Fin by Intercom vs. Zoho Desk

Zoho Desk

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Fin by Intercom	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Fin is Intercom’s AI Agent for customer service, designed to deliver high-quality answers, even for complex queries. It works with any helpdesk, or it can be paired with Intercom’s next-generation Helpdesk to get the full Intercom Customer Service Suite.	$0.99 one-time fee per 1 resolution
Zoho Desk	Score 7.7 out of 10	N/A	Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.	$0

Pricing

Fin by Intercom

Zoho Desk

Editions & Modules

Fin with your current helpdesk: $0.99
one-time fee per 1 resolution
Copilot add-on: $35
per month per user
The Early Stage program: $65
per month (6 support seats)
Proactive Support Plus add-on: $99
per month
Fin with Intercom’s Helpdesk: from $39 + $0.99 per Fin resolution
per month per seat

Free: $0
Express: $9
per month per user
Standard: $20
per month per user
Professional: $35
per month per user
Enterprise: $50
per month per user

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Fin by Intercom	Zoho Desk
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Required

Additional Details

Fin comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. Here's how it works: Use Fin in at least 250 conversations within the first 90 days after trial. If you're not satisfied, you can request a refund of up to $1M. Refund requests must be submitted within 90 days of starting the subscription.

A discount is offered for yearly billing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Fin by Intercom	Zoho Desk
Considered Both Products	Fin by Intercom Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom We're using another AI agent too. Fin AI is a little behind, as it needs to start learning from either testing or real conversations, so it can better advise users with accurate information - whereas the other AI agent is learning very fast and needs little to no adjustment of … Incentivized Helpful? SO Scott Olinger Application Support Analyst Chose Fin by Intercom I did not choose which platform our support teams used. But I did not like NetSuite because it sent out a lot of email updates and required the client to reply to the correct email in order to have everything tracked. ServiceNow was pretty similar. The reports in ServiceNow … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Marketing Hub and Zendesk Suite Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom I used Zendesk briefly but found it difficult to navigate — I often couldn’t tell what was going on or how to simply reply to a ticket. In contrast, Intercom is much more intuitive and user-friendly. Its clean interface and support for multiple communication formats like … Incentivized Helpful? Lorrayne Soares Líder de Produtos Chose Fin by Intercom As explained previously, most of these platforms were focused on tickets, most reports only work with tickets, there is no way to postpone a service without turning it into a ticket, and since our response time target is a maximum of 2 minutes, these platforms were unable to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Sprinklr Social, Zendesk Sunshine Conversations, Clarabridge (discontinued), Engagor (discontinued) and Qualtrics XM for Customer Frontlines Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Honestly, we haven't really looked at this, but we do use it for another team because a third-party works with it. Otherwise, I am extremely happy with Intercom and have not looked towards another software. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom It was a long debate before we switched from Crisp to Intercom, but we never regretted that decision. Intercom looks and looks sleeker, works smoother, and has the knowledge base feature, which was our main need to switch. The transition took very little time, so no bumps on … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Way better than all of them - especially the workflow tool which I don't think Help Scout or Crisp even had. Really easy to manage capacity too through snoozing conversations and customers receiving emails after a response. With HubSpot, there was no way for our users to return … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Dialpad Support, Talkdesk and SnapEngage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom This is the first one we tried. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom My main concern at the moment is how the integration looks to the users and Intercom just looks modern and up-to-date. HubSpot is missing this. In the background it always comes down to how you organize your team and processes. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Odoo was, in my opinion, terrible - a jack of all trades and master of none, which is why all teams in the business moved away to bespoke software. Freshdesk - an easier and more organisable way of creating and managing tickets. Although Intercom now has tickets, we're still … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom At the moment, I only use Supademo to record screen tours. It is very intuitive, has a browser extension, and is perfect for recording the onboarding of new features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom as a tool is well suited to manage our key metrics with the help of its reports. We have evaluated a lot of tools but Intercom remains the best in terms of report. It helps us maintain OKR's for the support team and track whenever needed. FinAI also has the reporting … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Personally I have not used any other platforms like Intercom and do not wish to search as of right now. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom The intercom is more intuitive and provides easier management and personalization of our conversations. It's been a while since I used Zendesk, so this might have changed, but Intercom provides a bigger catalog of functionality targeted to product marketing, such as emails, … Incentivized Helpful? Barry Pepper VP of Customer Experience Chose Fin by Intercom Noone has been able to standup to the level of service and product that Intercom gives us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom To compete with Salesforce, the main point is the pricing. Intercom has a very different budget when it comes to start ups and up and coming companies, which helps. To compete with other platforms, Intercom has a more developed interface and a super completa arrange of tools, … Incentivized Helpful? Ray Zwankhuizen Product Manager Chose Fin by Intercom No idea, see above. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom Several factors as pricing, customisation, ease of use, popularity, user-friendly and the continuous online support as well improvements helped us make this choice. Onboarding new colleagues to Intercom does not even take one day, it is so efficient and intuitive. If the … Incentivized Helpful? Agne Caunt Head of Customer Success Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom is much more flexible and modern than Zendesk, UI is better. Zendesk is better at multiple brand experience and localisation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom All tools that we used in the past, have a lot of problems on the chat app, our the syncing data between integrations, Intercom has too, but is very less than others. Incentivized Helpful? Samuel Linge Senior Sales Associate Chose Fin by Intercom Intercom has more polish. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Fin by Intercom We used Aircall for many years and it was a great tool, however as we scaled down our phone support usage it became expensive and cumbersome. Intercom phones offered a cheaper solution that turned out to be more efficient for our team to use as well. Incentivized Helpful?	Zoho Desk Greg Rellaford Account Manager and Retention Specialist Chose Zoho Desk We used HubSpot before, and it didn’t work very well for our needs. Zoho Desk is part of a much larger Zoho implementation. We’d like to have everything in one place, and Zoho provides that ability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho provides more bells and whistles comparted to the other platforms I have tried. The setup was easier and the transition was smoother. The support was much better as well. Whenever we would get stuck on something, support was a chat away and we always got the solution we … Incentivized Helpful? Sanjay Singh Business Development Manager Chose Zoho Desk I have used Asana and Zoho desk and decided to go with Zoho due to the ease of intergration into other applications and platforms, the more affordable costing, a faster mobile application and for the slightly better automation capabilities. Asana is nice but the cost and … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Almond Head of Customer Success Chose Zoho Desk We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow … Incentivized Helpful? Humayun Farooqi Customer Success Manager Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is easily a winner for trouble ticket handling as Bitrix24 was not offering any dedicated trouble ticketing tool and we had no option but to use the Tasks section of Bitrix24 to handle our existing customers. Also Bitrix24 neither did have any dedicated mobile … Incentivized Helpful? Rose Carmela Project Manager Chose Zoho Desk Vision Helpdesk and WixAnswers.com Incentivized Helpful? Sofia Martinez Accounting Consultant Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is always good at building different platforms for automation, so this one is also the best help desk platform available in the market. I can easily add the feedback with a report to easily convey the message accordingly. It can easily integrate with your existing … Incentivized Helpful? HK Hildah Kay Help Desk Technician Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk has an interface that is extremely simple and practical to use, for even clients who are not skilled. Again, Zoho Desk has no lead time, when customers air their views or complaints. Finally, Zoho Desk works/integrates effectively with several other products for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Over the years I have used a few different support software applications. One being Remedy software. That was pretty nice, but they lacked an isp version. I am currently a user of Atlassian Jira and am not a big fan at this point. It is very cumbersome to use. Incentivized Helpful? David Yates President Chose Zoho Desk After trialing and using Zoho Desk, we decided to move onto another product. Zoho has many features that make it a great product, but ease and intuitiveness of use was lacking for us. Incentivized Helpful? Dave King Director of IT Chose Zoho Desk We evaluated products that were not free, but due to budget reasons we could not justify a purchase. So this free solution stacks up among the best in my opinion for no cost. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk The quality of support provided by Zoho Desk is brilliant. Ease of setup is a very easy process. Also it meets all the requirements that can be expected from such kind of software. Zoho Desk is a company that can be easy to do business with. It is really headed in the right … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho [Desk] has much more quality of the information we required for our business than FreshDesk. It was also easy to work with Zohos different modules albeit based on department specific products than it was when we used Freshdesk. The Project management module was a … Incentivized Helpful? Jack Mattheus Human Resources Management Chose Zoho Desk • In the acquisition of Zoho Desk I did not have the final decision but I have contributed as my analysis in the implementation. We decided to switch services since this tool is much more complete in terms of functionalities that help us to easily resolve and follow up on our … Incentivized Helpful? María Fernanda Cruz Coordinator Chose Zoho Desk Value for money simply beats the rest. Also, as part of the Zoho Suite, integrations are wonderful, for example to CRM or consolidating Reporting with other apps such as Zoho Projects. Integration to advanced Analytics is also very helpful. In terms of features, they are pretty … Incentivized Helpful? Leonard Johnson Technical Support Chose Zoho Desk Atera had a lot of features. You could install an agent to monitor updates, and you could deploy AV. Zoho Desk was easier to go through tickets and replies. It felt like Atera had more features, so it was slower. At times you would want to search for an old ticket in Atera, and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk is easy to set up for small business needs, and its dashboard is well-suited for our organization's needs. We are on a social network, which also helps us to get users' and applicants' queries through the social platform. Another factor to start with it is its trial … Incentivized Helpful? Julien Bras Innovation Team Leader Chose Zoho Desk We have selected Zoho Desk because we already using Zoho CRM. Incentivized Helpful? Khashi Rahmani Territory Manager Chose Zoho Desk Desk.com was too complicated and was cost prohibitive. We had switched from Desk by Salesforce to Zoho Desk Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Useche Wordpress developer Chose Zoho Desk Zoho Desk comes at a better price, and it offers integration with other Zoho applications so you can keep your information in a single place. Their support is good and will guide you through many things. Also their API is similar to other Zoho platforms, so employees can … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Fin by Intercom

Zoho Desk

Incident and problem management

Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
	Fin by Intercom - Ratings	Zoho Desk 8.6 Ratings 7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Expert directory	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Ticket response	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings

Self Help Community

Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
	Fin by Intercom - Ratings	Zoho Desk 8.9 Ratings 13% above category average
External knowledge base	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Internal knowledge base	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

Multi-Channel Help

Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
	Fin by Intercom - Ratings	Zoho Desk 7.4 Ratings 5% below category average
Customer portal	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Social integration	00 Ratings	6.00 Ratings
Email support	00 Ratings	6.60 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Fin by Intercom	Zoho Desk
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User Ratings
	Fin by Intercom	Zoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.8 (0 ratings)	9.4 (0 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	5.7 (0 ratings)	8.7 (0 ratings)
Online Training	7.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.6 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Fin by Intercom	Zoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend	While Fin is an awesome investment, the setup and tuning of responses to meet brand alignment and delivery have taken some time. If you prioritize not just resolution rate and accuracy, but style and delivery, it's a bigger lift. However, for the vast majority of businesses, the step and its impact on resource management are a worthy investment. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy. Incentivized Greg Rellaford Account Manager and Retention Specialist Read full review
Pros	Great UI - everyone has their own inbox but can still see all incoming messages. Fin AI - we love the AI functionality, it saves tons of time of the team. Automated emails - we configured Intercom in a way that it uses a lot of information we have about our users (e.g. their subscription, date of upgrade, etc.) so that we can use it to automate communication. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Report features give the all insights of the customer team and customer support which enables us to make changes according to it. The best thing about Zoho Desk is that it has a very beautiful and fully designed dashboard. I have been using this software for a very long time in my organization, it is very easy to use with having the interface created on a very advanced module. It is completely a feature rich platform. Incentivized Sofia Martinez Accounting Consultant Read full review
Cons	Some things are repetitive. Ex: If you provide guidance to ask a follow-up question, it'll ask that follow-up question each time. It'd be cool to have a "vibe" check for auto-sorting. Ex: We have responses to our outreach feed into Intercom. It'd be cool to have a way to auto-sort based on if they ask a detailed question or just a plain "interested" response. It'd be cool if Fin by Intercom flagged conversations, like it a customer seemed agitated, for the team to review. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	When utilizing as a ticketing system, it would be nice to have a better way to monitor when something is due. It's just a little cumbersome. Search Functionality - The search functionality could use a tweak or two. Too many times I am unable to find tickets. This would also be very helpful for the "Recycle Bin" when you just need to find that ticket you accidentally deleted (we are all human!). :) Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It's currently a perfect fit for our needs, and we are customer-focused and small. When we grow, we may need to re-evaluate, but our current team finds it easy. Reviewing conversations is simple and allows for great training. The canned replies make service fast and easy. Smart suggestions remove the need to re-write technical walkthroughs and explanations for our FAQ Incentivized Ariana Thompson Support Operations Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	It takes a bit of getting used to. It's easy to start off with simple pieces of answering queries, etc. The real part is when one tries to use workflows with triggers and automation. Then, it can be a whole different experience. I would love to see it being much simpler in terms of usability there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Zoho Desk on operational capacity is the most effective help desk we have come across, as it is suitable for businesses of all forms and shapes, from large to small. Again, Zoho Desk captures the attention of all clients, and on time, offers solutions to their demands without failing. Lastly, Zoho Desk requires no extra skill to execute the program. Incentivized HK Hildah Kay Help Desk Technician Read full review
Reliability and Availability	always there Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Performance	works perfect Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Intercom is the premier customer support/engagement model and it definitely has one of the top tier customer support teams as well. I don't think I have ever waited more than 5 minutes to get the information I need or get help with an issue. They are incredible and I aim to model our customer service department after them. Incentivized LW Lukas Washack Operations Manager Read full review	Their support is excellent. They are always available to answer all your queries and doubts. Be it a call or email or even live chat. You will always get a prompt response from their customer support executives. They are very much familiar with the product and all its functionality. Sometimes you get stuck and don’t know what to do. They are always there for your questions Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Online Training	Easy to know the learning path Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	The implementation was surprisingly easy but we are having to adapt from our old process to work well with Intercom. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	In my experience, what Intercom has done with Fin by Intercom is far more innovative and forward thinking than other tools I've used. It's intuitive, easy, and they are always releasing new things to make Fin by Intercom even more powerful. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Zoho Desk is easily a winner for trouble ticket handling as Bitrix24 was not offering any dedicated trouble ticketing tool and we had no option but to use the Tasks section of Bitrix24 to handle our existing customers. Also Bitrix24 neither did have any dedicated mobile application for on the go usage which Zoho Desk has easily handled with applications for both Android and IOS devices. Incentivized Humayun Farooqi Customer Success Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	I like how I don't feel like I need to constantly be monitoring support, especially on weekends It's great that the user will get some response right away, I just need to hope that the response they do get is good enough if I'm awk Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	By running reports based on ticket, we can see how much time is spent on each customer and can manage these customers better based on what we see are there issues We can also run reports based on the types of queries customers are coming in with which allows us to develop our product based on actual customers needs as a whole. Automatic reporting once set up saves many man hours as new customers can be added automatically if required, and it saves having to build these reports monthly or possibly weekly Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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