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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Web Help Desk is ticketing and IT asset management software. It is designed to simplify help desk management. This solution includes built-in ticketing management, asset management, change management, and knowledge base capabilities.

    $533

    per year per user

    Wix

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AWix is a website builder used to grown an online presence. The platform allows users to build their website from scratch, choose from designer-made templates, or use an AI website builder to add sections, images, and text.

    $17

    per month

    Pricing
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Free
    $0
    Light
    $17
    per month
    Core
    $29
    per month
    Business
    $39
    per month
    Business Elite
    $159
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsSolarWinds also offers Perpetual licensing starting at $1129 per technician.—
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    No answer on this topic
    Wix
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
    93%
    Delivers good value for the price
    28 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    84%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    89%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
    Features
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) and Wix
    Feature
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    9.2
    20 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Wix
    -
    Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets8.020 Ratings00 Ratings
    Expert directory8.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications9.817 Ratings00 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation9.014 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ticket response9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) and Wix
    Feature
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    8.0
    9 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Wix
    -
    Ratings
    External knowledge base7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base9.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) and Wix
    Feature
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)
    9.2
    10 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Wix
    -
    Ratings
    Customer portal9.78 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social integration10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email support9.010 Ratings00 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score9.3 out of 10
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    Score9.5 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (20 ratings)
    7.5
    (101 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    6.8
    (5 ratings)
    7.7
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD)Wix
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds WHD is well suited if you have a limited budget, as it costs less than many help desk software packages that are more full featured and modern in their design. It is not well suited to an environment where you want to manage inventory, users, purchases and tickets all in one package. It has an asset feature that we don't use but that looks quite limited. We track our assets and users separately from this.
    Incentivized
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    Wix
    I would recommend Wix if you're more website-savvy; it is more customizable than Squarespace. However, Squarespace's modules look more polished than Wix's, which you drag and drop onto the site. With Wix, you need to do a lot more work, and it allows for more customizations, but I am a lot quicker on Squarespace.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • Customized reporting allows us to track our service and support better, and find where we need improvements. This allows us to constantly upgrade our service levels and keep the customers happy.
    • Detailed tracking and response to the end users have led to quicker remediation of tickets. We are able to see where we need a better response or where to add additional resources for support.
    • Overall metrics allow us to staff properly for our tickets by location and remote users.
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    Wix
    • Easy to create and duplicate website, and web pages for similar products, services and campaigns, so you do not have to start from scratch
    • Find features such as video, image and button, and templates to customise your website's feel and look. For example, recently, I was able to add a countdown timer for the sale of tickets to our online conference.
    • Creating website Anchors - making it easy for you to take a visitor to a particular part of a page so that they do not need to scroll through the entire webpage making it more user-friendly.
    • The SEO part of Wix makes it easy for you to set up meta data, create fully functional social media shares that are on brand and looks professional in the Google search engine..
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • Because of AD integration, users sometimes try logging in with their email address and not AD credentials. The user then calls stating they can't put a ticket in, it would be nice if there was a method of matching the AD Email field with a login.
    • Setting up new techs with the building they are responsible for can be a little messy
    • I would like to see the UI updated. It looks old, even in the latest releases.
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    Wix
    • In my opinion, with the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor, user-friendliness has suffered tremendously.
    • In my opinion, the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor makes that a big portion of a website has to be redesigned, as items are now linked to each other in a different way than before.
    • In my opinion, the removal of the ADI web-building tool in favor of editor makes Wix only usable for professional website builders and no longer for the general public.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    We are definitely going to be sticking with Web Help Desk for the foreseeable future since the product is very inexpensive for the features that it provides, the integration that it has with our existing systems, and the ease for managing users, assets, locations, and tickets. Web Help Desk is a great product that is backed by even better support, which is well worth looking into if you are considering moving to a new ticketing system.
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    Wix
    We will definitely renew Wix. The ability to completely control our website has been invaluable to us. We will maintain this service as long as we are an incorporated organization, we've tried several other software options and this has been the best solution by far for all of our needs.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    I give it this rating based on my experience with SNOW which I would rate lower because it is so difficult to find anything in SNOW. It might be better with more time to configure but we "had a box to check" and it met that requirement and I haven't had time to refine it.
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    Wix
    Great customization, but a pain to backtrack. They recently added the ability to set fonts etc as headings, title, body etc, but if you did not begin your build with these presets you are screwed if you ever try to change font/ colors/layout etc.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Wix
    I never had an outage issue per say. I would say it was very reliable of a website building platform and as a marketing source there was never any issues connecting it to the server. I don’t recall there being any editing tools or hosting issues. Nothing went down when using it.
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    Performance
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Wix
    Not complex at all. It teaches you how to use their platform in a dynamic way. Each tutorial offers an explanation that can be reviewed later on. The connection speed of a web page has been smooth so far, with no major problems regarding this subject. Overall, Wix can manage 10+ pages with great connection speed.
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    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    SolarWinds is a great customizable and affordable ticketing system. We use SolarWinds Web Help Desk for IT and Software
    Development trouble ticket tracking and resolution. The reporting that
    SolarWinds provides is great since it helps us discover problem areas and fix
    those areas so they don't keep reoccurring
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    Wix
    As stated before I didn’t use the support as I did not have the feature and did not often enough need the help. I was able to figure it out mostly on my own by exploring the site. I’ve found exploring and playing on it told me how to do most things.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    Take the time to roll out a test VM to configure and make changes to before doing a live deployment, this way you don't end up with a VM that has been tweaked and re-tweaked until it's perfect and instead end up with a final, polished product. I would also recommend taking the time to read through the support forums for figuring out minor issues that may pop up, chances are that you aren't going to be the first one to encounter them. When all is said and done, SolarWinds Support is VERY responsive and you shouldn't hesitate to contact them.
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    Wix
    Like I said I was a beginner so it was fun to navigate and teach myself how to implement the features when building and maintaining my site. It was a fairly easy place to host my domain, and creat something simple.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    Web Help Desk is definitely lacking in the UI/UX department compared to most other ticketing systems I have used int he past. It's very utilitarian; however, what it lacks in UI it makes up for in extensibility and customization. The main issue that the developers need to address is the use of a Web Objects back-end.
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    Wix
    Wix is a great starting platform for anyone looking to create a website. It definitely holds its own against any other all in one website creation platform. The one thing I would say is if your main focus is solely on eCommerce you may be better off using something like Squarespace which is specifically designed for that market.
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    No answers on this topic
    Wix
    I give this rating to Wix because it's a great content creator. It has a great platform and also offers great customer service. If you encounter any technical issues, with Wix you will find a solution. For premium members or domain holders, this is the same as for Trial members or non-domain holders.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Amazing impact on our Organization, we are much more organized since we implemented SolarWinds Web Help Desk
    • The ROI is in the statistics! The application cost pennies to run compared to what the product will do for your organization.
    • I challenge you to find a better product for the price!
    • Our documentation has improved since we implemented SolarWinds Web Help Desk
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    Wix
    • Wix has helped the companies I've worked with to promote their products and events. Without Wix, it would be extremely difficult to create landing pages for email campaigns or advertisements so, Wix has enabled us to save a lot of marketing and design labor.
    • As a marketer for a non-profit (and previously for a startup), Wix has helped the companies I've served to build marketing campaigns despite having little to no marketing budget. Because many of its features are free or affordable, small businesses and non-profits receive a huge ROI since there isn't much investment required.
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