Freshdesk Customer Reviews 2025

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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2023

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023

9 Top Rated Capabilities

7 Top Rated Features

2023

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022

8 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2022

Freshdesk Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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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

95 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1
Since last award

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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.

+83 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

6% Neutral

86% Positive

Pros

Respectful
Enables Productivity
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Customer Self Service Capabilities

83

Agent Collaboration

83

Multi Channel Support

81

Agent Scripting

80

Customer Service Knowledge Management

80

Contact Center Integration

80

Customer Service Workflow Management

80

Customer Community Management

79

Analytics and Reporting

79

Intelligent Search

78

Mobile Customer Care

77

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Business Value Created

84

Ease of Implementation

84

Breadth of Features

84

Usability and Intuitiveness

82

Ease of IT Administration

82

Quality of Features

81

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Customization

80

Availability and Quality of Training

79

Vendor Support

78

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

76

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Freshdesk Reviews

Lars N.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Jun 2024

Excellent experience with Freshdesk.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

When it comes to tailoring the platform to our unique requirements, Freshdesk outperforms its competitors. Agents can offer customers the best solutions with less effort by using ticket templates. Facilitates smooth ticket tracking and saves time. Since Freshdesk is a cloud-based solution, there are no hardware deployment requirements to budget for.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Freshdesk is an amazing platform for customer service. It has allowed us to manage customer service requests quickly and efficiently. We have been able to easily customize the platform to meet our specific needs and it provides us with multi-channel support when we interact with customers through various channels such as chat, email, phone and other social media platforms.

What do you dislike most about this product?

We must check the spelling of our work accurately because it does not do it for us.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Freshdesk is an affordable and expandable customer support solution that is ideal for small and medium-sized companies or organizations. Its user-friendly interface makes it very simple to set up. Multi-channel support is provided when your company interacts with customers over a variety of channels, including chat, email, the phone, and more social media platforms.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Zulfan H.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2024

Great ticketing system with fraction of the cost

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

The features is very similar with other highly cost ticketing system, but it is giving it with a fraction of the cost

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The mobile applications and a transparent ITIL workflow in the ticket's flow

What do you dislike most about this product?

We have to pay another different scheme for asset management system, which virtually is side by side with incident management

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

After deep research, I believe this tool can compete with other tools that are there, but with a cheaper cost

Pros

Efficient Service
Respectful
Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product

Nicolas F.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Recreation
Involvement: IT Leader or Manager

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2024

Assigning tickets for professional support

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Freshdesk from other similar products?

FreshDesk interface is easy to use. Tickets priority can be set up right away.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The fact that it assigns a ticket number and remind the agent of any overdue/pending tickets.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Pricing can be more affordable.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

To anyone looking for a professional customer support CRM, FreshDesk is one of the best solutions.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Emotional Footprint Champion

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2022 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Freshdesk Ratings

86 Likeliness to Recommend

95 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

84 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+83 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Freshdesk?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Customer Self Service Capabilities Central product portals, customer-facing resolution wizards and guidance, customer community forums.

Agent Collaboration Supports live collaboration between agent and customers, among customers e.g. forums, and service professionals e.g. team-based customer service.

Multi Channel Support Integration with email, telephone, and live chat, and with self-service and social media.

Agent Scripting Recommend resolution steps to agents based on machine learning or AI.

Customer Service Knowledge Management Customer and/or agent-facing knowledgebase and search capabilities. Ability to create KBs, FAQs, wikis, and capture effectiveness ratings from customers.

Contact Center Integration Agent desktop, CTI integration. Call scripting, call queuing, prioritization by different support channels.

Customer Service Workflow Management Ticketing and case management capabilities. Automated assignment and escalation, decision trees, guided resolution wizards (ideally GUI drag-and-drop).

Customer Community Management Creation and management of branded and focussed user communities.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Intelligent Search Knowledgebase search with content indexing, and search of external content repositories. Proactive search and auto-suggestions. Natural language processing.

Mobile Customer Care Can create custom-branded service applications for customers on a mobile device (preferably native application rather than a responsive design site).

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

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Freshdesk Reviews

Lars N.

Excellent experience with Freshdesk.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Zulfan H.

Great ticketing system with fraction of the cost

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Nicolas F.

Assigning tickets for professional support

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Customer Self Service Capabilities

Agent Collaboration

Multi Channel Support

Agent Scripting

Customer Service Knowledge Management

Contact Center Integration

Customer Service Workflow Management

Customer Community Management

Analytics and Reporting

Intelligent Search

Mobile Customer Care

Vendor Capability Ratings

Business Value Created

Ease of Implementation

Breadth of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Customization

Availability and Quality of Training

Vendor Support

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement