Customer Service Improvements resulting in winning a German Golden Stevie Award 2018.
Pros
It covers many areas of daily conversation handling activities: Ticket, Incident, Problem, and Complaint handling situations. If the basics do not suffice, custom fields and tracking options help iron out missing pieces. It contains a Knowledgebase that allows you to record Articles and information. Survey system (very handy for Event-Driven Surveys); Reporting options and quick access to tickets. One of the KEY FEATURES is that the tool is FAST and keeps a focus on the work area for staff, rather cluttering everything with detail fields. Finally, the web-interface is fully customizable and very useful in granting options to access the conversation handling tool. Did I mention Kayako Services being great in helping to resolve questions and issues when contacted? They do this very well!
Cons
It lacks a few items that I wish would be included (software is always under constant development, and Kayako customer service is very responsive and friendly): proper comprehensive auditing when tickets are handled (like automatically submitted communications recorded with date and time); Complaint Handling structures based on tickets; improved linkages between tickets (though possible it is not done in a single click); KBA link to tickets; Reporting is nice though it lacks options to customize charts, colors and the way detail can be presented (formatting through configuration rather customization). Another drawback in a recent release is that a lot of browser cell padding has been introduced causing the display of elements unnecessarily spread out across a regular HD monitor. Luckily this can be customized using CSS injection or system-wide CSS manipulation.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
I love using kayako as it has been the best communication platform which not only allows me to communicate but also provides me reports on any urgent email that I need to act on immediately which saves me from delayed tasks and replies. Since we switched from outlook to kayako software for inter-team and client communication, kayako has provided the best communication platform which allowed us to to have an organized, easy to refer to and not only use but also can view any sent/received email from any location via any device.
Pros
Kayako has been the best communication platform for professional communication that I have used so far. Kayako is recommended for both inter-team and external - client communication. The best feature of kayako is that it allows you to organize your emails into folder based on departments, status and the nature of the email content.
Also using other type of email platforms has been a worry at times and time consuming when trying to find all the back and forth communication happened on one email thread by multiple people, but kayako provides the best solution by capturing all the communication happened on one subject/email which is sent and received by one or many, in the same email thread which we call a "Ticket"
Interface of kayako can be designed and created as per the user's requirement and preference.
Also referring to an email has been very convenient as each ticket carries its own unique Ticket ID.
It also provides reports on emails based on its nature. ex: overdue, received within 24hrs and etc based on rules we set which allows to the user to be more organized, effective and proactive.
Cons
Understanding and using the software is essential as it doesn't function like other email platforms but has its own organized interface. Inter team communication The software is mainly build for professional communication however I wish it could have few other options like adding colors, tables and etc but apart from that no other cons to mention.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 10/10
I have been using Kayako for more than five years. This has been the software we use for all internal and client communication. As mentioned earlier it is a simple tool which takes only a few times to practice, thereafter you get the hang of it. However after using other email softwares, Kayako's limitations regarding formatting, inserting images and capturing the entire thread has always been a hassle for me. Additionally we are only given admin rights to our own teams. If a ticket generated by me is moved to an internal team I do not have access for, I cannot view the updates on the ticket.
Pros
Kayako helps me organize my tickets into as many folders I want, thus making me work on those tickets conveniently and effectively. If I am an admin or have admin access to my staff folders I can also access all of their folders to get an update on tickets. It's easy to learn and use. I love the reports feature on Kayako. We can create as many reports we want and automate them. The follow ups feature is also great to keep track of pending tasks and serves as good reminder.
Cons
There are a few issues I encountered as I worked on Kayako. Kayako doesn't allow us format the font or content, so underlining, italicizing etc is not possible in an email. We cannot include images, charts or graphs in the body of the email. When you hit reply on a ticket, the original email thread is not included. So if you need to know the previous conversation, we need to copy and paste the email.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 6/10
Pros
It it nice to be able to pull up multiple conversations/tickets within one window, as it made it easy to switch between current ongoing projects and also complete research with little confusion. Also, Kayako shows in real-time who is looking at a ticket, thus it made it easy for Customer Service as we could see if someone was already working on that ticket. One of the nice things about Kayako was the ability to see when the recipients of an email opened it or looked at it. If there were several recipients, it would break down who opened the email, when. Thus, from a documentation standpoint, if someone was claiming to have never received an email, we were able to show that they had in fact opened the email.
Cons
There were few reporting tools and there was no way to set follow-up tasks. We relied on setting reminders on another system like our Google calendar. Also, Kayako was getting quite expensive, which was one of the big factors in our company switching to a different ticketing system.
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 7/10
We installed the On-Prem version of Kayako and for the most part were happy with its functionality and management of our help tickets.
Pros
Kayako allowed us to manage our Help Desk while keeping costs down but still providing enough functionality to streamline our support and communication to the users.
Cons
There wasn't any integration withour Scrum and Agile software tools (and it didn't have the functionality on its own) so it made it double work to move a Trouble Ticket to a Task
Rating breakdown
Likelihood to recommend: 6/10
Inbox: $15 per agent per month - a shared email, chat, and social inbox for small teams
Growth: $30 per agent per month - customer service software for growing teams
Scale: $60 per agent per month - customer service software for larger teams and businesses
Kayako's Enterprise plan is also available for larger companies needing a custom approach to customer support software. The Enterprise plan starts at $100 per agent. Get in touch for more information.
In this day and age, your customers expect responses almost immediately. Customer support has become the make or break in your competitive edge. Kayako customer service app equips your team with the tools you need to deliver a better, more personal service to each customer, while reducing incoming support requests and response times.
Any business can benefit from a help desk app that enables you to deliver multi-channel support to both your internal and external customers. Kayako helps you better manage customer email, support requests, and live chats. It even helps your customers to discover their own solutions via its self-service help desk.
Kayako stands out as one of the only solutions that actually integrates your email, tickets, live chats, calls (with VoIP integration), self-service and remote desktop support into one virual help desk.
Using Kayako’s ability to switch seamlessly between channels, you can empower the team to use the best tool to tackle the job at hand – some things can be dealt with a quick live chat response, but sometimes you need to ameliorate the situation with the personal touch of a phone call. Kayako does the legwork for the agent: organizing all your correspondence, so your customer success team can focus on helping customers.
Managing response and resolution targets: Service Level Agreement (SLA) plans, response and resolution deadlines used to be for only big, bulky enterprise apps. Kayako makes the benefits of an SLA accessible even to SMBs. In Kayako, each SLA plan has a reply deadline and a resolution deadline–like “Sales standard SLA plan”–which keeps your customer support reps focused on solving the case at hand. You define the perimeters of which types of calls take priority, and you can even establish different perimeters for your sales reps than for your support team. You can even have different SLA plans for different categories of clients.
At the help desk level, Kayako’s SLAs help you focus your team on meeting both response time and resolution time targets. For customers, they know that they can expect an update within a certain period of time.
Kayako was built with both your clients and sales and support teams in mind, and it’s also built to scale alongside your company. The majority of Kayako’s customers are SMBs, but some big name customers include Toshiba, FedEx, Pearson, Kraft Foods, Intel and General Electric. Twenty percent of Fortune 100 businesses use Kayako.
Kayako estimates the set-up time is around five minutes for any size business to get started. Out of the box, through Kayako, your team can start receiving tickets by email and web, and you can set up a fully functioning self-service support center, including your own knowledgebase.
Kayako allows you to visualize your customer’s journey, and unify all your customer’s interactions from different apps in one place. This includes page views, orders, shipping history, and Help Center searches.
This provides customer service agents the context they need to help deliver a better customer support experience. Agents can provide the right support at the right time in a proactive, tailored, personal, and frictionless way, whatever the channel.
Kayako’s knowledgebase customer support center lets your clients navigate content, submit their own support tickets and log in to view the current issue and conversations surrounding it. Almost every page of this customer support center, ticket submission and live chat pages, including email templates, can be transformed by editing templates in the admin control panel.
There is also an active community around the Kayako customer service platform. Customers share tips, best practices and customizations. Dedicated Kayako solution providers pcovide training and integration services.
Kayako enables you agents to work better together in a number of ways. Any member of you support team can chime in on a customer conversation to get the issue solved quicker, fo example, if they have come across the same problem before. Your agents can also see if their colleague has already responded to or viewed a conversation, making sure you aren’t duplicating effort.
You can also automate conversation assignment across your team and trigger notifications based on conversation properties.
Kayako’s live chat tool is equipped with real-time visitor monitoring and proactive engagement.
With live chat automations, Kayako can be set to flag up potential opportunities and other customers pulling away, allowing for a deeper connection between sales and support.
Kayako features a dedicated live chat desktop app – Kayako Desktop – that is built for tech support operators who manage multiple chats and incoming calls at a time.
If your company has remote support agents, they can take advantage of Kayako’s mobile live chat or use any IM app that supports Jabber, via Kayako Chat Gateway.
Kayako has integrations made available to its download-only customers, including Salesforce, Freshbooks, Basecamp, Drupal, and MailChimp.
Kayako also has mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows Phone and BlackBerry 10, giving your clients the freedom to help customers from anywhere. They can also use any IM app that supports Jabber, using the Kayako Chat Gateway.
There are five different price plans: *Inbox - A shared email, chat, and social inbox for small teams - $9 per agent per month *Team - A simple, modern help desk for small teams - $15 per agent per month *Growth - Customer service software for growing teams - $29 per agent per month *Scale - Customer service software for larger teams and businesses - $59 per agent per month *Enterprise - Available for larger companies needing a custom approach to customer support software - $90 per agent per month
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