Freshdesk

Freshdesk offers an all-in-one customer service platform for multiple departments, including customer support, sales, marketing, and call centre.

Their online cloud-based customer service software helps businesses to increase customer engagement and manage customers as they scale. Their platform has the following customer engagement features that promise to help businesses seamlessly engage with their customers: omnichannel help desk, team collaboration, artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot capabilities, multi-channel communication management, and a self-service support portal for support agents and customers.

Feature-rich ticket management – Easily search, assign, reply, and resolve tickets. You can also set deadlines for ticket response and resolutions based on different business hours or categories. The canned responses feature provides quick, consistent responses to common questions.

Multi-channel support – Respond to queries from phone, SMS, live chat, email, social media (Facebook Messenger, Instagram, etc.).

Real-time dashboard and reporting – Access metrics such as response time, resolution time, tickets created, tickets closed, and more.

Support channels – Enable chat in customer portal by integrating Freshdesk with Freshchat. You can then convert conversations into tickets.

Helpdesk management – View private notes, ticket activities and easily collaborate across teams using the functionalities such as team inbox and to-dos which allows you to add to-do tasks within the ticket or add it to your dashboard.

Analytics and reporting – Default dashboard: View ticket trends, recent activities, arcade, gamification, community forums, customer satisfaction, and other metrics. Freshdesk analytics (beta): View performance distribution, group performance, agent performance, ticket volume trends, ticket lifecycle.

Integration – Build and integrate custom apps to carry out workflows that are unique to your business

Self service – Create a self service experience for customers with a knowledge base and forums.

Customisation – Customise the look and layout of your support portal with full CSS customization and ready-made themes.

Freshdesk offers four packages to choose from.

Free (Up to 10 agents)
Basic features

• Integrated ticketing across email and social
• Ticket dispatch
• Knowledge base
• Ticket trend report
• Out-of-the-box analytics and reporting
• Choose your data center location
• Team collaboration
• 24/7 Email support

Growth – $15/month (billed annually)
All features in the Free plan, plus:

• Automation
• Collision Detection
• 1000+ marketplace apps
• In-depth helpdesk report
• SLA management & business hours
• Custom Email Server
• Custom Ticket Views
• Custom ticket fields & status
• Custom SSL
• Easily track time spent by agents on tickets

Pro – $49/month (billed annually)
All features in the Growth plan, plus:

• Multiple products
• Includes up to 5000 collaborators
• Round-robin routing
• Custom roles
• Custom objects
• Custom reports and dashboards
• Segment customers for personalised support
• Customer journey
• Canned forms
• Manage versions in knowledge base
• Community forums
• Extendable API limits
• CSAT surveys & reports
• Multiple SLA policies & business hours
• SLA reminder & escalation
• Multilingual knowledge base
• Custom apps
• Average handling time (AHT)
• Custom metrics
• Report sharing

Enterprise – $79/month (billed annually)
All features in the Pro plan, plus:

• Assist bot
• Email bot
• Auto-triage
• Article suggester
• Canned response suggester
• Unlimited products
• Sandbox
• Easily manage agent shifts across time zones
• Audit log
• Skill-based routing
• Knowledge base approval workflow
• Flexible knowledge base hierarchy
• IP range restriction