't, then sfdc offers support for a cost.
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Implementation Rating
Salesforce
We are still working through issues with the implementation. Things are also always changing so the original implementation required many changes
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Alternatives Considered
Salesforce
Salesforce service cloud is more configurable than Zendesk and Freshdesk. It has its own inbuilt AI chatbot also which further improves service agent efficiency. Salesforce is more integration agnostic and has pre-built connectors with multiple 3rd party systems. However, in terms of pricing it is priced at a premium compared to the other solutions
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Return on Investment
Salesforce
  • Because this is a cloud service, the security, implementation framework and feature list is very mature and you don't have to develop these during implementation.
  • The larger the implementation programme the better the licensing arrangements
  • Free developer toolkit for proof of concepts or showcasing features
  • Limited to annual subscription model
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ScreenShots

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