Help Scout vs. HubSpot Service Hub

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

I'd recommend HubSpot Service Hub for sure. When switching from a different platform to HubSpot Service Hub orgs and admins can count with a vast number of trainings in HubSpot Academy and most of them are free. This means users will find the resources they need without needing to reach for their superiors for training sessions or guidance.

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• 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

• It makes it easier for us to keep track of customer awareness and review in one spot.
• The great thing about how easy it is to use all of its fantastic tools.
• The ability to check customer retention.
• It's easy to track and measure the success of our organization's sales team.
• This is a fantastic all-in-one customer success suite that includes ticketing.

Incentivized

• It is a bit slow sometimes, but not very often.
• I've noticed more network errors with their server in the past year.
• Small annoyance - they use a lot of lightbox popups and if you click outside the box all of your work is lost.

Incentivized

• The app is a bit confusing and does not seem to have all of the features that the online browser does
• A bit expensive. I do think it is worth it because of the simpleness but it is a very pricy software
• Sometimes when you reach out to HubSpot Service Hub support, they send you a link to public articles instead of helping. But sometimes they do jump in and look

Incentivized

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

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

although it has room for improvements, this is still a very robust service hub for any type of software. An internal comment I often heard was, that if we were to make this as good as for example zendesk, it shouldn't have to feel like we must have external systems integrated to the HubSpot Service Hub (in zendesk, most things happen within the same system). I suppose this is more a matter of preference, because just like all other hubs, we see way more benefits of allowing our service working in the same way as the other departments (which won't happen if you have an external service system).

Incentivized

This is tricky because there's helpdesk apps and chat apps (now Help Scout offers both). We first used just an email inbox (of course not scalable but we were very small), then we turned to Freshdesk, which was painful to use. It had some cool features but in general it was ugly, slow, using the interface was very non-intuitive and the prioritization was hard. I have to say this was more than a year ago, so probably they have changed, but anyway. Zendesk is very expensive considering the features are almost the same AND the chat app needs to be paid separately. As chat we used Tawk.to, it was functional but metrics were not that good and it was buggy at times. Comparing Help Scout with their competitors, at least for us, made it a no-brainer to hire them. The price was very attractive considering the amount of features, the great support and the quality of the app. I don't regret my decision at all because Help Scout, unlike other helpdesk companies, tries to have their app "smart" and not a big, corporate thing piled with features. It does what it needs, it's easy to use and helps you achieve your goals regarding support for your customers.

Incentivized

We were previously using Salesforce.com for our Support Team Ticketing System. Our company implemented HubSpot Marketing Hub and were looking at the CRM Hub for sales/business development, so it made sense to use one system that could support our enterprise needs. We had a very bad experience with Salesforce.com - mainly customer support and billing issues. In my opinion, they have rested on their laurels for too long and got too big to take care of their smaller clients. We find the HubSpot Service Hub team members to be easier to work with and support to be better.

Incentivized

• 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

• Survey results allow is to determine a conference's success, regardless of registration numbers.
• The comments within the survey and the ease of aggregating those comments allow us to make changes based on the themes of the responses.
• There are other aspects of the tool that we will begin to use soon that we will be able to speak about in future reviews.

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