Freshdesk Reviews

Pros

Easy to set up and customize to fit our organization's needsPowerful automation capabilities for streamlining support workflowsComprehensive reporting and analytics features for tracking support metrics

Cons

Limited flexibility for creating custom reportsSome features are only available in higher-priced plans

Alternatives Considered

HappyFox Chatbot and Help Scout

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

We switched to Freshdesk from Zoho Desk for its more intuitive interface, better automation capabilities, and wider range of integrations. Freshdesk allowed us to save time and provide better service to our customers, and its integrations helped streamline our operations. Overall, Freshdesk has been a more comprehensive and flexible help desk solution for our organization.

Switched From

Zendesk Suite

Pros

Freshdesk has a wide range of essential services, including live chat, email, phone, and social media support channels. The software is cloud-based and easy to use, with clever automation capabilities that guarantee things are done easily and quickly, resulting in more efficient corporate operations and a better customer experience.

Cons

Upgrades to Freshdesk's reporting feature are, in my opinion, overly pricey for individual agents and users. There is a good thing about Freshdesk's free trial plan since it allows us to test out their vast variety of services before making a decision on whether or not to upgrade our business.

Pros

I have viewed the product as a valuable tool for overseeing client interactions and support tickets. Freshdesk's multi-channel support capabilities are one of its key features that I like. We can manage customer inquiries and support tickets across email, phone, social media, chat, and other channels from a single platform with Freshdesk.This feature has been especially helpful in ensuring that we can provide our customers with a streamlined support experience regardless of how they contact us. Additionally, it enables us to track and manage all customer interactions in a single location, facilitating time savings and streamlining our support procedures.We have been able to cut down on the amount of time and effort required to manage support tickets thanks to the software's array of automation features, such as canned responses, rule-based workflows, and intelligent suggestions. We are able to quickly respond to inquiries from customers, assign tickets to the appropriate agent, and even automate tasks that are done over and over again.Generally, I have viewed Freshdesk as a simple to-utilize and natural programming that has assisted us with further developing our client care activities.

Cons

The complexity of the reporting and analytics features is one thing I find difficult. I have found the process of creating and customizing reports to be somewhat cumbersome and unintuitive. Finding a way to extract the data you need can take some time, and even then, the reports can be hard to understand and use.The options for customization are another thing that I find somewhat frustrating. Although Freshdesk provides a variety of features and integrations, we are limited in our ability to customize the software to meet our specific requirements. For instance, we might want to have the option to tweak a portion of the interface and workflow to be more readily line up with our process.Lastly, although Freshdesk does provide a free plan for small teams, the more expensive plans can be pricey. We have had to carefully consider the costs when selecting a plan.In spite of these difficulties, freshdesk is, in my opinion, a useful instrument for operating customer support operations.

Pros

The ticket management and SLA tracking have helped us a lot with staying on top of issues. Further, our clients can view all their tickets and where we are with their request, which helps manage client expectations.

Cons

Their support does not always communicate crucial changes to the behaviour of the software, which can lead to disruption in the service that you provide to your clients.

Further to that, the integration between Freshdesk and Freschat is good, but your customer's experience will be quite bad as you end up having two widgets for the same thing.

Alternatives Considered

Salesforce Service Cloud, Help Scout, HubSpot CRM and Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

We switched as Intercom did not offer SLA tracking and merging of messages, resulting in losing track of important client issues.

Switched From

Intercom

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

* It offered better SLA tracking than the alternatives. * The setup was much easier than Salesforce. * Their client management was better than what Help Scout could offer at the time. * The Sales team/CSM team was much better than Zendesk during our first interactions.

Pros

Freshdesk has been a lifesaver for our customer service team. It has allowed us to keep track of customer queries and respond to them quickly and efficiently. The user interface is intuitive and easy to use, so our team can quickly get up and running. Also, the customer support team has been extremely helpful and responsive when we have had any questions or concerns.

Cons

Freshdesk can be a bit pricey for small businesses, and the mobile app is not always as reliable as the desktop version. Additionally, the reporting and analytics capabilities are limited compared to some of their competitors.

Pros

The ability to run reports detailing the time it takes to resolve tickets, the number of times the first call is resolved, the rate at which tickets are closed, the degree to which SLA targets are being met, etc., is a big plus. This would serve to showcase to my superiors the amount of accountability that was being assumed. Then, we could have evidence that it was quantifiable to contribute improvements. Incorporating gamification elements into the agents' routine was one of the most important features that drove Freshdesk's success for us. It forged a friendly competition among principals to exhibit good performance and take pride in their overall ratings.

Cons

I wish there were more "walkthroughs" or gamification apps that could be used on techs that are ready. Integrated goals are beneficial, however, Freshdesk only has 4 of them. The cost is high for the "Estate" category at some companies. I have had difficulty with senior managers due to the high investment and they suggested we use a program with a one-time purchase option rather than a service or subscription. Occasionally, a customer responds that they will create a new claim. This could be due to Microsoft Exchange settings or it could be about the way the user responds. I wish Freshdesk could look at the ticket number in the subject line of the email and link it to the correct ticket.

Pros

Freshdesk has been an excellent helpdesk solution for our business. The features it offers are highly impactful, especially the intuitive ticketing system and the automation capabilities. It has made our customer support process efficient and streamlined.

Cons

While Freshdesk is a great software overall, there are a few areas that could be improved. We found that some advanced reporting options were missing, which limited our ability to gain deeper insights into our support operations. Additionally, the initial setup process required some assistance to integrate with our existing business processes.

Pros

Freshdesk's call center management features allow businesses to manage customer calls more efficiently and effectively with features like call routing, IVR, and call recording, businesses can ensure that customers are connected with the right agent and receive high-quality support. Freshdesk is a user-friendly platform. Its intuitive interface and well-designed features make it easy for businesses to get started and manage their customer support operations effectively

Cons

I have issues with certain integrations, such as difficulty with data syncing or limited functionality. It can be challenging to get the specific data you need.

Pros

Ease of access with the client at any time and any place and solving problems as quickly and as reliable as possible

Cons

It needs to add features, for example, distributing problems to the majority of workers so that everyone can work at any time and in less time

Pros

I have been using Freshdesk for several months now, and I can confidently say that it is one of the best customer service software I have ever used. Its user-friendly interface and efficient features have made my job much easier and faster.

Cons

there are a few areas where Freshdesk could improve. For instance, the reporting feature could be more detailed and customizable. Additionally, the mobile app can be a bit slow at times, and it would be great if it could be more responsive.

Pros

Ease of use. Reasonable price. Otherwise, I like the way tickets can be prioritized with SLAs, status, etc. Canned responses and automations are great too.

Cons

The automations, despite being very nice, are somewhat limited in terms of what they can do. Sometimes I'd like to go a little further than what they can offer. It's often just little details, but it could make a big difference.

Here are a few basic examples:

1) IF field is empty, THEN send a notification to the user with a message saying that it has to be updated. This is not possible since we can't have an automation triggered by a field being left blank.

2) Only the custom fields with drop down lists can be used as triggers for automations.

Also, I'd like to be able to have the SLA based on the expected first response rather than the expected resolution.

Overall though, it makes my job a lot easier.

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

TP is really good for development projects, but it makes absolutely no sense when it comes to giving decent customer support. No SLAs, no prioritization, no notifications, no automations.

Switched From

Targetprocess

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

The price mostly. While Zendesk had cheaper plans, the Freshdesk plans had more features for the same price. Zendesk overall had a few more features, but we would have never used most of them anyway and Freshdesk seemed easier to configure and customize and it looked better in my opinion. The ticketing systeme is just great. Everyone asked was talking about Zendesk, yet I found it somewhat underwhelming.

Pros

I like the fact that it has a dedicated APP for mobile use, that I can use Email to respond to tickets, great search functionality as well

Cons

Interface could use an update to be more compact and show more information in a single screen. right now a ticket takes up pretty much every part of the display. Also, IOS app is slow on startup and refreshing

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

Many Many more features, great consolidation of my client base.

Switched From

Spiceworks

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

More features and better pricing than Zendesk.

Pros

Easy of access to manage tickets and knowledge bases.

We use SSO so no one users have to worry about accounts. They can go through our SSO to elevate tickets and track the status of their tickets.

As an admin it's easy to manage the entire account.

Cons

There is nothing to not like about this software. Everyone has been pleased about it. Though we did have to use the automation to assign the agent when closing a ticket from the dashboard.

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

It was not the right fit for our company and they did not provide the solutions we were wanting at the time.

Switched From

SysAid

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

We already have a portal in place and did not want to confuse our end users. Zendesk only allows you to have 3 layers in the KB and we did not want to have a long wall of categories.

Pros

- Creating, monitoring and finding specific information: EXCELLENT
- User interface is very fresh, intuitive and user friendly
- Keeping track of files was an added feature I didn't expect and was very useful the bigger the tickets became.
- Splitting and Merging tickets is a must for any helpdesk. This software is very intuitive on this feature.
- Mobile App is so easy to use across IOS and Android.
- Reporting Functions are excellent - really think the custom dashboard is a REAL PRO when considering a Helpdesk Software Solution.
- Setup: If your not a tech person, Freshdesk live support is excellent. They have helped me same day on each occasion. Very reliable and efficient, but most of all understand your requirements.

Cons

Integrations are getting better with other software platforms but there are no real cons to be mindful of whatsoever with Freshdesk.

I would like to see a better integration with Xero Financial Software.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho CRM and Zendesk Suite

Switched From

Mojo Helpdesk

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

Easier setup Better Reporting Better Email Notification Setup Better Integration Advanced Searching Feature across tickets and tags

Pros

Incredibly easy to get going with the software. Your in house IT team can set this up themselves and you dont need to spend a fortune getting a consultancy firm to do it for you.

The interface is also very intuitive and even without any training your staff should be able to do the basics.

We looked at other solutions that were more of an all in one kinda package that also included financial, stock/warehousing etc but found that these were overly complex and as a result made us work less efficient and the helpdesk staff also did not want to use it because it was just too bloated for their needs.

Freshdesk does ticketing and it does it well. The company does have other software modules and integrations that you can add if you want (addon integration apps or maybe look at their other products like Freshsales or Freshservice)

If you just want a great easy to use ticking system, definitely give Freshdesk a try. The free trial should be more than enough to give you a fell for the system.

Cons

I cant really think of a con. Some might want something that has more features or customization but we are seeing that as a pro as it keeps it simple and efficient (not that Freshdesk lacks features. For us, it has everything that it needs to have and more)

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Service Management and Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

Easy of use and setup. No server to maintain as it is a SaaS solution.

Switched From

Cherwell Service Management

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

Enjoyed the user experience and catered for all our needs

Pros

Ease of use, setup, and features.

An added feature would be to be able to search ticket by subject title and then to select many of the results at a time.

Cons

There are some persistent that need squashing. For example, when chatting with FW support team, our chat windows frequently come up in foreign languages.

Our support site and FD access has been knocked out several times in the past due to FW blacklisting our IP address.

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

NetSuite is not really suitable for our needs as a support team.

Switched From

NetSuite

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

Price was far more affordable.

Pros

The knowledge base system provides a few options
Knowledgebase can be offered to your team and to your clients
The user controls allow for different users across platforms
Helps to provide reporting or a simple analysis of your teams efforts when managing replies or tickets
Can send and receive emails from your inbox

Cons

The app is far the worst part of the product as it's buggy, unreliable and slow
Email management basics are missing or inefficient
The product is poor at detecting spam/promotional emails compared to other email tools, creating more work than necessary
The support teams are challenging to deal with and you have to repeat the same information over and over
Freshdesk lacks in its features when it comes to separating responses
The tool does not know how to override the from address when another agent is in vs. assigned
Filters are limited
The auto-reply detection does not work as tickets get created from auto replies all the time
Most annoying is the product does not sync IMAP to your inbox, so if you leave it - you are left with an inbox with many emails to process

Alternatives Considered

Kayako, HubSpot CRM and Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

We wanted to better manage our customer service emails and client management.

Switched From

Google Workspace

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

It promised us it was going to be easier and less clunky. However, we learned it was best to go back to basics with Google Workspace instead.

Pros

I love the analytics and history log in Freshdesk. Freshdesk tracks agents' productivity through out the day and breaks up this information by the hour. We can also look up who has resolved the most tickets or who sends out immediate responses. All of this information is especially helpful when assigning new tickets because we can see a history of our most efficient employees. Previous tickets can be easily searched by key words, agent, or time frame. When multiple people are working on one project, it really helps to decipher who did what and when!

Cons

One thing that I believe can be improved is having a group option to send out an email. It's not common when we have to include multiple people on a ticket but when we do, we have to cc them in the very beginning as opposed to adding "Group A". -- The information still gets everyone on the same page, however it is an additional step on the agent's end.

Alternatives Considered

Jobber and Salesforce Sales Cloud

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

We made the switch because we outgrew Jobber and its capabilities. Jobber lacked the analytics, history, sales features, and user friendly options necessary to grow our business.

Switched From

Jobber

Reasons for Switching to Freshdesk

We chose Freshdesk because of the variety of user friendly capabilities and features. Salesforce had aggressive sales reps who didn't care about our companies needs. Zendesk wasn't user friendly and many of the "integrations" could only be connected by people with web design or coding experience. Jobber fit our needs as a smaller company but now we have 5 service divisions. Overall, Freshdesk is the platform that suits all of our needs as a growing company.

Pros

The best part I love about Freshdesk is the super fast - clean, simple, minimalistic and easy-to-use interface.

Next what impresses me is the instant help and tips across all the sections in the Admin, making it extremely easy for a layman to get started in less time and without any help and support.

Cons

Well, there is really nothing I don't like about Freshdesk other than a little improvement with spam handling and spammers. No doubt Freshdesk already takes care of it but slightly in a different manner.

I feel there should be an intelligent spam detection algorithm and mechanism which would send the spam tickets right into the Spam folder. Besides, creating and maintaining a common database of spammers would add even more charm to the software.

That way, an agent can further manually review the Spam tickets and deal with them accordingly.

Another slight issue is with the contact management. For any contacts that are deleted, Freshdesk marks tickets from those contacts as spam which I think is wrong. From time-to-time, the contact database increases with people contacting only once and then never turning back for years. Such contacts unnecessarily increase the burden of managing contacts and need to be deleted periodically.

Instead, Freshdesk should consider creating a special category wherein all the contacts that are marked as spam will be tagged into this category.

That way, an agent can get rid of unwanted contacts.

Pros

The software has a great deal of functionality.

Cons

If you do not have a support email on your site, you create a support email address (which you must) on their site. You have no control over it. My account is continuously spammed. They insist the email address is my problem, but I keep telling me the email account is not on my mail server, so how can I filter it. I sent Freshdesk documentation showing the support email address is not on my mail server, but Freshdesk insists it is my email problem. Anyway, you receive lots of spam and no way of filtering it. When we first were attacked, I had over 300 spammed contacts. The other issue is a two-step process to delete the emails.

The problem could be abated by requiring any user who creates a contact on the site to verify. The problem is that some of their clients do not want this. So why not put an option that allows their clients to choose if they wish verification emails or not.

The additional issue is if someone can spam your Freshdesk site, then they think they can spam any of your sites.

Pros

This platform is very very easy for both admins and end-users to navigate. There's always a learning curve when implementing a new system, but I had virtually no questions sent to me (an admin), the week of Go Live. The platform lays everything out in a way that is very straightforward to the end-user. From an admin perspective, my favorite thing is how easy it is to create workflow automations. I have created nearly 200 email routing rules. We have about 10 email addresses that our customers send emails to, and based on who the email is from, who the email is to, the domain of the sender address, the subject/content of an email, etc... we are able to create very specific routing rules to get the right emails to the right agents without needing to hand things off multiple times to different agents.

I also love the use of tags. For anything that doesn't have its own field (in relation to a ticket), you can just add a tag(s). These tags can be filtered on and reported on. We heavily rely on tags to identify tickets in a variety of ways.

Generally speaking, this application has significantly improved our support desk efficiency.

Cons

I wish that Freddy AI would look at all of the domains of the email addresses that are sent to us and would add those domains as unverified "Companies." Right now our "Companies" module is empty because it needs a data import to populate. If Freddy AI could populate this data and then have an admin verify and change the company names, that'd be ideal. I think it should work similarly to the verified and unverified contacts.

Outside of this, I really have no complaints. There are some additions to the Analytics reporting tool that they need, but this tool is still in Beta right now so I expect more features to be released throughout the year. The biggest painpoints with analytics right now is 1) I can only share a report with myself or all users. I cannot share with specific individuals or teams, and 2) there are chart-type limitations based on the data you are trying to display. One limitation is that you can only have 4 different metrics in a stacked bar chart. If you have 5 metrics you are tracking against, you are required to use a summary table or line chart.

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Choosing Freshdesk

Our old system would crash and we'd have semi-frequent downtime where we would not be able to respond to emails.

Pros

I was really excited to start using Freshdesk. I had been using a different customer service software for years, and I was looking to switch over to a new platform. I was impressed with the features Freshdesk offered. The software is user-friendly and has a lot of features that make it easy to manage customer interactions. The customer support team is also great. They are always available to help and they are quick to respond to requests. Overall, I was really happy with my experience using Freshdesk and I would recommend it to other businesses.I have been using Freshdesk for the past 6 months. Overall, I have been very happy with the service. The support team is always available and they are quick to respond to any issues. The software is easy to use and the design is great. I would definitely recommend Freshdesk to anyone looking for a customer service solution.What are the benefits of using Freshdesk?I have been using Freshdesk for a little under a year now, and I have to say, it has been one of the best decisions I have ever made. Freshdesk has helped me to streamline my workflows, keep track of my customers' issues, and even assign tasks to my employees.I use Freshdesk to manage my customer support, and I have to say, it has been a great experience. Freshdesk provides me with a dashboard that shows me all the customer complaints, issues, and requests.

Cons

I have to say that I'm a huge fan of Freshdesk. It's been a great tool for my business and I've had no problems with it. That being said, there are some limitations to using it.One of the biggest limitations is the fact that you can't really manage your customer's data. If you have a lot of customers, it can be difficult to keep track of their information. You also can't really automate any processes or workflows with Freshdesk.Overall, I'm happy with my experience using Freshdesk and I would definitely recommend it to others.Freshdesk is an amazing customer service software. I've used a few different customer service software in the past and I have to say that Freshdesk is the best one I've used. The features are amazing and the customer support is second to none. I've never had to wait more than a few minutes for a response to my queries. The only downside I can think of is that it can be a little pricey compared to some of the other customer service software out there.

Pros

Easy to use: Freshdesk is designed for easy usability and provides an intuitive user interface that makes it simple to get up and running quickly, even if you have no previous experience with support software. Automation capabilities: Freshdesk automates many of the customer service processes like ticket creation, ticket routing, and more so that your team can spend less time managing tickets and more time engaging with customers.Comprehensive reporting tools: Freshdesk's reporting features provide comprehensive insights into customer engagement trends, ongoing issues, broker productivity, response times etc., enabling you to identify areas for improvement. Numerous integration options: With its large number of integrations available through the App Marketplace and API library, Freshdesk offers a degree of customization not found in most customer support solutions on the market today. Great value pricing plans: One of the best things about FreshDesk is its competitive price tag; depending on which plan you choose there are plenty of features while remaining cost-effective – making it a great choice for small businesses as well as larger enterprises alike!"

Cons

It is cost effective compared to other CRMs in the market and provides flexible pricing plans with multiple users per account at no additional costs .

Pros

Multi language, great knowledge base, easy to automate a lot of features (multi time zone groups, SLAs and Business hours/holidays support and many more) and available add ins to suit pretty much any requirement. Being on the cloud means we always have access no matter where we are or what we use (Tablet, Phone, laptop, desktop, ...). In the current world wide pandemie reality, all our agents are now working from home and the transition was seamless.

Cons

Reporting needs some love, although the basic is there. Freshdesk has recently added Analytics which is great but not that easy to configure so that you get the exact result you want. They are working on improving this. Most of the things I liked less about this software have been improved and quite a few features that we needed have been deployed over the years. We are also in the software development business and we understand that it is impossible to satisfy everyone, customers are really way too creative at times ;-).

Pros

Modern, Elegant, Google Integrated, Nice iOS & Android Apps, Intuitive. Lots of useful features. (Merging tickets, Splitting tickets, Tags for tickets, KB Articles, Teams, Chat, etc) Nifty videos even at the end of the year. Service up-time is great (I don't think we've ever noticed an outage). Knowledge base Articles are great.

Cons

Plans & pricing are a bit annoying. You have to pick from useful features or unnecessary cost for things that should be included without an up charge to a higher plan.

Sales, Support, Development, Billing, basically EVERYTHING, is in India, which isn't by itself bad, and for Freshdesk's part, it's much better than most India based support... But, if you open a ticket about billing, it can be months (literally months) before your issue is resolved.

There are some design flaws with the product, and while you're told changes will be considered, they seldom are - FreshDesk has their own agenda, and your feedback isn't all that important in the development. It would be nice to see the company track, implement, and report back when feedback is actually taken, and this would be nice if it was done in a timely manner, but that doesn't happen.

Some features are a bit confusing to set up and have silly names (Observer & Dispatcher) -- an outside has no idea what those features do, and even after using FreshDesk for a years, it's still a bit opaque.

The concept of ticket fields vs user fields can be a bit annoying.

There are little refinements that are lacking (email alerts that are not as good as they should be, etc).