Freshdesk: Yes or no for call center?
Freshdesk has been a saviour in terms of contact center management and getting the lines live for support. We needed to have a script …
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What is Freshdesk Contact Center?
Freshdesk Contact Center ( Formerly Freshcaller) is a call center software for startups and small teams. Fresh Contact Center aims to enable businesses / teams set-up and run a call center without spending a lot of time and money. It…
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What is Freshdesk Contact Center?
Freshdesk Contact Center ( Formerly Freshcaller) is a call center software for startups and small teams. Fresh Contact Center aims to enable businesses / teams set-up and run a call center without spending a lot of time and money. It is suited for phone teams of size 1- 30.
Users can create custom greeting texts based on specific call scenarios. The nested Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system allows the user to provide a detailed set of options to callers. The call queues enables smart escalations based on agent availability as well as business hour setting. Businesses can choose to record all their phone conversations. Call Monitoring & Barging allows supervisors to listen and speak to customers real-time. WIth it, teams can engage in contextual conversations with callers.
Freshdesk Contact Center Features
Cloud PBX Features
- Supported: Hosted PBX
- Supported: Multi-level Interactive Voice Response (IVR)
- Supported: Call reports
- Supported: Directory of employee names
Call Management Features
- Supported: Answering rules
- Supported: Call recording
- Supported: Call park
- Supported: Call screening
- Supported: Message alerts
VoIP system collaboration Features
- Supported: Audio conferencing
Additional Features
- Supported: Custom greeting message
- Supported: Voicemail
- Supported: Call routing
- Supported: Call Barging
- Supported: Number porting
- Supported: Answer on mobile
- Supported: Smart Escalation
- Supported: Call Metrics
- Supported: Call conferencing
- Supported: Inbound caller ID
- Supported: After Call Work
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Freshdesk Contact Center Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada |
| Supported Languages | English |
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June 23, 2022
Freshdesk: Yes or no for call center?
Freshdesk has been a saviour in terms of contact center management and getting the lines live for support. We needed to have a script clear line for our customers to get the maximum out of the support channels and Freshdesk came to the rescue with an out-of-the-box tool and ease of access.
- Sophisticated design and UI.
- Ease of KT and download access.
- Vast analytics options.
- Pricing.
- Initial data transfer.
- Support.
- Call center management.
- Agent management.
- Analytics.
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- Overall NPA has improved.
- Cost effectiveness due to happy customers.
- Premium usability of a good tool.
After multiple checks and constant research we found Freshdesk is one of the leading product service providers and the best at it too. We used to have PSTIN hard phones which caused a lot of drops and customer discontent. After Freshdesk, it has been a cakewalk. Really happy with it.
The platform's ability to record and show 'Canned Responses' is quite useful; it's convenient to have that information readily available, and it doesn't get in the way when you're composing your response. What you need and desire from a customer service center is going to depend on your own situation. If you're on a tight budget but still need anything to get the job done, by all means, give this a shot. You'll be glad you considered switching platforms if you're a rapidly expanding firm.
- From this centralized help desk, we are able to allocate tickets and communicate with staff and clients via email.
- The ability to phone a lead or customer directly from Freshdesk is fantastic.
- Handling of waiting lines.
- Freshdesk is not built for problem classification, hence it is challenging to sort tickets by the problem.
- Due to a lack of a robust category or views mechanism, problem assignment and management become tedious tasks on this platform.
- It took some time to get everything moved over during the setup process.
- Making phone calls using fictitious contact details.
- Have access to several virtual phone numbers from various countries.
- Conducting anonymous phone calls to foreign leaders.
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- Good call quality and the option to divert all calls to voicemail when offline were both welcome improvements over our previous setup.
- The system's user-friendly interface and intuitive controls make it a breeze to set up and manage features like IVR and call routing, as well as to track and analyze trends in customer service calls.
- By using the Freshdesk Contact Center, you can eliminate call wait times by routing incoming customer service calls to any available agent on your team over a single trunk line.
The tool may be set up and operating in a couple of hours, and its implementation is straightforward. When we join up for the service, all we have to do is buy a phone number and load some money into our account, and we can start using the tool right away. After that point, there should be no more problems with the agents taking calls.
January 06, 2022
Dropped Calls
We did not have a good experience with FreshCaller so we discontinued use of it within two days. For some reason, it did not work well with our phone system and was constantly disconnecting calls. It was very disruptive to our employees across the enterprise as well as the team who was manning the system.
- We were excited by the prospect and it just did not meet expectations
- We wanted the system to work as it was described and there were too many glitches
- Record ALL Calls for training and other purposes
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- Negative for us as we lost two days worth of work trying to get the system to work after it had been tested before going live
September 20, 2019
Not Recommended - Unless you have FreshDesk and a very small team
Freshcaller was previously used by my organization as part of an add-in feature to FreshDesk, a CRM developed by the parent company FreshWorks. It was primarily utilized by the Customer Support team to route incoming calls to support agents and to generate tickets into our ticket management system for tracking and resolving issues and requests. It was to bring integration of the phone channel into the ticketing system so agents would not have to be relied on to generate tickets for phone calls in a timely manner.
- Phone system integrates with FreshDesk easily
- VoIP service was fairly clear
- Setup and configuration of call features was fairly easy to figure out, and documentation was available for areas that were not easy to understand
- Cost - the system was felt to be way overpriced for the feature-set it provided. For the cost of 10 support agents, I could engage with a full-blown VoIP UCaaS provider to support 20-30 users.
- The system was dependent on the Amazon Web Services system, which was prone to outages, and as it was outsourced by Freshworks to Amazon, resolution time did not have clear SLAs.
- Non-US support - any issues encountered with the system would go through international channels which decreased resolution time depending on when the development team was available.
- Call reliability was questionable - sometimes agents would have ringing devices that would have no one on the other end - other times calls would be dropped without explanation.
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- Overpriced for what it offered - we paid nearly $600/month for 10 users. Could not drop them fast enough for this reason alone.
- Fuze and Jive Hosted VoIP
Both Fuze and Jive were vastly cheaper than what Freshcaller provided. The feature set was also much more involved than Freshcaller. For the same cost I was paying for 10 users for Freshcaller, I've been able to provide a full UCaaS with Fuze for about 25-30 users. Fuze has also offered to provide integrations with our ticketing system that is still cheaper than what we would be continuing to pay Freshcaller if we were still a subscriber.
August 28, 2019
Easy and affordable cloud-based solution
Freshcaller is used by our inside sales and account management team. We recently switched from a hard phone to a softphone and I wanted to use software that gave my analytics on call metrics. It's also helpful that we use FreshSales as our CRM so the integrations there were obviously very smooth.
- Call metrics.
- Multiple users.
- Custom voicemails.
- Integration into Freshsales.
- The UX and UI could use an upgrade.
- The process could be better when importing a hard line into the system.
- We could use more additional reporting features.
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- Hugely efficient in being able to track call data.
- Really affordable subscription with a very simple integration into FreshSales.
- Allows us to grow and scale our outbound and inbound teams.
Again, I wanted to go with a softphone that was easily able to be integrated with our CRM. I need my team to be nimble and fluid when making outbound calls and responding to inbound inquiries. FreshCaller was a really affordable, cloud-based solution that allowed me to not only track all of our call data but also seamlessly integrates with our CRM which happens to be FreshSales.