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    Freshservice

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AFreshservice is a cloud-based service desk and IT service management (ITSM) solution that currently serves more than 10,000 SMB, mid-market, and enterprise customers worldwide.

    $29

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    Freshservice
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $29.00
    per month per agent
    Growth
    $59.00
    per month per agent
    Pro
    $119.00
    per month per agent
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Freshservice
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    No
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Freshservice
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    Freshworks Inc
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice's UI and UX scheme is much easier to navigate than other products. Most modules or configurations are easily accessible via the admin section and workspace management is segmented off from global administration, allowing for business units to designate their own …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Fresh service stacks up against Deskpro and heftily outweighs it. Freshservice is able to handle more workflow. It is able to house more information. It is more of a solution than just assistance with help desk ticketing. They are two different platforms. Freshservice has more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshdesk is great, if you have a smaller team with a shared inbox, unfortunately, FreshService helped segregate data from our department and others departments, in a way that Freshdesk didnt provide.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Easy setup and a lot of customization which can be made.
    They offer the full ITSM tool for 75$ per agent and all the PRO are included in the package, which makes it easy to calculate and use.
    There are only a few add-ins that you need to pay for, based on the number of agents …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice is far superior in every aspect
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Pricing and ease of implementation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice is far easier to configure than Service-now. While service-now is perhaps better suited for large enterprise organizations, it requires a dedicated to administer. Freshservice on the other hand, is relatively easy to configure, but certainly targeted to smaller and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    It was not great, so we ended up not using after 1 year, and bought Freshservice
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice did a great introduction, took their time to setup sessions describing how they could help our business. They were easy to reach during POC and didn't try to give us more than we needed.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    I prefer Freshservice significantly because messages don't go away until you mark them as "resolved." With Slack, it is very easy to totally lose a message. With Workvivo, it is difficult to message at all—it connects with Slack for personal messages, but the functionality for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice has a much more complete package compared to Mojo Helpdesk, as it includes advanced automation, many integrations with 3rd party tools and asset management.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    I have used or evaluated ServiceNow, Zendesk, and Jira Service Management. ServiceNow is powerful but complex, Zendesk is great for customer support, and Jira excels in ITSM for agile teams.Freshservice stands out for its balance between usability and functionality, making ITSM …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Customization of FreshService was so much easier than ChangeGear. Creating forms for end-users was difficult and didn't always work the way we wanted. The nail in the coffin was when we had a support call set up, and the IT Director was on the phone waiting, but no one joined …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    The user-interface, Marketplace, out-of-box Orchestrations and ability for Admins to perform product specific configurations at much easier and faster pace is a much loved feature of Freshservice, when comparing it with other ITSM solutions.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Main reasons for choosing Freshservice where:
    - It has a user-friendly interface from agent use to configuration and administration.
    -High grade of customization options without a large use of external consultants.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    This is the first time I've been hired to do software management so unfortunately I have no prior experience with similar systems aside from a ticket system frontend. This speaks to how easy it was to setup and roll out Freshservice since I learned most of the inner workings by …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice offers way more tools, much better support and has a very clean and more modern interface compared to SysAid
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    Freshservice has a so many options which we have been extremely impressive with as it have some many options to ultize.

    KACE overall the application has limited functionality and works as a basic IT ticketing with.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    As we are a smaller IT team, and a medium sized organization, we found most options for an ITSM to be more robust and overkill for our needs. Freshservice hit the mark in terms of features and pricing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    The search list is WAY too hard to use - I have used
    Jira service management - Freshservice is WAY better
    ServiceNow ITSM, ITAM (SAM, HAM), ITOM, Project, Change - SNow is WAY better but also WAY WAY more expensive
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    We use Freshservice for our wider business but use Freshdesk, chat & caller for our customer service team. We believe Freshservice is a tool designed for IT & other departments and believe Freshdesk provides better tools for our customer service team.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    We went with Freshservice because it was the tool that offered us the most complete solution for what we needed vs the competition. And its interface was one of our favorites.
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    We used OTRS before Freshservice, and Freshservice is much easier to use and manage. We were checking on Service Cloud, as another branch of the company has implemented this, but there were a lot of features Service Cloud had problems with implementing that we take for granted …
    Incentivized
    Chose Freshservice
    I wasn't able to fully leverage ServiceNow in the past. I only used ServiceNow's ticketing portal. But by just basing the self-service portal and SNow's ticketing module, I'd say that Freshservices' interface is way more customer-centric and user-friendly. I may be wrong or …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    148 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    141 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    148 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    113 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    117 Answers
    Features
    Freshservice
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Freshservice
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.2
    142 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1142 Ratings
    Expert directory8.3100 Ratings
    Service restoration8.485 Ratings
    Self-service tools8.1126 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.9103 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation7.6117 Ratings
    ITSM reports and dashboards8.1122 Ratings
    ITSM asset management
    Comparison of ITSM asset management features of Freshservice
    Feature
    Freshservice
    7.7
    114 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Configuration mangement7.4106 Ratings
    Asset management dashboard7.5111 Ratings
    Policy and contract enforcement8.278 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Freshservice
    Feature
    Freshservice
    8.0
    109 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Change requests repository7.7103 Ratings
    Change calendar7.887 Ratings
    Service-level management8.4102 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    Score4.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Freshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (143 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.5
    (13 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    7.8
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (107 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    7.2
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.9
    (5 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    7.8
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    6.4
    (7 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.6
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.3
    (4 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Freshservice
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Freshworks Inc
    Freshservice is well suited for companies looking to implement ticketing / case management across the organization, but only if IT will be using it. Otherwise, I'd recommend Freshdesk. IT departments that don't function in the ITIL style of incident, request, change, and project management may find it overkill if they are only looking for a simple Help Desk solution.
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    Pros
    Freshworks Inc
    • The smartphone app is very well designed and adding assets from there is very easy
    • If you have questions or support, the support desk is fast to respond and setup a meeting to explain the features
    • Very customizable and everything can be easily changed with a wizard
    • Reporting feature does what it needs to do and is not complicated to work with
    • The overall ticketing system is very good and we have not run into any issues
    • The whole system is incredibly responsive and does not hang or freeze
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    Cons
    Freshworks Inc
    • To have more options on what to do with the emails that arrive in the support mailbox (which goes to Freshservice), Setting some special rules or detailed filtering is not possible.
    • Non 3rd party tools to connect to Intune are missing. Additionally, the third-party tool available in the store is not satisfactory. It would be nice to have native support for importing devices from our Azure cloud.
    • The contract requires you to prolong your contract end-date by two years instead of just one year, which to us is a bit aggressive.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Freshworks Inc
    We are pretty invested in Freshservice right now and have integrated it pretty heavily into our environment, so it would be hard to move away from it. For the most part, we are happy with Freshservice and the ease of use it gives us in managing tickets through the system. The only complaint we've had is customer service.
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    Usability
    Freshworks Inc
    The UI design of Freshservice is simple and intuitive. You don't have to be a technical expert to navigate your way into the different pages/modules available. There are no buttons that are hidden in plain sight. Even our HR team required little to no help when they started using Freshservice.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Freshworks Inc
    Downtime is minimal (it does happen but not often)
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    Performance
    Freshworks Inc
    Most reports are quick, however, it can take some time for emailed exports to come via email. It would be helpful to have the exports live in the system rather than having to wait on emails.
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    Support Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Support from OEM is decent but needs improvement. Sometimes OEM also needs to understand the criticality of the customer and help as an Ad-hoc, which is somewhat lacking at Feshservice. Although the normal support team is well-equipped and helps according to the matrix, if something critical for the partner or customer requires immediate attention, it still goes through the L1-L2-L3 levels, which wastes a lot of time.
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    In-Person Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Training was enough to use the base website
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    Online Training
    Freshworks Inc
    Their documentation is pretty good, but only available in English. This makes it difficult for some of our users to understand. There are also some basic video courses available.
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    Implementation Rating
    Freshworks Inc
    Creating the correct groups for the stakeholders and enabling the right notifications are one of the most important aspect of the implementation. Creating Change templates will also help in the long run and it's a good practice to create one, if applicable.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Freshworks Inc
    Easy setup and a lot of customization which can be made. They offer the full ITSM tool for 75$ per agent and all the PRO are included in the package, which makes it easy to calculate and use. There are only a few add-ins that you need to pay for, based on the number of agents or the number of executions.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Freshworks Inc
    Was not able to update us proactively about our renewal causing lost of access
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    Scalability
    Freshworks Inc
    The software is very scalable from a small to mid sized team. The features have seemed to scale exceptionally well.
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    Professional Services
    Freshworks Inc
    We did not have professional services.
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    Return on Investment
    Freshworks Inc
    • We had no ticketing system at all so we had no idea of the workload, we now do
    • We have been able to go from nothing to seeing workload to identifying areas for improvement by having the metrics
    • We have lowered MTTR every month since turning on fresh service
    • We have increased 1st all resolution every month
    • We have been able to start talking about real SLA's with the business
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