Rough at first but ultimately satisfied
January 25, 2023

Rough at first but ultimately satisfied

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Forest

Overall Satisfaction with Freshdesk

Freshdesk is used by our support agents to track software bugs and feature requests across our 4 major product offerings. Our Clients also use the support portal to track their own tickets.
  • Ticket tracking
  • Email integration
  • Execute Scenarios
  • customized onboarding
  • Interaction at the ticket view level
  • simple one step ticket view export for all time
  • better app integration (Had trouble with zappier and Teams, attachment manager, Calendly)
  • SLA is useless to us because we also track tickets like feature requests that mess with our metrics and now there's no way to clear the bad metrics.
  • customized information (ex: Company name) in the ticket previews (Merge, linked)
  • Include ticket summary in the phone app - without it the app is useless for some of our agents
  • need a phone log check box/option in tickets that constitutes a client response thereby clearing the "First Response Due" demarcation. This issue render those demarcations useless to us because we spend a lot of time on phone calls with our clients - everything is not email driven.
  • Faster resolution
  • Added value for clients
In my experience, we had a pretty rough start with Freshdesk. No continuity with our representatives, being promised features (in Freshsales) that never came to fruition until 2 years later, it was as if nobody was listening and I was very concerned that some of my requests were so foreign. We're just a small company and there's no way we were the only company that wanted certain features. Our implementation should have been more hands-on with someone(a single individual who had studied the hours and hours on sales calls I'd had in testing out the system) who really listened to our use case and was prepared to guide us accordingly instead of trying to provide the rote onboarding delivery.
We don't use it - we take a personalized approach with our clients always.
We purchased both Freshsales and Fresh desk at the same time. The Freshworks products gave the best solution at the time because I believed I'd receive one-on-one support and guidance as well as get all of the features we required between the two products as well as full integration.

Do you think Freshdesk delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Freshdesk's feature set?

Yes

Did Freshdesk live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of Freshdesk go as expected?

No

Would you buy Freshdesk again?

Yes

Good for our small team and keeps us all on the same page. In my experience, clients have an issue with our software and they email us, we're immediately notified and begin executing scenarios depending on the issue. In my opinion, Freshdesk is not great for documenting phone calls where an issue needs to be documented or those emails when multiple issues are sent. Also, it can be troublesome when someone in a thread replies to an email and it creates a new ticket - so involving multiple people is sometimes a concern in Freshdesk.

Freshdesk Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
8
Expert directory
Not Rated
Ticket creation and submission
9
Ticket response
9
External knowledge base
Not Rated
Internal knowledge base
Not Rated
Customer portal
7
IVR
Not Rated
Social integration
Not Rated
Email support
9
Help Desk CRM integration
8

Using Freshdesk

Overall it is intuitive and works great
ProsCons
Like to use
Relatively simple
Easy to use
Technical support not required
Well integrated
Consistent
Quick to learn
Convenient
Feel confident using
Familiar
None
  • Execute Scenarios
  • Analytics
  • Integration with apps
Yes - works well, except it is missing the ticket summary which is vital for our company.