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Freshdesk

Overview

What is Freshdesk?

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets…

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Pricing

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Free

$0

Cloud
Up to 2 agents

Growth

$15

Cloud
per month (billed annually) per agent

Pro

$49

Cloud
per month (billed annually) per agent

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.freshworks.com/freshdesk/pr…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.4
Avg 8.0

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

8.1
Avg 7.8

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

8.4
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Freshdesk?

Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot, predictive support capabilities, and field service management.

Freshdesk boasts over 50,000+ customers including Hugo Boss, Toshiba, Cisco, Honda, The Atlantic, Chargebee, Grofers, and PhonePe as Freshdesk users, to help them provide faster customer service.

Freshdesk Features

Incident and problem management Features

  • Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
  • Supported: Expert directory
  • Supported: Ticket creation and submission
  • Supported: Ticket response
  • Supported: Automated responses
  • Supported: Attachments/Screencasts
  • Supported: SLA management

Self Help Community Features

  • Supported: Forums
  • Supported: External knowledge base
  • Supported: Internal knowledge base
  • Supported: Q and A
  • Supported: Surveys/polls

Multi-Channel Help Features

  • Supported: Customer portal
  • Supported: Live help chat
  • Supported: Phone support
  • Supported: IVR
  • Supported: Call scripting
  • Supported: Social integration
  • Supported: Email support
  • Supported: Help Desk CRM integration

Freshdesk Video

Freshdesk - Customer Service Software

Freshdesk Integrations

Freshdesk Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported CountriesWorldwide
Supported LanguagesArabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)

Frequently Asked Questions

Freshdesk starts at $0.

Zendesk Suite, Zoho Desk, and Kayako are common alternatives for Freshdesk.

Reviewers rate Email support highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Freshdesk are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Works for small companies

Rating: 5 out of 10
November 23, 2024
KW
Vetted Review
Verified User
Freshdesk
2 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
We attempted some more involved customizations, but Freshdesk development is its own industry, and we experienced difficulty achieving our goals in-house. Nevertheless, we did implement the following customizations: additional navbar items for support meeting scheduling, color scheme and logo, and banners.

Great low cost helpdesk ticketing system

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 25, 2024
Vetted Review
Verified User
Freshdesk
2 years of experience
Some - we have done small customizations to the interface
Generally, it was straightforward. We made a few requests for further changes and some of those have been implemented by Freshdesk.
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