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Salesforce Service Cloud

Overview

What is Salesforce Service Cloud?

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.

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Salesforce Service Cloud overview

9 out of 10
May 08, 2023
Using Salesforce service cloud internally to create support tickets. It offers a complete 360 degree ticket management system with ticket …
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Service in Salesforce

10 out of 10
June 24, 2022
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Service Cloud for about 110 of our users in 3 departments. We currently utilize this product for our service channels …
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Popular Features

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  • Email support (67)
    9.3
    93%
  • Ticket creation and submission (66)
    9.2
    92%
  • Organize and prioritize service tickets (66)
    8.8
    88%
  • Ticket response (65)
    8.8
    88%

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Pricing

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Starter Suite

$25

Cloud
per month

Professional

$80

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

$165

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $25 per month
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Product Demos

Salesforce Service Cloud Tutorial | Service Cloud In Salesforce | Salesforce Training | Simplilearn

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Salesforce Service Cloud Voice Demo | Salesforce

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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.8
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

9
Avg 7.7

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

8.9
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Salesforce Service Cloud?

Salesforce Service Cloud provides companies with a call center-like view that enables them to create and track cases coming in, and automatically route and escalate what’s important. The Salesforce CRM-powered customer portal provides customers the ability to track their own cases, includes a social networking plug-in that enables the user to join the conversation about their company on social networking websites, provides analytical tools and other services including email, chat, Google search, and access to customers' entitlement and contracts.

Salesforce Service Cloud Features

Incident and problem management Features

  • Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
  • Supported: Expert directory
  • Supported: Subscription-based notifications
  • Supported: ITSM collaboration and documentation
  • Supported: Ticket creation and submission
  • Supported: Ticket response
  • Supported: Automated responses
  • Supported: Attachments/Screencasts
  • Supported: SLA management

Self Help Community Features

  • Supported: Forums
  • Supported: External knowledge base
  • Supported: Internal knowledge base
  • Supported: Q and A
  • Supported: Surveys/polls

Multi-Channel Help Features

  • Supported: Customer portal
  • Supported: Live help chat
  • Supported: Phone support
  • Supported: IVR
  • Supported: Call scripting
  • Supported: Social integration
  • Supported: Email support
  • Supported: Help Desk CRM integration

Additional Features

  • Supported: Lighting Console
  • Supported: Knowledge Base
  • Supported: Live Agent
  • Supported: Social Customer Service
  • Supported: In-App Support
  • Supported: Service Wave Analytics
  • Supported: Mobile Support
  • Supported: Customer Communities

Salesforce Service Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Workflows and OrchestrationScreenshot of Service CatalogScreenshot of Contact Center

Salesforce Service Cloud Video

Salesforce Service Cloud in 100 Seconds

Salesforce Service Cloud Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesCanada, United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, India, China, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Salesforce Service Cloud starts at $25.

Verint Messaging, Freshdesk, and Helpdesk Pilot are common alternatives for Salesforce Service Cloud.

Reviewers rate Email support highest, with a score of 9.3.

The most common users of Salesforce Service Cloud are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is being used in conjunction with Salesforce Community to deliver the management and verification processes of a known user group for one of our central government clients. We have integrated Salesforce with other third party systems with ease and developed a robust end to end process workflow for our clients verification process. All contact history is captured against each account as well as processing case notes and automatically generated, outbound are emails. Self service for our client is delivered using the standard authentication features of Salesforce Community which then links directly to Salesforce Service Cloud and any changes to our clients data is instantly captured and processed accordingly.
  • Super fast set-up of the service from design through to production.
  • Robust method of release management from sandbox, to test, to production.
  • User access controls can be fine grain, which is great for GDPR requirements, limiting access to only necessary data.
  • Simple api integrations with other third party systems
  • Broad range of features and functionality
  • Einstein search features provides faster information mining for our agents as they help to resolve customer requests.
  • You need to fully understand the data model to make implementation simpler.
  • Reporting can be challenging if you are after status at historical points in time.
  • Some features can be cost prohibited
Salesforce Service Cloud is excellent as a CRM, a case management system, multi-channel contact centre support application, service and ticketing application as well as helping automate back office processes.
If you want to extend Service Cloud into Sales, Self-Service or Digital Marketing, you need to purchase additional services which can be relatively high cost.
April 29, 2021

Useful but complex

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am using Salesforce Service Cloud during QA. It is being used by a single department. It traces and rates the quality of your job. It is basically a CRM, advanced technology for managing the company relationship and interactions: this means that it improves business relationship[s] in order to grow your business (and your skills).
  • It helps you focus on your organization’s relationships with individual people — in my case colleagues
  • It provides support and additional services throughout the [colleague's] relationship.
  • It improves communication and support
  • Not so easy to manage
  • [The] interface seems a little bit complex (unnecessarily)
I think the idea behind a CRM is amazing. In this case, we have a product that can be a little bit [tough] to manage and the learning curve seems [never-ending]. Salesforce Service Cloud is useful because it lets you establish and set up connections in [real-time], especially in [a] big company. It traces everything (I am using this product during QA). I do like the [real-time] notification and the white interface. But it takes too long to make anything happen on Salesforce Service Cloud: [sometimes] it adds complexity to your job process.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce [Service Cloud] is great for managing customer interactions ranging in issues from customer service to complex needs. The fields are very customizable that you can tailor to your specific business needs. A nice feature is that you can access the service cloud directly from your email inbox. This also creates a log so that all communication with customers can be kept as a record. This can be used by others within the company to review any correspondence prior to engaging with the customer.
  • Very integrated service cloud community which enables users to help eachother
  • There is a mobile application that allows you to manage customers from any device
  • Live agents are available to chat is you need support
  • Licenses can be expensive
  • Steep learning curve that requires training to understand all the features
  • Data entry can be time consuming due to all the feature sets
[Salesforce Service Cloud is] great at capturing detailed customer information. The information layout is easy to navigate and you don't have to move through a lot of different screens or places within the software to get a thorough understanding of the customer. Where it is less appropriate- I don't know of a way to check if someone else is viewing or working on a customer case at the same time. There may be an issue where two people are working on a case simultaneously and not even know it.
Kurt Johansen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently being used organization wide. It addresses a uniformed CRM to be used across our Sales and Service departments as well as Warehouse and Administration. It solves a lot of cross-department functionality concerns with multiple programs per department running. This brings everything under 1 roof.
  • Customization for business-based needs.
  • Self-Help/Learning portals are a huge resource.
  • Sell based on possibilities. The promise of POTENTIAL greatness.
  • They do not disclose the extreme costs to a business.
  • 'Out of the Box' functionality is never showcased by SF or any vendor.
  • Very poor support.
If 0 was an option, it would be selected. The exponential cost to get Salesforce instance, in ANY capacity or product, to function as you as a customer were showcased, expected or desired is always hidden from you until after you sign a contract. 3rd Party partners are your reliance for all work and are not accountable for the work they do or DON'T do, contract or otherwise. SF does not hold its contracted partners accountable for their failings.
Oscar Huang | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our whole organization has adopted Salesforce for managing our sponsored nonprofits and field consultants. In a nutshell, SF is a fantastic CRM that is lightweight on our organization that doesn't have much IT bandwidth to dedicate to issues and support. The SF community is wonderful and our organization as a whole is more connected to the customer and the realities of the nonprofit world.
  • Support & Community
  • Feature rich compared to on-premise CRM solutions
  • Accessible Anywhere
  • Interface can be overwhelming at times
  • Some features aren't there, end up using other features to compensate (using features outside of their original design)
  • Learning curve
Salesforce gives your organization more bandwidth. We hated wroking through citrix in remote situations so having a hosted CRm Solution has been a tremendous help.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The application is used by most departments primarily as a CRM tool by Sales and Marketing. The case management module is used by Services and Support within the company. Although a very robust and highly customisable tool, Salesforce Service Cloud I think it is quite limited as we use the Professional edition.
  • Very customisable. Since this is primarily a Sales application it can adapt to any organisation's process and if you are new to using Salesforce it can give you many out of the box tools that can be used.
  • Case management is quite different to how it normally is presented on most of the market leaders but I think the approach to use the case management module in tandem with Accounts and contacts enables the CRM side of things to kick in. So the company and Account managers can have a holistic view of what issues are going on with their Accounts.
  • If implemented correctly, the system admin can have a lot of control over how to set processes and ensuring data quality is managed right from the start. It helps to have the User interface as drag and drop and move things around if not done properly the first time.
  • Professional edition has reports and dashboards that are very limited to the various cuts of data that need to sometimes talk to each other.
  • Auto-refresh every time you need real time data is a pain. It never refreshes with the browser and depending on the number of widgets you have for a dashboard it can take a minute or two to get the latest info which if you are in a meeting can be slightly frustrating to wait
  • Limitation as Support management is limited to only case management. It would be useful to have defect and release management capabilities to ensure companies that need to follow their SDLC can work with this
With the professional edition of Salesforce Service Cloud - managing data quality entry is restricted to only using validation rules and mandating some fields. Workflows are not an option. If the Products and Pricebooks are used in Salesforce Opportunities it can be useful for managing the various products companies sell.
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