We performed a comparison between Freshdesk and LiveAgent based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Help Desk Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's free of charge for us. For our scale of business, it's very important. We don't have a lot of tickets."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"I like that it's very user-friendly. The way they designed this application, any layperson can just do some drag and drop actions and use it. It's not that difficult. It's also easy to implement. The most important thing is, you don't need to go to this application to create a ticket. You just send out an email, and the ticket is created automatically. I have never seen a feature like this before."
"The most valuable features of Freshdesk are the automation of tickets to assign them to different agents, and the managing of documents is easy."
"The organization that is possible with other departments is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"It generated reports for us, which helped us identify the status of requests and the aging of requests."
"The ticketing system is smooth, but since we use a free version, we do not have many facilities available."
"Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system."
"Provides service level optimization."
"The most valuable feature was how the solution helped us to prioritize tasks."
"There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with."
"It would be helpful to pull reports or schedule them based on agents, users, ticket numbers, or responses."
"The dashboards are useful but could be so much better. As a product manager, and data scientist, we couldn't use the dashboard for analytics and had to move the data in Power BI."
"While it's good for a small number of tickets, definitely in the future, we will require something more powerful."
"It should enhance its service and its reporting capabilities."
"We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice."
"I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets."
"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."
"There are other products that are more popular."
"Connection to other softwares could be improved."
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Freshdesk is ranked 9th in Help Desk Software with 27 reviews while LiveAgent is ranked 33rd in Help Desk Software. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while LiveAgent is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of LiveAgent writes "Service level optimization is key as is the integrated email and chat functions". Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks and TOPdesk, whereas LiveAgent is most compared with . See our Freshdesk vs. LiveAgent report.
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