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What is Freshdesk?

Freshdesk (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a customer service solution with enterprise capability. Freshdesk unifies channels, conversations, AI capabilities, customer insights, and advanced ticketing into the Freshdesk Command Center so agents are ready to resolve. With Freddy, People-first AI, customer service teams can take AI agents live in minutes to fully resolve complex and simple queries, get response and resolution assistance from AI copilot, and stay ahead with AI insights.

Freshdesk also comes with advanced workflows, automations, and self-service so users can set up and scale customer service on any channel–whether for a support team of 10 or 500.

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Top Performing Features

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.7

  • Ticket response

    Agents can easily follow up with customers.

    Category average: 8.7

  • Ticket creation and submission

    Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.

    Category average: 8.9

Areas for Improvement

  • Expert directory

    Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts

    Category average: 7.5

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 7.8

  • Help Desk CRM integration

    Integrates with CRM so that tickets and support communications are coordinated with customers' records.

    Category average: 8.3

Who Buys & Uses Freshdesk

Pros

  • Centralized ticket management and organization
  • Effective tracking, distribution, and categorization of requests
  • Strong automation and customization for workflows

Cons

  • User interface can be complex and feel dated
  • Steep learning curve for new users and administrators
  • Integrations with third-party systems are often clunky or limited

Freshdesk great tool to manage customer communication

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Freshdesk is utilized to manage passenger claims and responses to them. We have been using it as a sort of CRM although there are some limitations. But overall an extremely user friendly product that allows for quite a bit of adaptation to our specific needs.

Pros

  • Freshdesk has allowed us to automate our claim process, round robin of tickets automatically to officers, automated responses to customers as well as the ease of setting SLA triggers which also assists with managing ticket timelines and meeting response deadlines without manual intervention.

Cons

  • The reporting can do with some improvement, but that may be specific to our use. The reports we are required to generate cannot be done in Freshdesk due to the limited filters, so we often have to utilize our data warehouse to which all our Freshdesk info feeds.

Return on Investment

  • One major positive impact Freshdesk has had is improved response times, within the organization on tickets as well as externally with the customer. All the information is stored within the ticket hence various stakeholders can access and respond as needed. The SLA set up also enables up to date tracking of tickets and their deadline dates for response so team members can manage their workload efficiently, and supervisory team has a clear view of officer output and actions.

Alternatives Considered

Qualtrics XM for Customer Frontlines

Other Software Used

Amadeus Altea Suite, Hootsuite

Great product for handling simple tickets support requests and WIKI

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to manage all incoming tickets from our partners plus we use it to set tickets within our company. It helps to track all requests and tasks in one place.

Pros

  • Collect incoming support requests
  • track tickets
  • set tasks to your teammates

Cons

  • they can add more customization

Return on Investment

  • Optimized process of setting tickets within our company
  • Optimized process of getting support requests from our website

Alternatives Considered

Asana

Other Software Used

Asana, PropellerAds, 1Password, Proton VPN for Business

Freshdesk Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using Freshdesk in our organisation to support our field team to fix their issues on time every time. We are using this Freshdesk as a support ticketing and we have all dipatment as a agents so that when user raise a ticket for respective department, that respective department agent is closing the ticket based on the SLA period assigned to him. its this Freshdesk help use to address all the issue raised by end user in a smooth manner with tracking all of them.

Pros

  • Field customisation, which Freshdesk is good for me. It's very useful
  • I like priority system which Freshdesk has now High,low,Medium
  • Sending ticket status notification to the end user through mail is very nice with Ticket numbers
  • It's very easy for users to raise a ticket they just need to drop a mail to the respective mail ID so that they will get ticket raised acknowledgement

Cons

  • i would like to see much better dashbord at presently dashboard is very difficult to understand
  • We wont able to download Freshdesk report directly in portal itself directly, its will send downlaod link for respective mail id which is taking longer time for us to downlaod
  • Freshdesk should have much more graphic oriented analytical report
  • Freshdesk UI interface has to improve

Return on Investment

  • Its help user support team effort in tracking tickets
  • Going live with Freshdesk is very easy in terms of implementing this to Organisation
  • compare to other service providers like salesforce and others Freshdesk is cheaper
  • Its save Agent time in indetifying issue easly
  • Since it has automation in ticket assignment companies can reduce manpower

Other Software Used

Tally, Zoho Expense, greytHR

User Friendly Help Desk Software That Delivers Results

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Freshdesk to manage our customer support ticket, track inquiries and streamline communication. Freshdesk helps us to reduce response times, and improved customer satisfaction.

Pros

  • Freshdesk is helpful because it's best at organizing customer inquiries into tickets.
  • Freshdesk effectively consolidates the conversations of customer from email, chat, and social media into a single platform which makes the work easy.

Cons

  • I think Freshdesk can need improvement in terms of dashboards because it can be complex for non technical users.

Return on Investment

  • Freshdesk has improved the ROI of our company by reducing the time agents were spending and getting a high salary. Now a single persons can easily handle inquiries and some inquires are handled by Freshdesk automation.

Other Software Used

Actiondesk, Calendly, Zoho Campaigns

Freshdesk Review from an Active Support Team

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Freshdesk is our primary ticketing platform. We utilize it to service our customers in the healthcare space. If they have issues with our application, can't login, need help running reports, small fixes to data, and other such problems then we interact directly with them via Freshdesk. It is pivotal to our day to day workflow, and we do not have a good contingency plan should Freshdesk fail to operate and provide us a platform for our ticket management and supportability of our customers needs.

Pros

  • Clean, intuitive, and easy to use
  • Quickly generate large amounts of ticket data
  • Ability to collaborate internally

Cons

  • Ticket assignment is too rigid
  • AI tools and features behind a paywall
  • Cost is high relative to alternatives
  • Integrations with other apps are clunky

Return on Investment

  • I wasn't here when we switched to Freshdesk so hard to say for certain, but I do overall think it's been a good tool for us
  • I really enjoy all of the seamless ability to add notes, images, and documents to tickets both private (internal) and public (external)
  • I'm not sure it's sped up much, but it has allowed us to deliver a high level of customer service and stay organized

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Workforce Management and Atlassian Jira

Other Software Used

RingCentral Contact Center, Atlassian Jira, Microsoft 365