Freshdesk is critical to supporting our users professionally
January 27, 2026

Freshdesk is critical to supporting our users professionally

Todd Enneking | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Forest

Overall Satisfaction with Freshdesk

Presearch is a privacy focused search engine (no tracking of user activity or collecting of user data - much different than Google, etc.). We allow users to earn rewards for searching. We have a decentralized infrastructure with community members providing computers to do the searches. These people are also rewarded. We use Freshdesk for handling user support. We receive support requests related to the quality of the search results, issues with ads on the search engine, the user interface, rewards for users, rewards for the decentralized community computers, the search user account pages and the community members account pages. Freshdesk is invaluable for tracking all of the different types of requests, providing initial responses, prioritizing requests, managing our responses and providing statistics for our users and for management.

Pros

  • Tracks all support requests
  • Manages the entire interaction process between support personnel and the users
  • Provides history of all interactions

Cons

  • Hard for new support personnel to learn the nuances of the system
  • Better ability to link related support requests together for analysis of trends
  • Tools to track fraudulent users (spammer, hijackers, etc.)
  • Reduced the number of support personnel required
  • Allows requests not to be lost (reducing upset users)
  • Helps new support personnel understand common issues
Was a fairly quick implementation for us. However, we are only doing email integration and not some of the more complex integrations that are possible. One clarification on an earlier question. I selected that Freshdesk doesn't have a given feature, but this is not true. I selected this because there wasn't a selection for I don't use the feature. This is a weakness in the survey.
Freshdesk has definitely helped customer satisfaction and retention since we are much more responsive and more accurate in those responses than in the past since the details of an issue are well organized. We have not yet utilized any of the AI features of the platform, though this is something we are looking at for the future. There is a little pushback from some on the team, but we will work through this.
Far more straightforward than Salesforce which has too many features and modules and is very hard to navigate, making it too complicated for our organization. Similarly for Zoho, but not nearly as bad as Salesforce. Zendesk, for us, is quite similar to Freshdesk. The key reason we selected Freshdesk was the price point at the time. I am not sure how they stack up today on price and features.

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?

Yes

Did implementation of Freshdesk go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Freshdesk again?

Yes

Overall, it does a great job of handling support, which is our user case. It is best for narrowly focused issues and issues that are resolved in a few interactions. When issues are broad and have several paths of issues and/or corrections it is not easy to segment off the work and responses necessary. This makes it hard to have several support personnel work on an issue that is more diverse and requires multiple skill sets.

Freshdesk Feature Ratings

Organize and prioritize service tickets
7
Expert directory
5
Subscription-based notifications
5
ITSM collaboration and documentation
7
Ticket creation and submission
9
Ticket response
8
External knowledge base
6
Internal knowledge base
6
Customer portal
6
Email support
8

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