A Journey of Thousand Miles starts with a Single Step - It was done with Freshdesk
September 30, 2024

A Journey of Thousand Miles starts with a Single Step - It was done with Freshdesk

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

Software Version

Garden

Overall Satisfaction with Freshdesk

Freshdesk is used to provide a seamless experience for customers to reach the support department on the products and services that we offer. The sophisticated user interface enables the Agents / support engineers to access the customer reported problems and respond to them from one single interface. The automation helps in triaging the tickets saving the effort by the L0 team and the scenario-based automation helps the agents to focus more on addressing the customer problems rather updating the ticket properties to move in its lifecycle. The unlimited reports give enough freedom for the support manager to define metrics and measurements and to customize them, and have them delivered to their Inbox directly even without login to the tool. The dashboard features help the service delivery managers to project the team's performance, quality of service delivery in their governance meetings with stakeholders. Integrations with other systems (Telephony, Chat) etc., comes handy to centralize the operations. The Chatbot and AI tools have immense potential to help the support organizations to a greater extent. The tool offers APIs for customization or integrations can effectively be used.

Pros

  • Reports & Dashboard are easy to configure, used for stunning presentations.
  • Automations & Scenario based automations increases productivity.
  • Self-intuitive UI helps in easier adoption of the tool by the support agents.

Cons

  • Data Security.
  • SLA Policies where it is not customer / contract driven but agents / groups driven.
  • Audit Trail is not available in Pro version makes the tool adoption difficult from compliance perspective.
  • Chat Bot and Fresh Chat Services has greater potential to explode, but the pricing model tagged to chat bot sessions .are illogical as it limits the ability to use the fresh chat feature
  • Agent Logon Screen use earlier version of Captcha as it is annoying for the agents to login. Very frustrating experience.
  • Process Alignment
  • No single communication is missed
  • Increased productivity
  • Enhanced Reporting
Their implementation partner Kambaa has done an excellent job. The whole 6 points go to them. The pre-sales and onboarding team needs to improve from the perspective of understanding the business requirement and provide solutions rather than focusing on finishing up a deal based on the budget allocated and must not make promises that they can't stand by. For example, they should come up with a proof of concept where a critical requirement can't be offered as OOO but if it is possible with customization.
No. Infact it was a disappointing experience. On one hand there is a heavy cost associated with using the bot, on other hand, the functionality of the bot couldn't be greatly appreciated as it does a basic job a submitting a ticket, which otherwise customers can do it themselves. The number of use cases and OOO features of AI can be explained more to bring awareness by addressing the pain points of the customer.
  • Freshdesk
Good platform for organizing the tickets from different sources and making sure no single communication is missed in the cracks. Automations bring productivity. Customization is not easy unless you learn the SDKs/ APIs. but has a great deal to offer. Integrations with other systems are good. Reports and Dashboards are easy to configure and use.

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

Customization, tons of features, reports and quick implementation for someone who is starting fresh.

Freshdesk Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
4
Ticket creation and submission
10
Ticket response
7
External knowledge base
2
Internal knowledge base
1
Customer portal
7
Social integration
Not Rated
Email support
8
Help Desk CRM integration
Not Rated

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