DCDial vs. Freshdesk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DCDial
Score 9.4 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
DCDial is a cloud call center provider located in Atlanta, GA USA. As a full-featured call center platform, DCDial renders a spectrum of services. DCDial offers solutions for a number of industries including but not limited to e-commerce, financial, healthcare, real estate, travel, insurance industries. DCDial allows integration facilities into existing CRMs as well as its own Cloud API to run with existing system. The vendor states that DCDial offers affordable and flexible pricing plans…N/A
Freshdesk
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer service software that helps businesses of all sizes to deliver customer support. Freshdesk converts requests coming in via email, web, phone, chat, and social into tickets, and unifies ticket resolution across channels. Additionally, Freshdesk lets the user automate workflows, provide self-service, manage SLAs, and measure metrics, to stay on top of customer support. Freshdesk also offers out-of-the-box features like an AI-powered support chatbot,…
$0
Up to 2 agents
Pricing
DCDialFreshdesk
Editions & Modules
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Free
$0
Up to 2 agents
Growth
$15
per month (billed annually) per agent
Pro
$49
per month (billed annually) per agent
Enterprise
$79
per month (billed annually) per agent
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
DCDialFreshdesk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
DCDialFreshdesk
Features
DCDialFreshdesk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
DCDial
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
DCDial
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.0
Ratings
2% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
DCDial
-
Ratings
Freshdesk
8.3
Ratings
6% above category average
Customer portal00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
IVR00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings7.80 Ratings
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User Ratings
DCDialFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
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8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
4.6
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
5.4
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.8
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
6.9
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
DCDialFreshdesk
Likelihood to Recommend
This software is very useful to all companies that want to increase their sales through customer service or call centers for their sales. It has worked very well for us, being able to solve minor failures, it is one of the best-priced software, compared to everything it offers.
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Freshdesk is really good for start-up companies that want to update their current system or buy a new one. It is the best option possible when it comes to having a structure, following up, and making a better strategy because you can always see what your team is doing, and you have some great reports to help you.
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Pros
  • I like that you can record the call you have with your customers, this way, we can, later on, review it and know the mistakes and successes we had.
  • It also allows call routing, so we can channel the different calls to different agents, depending on the customer and their requirements.
  • It allows us to integrate to the system, our CRM in use, to have in the same software all the management of activities and tasks. In addition, it has its own API integration to integrate much other software.
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  • Follow up on all conversations that enter and are easy to use by the employee and save responses ready for use.
  • Find out the average rate of the number of conversations that occur in the company and conduct the analysis.
  • There is a feature it allows one to take a permit in the name of the employee who responds to the conversation and to know the problem faced by the customer and the solution.
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Cons
  • I'd update their system design a bit to make it more visually appealing but it doesn't impact my productivity.
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  • Data Security.
  • SLA Policies where it is not customer / contract driven but agents / groups driven.
  • Audit Trail is not available in Pro version makes the tool adoption difficult from compliance perspective.
  • Chat Bot and Fresh Chat Services has greater potential to explode, but the pricing model tagged to chat bot sessions .are illogical as it limits the ability to use the fresh chat feature
  • Agent Logon Screen use earlier version of Captcha as it is annoying for the agents to login. Very frustrating experience.
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Likelihood to Renew
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My company that used Freshdesk was acquired by another company that uses Salesforce, so our only reason to keep Freshdesk would be records, but migrating the tickets, notes, and company details from Freshdesk to Salesforce was straightforward enough. Had the acquisition not occurred, we would have renewed Freshdesk because the cost of switching would've been too great in terms of price, time, and sunk cost (our Freshdesk customizations would not port over well).
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Usability
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I gave it a rating of 9 out of 10 because they delivered on everything we asked them to do. Easy to setup, easy to deploy to end users, easy to customize, easy to enter tickets and so much more. Our experience with their support is top notch! After opening a ticket for support they call use back within 10 minutes every time!
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Reliability and Availability
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I have encountered a lot of errors in the Freshdesk, however, they tend to resolve it on priority or at least they will share the timeline by when this can be resolved. Most of the time the issue has been from the other partner's end. They take time to resolve their vendor issues and they don't have any timelines in case of developed app errors.
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Performance
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The reports take a lot of time to download if the time period is large. Also, the tickets take their sweet time to open and load. It is not fast as Zendesk. Only 30 tickets are visible in a single go and there isn't any option to select all. If we need to change the pages and dashboards it takes a lot of time to open.
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Support Rating
I gave DCDial the 10/10 rating because our team loves DCDial ever since we had our initial demo with Haze and I personally got really impressed by DCDial's functionality.
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The main thing about Freshdesk user service is that once a request has been made for information about a feature of the platform, the support team responds to tickets quickly, within a day of writing and submitting them, with information that is concise enough so that there is no need to ask for help on the same topic again.
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In-Person Training
No answers on this topic
Support Team's knowledge and understood the company's requirement, and always shared the insight of the usage of the tool to it s full potential, moreover the team checks periodically to check if we using the tool right and if we are facing any kind of challenges. Also they would update us on new features that can make the work easy.
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Online Training
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Video tutorials, questions answers round before and after testing and Fresh desk team would always share best practices on the needs. Furthermore would periodically check if we are able to work smoothly. Would send alerts to known any issues, send recommendation on new features. Freshdesk team always available when we need certain advise.
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Implementation Rating
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Most important, Freshdesk is a user- friendly platform which directly supports interfaces and navigates user to start. Helps to provide multiple and complex documentation and troubleshooting. It provides build templates for different workflows and processes also refuces effort and time to implement and perform corporate tasks and complete the execution.
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Alternatives Considered
We have evaluated CallFire, CallHub, CloudTalk, and PhoneBurner, but unlike DCDial, none of them offer Click Campaigns that require us to press each phone number manually (non-automated dialing) to dial a specific person and ensure compliance at the same time. As the debt collection agency, we have to make sure we are fully compliant.
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I use Freshdesk over other similar products I've tested because the price difference and ease of use for the end user seem to me to be the most suitable for achieving a better return on investment within my company. I also found the various AI-powered automation tools to be more optimal and automated, without having to go through long learning curves.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
My company had Freshdesk agents from support and success. It's generally difficult to customize permissions for different agent "roles." We were a fully distributed company, so "multiple sites" doesn't apply to us. We found Freshdesk features lacking as we grew our customer base, and adding agents wasn't easy because price steeply increases with number of agents.
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Return on Investment
  • Our team managed to eliminate the number of unproductive calls.
  • We were able to increase agent connection rates.
  • Inbound callers are happy now because they don't have to wait in a queue (decreased customer wait time).
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  • Increased response times - Client Success maintains at 98% SLA for resolution
  • Categorization of feedback and issues - custom ticket fields make it easier for us to review why clients contact us on a high level
  • Standardization of internal procedures via templates, canned responses and automations
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ScreenShots

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