Intercom VS Freshdesk

Intercom Reviews

1. Eleanor Bennett    

   Digital Marketing Specialist at Logit.io | 11 months ago
   An essential communication tool

   Intercom provides a lot of value to us. From live chat to email marketing and even helping us to create support documentation, Intercom handles a lot of key moving parts that are essential to keeping customers happy.

Freshdesk Reviews

1. Brian Howard    

   Owner at BarSight | 9 months ago
   Does what it says on the box

   Freshdesk provides a free helpdesk system so we can manage our support tickets. They have the feature that allows us to send emails through our own email address (vs using their own email address), and an app that works well to respond and organize tickets.

   My biggest gripe with the service is that they are missing a feature that HelpScout has, where we can reply directly to the notification email and that reply gets sent to the customer. With freshdesk, we have to log into their portal or use the app in order to send a reply.

   🏁 Competitors: HelpScout, Zendesk

   👍 Pros:    Straightforward|Free basic plan

   👎 Cons:    Missing a feature

Intercom mentions (6)

• I started affiliate marketing, but with a twist

  Use chatbots to automate customer service: Chatbots use natural language processing to communicate with customers and answer their questions. By integrating chatbots into your affiliate marketing strategy, you can automate customer service and increase engagement with potential customers. This can lead to more sales and higher commissions. (Crisp, Intercom). - Source: Reddit / about 1 month ago

• How to embed a web application into another website via API?

  I am trying to create an application that will work on a customer's website. Much like tawk.to or intercom.com. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• Here's how I'd figure out the go-to-market for a Customer Support SaaS

  My way of doing marketing starts with figuring out what my overall project will (or will not) be. In this case, I looked at the vendors like Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, or Help Scout. They all have whizbang features such as live-chat, collaboration stuffs, automations and workflows. They bill per contact and addons. I’d emphasize a straightforward, fuss-free angle instead. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago

• Chat widget with react.js

  I wanted to know the best practices of developing a widget. So I went through the popular implementations of it. I liked Intercom's widget very much. It is written in React. I analyzed how it works. The minimal javascript is loaded async on the webpage. It is injecting an iframe with id intercom-frame. That iframe has a script in it's head with a source URl. Obviously it is React bundle. - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago

• What PRODUCT TOUR software do you like for an early SaaS?

  If you're looking at it to guide new users through onboarding, Intercom is pretty good. - Source: Reddit / 12 months ago

Freshdesk mentions (9)

• Beware, read carefully and make conclusions

  Since Freewallet is a quite small company they outsource their "support" from this Indian startup the communication is quite complicated. If the company doesn't want to spend more money in order to hire a good support engineer, and instead prefers to save some money by going offshore. Then this companies' customers swill suffer. - Source: Reddit / 3 months ago

• What Ticket Systems do ya'll use?

  We use Freshdesk from Freshworks. Works great for us. No real complaints. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• Best service/product to use to handle customer service inquiries?

  Take a look at freshdesk.com, they have a free tier. - Source: Reddit / 9 months ago

• By Crayons and For Crayons

  The below is a demo of the Crayons Playground in action. It shows how to build the user interface by dragging and dropping components, updating their properties, testing them in a Code sandbox like JSFiddle, check the generated HTML code and finally download the project as a Marketplace app. You can also see the app in action in the Freshdesk product. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Here's how I'd figure out the go-to-market for a Customer Support SaaS

  My way of doing marketing starts with figuring out what my overall project will (or will not) be. In this case, I looked at the vendors like Zendesk, Intercom, Freshdesk, or Help Scout. They all have whizbang features such as live-chat, collaboration stuffs, automations and workflows. They bill per contact and addons. I’d emphasize a straightforward, fuss-free angle instead. - Source: Reddit / 11 months ago