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Freshdesk vs UserVoice comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Freshdesk
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
41
Ranking in other categories
Customer Experience Management (3rd), Field Service Management (3rd), Help Desk Software (5th), Knowledge Management Software (5th)
UserVoice
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Customer Feedback Management (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Customer Relationship Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Freshdesk is designed for Customer Experience Management and holds a mindshare of 2.2%, down 5.9% compared to last year.
UserVoice, on the other hand, focuses on Customer Feedback Management, holds 4.1% mindshare, down 8.6% since last year.
Customer Experience Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Freshdesk2.2%
Qualtrics XM Platform3.6%
Genesys Cloud CX3.3%
Other90.9%
Customer Experience Management
Customer Feedback Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
UserVoice4.1%
Qualtrics XM Platform13.4%
Sprinklr10.0%
Other72.5%
Customer Feedback Management
 

Featured Reviews

Gauri Thakur - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Portfolio Projects at Microland Limited
Integrated support workflows have provided a unified view but need broader enterprise flexibility
Freshdesk's scalability could be improved for larger businesses across departments. Its intuitive interface is appealing for small to medium-sized businesses. However, when you look at larger enterprise levels, ServiceNow operates more efficiently. This scalability is an area where Freshdesk could expand its offerings. Additionally, I don't have too much hands-on experience with Freshdesk ticket routing. I need to check with the service desk team if they've used it. Similarly, for analytics capability, I haven't explored much on Freshdesk, but I have done it for ServiceNow. I have seen a lot on ServiceNow and the BMC Remedy, so I can speak better for them. I haven't had the chance to look at it so much that I can do a comparison. I haven't had much experience with Freshdesk's reporting. Within its paradigm of customer service management, Freshdesk is quite scalable. But I've said that inter-department and the interoperability is better off in ServiceNow than in Freshdesk.
it_user494850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of Client Support at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
The knowledge base was instrumental in elevating our self-help tools for clients. We took all of our user guides to the cloud, as well as other client-facing documents.
I would like to see more flexibility in UserVoice when it comes to content sharing / privacy. We have clients with custom builds, and I would like to have an easy way to host all of their custom content in the same KB and maintain those articles that are only visible to those clients. When I was with ReadyPoint, we had public content (applicable to every client) and private content (applicable only to one client's customizations, etc.). We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost."
"Getting Freshdesk was like a breath of fresh air because it was simple to use and required zero or negligible training effort on the part of my team."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the way that it connects to various folders especially because we use it as a CRM tool. We can connect it with our phones and our chat, and also with the API and have it as an email service. Freshdesk just makes our life easier."
"Overall, this is a good and robust solution that offers an extensive number of features that we have not yet used."
"These features are easy to use, and the filtering is really good, providing a good overview of active tickets and who's working on them."
"Freshdesk provides a plain vanilla solution, making it user-friendly and less complex."
"The built-in customer satisfaction surveys made it easy for us to see areas that need improvement, and the ticket automations allows us to set priorities on incoming tickets based on who is submitting it."
"It is very easy to make reports."
"I can respond to customers extremely fast, which helps reinforce our company's image and culture as a friendly and responsive startup."
"If your core team of support and content managers adopts this platform and works within its structure, they'll benefit from a clean, easy-to-handle interface that grows quickly and makes their lives much easier!"
"It has helped us to improve our response time to users, thus giving them a better experience from support."
 

Cons

"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."
"I would like a better integration towards Azure DevOps. The current integration is more complicated and doesn’t work as well."
"For integrations, we need to write code that communicates with their system in order to enable certain functionality in the system. This is a lot of work for their customers."
"Freshdesk I do not like as much. It's much more time-consuming; it's much more complicated."
"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."
"The most frustrating thing is definitely the solutions center customization."
"It should enhance its service and its reporting capabilities."
"They were just constantly trying to get us to implement break fix after break fix after break fix instead of putting us on the right product in the first place. It wasted a year's time and money."
"We were told by UserVoice that there was not a way to control who could see what content on a KB at the article level, and so parts of the information available on the KB (for example, the article about logging in and password setup) was not applicable to a large section of our clients (who had a custom login screen), and therefore caused lots of confusion."
"Right now, I can only respond to customers. I really want the ability to compose and send a message to individual customers prior to them contacting us."
"The idea forum is lacking in features, it doesn’t allow you to attached files when commenting on an idea."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."
"The best system plan is enterprise. It costs basically 79 Euros per agent per month when it's billed annually and 95 Euros per agent per month when it's billed monthly."
"It is costly."
"We pay approximately $70 per agent to use Freshdesk. We have 10 agents, which is approximately $700 or $800 per month. It is a fixed license, there are not any additional fees."
"We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. Weirdly enough, we pay more for Freshdesk than we do for Freshservice. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. You can get different bundles, and you can always move to different plans that are standard. Freshservice can go anywhere from $19 up to $120 per agent, per month. There is such a wide range, and it is very customizable to your needs."
"We use a licensing model only so we pay for the number of agents we have configured in the system only."
"It was definitely not expensive. It was two grand or maybe three grand total for a year. It has just straight and simple standard licensing fees. There is no additional fee."
"The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
University
7%
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Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
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Small Business28
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise14
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Freshdesk?
I think the main problem with Freshdesk is the deep settings, interface, and analytics. When you need complex cross-functional reports, such as a link between tickets and CRM data or a specific vis...
What is your primary use case for Freshdesk?
My main use case for Freshdesk is customer support tickets. A specific example of how my team uses Freshdesk for customer support tickets is that it was a pre-integrated Freshdesk tool with Jira, w...
What advice do you have for others considering Freshdesk?
My advice for others looking into using Freshdesk is to consider that compared to Zendesk or Salesforce, where the settings might take months, Freshdesk can allow you to launch it in just a few day...
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