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SupportBee

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Customer support help desk software

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SupportBee Features

Features Summary

Functionality

4.0

/5

26

Total features

15

3 categories

SupportBee features

API
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
Call Center Management
Customer Database
Email Management
Knowledge Base Management
Macros/Templated Responses

Common features of Customer Service software

API
Activity Tracking
Alerts/Escalation
Appointment Management
Auto-Responders
Calendar Management
Call Center Management
Call Routing

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13

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Per month

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Functionality

4.0

/5

26

Price starts from

13

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Per month

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Total Features

15

Unique features

  • No unique features

Functionality

4.4

/5

3.6K

Price starts from

49

/user

Per month

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Total Features

185

Features in Common

14

Unique features

  • Text Editing

  • Multiple User Accounts

  • File Sharing

  • Online Forums

Functionality

4.5

/5

2K

Price starts from

14

/user

Per month

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Total Features

161

Features in Common

15

Unique features

  • Real Time Data

  • Issue Scheduling

  • Real-time Consumer-facing Chat

  • Recurring Issues

Common SupportBee comparisons

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Dustin O.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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  • Value for money
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Excellent & Affordable Support App without a "per agent" fee.

Reviewed 8 years ago

I've been using SupportBee since September 2013 and really love it. The pricing model is different from most other Support Ticketing Apps in that you are charged based on volume of support tickets and not on the number of agents. This pricing model means that it's more beneficial and affordable for small businesses where few people were many hats, as one of those 'hats' is doing support. It has all of the essential features that the other established support ticketing companies offer with their apps. And whenever I had a question or issue, I was given a quick and thorough answer by the owner himself.

Pros

- Pricing model is based on volume of tickets, not based on number of agents - Is an "inbox" style of ticketing system. (Customers only need to click reply) - Great after-sales support from the owner - Does not require my support team to be logged into a separate app to answer tickets. They can do it directly from their inbox if they wanted to - Allows me to forward a support email from a customer (which was sent to my direct email address), and it will generate a ticket on behalf of the original sender. *AND* it parses it correctly when sent from my iphone --- This is a HUGE benefit!

Cons

Does not yet offer "How Do You Rate Our Support?" like Help Scout does, but when I asked for this feature, I was told it is on their future roadmap.

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Alex M.

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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A help desk platform with potential growth

Reviewed 3 years ago

We have been able to use the knowledge base with SupportBee to provide information about queries, execution scripts and solutions to problems in our databases. We can also report incidents about whether our applications have failures. In addition, we previously reported incidents through calls that had higher costs than those assumed with SupportBee.

Pros

SupportBee is very easy to use and helps resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. The features that I like the most are: 1.- The helpdesk portal is similar to the user interface of an email, so adapting to its use will be quick. 2.- You can generate significant reports on our volume of tickets resolved in a period of time. 3.- It is possible to create a knowledge base to provide customers with answers to their frequently asked questions. 4.- It has a tool to establish reminder events, so that you can always be aware of the activities in the organization. 5.- It has a highly competitive price. 6.- It is a software with great experience, so it is backed by various market providers. 7.- It has extensive documentation on its website.

Cons

SupportBee should improve its loading times in the browser, since it is slower when there are many entries in the mailbox. It is also not recommended to open the application in Safari or Firefox because they are not optimized to support it.

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Kyle L.

Telecommunications, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Room for improvement.

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall this has allowed us the opportunity to document customer requests and issues to have a historical reference which was not happening previously and allowed for things to oftentimes not get addressed at all or very delayed before they got addressed.

Pros

The ability to build an internal knowledge base and external customer kb is a nice feature. I wish the licensense werent so expensive.

Cons

I hate that when you add a customer name and email to supportbee that it doesnt keep the customer name you set when they client responds with email it changes the client name field that is really irritating. It would also be nice if parties cc'd on the case would flow to the same customer and not create a new customer entry in the supportbee customer portal.

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Sama A.

Airlines/Aviation, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Perfect for startups and easy to use

Reviewed 3 years ago

Easy to manage customer service and our day to day

Pros

It's integration was extremely easy and quick; the support was extremely helpful in the implementation. Made managing the queries much easier.

Cons

It would be nice to have a phone number to contact support in case of urgent help Emails for survey in English only, would be great to allow option for French / English KPI's dashboard would be ideal and can be improved (including reporting on customer service results).

Vendor response

Dear Sama Alobaidy. Thank You for Your Review. It always helps us understanding the customer's needs better. We will consider your requests in future updates.

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Christina G.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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My review of Supportbee

Reviewed 3 years ago

Overall Supportbee is an affordable solution to our business needs. We are able to have multiple emails accounts come into one place. Emails can be auto assigned based on keywords reducing the need to manually assign tickets. I can see our small organization growing with Supportbee over time.

Pros

The Supportbee software was easy to intergrate into our web app. Customer support is very responsive with questions and training. Onboarding users in our organization was was easy. The Help Docs are designed well and look clean and professional when published. Assigning tickets is easy and straightforward. I also like that I can get alerts through Slack. It was easy to set up too. Overall I really like this product.

Cons

There are areas that Supportbee could improve. The forward feature does not format properly and I end up using my Outlook to forward those emails to outside partners. The formatting in the HelpDocs is challenging to use, specifically when I use the table feature. An undo button would be helpful when trying to format considering the challenges in formatting. There were times when I had to completely redo a document do to the issues in formatting. I recommend creating the document in Word first. Finally, it is extremely easy to miss comments that I am tagged in. Slack alerts help do help with this though.

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Computer Software, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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SupportBee does the job

Reviewed 4 years ago

Good choice if you need an application to streamline your e-mail support in a team.

Pros

Good software, we are a happy user for years now. Works great and does what is says is does.

Cons

Some other bigger SAAS solutions offer more integrations and options. For example it is not yet possible to integrate Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp into one supportdesk.

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Aleksey A.

Events Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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best ticket management system for small business

Reviewed 3 years ago

I am using Support Be for around more than 1 year and very satisfied with its service. I answer many emails from my customers very quickly using snippets and I love the way they work. very easy and nice system.

Pros

Its the best ticket management system for small businesses bacause its very easy to use although it has all features that are required to run your customer service support.

Cons

I do not think I have any problems with some features of this software. It's all good.

Vendor response

Thank You so Much for your Review Aleksey! It is very helpful to us!

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Elizabeth B.

Religious Institutions, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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SupportBee is a great issue tracker system for small companies!

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

I like that the system's interface and how easy it is to assign tickets to their proper departments. I also like that I am able to easily see all my departments' tickets.

Cons

I think it is confusing when you respond to a ticket, and it shows up in an answered section. Sometimes I would still like to see a ticket but forget about it because it isn't clearly in my inbox. Also, the email threads are a little hard to read.

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Alisha G.

Consumer Goods, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend6/10

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Room for improvement

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

It's easy to use and facilitate. It's easy to employees to navigate. The reporting is a nice feature.

Cons

I would like to see some features added. For example can we auto-archive after a certain amount of time? When we forward a ticket to someone outside of SupportBee, only the first or last correspondence will show.

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Alek E.

Computer & Network Security, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Support Tickets

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall very positive for a helpdesk ticketing system tool. I would recommend using for any helpdesk team.

Pros

We used this as a trial among a few other helpdesk tools. It was simple to use and assigned each new email as a support case. You can then go in and assign a case to yourself to be worked on. The process was simple and intuitive. This made for easy and quick responses back to the customers. I helped trial this for a few weeks and then I switched departments. I don't know which product was chosen in the end, but this would have been one that I would have enjoyed using daily.

Cons

I wasn't able to attach some files to send back to the customer in the support tickets.

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William B.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Very helpful ticket tracker, could use some changes in email formatting

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

This software can easily handle a multi-department organization through one email account. Our non-profit had one "info@...org" email address that would route to 5 or 6 different departments. This made it extremely easy to manage upwards of 200 requests in one day, routing them all to the appropriate department. Once in your queue, it is also a great way to track to-do's. You can sort things by answered and unanswered.

Cons

The only confusing thing about Support Bee is the order of email replies. When you come in halfway through a conversation that already has 8 replies, it can be hard to get back to the original question and where key answers/solutions were given in that email.

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Nevena P.

Information Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Good alternative to Zendesk

Reviewed 3 years ago

We still have not enough traffic on the website so the feedback will not be objective.

Pros

Integration was seamless, the product is easy overall and is simplified enough to the clients.

Cons

Forms. Very big miss. This helps the support process so much but forms are unavailable with you.

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Soumya H.

Internet, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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SupportBee Great Software for Email Ticketing for Customer Support

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

Unlimited tickets even for free version .A customized email id even in free version.

Cons

Only one email inbox and no teams in free version of software.