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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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Recent Reviews

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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Awards

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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

YouTube

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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Comparisons

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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using it only for customer service support. However, we do not use the CRM (Customer Relations Management) portion. This means we use it for phone, email and chat and it assists us in multiple countries. It is our main line for customer support.
Natalia Shlykova | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Service Cloud as a database of our students in an online school. We also use it to record each contact with them. It is comfortable to keep and share all information and updates with other departments of our company from all over the world because it used by people from managers to student advisers.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is used across all departments within the technology business of our organization. It is used as a ticketing system to assign support tasks to the right groups and individuals. Time spent is tracked and reported on. Support specialists can manage and prioritize their queue and keep track of support cases that can be open for lengthy periods of time.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At present, Salesforce is used by virtually all teams within our company. To begin with, we originally rolled this out within our client-facing teams as a general CRM, however over the last two years, our usage has expanded to most departments within the company. This has allowed better inter-departmental communication and cohesion.
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.
April 23, 2021

Best CRM Ever

Suresh K.S Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
CRM has never been easy before. I see the era as before and after Salesforce. Especially with cloud, one certainly doesn't need to worry about hosting your data in a safer place. It is taken care by [Salesforce Service Cloud]. The problem it definitely fixed is integration with other contact center platforms. Ease of using APIs. The code behind can effortlessly bring the data for further manipulation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are currently using Salesforce Service Cloud only in our service center. They handle calls and emails that come into our corporation. The users are able to easily navigate to the case records, contact records and activities that the interaction entails all while keeping all these records open on the same screen.
April 21, 2021

Powerful CRM tool

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Service Cloud for our Information and Referral services. It allows our I&R specialists to serve our customers via phone, live-chat, text messaging, email, and facebook messenger. In the service cloud, we can create a case for each caller, add referrals we make, and add follow up reminders as needed.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is used by several of our departments internally for managing customer service and inside sales. We use this platform to manage support requests and inquiries for our Buyers and Suppliers, track activities, manage knowledge, and automate business processes through Cases.
Hans Hong | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce throughout the business as a CRM, sales lead funnel management. The users who use service cloud manage customer support, cases, and use it for knowledge management. It also integrates with our ERP (Oracle) and our phone system (inContact) for intelligent routing and screen pops.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is currently being implemented for the entire organization, it will primarily be used for the service team. It addresses any cases from customer complaints, any calibrations or overdue PMs needed for equipment and devices.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Support team recently made the switch the Salesforce Service Cloud. We manage Support cases out of the system that can be submitted by our customers through a case form on our Knowledge Base, email, live chat or can be created after receiving an inbound call. Prior to using Service Cloud, we had a lack of insightful Support reporting and little visibility for other departments to know which clients were reaching out the most and what topics they were reaching out about. Since most departments were already using Salesforce, it made sense to choose Service Cloud.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We chose to use Service Cloud after Desk.com was purchased by Salesforce and subsequently shuttered. Part of the Desk.com cessation was a push to move customers to Service Cloud. After much internal discussion, we decided it would be nice to have our entire help system within our main business portal.

It was our intention to offer customers a place to look up information and submit cases, possibly even communicate with each other in a forum.
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.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is being used by multiple departments within my company. Especially in the Customer Experience department, it is utilized daily. It addresses the business problem of how to streamline the customer experience by allowing all information to be stored in one place, and utilizing the connection from other departments who also use Service Cloud.
Jonathan Tanis | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Service Cloud for incoming client support. Every employee in our company has a license to either Service Cloud, Sales Cloud or both. Primarily, clients email a shared email address and this creates cases that we assign and track to make sure our responses are quick. We're a small team, so the focus is really on speed of replies and organizing open cases. Secondarily, we use it to keep client data relevant and updated. We've also intended to use Knowledge Base and Community to engage clients and produce more articles and how-to's, but the users find this overly complicated and tend to not use this as often as I wish we did.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is used by a certain department in the organization. It helps let our clients know the phase of their project. They can visibly see and track their reports. When a problem arises, we are able to quickly address it before it goes on to the next phase.
Gavin Bratty | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce as another database to keep track of our clients' progression along with all their contact details. Keeping track of all the modules and access they have purchased within our system makes our lives a whole lot simpler. The dashboard on the front page also gives our team a first great glance to see how sales are progressing for the month.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Salesforce Service Cloud, primarily for our sales department. We use it to maintain our sales leads and create pipelines to onboard new clients. It is also used to store the account information of our clients and to make updates to their accounts.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
In my function specifically, I use Salesforce as an educational tool through Trailhead by Salesforce, where I learn about it in order to become a more effective marketer and subject matter expert in the technological sector. In my company, we work with companies to implement Salesforce Service Cloud to help them advance their business processes and meet their goals more effectively. It is customized and tailored to meet their needs.
Rajat Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Salesforce Service Cloud is being used to automate service processes, streamline workflows and find key articles, topics, and experts to support the call center agent. In our organization, we are advising companies to implement Salesforce Service Cloud along with solving their complex business processes. It is being used by one of our teams, specifically catering to Salesforce. It caters mostly to retail banks across many geographical locations.
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