Helpshift vs. Vtiger

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Helpshift
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Helpshift is a help desk software deployed as an in-application SDK to provide users with in-app service.
$150
per month Issue
Vtiger
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Vtiger is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with sales and marketing automation, project management, and inventory management capabilities.
$28
per month per user
Pricing
HelpshiftVtiger
Editions & Modules
Starter
$150.00
per month Issue
Enterprise
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
Growth
Please contact Helpshift
per month Issue
One Professional - Single App
$28
per month per user
One Professional - Standard
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Single App
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Standard
$58
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
HelpshiftVtiger
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$10 / user / month
Additional DetailsFlexible Consumption-Based Pricing for Your Changing Needs. Only pay for the number of issues created each month. An issue is a customer problem or inquiry that is directed to an agent or a bot. Customers with greater usage receive a reduced per issue price. All packages come with 1,000 issues per month to get you started.Discounts are provided for both annual subscriptions, and for high volume users.
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Community Pulse
HelpshiftVtiger
Considered Both Products
Helpshift
Chose Helpshift
Zendesk is used for customer communication via email and Helpshift is used for chat, they are for the same purpose but with different response times.
Chose Helpshift
Helpshift is reasonably priced and has great analytics and capabilities and is very user-friendly. We had a hard time with Intercom about 2 years ago when we tried to implement them because their analytics were very minimal and wouldn't track what we needed it to. We haven't …
Chose Helpshift
One of the previous systems we used was Zendesk and it really only housed emails like Microsoft Outlook would: not very organized, very clunky to use, with long loading times. The meta data that is recorded by Helpshift was another deciding factor for the stakeholders as that …
Vtiger
Chose Vtiger
It's not complicated and very easily to use compared to the CRM I used from my former company. There not too much to click just to finish the tasks. Easy to generate data for reporting.
Chose Vtiger
The selection of Vtiger as CRM wasn't on my hands. The decision was made before I arrived to the company. Nevertheless, I know that the pricing was one of the main reasons and the overall performance of Vtiger. It was feature on the top of Gartner's Magic Quadrant. And the …
Chose Vtiger
Synaptica is mainly for taxonomy, but it stores our product attribution as well, just like Vtiger. Vtiger is a more robust software, and stores product data beyond selling attributes. At our organization size, we like a program like Vtiger because it's more broad with more …
Chose Vtiger
VTiger had better overall cost and native capabilities that other solutions lacked. We used Nutshell CRM for over a year. It was a very efficient contact management system, but it seemed that if we needed to do anything but record contacts, we had to use an add-on. We spent a …
Chose Vtiger
Just being a user of Vtiger since I got hired at GB Advisors. Used those solutions on previous experiences, Microsoft Dynamics was deployed in my previous job for opportunity management, it was not so friendly as Vtiger, not sure if it was a bad deployment. Salesforce was used …
Chose Vtiger
SugarCRM is a very powerful CRM let down by a complex UI which means that most organizations would have trouble self-managing the database. leading to a high cost of ownership.
MailChimp is a great email marketing tool for databases below 2000 contacts as that is the point at …
Chose Vtiger
I have used MS Excel to manage such kind of operations but during reporting I faced lots of difficulties. Where in Vtiger CRM I got the most advantage out of MS Excel. It has a dynamic communication history system and a real time activity log where I can track the real time …
Chose Vtiger
The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making …
Features
HelpshiftVtiger
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
6.4
Ratings
23% below category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory3.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation4.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
5.0
Ratings
44% below category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
External knowledge base1.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base9.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
4.5
Ratings
53% below category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Customer portal5.50 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR2.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support2.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration4.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
Customer data management / contact management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Workflow management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Opportunity management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Contract management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.5
Ratings
23% above category average
Case management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Help desk management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Lead management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Task management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Reporting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.7
Ratings
25% above category average
Forecasting00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.3
Ratings
21% above category average
Custom fields00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Custom objects00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
31% above category average
Social engagement00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
5.0
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile access00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Helpshift
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.0
Ratings
8% above category average
Role-based user permissions00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
HelpshiftVtiger
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HelpshiftVtiger
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need a good way for players to send in support tickets that propagates in real-time, Helpshift would be a service I'd recommend.
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Vtiger has evolved in the interfaces design. You can access all required data from one screen, similar to a control data. You have also sales and support dashboards predefined, but you can create your own. As less appropriate the templates design, it has not evolved from old versions of Vtiger.
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Pros
  • FAQ
  • triggers by Google extensions
  • customer service
  • chat priority
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  • I love reporting. I can build a custom report using all or any of the dimensions of my choice. This is great when other programs often limit this ability.
  • I like that is a source of truth across the organization. We can all go in and see the same thing.
  • This also works for communication with our teams in other countries. We are a global organization.
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Cons
  • The look could do with a bit of an upgrade. It's not a very big deal and isn't hard on the eyes but could probably be a bit more vibrant (or allow for customization).
  • Better mobile support would be great. At the moment, it's very hard to try and do tickets from a phone.
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  • Although Vtiger integrates well with email, like most CRM systems it assumes that you have one email system and therefore it is less suitable for use cases where multiple email systems need to be supported.
  • Although Vtiger supports Twitter it does not support other social media systems in the same way. You can tailor the system to hold the URLs of your contacts' social media profiles but if SM is a big thing for your organization then there are better systems available.
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Usability
Helpshift is really easy to use and set up. We enjoy the automation to automatically route certain issues to different smart folders. There's just a lot of flexibility in the functionality to make things work for our team in the best way. I didn't give it a 10/10 just because we need SMS/Apple Business Chat and Helpshift doesn't yet offer that. They also don't currently support social media channels but they are working on releasing that soon.
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In the Last versions they have done a strong effort in creating a powerful data screen. Inside the screen you have access to signing, communications with multiple tools integration and connections with all modules related. With a single view you have all control over your data relations. It is similar to a control managing.
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Support Rating
The few times we've had to contact them, they were courteous and gave us the information we needed swiftly.
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there is not much problem in using CRM. There were times it was lagging or bugging, but later on it will be fixed and I can use it again.
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Alternatives Considered
Helpshift is reasonably priced and has great analytics and capabilities and is very user-friendly. We had a hard time with Intercom about 2 years ago when we tried to implement them because their analytics were very minimal and wouldn't track what we needed it to. We haven't gone with Zendesk because we've heard from multiple people that their customer support was sub-standard
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The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making the switch to vTiger
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Return on Investment
  • The ability to properly organize and delegate work to customer service representatives has been a very positive ROI after using Helpshift.
  • The customer service reps are much happier with this system over the previous system of a general company email address and other CS software tools.
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  • I managed to increase my production by 20% each month.
  • We increased the number of new clients each year.
  • Clients were satisfied by our support team.
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ScreenShots

Vtiger Screenshots

Screenshot of Vtiger's home page dashboardScreenshot of A typical contact record in Vtiger