Online Help Desk Software Comparison

Any business should strive to have the most efficient Help Desk. It is often what differentiates a great company with a trusted brand. Businesses of all sizes are optimizing the cost and efficiency of their support services with help desk software. Web-based apps perform very well in this category. They are affordable and getting very popular with online and offline businesses. We are proposing a side by side high level comparison of three popular customer support helpdesk packages: Freshdesk, Zoho Support and Zendesk

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Zendesk
Help Desk Software & Customer Support Ticket System

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Zoho Support
Online Help Desk Software

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Freshdesk
Helpdesk + Social Customer Support

Average rating
4.3/5

User reviews (3)
4.5/5

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Social presence
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19,505 followers
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Overview Zendesk is the leading cloud-based help desk app and support ticketing system with built-in community and knowledge base features. Founded in 2007, Zendesk was built on the idea that providing awesome customer support should be as easy as buying a book online. Zendesk's elegant yet simple web based interface and robust feature set make it the fastest way to provide great customer support.Zendesk ... Learn more › Zoho Support is a web-based help desk app that provides a systematic, streamlined and quantified manner of addressing troubletickets. Zoho Support provides a customer portal to each customer where the customer can add/converse and review the status of the trouble tickets online. Zoho Support caters to organizations that need to prioritize, manage and automate online help desk support needs. It... Learn more › Freshdesk brings together into one help desk tool all your conversations with customers, be it over Email, phone, the web and chat or even conversations over social channels like Facebook and Twitter. It provides a lot of features presented in a simple and 'super user friendly' way: multi product support, SLAs, automation features, a knowledge base, a self service portal and community forums to en... Learn more ›
Features • Flexible ticket management with automated workflow
• Multi-channel support: email, web, phone, chat, social media
• Mobile support with native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps
• Robust reporting and advanced analytics
• Customer facing web interface that you can easily brand
• Knowledge base portal and community forums included
• Over 80 out-of-the-box integrations with 3rd party apps
• Open API enabling seamless integration into your business
• Multi-brand support with linked accounts
• Unlimited, free "light agents" (Enterprise plan only)
• Ticket Management
• Contracts and SLA
• Reports and Dashboards
• Alerts and Notifications
• Knowledge Base
• Customer Self Service Portal
• Email to Ticket Conversion
• Knowledge Base
• Self Service Portal
• Service Level Agreements
• Automations - Ticket routing, scenario automations
• Multi-channel support, including Facebook & Twitter
• Community Portal with Idea Management & Voting
• Multi-product/multi-brand Support
• Integrations: Freshbooks, Google Apps, Harvest, CapsuleCRM
• Multi-language & multi-time zone support
Typical customers Associations, Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Small Business Large Enterprises, Small Business Large Enterprises, Public Administrations, Small Business
Languages Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Spanish Czech, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
Geographies supported Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States Asia, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, India, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States Asia, Australia, Canada, China, Europe, Germany, India, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Pricing Free 30-day trial
Multiple plans to choose from
$9-$99 per agent / month
Free for 1 Agent
Enterprise $25/Agent/Month
Professional $12/Agent/Month

Freshdesk is priced per customer support agent per month.
You can choose from 3 plans
Sprout - $9 per agent per month
Blossom - $19 per agent per month
Garden - $29 per agent per month
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Help Desk Software is used by companies to power the provision of technical customer support services to their clients. It is used by support staff to handle calls or emails requests and taps into the companys problem resolution knowledge base. It also logs and tracks all requests for help and which actions have been taken to resolve the issues.

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