We performed a comparison between Freshdesk and Salesforce Service Cloud 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."The organization that is possible with other departments is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"Omnichannel is one of the most valuable features of the solution."
"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."
"Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour."
"It's free of charge for us. For our scale of business, it's very important. We don't have a lot of tickets."
"The ticketing system is smooth, but since we use a free version, we do not have many facilities available."
"It is quite easy to program custom apps and integrate them."
"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 product's initial setup phase was straightforward."
"Salesforce Service Cloud is a user-friendly and flexible CRM tool that provides good accessibility and security."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the traceability of actions."
"The three major pillars of Salesforce Service Cloud are the SSL, Chatter, and the Dispatcher Console, which routes calls to the technicians."
"The complexity of the solution is very less."
"I don't have the specific details, but I'm aware that Salesforce is used for campaigns, decision-making processes, and order submissions. I'm currently in the learning phase and not familiar with all the details."
"There is an out-of-the-box feature for reporting and analytics"
"The most valuable feature of Salesforce Service Cloud is its ease of use."
"It should enhance its service and its reporting capabilities."
"Technical support is not the best. It could be much, much better and offer better support to users."
"Sometimes our requirements are not matched with Freshdesk's free version as most of the advanced features are not available to us."
"There are some restrictions where you need automation and sometimes there is just no way to achieve what you need."
"There aren't any features that we want to enhance, but we need to mature in our usage of some of them. I can't say any feature is missing or needs improvement, but a tool's built-in features need to evolve customer feedback. We have a dialogue set up for that kind of feedback."
"Asset management and branding are two areas in the solution that have scope for improvement."
"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."
"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."
"The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved and enhanced."
"There is room for improvement in pricing."
"The pricing for what Salesforce Service Cloud offers is not great."
"Salesforce Service Cloud's report functionality could be improved."
"The governor limits are a troubling feature of Salesforce"
"We've started using a couple of AI engines. I believe there's room for improvement there. For instance, when an agent receives a message like "My order is stuck midway, and the delivery guy isn't responding," there should be a pre-populated recommended response on the agent's screen. Instead of crafting a custom reply or searching through knowledge articles to find the delivery guy's contact, this should be the process."
"Knowledge Management platform could use some intelligence improvements. Data mining techniques for recommending the most relevant knowledge articles would be beneficial. Currently, that selection process is more administrative. AI could be used here."
Freshdesk is ranked 9th in Help Desk Software with 27 reviews while Salesforce Service Cloud is ranked 8th in Help Desk Software with 43 reviews. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while Salesforce Service Cloud is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Salesforce Service Cloud writes "High scalability with good plugins and excellent customer visibility". Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks and TOPdesk, whereas Salesforce Service Cloud is most compared with ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, JIRA Service Management, Vlocity and BSI. See our Freshdesk vs. Salesforce Service Cloud report.
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