Freshdesk

Do you know Freshdesk? Let me tell you that it is a powerful user assistance software widely used nowadays due to its advantages.

But before we talk about the tool, let's put it in context to better understand how it works and how to use it. As you know, in e-commerce it is important to maintain a communication channel between customers and the business, to know their needs, problems, suggestions, and even increase our sales.

For this, there are several software that offer services that allow communications with customers through email, social networks, chats, among others. And this is where Freshdesk enters the scene.

What is Freshdesk

Freshdesk is a customer service software that allows you to serve your customers through chats, email, different social networks, and even platforms like WhatsApp Business. In a nutshell, it acts as a help desk that, as its website says, has everything you need to redefine the customer support department of any business.

Freshdesk Features

The services & features offered by Freshdesk lie in what has already been mentioned: customer communication. However, their services are quite extensive. Here are some of them

Recording of conversations

Freshdesk allows you to organize and assign tickets to attend to each user who communicates with the support department. But this system includes features like:

• Management and tracking of tickets from multiple channels in a single inbox.
• Management of deadlines for answering tickets.
• Detection of agents who are working at the same time on the resolution of the same ticket.
• Creation of customized ticket statuses.
• Automating repetitive tasks related to ticket management.
• Creation of automatic responses.

Team problem resolution

Freshdesk offers the valuable possibility of working in teams to solve customer problems in a faster, more organized, and efficient way. Within this service are these functions:

• Establish contact with workers from different departments within the company to solve a ticket or a portion of it.
• Possibility to share tickets with other teams and always be aware of their progress.
• Link related tickets.
• Management of primary and secondary tickets.

Cross-channel support

The options for customer support are varied: email, phone, Twitter, chat, Facebook, WhatsApp Business and website. But, for better customer service management, they can be unified and managed from a single platform.

Increased productivity

Freshdesk allows you to automate a large number of functions so that your team can work better. Among the automation options are:

• Intelligent ticket distribution and assignment.
• Time- or event-driven automation.
• Automatic email notifications.

Other services

In order not to make this article too long, I will mention some of their other outstanding services without going too much into detail:

• Automatic solution suggestion
• Forum moderation
• Linking of forum topics to tickets
• Reports based on various metrics
• Complete customization
• Advanced security options: SSL certificates, identity and access management, and more

Integrations

Freshdesk has a vast app market to integrate almost any tool, and a complete developers program.

Contact and CRM Integrations

• Amazon Seller Central
• Google accounts
• Shopify
• Salesforce CRM
• Freshdesk
• HubSpot & Hubspot CRM
• Zoho CRM
• Freshsales
• Freshsales Suite
• Freshdesk for Salesforce
• Zoho CRM
• And others

Communication and Collaboration:

• Microsoft Teams
• Google Calendar
• Google Hangouts Chat
• Google Hangouts
• Office 365
• Slack
• Teamviewer
• Zoom

Other tools

• SurveyMonkey
• Dropbox
• Google Analytics
• Google Contacts
• MailChimp
• PandaDoc
• QuickBooks
• WhatsApp

Pricing

Freshdesk offers 4 transparent pricing plans, including a free plan

Free plan

This option is suitable for up to 10 agents and offers integrated ticketing across email and social, ticket dispatch, a knowledge base, ticket trend report, out-of-the-box analytics and reporting, team collaboration, and 24×7 email support.

Growth plan – €18/agent/month

Includes automation, collision detection, 1000+ marketplace apps, in-depth helpdesk report, SLA management, custom email server, custom ticket views and fields, custom SSL, and 24×5 phone support.

Pro: plan – €59/agent/month

It offers advanced automation, multiple products, includes up to 5000 collaborators, round-robin routing, custom roles and reports, customer journey, canned forms, community forums, CSAT surveys & reports, multiple SLA policies, multilingual knowledge base, custom apps, and much more.

Enterprise – €95/agent/month (billed monthly)

This package includes bots like FREDDY for email, auto-triage, canned responses, article suggestions, and several other advanced features fit for enterprise-level support.

Who uses Freshdesk

There are currently many companies that use Freshdesk's services. Approximately 150,000 companies use it, including large companies such as HP, Bridgestone, DHL, among others. Trusted by over 60,000 businesses, notable names include Big Bus, Pearson, Decathlon, Aramex, and Orderin.

However, it is not necessary to have a large company to use Freshdesk services, as small and medium-sized companies can benefit from everything offered by this software.

Review

As an experienced Amazon and e-commerce consultant, I've seen lots of software tools to enhance the customer support experience. You know that, because I'm sure you read check this website from now and then. Freshdesk, without a doubt, has emerged as a formidable contender in this realm.

The key features I'd highlight are:

• Holistic Customer Support, thanks to an amazing app marketplace and integrations ecosystem you can link Freshdesk to your Whatsapp Business account, your Amazon Seller Central, your Shopify client dashboard… Freshdesk’s multi-channel approach ensures businesses don’t miss out on any valuable touchpoints
• Ticketing System with a touch of AI not only does it ensure efficient tracking and resolution, but the added ability to detect overlapping tasks using AI and automate repetitive activities is a must for businesses looking to work less in random operations
• The tool's emphasis on teamwork
• Automation, critical in the always-at-the-speed-of-light e-commerce environment. Freshdesk’s automation for ticket distribution, assignment and tasks are a game changer
• Transparent pricing and a free plan
• It's not just for the Big Players. Also caters effectively to small and medium-sized businesses as well

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