I use Freshdesk to manage IT support tickets for our team of 15 IT professionals across multiple countries. It has been effective in ticket management, and we find the price-to-functionality ratio satisfactory. As we expand operations to other countries, Freshdesk continues to meet our needs without excessive costs.
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Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable
What is our primary use case?
How has it helped my organization?
Freshdesk's multi-channel support has positively impacted our internal IT customer engagement. While email is the primary channel, users can also submit requests through the portal, though it is rarely used for ticket updates. The system allows us to track and assess channel performance efficiently.
What is most valuable?
Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost. This has given us a clear vision of our IT team's performance helps us efficiently address and prioritize customer issues and provides a streamlined and organized approach to support.
What needs improvement?
I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets. Additionally, more flexibility in adding functions based on subscription levels would be beneficial for customization.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
We have not had any stability issues with Freshdesk.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a quite scalable solution. In our organization, around 15 IT agents use Freshdesk to provide support, and approximately 300 users can submit support requests.
How are customer service and support?
I have used the vendor's tech support, and they are very responsive, with room for improvement. Occasionally, dealing with paperwork for tasks like obtaining a new license can be a bit inconvenient, but it doesn't impact the functionality of the product itself.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
Setting up Freshdesk was straightforward, and the tool is flexible. We initially opted for a basic license with limited reporting but considered upgrading. However, the higher subscription cost made us stick with our current level. While the tool is easy to deploy, upgrading to the next subscription level could provide more flexibility and additional features.
What was our ROI?
The benefits of using Freshdesk are significant for our organization. With a cost of about $10 per user monthly, the ROI is clear. The impact on efficiency and streamlined operations far outweigh the minimal cost, making it a worthwhile and cost-effective solution for us.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Freshdesk operates on an annual subscription basis, and it is very affordable.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Before using Freshdesk, I evaluated other customer experience management products like JIRA Service Desk and BMC. The main advantages of Freshdesk are its user-friendliness, ease of use, and quick adaptability. It stands out for being easy to start with and resolving problems seamlessly.
What other advice do I have?
Automation and ticket routing rules in Freshdesk save us daily by streamlining routine tasks. We use reports to identify issues, allocate resources, and continuously improve our processes. It is a vital part of our daily operations, helping us stay proactive and efficient in handling various types of tickets.
The reporting and analytics tools in Freshdesk are effective for measuring customer service performance. While our current subscription level has some limitations in terms of reporting, the next level provides more options. Budget constraints currently prevent us from upgrading, but the available reporting features still meet our basic needs.
I highly recommend Freshdesk, especially for companies in their early stages. It is user-friendly, easy to configure, and great for those with a moderate volume of customer requests. The cost is reasonable, making it a quick and efficient solution to implement. Overall, I would rate Freshdesk as an eight out of ten.
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What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use, efficient and convinient on the same time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The thing I dislike about freshdesk is its very complex to pull the data. We cannot download the excel file, it is sent to email id first then we can download it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The facilty to track updates on tickets it really helpful which enables us to give prompt resolutions to our customers.
Great Platform from an Administrator's prespective.
What do you like best about the product?
- Streamlines the Customer Support Process
- Easy to use for our employees once they receive implementation training
- Centralized place for communication records between employees and customers
- Ability for automation through Canned Responses, tags, and threads.
- Easy to use for our employees once they receive implementation training
- Centralized place for communication records between employees and customers
- Ability for automation through Canned Responses, tags, and threads.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that the platform is dependant on licenses for users.
The platform already has a fee for initial purchase, plus a monthly subscription fee. Should the need for more user licenses arise as the organization grows, as will our monthly subscription for Freshdesk.
The subscription based model being adopted throughout the business word is quite unfortunate. Gone are the days of a one time purchase.
The platform already has a fee for initial purchase, plus a monthly subscription fee. Should the need for more user licenses arise as the organization grows, as will our monthly subscription for Freshdesk.
The subscription based model being adopted throughout the business word is quite unfortunate. Gone are the days of a one time purchase.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- Managers can validate the process taken by their employees for Customer Support.
- Records Management - The organization has a place for all customer communication records, should they ever need to be reference.
- Triage and Task Assignments - Freshdesk provides the Customer Support team with clear responsibilities outlined for customer responses.
- Records Management - The organization has a place for all customer communication records, should they ever need to be reference.
- Triage and Task Assignments - Freshdesk provides the Customer Support team with clear responsibilities outlined for customer responses.
User-friendly interface and manages tickets very well
What is our primary use case?
It's our main ticketing portal. We track all records, deploy responses to customers, and assign separate credentials so they can comment on the status of their tickets. It's a good tool to track, respond, and manage tickets and customer portfolios.
What is most valuable?
It has a user-friendly interface and manages tickets very well. It's easy to use and integrates with other tools. We can embed Jira into it, link Jira tickets with Freshdesk tickets, and use it for our knowledge base. If we want, we an upload our knowledge base. The canned responses feature is great for reducing response time.
What needs improvement?
It would be helpful to pull reports or schedule them based on agents, users, ticket numbers, or responses.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution for six years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I would rate the stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
How are customer service and support?
The customer service and support are very friendly and respond fast. Overall, it is good.
How was the initial setup?
It was very easy to set up.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable. For the powerful tool that it is, the pricing is justified.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We reviewed all the ticketing systems such as Zendesk and thought Freshdesk was the best.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend it to other companies looking for a good ticketing system. Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
Good tool for Deskmanagement
What do you like best about the product?
Regular updates and feeding innovative technology in tool.
No code required to develop our vision in freshdesk.
No code required to develop our vision in freshdesk.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hard for handle multiple groups for reporting purpose not a template for taking manual report
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reminder tool, Canned responses and Article popualting for customer which decreases our time.
An useful Helpdesk tool to handle customer issues from various channels from a single window
What do you like best about the product?
Freshdesk is a lightweight tool which is fast and user friendly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited customization option, Limited features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Freshdesk consolidates the customer issues from various platforms in one single interface and reduces the problem of juggling between tools, windows and reduces manual effort.
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What do you like best about the product?
Search feature, traceability, easy to use, reliable, easy implementation, volumetry and reports.
What do you dislike about the product?
Inhability to search an object in attached files, restrictive for users within same organization that do not have a Fresdesk license
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enabling agents to see overall workload and what's assigned to them and their teammates.
For managers, overall visibility for easy follow-ups with agents. Ability to balance workload.
Stats available through reports, giving managers follow-up tool.
For managers, overall visibility for easy follow-ups with agents. Ability to balance workload.
Stats available through reports, giving managers follow-up tool.
Great way to handle customer emails
What do you like best about the product?
I've been using Freshdesk at work to handle customer emails, and it's been quite effective. The ability to assign tickets, leave notes for colleagues, and categorize has significantly improved our workflow. We use it every single working day. Our customers benefit from the support portal as well. Recently, we upgraded to customize its appearance with our own colors and fonts.
What do you dislike about the product?
While there are minor issues, such as occasional attachment loss in lengthy email threads and the non-saving of newly started emails (as opposed to replies), Freshdesk's proactive approach in seeking feedback is a positive aspect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The support portal allows customers to find answers to their questions independently. Additionally, they have the option to submit new tickets or send an email that they initiated. All these interactions converge in our ticket inbox, where we can assign queries to the most suitable colleague based on expertise, whether it's in design, web development, administration, etc.
Simple and efficient
What do you like best about the product?
The base product is simple to use.
It allows a better tracking of customers support requests.
A lot of options are available to customize the environment to suit our company needs and it is quite simple to configure.
The API makes it usable in our other softwares relatively easily.
It allows a better tracking of customers support requests.
A lot of options are available to customize the environment to suit our company needs and it is quite simple to configure.
The API makes it usable in our other softwares relatively easily.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only downside so far is the lack of some more placeholders to be able to create more complex automations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps us to track more effectively customers support requests. Identify and categorize requests (support or change request).
Customer Engagement like no other
What do you like best about the product?
Automation, bot capabilities, omnichannel, lots of features, FreshDesk support.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not that I don't like it but it takes a bit of getting used to and set up.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
FreshDesk helps us manage multiple mailboxes across multiple brands and geos through multiple support channels.
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