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Pylon

Score8 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is Pylon?

Pylon is a support platform built for B2B. Presented as an alternative to Zendesk, Pylon can be used to track customer issues across any channel, automate with AI, and design a support engine.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 7.9

  • Ticket creation and submission

    Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.

    Category average: 9

  • Ticket response

    Agents can easily follow up with customers.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Help Desk CRM integration

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

    Category average: 8.5

  • Organize and prioritize service tickets

    Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first

    Category average: 8.7

  • Expert directory

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

    Category average: 7.6

All around great product

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Pylon as our sole and primary form of customer support. We use it for Slack, email, portal and looking to add into customer Teams channels. It is used by our small support team of 5 and helps us scale to users in all different channels, on multiple product offerings. We are able to use AI, customizations, and smart features to make our small team productive and able to handle more than previous. Pylon's large feature set allows us to continuously track, manage, and grow our accounts in addition to managing questions, issues, and feature requests.

Pros

  • Agent view customizations
  • Account mangagement tools
  • Feature / Tool feedback

Cons

  • AI intentionality
  • Linear integration

Return on Investment

  • Team productivity
  • Easier cross-functional collaboration
  • better insights into customer issue tracking

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Other Software Used

Linear App, PagerDuty