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,…
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Up to 2 agents
Vtiger
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Vtiger is a customer relationship management (CRM) solution with sales and marketing automation, project management, and inventory management capabilities.
$28
per month per user
Pricing
Freshdesk
Vtiger
Editions & Modules
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
One Professional - Single App
$28
per month per user
One Professional - Standard
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Single App
$42
per month per user
One Enterprise - Standard
$58
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Freshdesk
Vtiger
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
$10 / user / month
Additional Details
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Discounts are provided for both annual subscriptions, and for high volume users.
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Community Pulse
Freshdesk
Vtiger
Features
Freshdesk
Vtiger
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.6
Ratings
7% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets
9.20 Ratings
00 Ratings
Expert directory
8.00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
8.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
7.60 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission
9.00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Ticket response
9.30 Ratings
00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.0
Ratings
2% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
External knowledge base
8.10 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
8.00 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
8.3
Ratings
6% above category average
Vtiger
-
Ratings
Customer portal
7.50 Ratings
00 Ratings
IVR
8.20 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social integration
8.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email support
9.40 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration
7.80 Ratings
00 Ratings
Sales Force Automation
Comparison of Sales Force Automation features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
26% above category average
Customer data management / contact management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Workflow management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Opportunity management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Integration with email client (e.g., Outlook or Gmail)
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Contract management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Quote & order management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Interaction tracking
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Customer Service & Support
Comparison of Customer Service & Support features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.5
Ratings
23% above category average
Case management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Help desk management
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Marketing Automation
Comparison of Marketing Automation features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Lead management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Email marketing
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
CRM Project Management
Comparison of CRM Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
27% above category average
Task management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Billing and invoicing management
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Reporting
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
CRM Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of CRM Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.7
Ratings
25% above category average
Forecasting
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Pipeline visualization
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Customizable reports
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
9.3
Ratings
21% above category average
Custom fields
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Custom objects
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
API for custom integration
00 Ratings
9.00 Ratings
Social CRM
Comparison of Social CRM features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
10.0
Ratings
31% above category average
Social engagement
00 Ratings
10.00 Ratings
Platform
Comparison of Platform features of Product A and Product B
Freshdesk
-
Ratings
Vtiger
5.0
Ratings
38% below category average
Mobile access
00 Ratings
5.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
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.
Vtiger has evolved in the interfaces design. You can access all required data from one screen, similar to a control data. You have also sales and support dashboards predefined, but you can create your own. As less appropriate the templates design, it has not evolved from old versions of Vtiger.
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.
I love reporting. I can build a custom report using all or any of the dimensions of my choice. This is great when other programs often limit this ability.
I like that is a source of truth across the organization. We can all go in and see the same thing.
This also works for communication with our teams in other countries. We are a global organization.
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.
Although Vtiger integrates well with email, like most CRM systems it assumes that you have one email system and therefore it is less suitable for use cases where multiple email systems need to be supported.
Although Vtiger supports Twitter it does not support other social media systems in the same way. You can tailor the system to hold the URLs of your contacts' social media profiles but if SM is a big thing for your organization then there are better systems available.
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).
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!
In the Last versions they have done a strong effort in creating a powerful data screen. Inside the screen you have access to signing, communications with multiple tools integration and connections with all modules related. With a single view you have all control over your data relations. It is similar to a control managing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The selection of vTiger was done by my management team to be able to see invoicing status in Quickbooks. Unfortunately, this feature has never worked but I think this might be a problem on our end, not a vTiger issue. We looked at Salesforce, HubSpot CRM, and ACT before making the switch to vTiger
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.