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Freshworks

Freshdesk

Composite Score
8.5 /10
CX Score
8.6 /10
Category
Freshdesk
8.5 /10

What is Freshdesk?

Freshworks' cloud-based customer support software, Freshdesk, makes customer happiness refreshingly easy. With powerful features, an easy to use interface, and a freemium pricing model, Freshdesk enables companies of all sizes to provide a seamless multi-channel support experience across email, phone, web, chat, forums, social media, and mobile apps. Freshdesk’s capabilities include robust ticketing, SLA management, smart automations, intelligent reporting, and game mechanics to motivate agents.

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Awards & Recognition

Freshdesk won the following awards in the Customer Service - Enterprise category

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Freshdesk Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
Download the entire Product Scorecard to access more information on Freshdesk.

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

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94 Plan to Renew

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84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+82 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Freshdesk?

8% Negative
7% Neutral
85% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Customer Self Service Capabilities

83

Agent Collaboration

83

Multi Channel Support

81

Customer Service Knowledge Management

80

Agent Scripting

80

Contact Center Integration

80

Customer Community Management

80

Customer Service Workflow Management

79

Analytics and Reporting

78

Intelligent Search

77

Mobile Customer Care

76

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 80

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Breadth of Features

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

83

Ease of IT Administration

82

Quality of Features

81

Ease of Data Integration

79

Ease of Customization

79

Availability and Quality of Training

78

Vendor Support

77

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

76

Freshdesk Reviews

Jeng T.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Reliable and effective!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

Easy to use, reliable and boosts effectivity!

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

That I get to work on tasks with my colleges easily.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Slow feeding through of signatures.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Just make the system faster but overall, what a great product!

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features
  • Efficient Service

Rajkishore M.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Shipping
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2021

Customer Support Team Of Your Company

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

For it's easy onboarding process and cost is lower and justified than other similar products. Simple user interface. Free for multiple users in same account. Best for small and medium users for minimum cost. It archives conversations easily. Target mail success rate is high. Quality support team for instant resolution. Easy to integrate with another software. Creating tickets, auto response to mails, answers of mostly asked questions helps to save time. Collects user data safely and helps to use for email marketing.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With this software it has become easy to solve customer issues instantly and segregate them according to department. You can add your teams and forward tickets to relevant team. Easy to filter tickets by opened, closed and in progress which will save your time. Customers can attach files to elaborate issues easily and we can also reply to them in same way. In free trial you will get to know all the features easily and no extra training required to use this.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have not faced any issues during my usage. But sometimes customers has failed to create tickets with valid credentials as freshdesk support team don't notify regarding maintenance timely.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I will recommend this software as you can trail this software for free for some days before implementing to your company or business. You will get lots of features with premium plans. You can hire agents to reply on behalf of your team at a minimal price.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Ajaykumaar T.

  • Role: Public Sector
  • Industry: Engineering
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2021

Best support tool available in Market

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

The fact that freshdesk turns customers emails, sms and calls into tickets makes it easier for managers or take records on agents performance. Freshdesk is easy to man and understand, it's not a complicated site. One can also escalate issues on Freshdesk and you can set SLA

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The best thing about Desktop is its amazing features to organize the work. It helps me to categorize the tickets based on urgent tasks, by which it helps us to deal easily with the most important customers. Now I have got rid of complexities as it has provided us a direction of working and helped in better collaboration of team members, each individual has the idea about who is dealing with which particular customers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I have been using Freshdesk for long time but I have not faced any issue. It is going in excellenet ways. It is fully developed platform without any drawback. As compare to other help desk tools it consist of advanced kind of features and functions.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are trying to expand your business to online stores then this is what you exactly need. However I will recommend this tool to the all organizations, because it is a beneficial tool for providing best support and become a better customer centric organization

Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable