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    Help Scout

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AHelp Scout is help desk software. The vendor’s value proposition is that that their solution reduces time spent on training users because Help Scout is simple to use and set up and scales like any enterprise product. This solution includes multiple mailboxes to support as many email addresses as needed in order to work collaboratively across teams, and manage several products or brands from one account. Reports on conversation trends, team performance, productivity, and customer happiness are…

    $30

    per month starts with 100 contacts

    Pricing
    Help Scout
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $30
    per month starts with 100 contacts
    Plus
    $90
    per month starts with 200 contacts
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    Contact sales team
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Help Scout
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Help Scout
    Considered Both Products
    Help Scout
    Chose Help Scout
    Help Scout is better for emails while Intercom is better for chats from what we found
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    I also have used Zendesk previously, which is much more complicated; however, it can offer much more possibilities for customizing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    Only have minimal experience with G-Suite for a much smaller company. This worked well for that organization but did not have similar specialization functions that suite our larger organization very well. Help Scout's pricing makes sense, and continues to service our needs …
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    We primarily chose HelpScout because they were an affordable, moderately robust, HIPAA compliant solution. All the other options (e.g. Zendesk, Freshdesk, Kayako, etc.) were out of our price range or did not provide the necessary features that our team has come to rely on.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    Help Scout is more reasonably priced compared to our other options.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    Help Scout is a way better looking product. In the last two years they have stepped up their game. I hope to use their live chat soon. Zendesk is clunky and the user interface is terrible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    This is tricky because there's helpdesk apps and chat apps (now Help Scout offers both).

    We first used just an email inbox (of course not scalable but we were very small), then we turned to Freshdesk, which was painful to use. It had some cool features but in general it was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    Help Scout easily plugs into Gmail and allows us to create reports based on our tagging. We found its price point for us as a nonprofit was a good fit. Customer service was also supportive. It also allows us to have an external help desk for our common questions from clients.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    We liked Help Scout better because of the help center integration and ability to split out multiple inboxes.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    They all had their positives and negatives. For us, it came down to signing a BAA (Zendesk wanted $28,000 to sign one). We enjoy working with vendors who can support healthcare initiates such as we are building.
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    I've tried almost every single other live chat support tool. Most of them are easy to plug and play into the HTML page layout, but in terms of usefulness and cost, a smaller startup will always choose Help Scout no matter what. It's easily the best option for a bootstrapped …
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    We did test out several other support desk tools before finally deciding to go with Help Scout. The main tipping point was the fact that Help Scout almost appeared invisible to the end user (our customer). To them, it just feels as if they are reaching someone via email, not …
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    It has been an ongong debate about whether or not we should switch to Zendesk. They are all about prioritizing customers, delaying response time, and treating the customer like cattle. I'm sure we will switch someday because key heads in the company used to use it, but the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Help Scout
    My team used Zendesk for years and then we switched to a lighter solution.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Help Scout
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Help Scout
    Feature
    Help Scout
    8.8
    19 Ratings
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.019 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications10.010 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.118 Ratings
    Ticket response8.119 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Help Scout
    Feature
    Help Scout
    8.5
    17 Ratings
    External knowledge base9.016 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base8.015 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Help Scout
    Feature
    Help Scout
    8.0
    19 Ratings
    Email support8.019 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration8.011 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Help Scout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.1
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)