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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Akia

    N/AN/AN/A

    $43

    per month

    Help Scout

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AHelp Scout is help desk software. The vendor’s value proposition is that that their solution reduces time spent on training users because Help Scout is simple to use and set up and scales like any enterprise product. This solution includes multiple mailboxes to support as many email addresses as needed in order to work collaboratively across teams, and manage several products or brands from one account. Reports on conversation trends, team performance, productivity, and customer happiness are…

    $30

    per month starts with 100 contacts

    Pricing
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Editions & Modules
    Basic
    $43
    per month
    Standard
    $30
    per month starts with 100 contacts
    Plus
    $90
    per month starts with 200 contacts
    Company
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Considered Both Products
    Akia
    No answer on this topic
    Help Scout
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Akia and Help Scout
    Feature
    Akia
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.8
    19 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.118 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings8.119 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Akia and Help Scout
    Feature
    Akia
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.5
    17 Ratings
    8% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.015 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Akia and Help Scout
    Feature
    Akia
    -
    Ratings
    Help Scout
    8.0
    19 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Email support00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    User Ratings
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.1
    (19 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AkiaHelp Scout
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akia
    You can customise it to do what you want to do. Put in the work to learn the back and end and build your own guest journey. You are not limited like other competitors to how the guest flow goes, you build your own. Support are great in helping with this and always attentive
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    Small businesses that want a conversational type of customer support experience. Nothing wrong with support tickets, but it does make you feel like a number. Also, we needed to get up and running quickly so the "inbox" feel of the dashboard was already familiar with the team so they could adopt the new software quickly.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Akia
    • Fully Customisable
    • Great Support
    • There always seems to be a way to get what ytou want done
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    • Extremely simple to use and understand as a user - treats communications like human beings and provides a much more personal feel to communication (as opposed to making people feel like numbers).
    • The email newsletter.
    • They are super responsive. They are pretty rad and transparent: if something goes wrong on their end they are not afraid of admitting fault. Which leads me to trust them because I can believe them. I know that tells you very little about the product, but as leadership, that's something that I really need
    • Help Scout does exactly what it needs to (facilitate organized, efficient conversations between customers and support people) without getting in the way.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Akia
    • Intergrate with PMS payment methods, not only offer their own
    • Look at how it can be used better to manage the daily operation
    • Communicate between staff members in a SLACK like manner
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    • Trying to group tickets is a bit unflexible. You can create folders which can be part of a workflow (automatic trigger) but you can't create a folder based on tags. This needs to be improved because there's a need to create smarter segments and mix them.
    • Metrics are useful but there needs to be more details about them. You can drill down in some but others are still not very actionable or visible (ok, that number went down, but what was the cause? what's the criteria with what you measure that?)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Akia
    As great as AKAI is, its only issue is we cant take payments through our PMS - AKIA is reluctant to work with PMS payments as it wants to take payment itself. If this cant be navigated and other opportunities within our PMS appear that can do what AKAI does, it will force us to move in this direction
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    We are receiving feedback from the organizational level that they may want us to transition to a different solution to provide consistency across the company.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Akia
    Once you get past the blanc canvas and begin to build, you learn its capability and become ingrossed. Easy, user friendly once you get your head around the set up
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    Help Scout is a great solution for support teams. There are many articles and webinars to help you learn how to use Help Scout. There are also many features to help make your workflows easier and more efficient. I would readily recommend Help Scout to any small or medium-growing support teams.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Akia
    Exceptional support. Hopefully they grow enough to have world wide support. Can be problematic being in oposite time zones
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Akia
    Initially its a blanc canvas, once we got our head around that your good. It does take a fair few onboarding sessions to really learn. With the blanc canvas approached AKAI need to remember new buyers will be overwhelmed by this possibly
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Akia
    Much more customisable, does more, team far more ingaging and know what their product can do to build the product to you
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    Only have minimal experience with G-Suite for a much smaller company. This worked well for that organization but did not have similar specialization functions that suite our larger organization very well. Help Scout's pricing makes sense, and continues to service our needs well. Minimal usage of other programs, but have no need to explore alternatives at this time.
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    Return on Investment
    Akia
    • Huge saving in labour costs
    • As we are not so orientated to physical tasks to get the guest in, our team are more guest focused delivering better service and multi skill
    • Allows the guerst to check themselfs in, submit ID with face recognition and pay bond via all methods making it super efficinet for guest and the team
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout
    • We are able to retain our customer base due to the outstanding customer service our Customer Experience department provides. Without an organized tool like Help Scout, this would not be possible. We pride ourselves in quick response times to customers and are able to do so by effectively routing tickets to the right agents.
    Incentivized
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    Help Scout Screenshots

    Screenshot of Build better relationships with your customers, and work together better as a teamScreenshot of Tools designed specifically for team collaboration on customer supportScreenshot of Docs Knowledge Base provides self-service that sets your customers up for successScreenshot of The conversation report can change the conversation with your customers from problems to praise by pinpointing what they write in about and when.Screenshot of Productivity Reports track your team's customer-helping velocity and identify sticking points to push through with even greater momentum.Screenshot of Happiness Reports are the closest you can get to your customer's true feelings without hiring a telepath.