Stonly vs. Zendesk Guide

Stonly seems to be very well positioned to handle both the initial customer onboarding and then the help channels for further education.

Incentivized

[Zendesk Guide] is well suited for any telecommunications company, especially in a work from home scenario. Zendesk Guide is basically an incentive for employees to not slack off and continue to provide excellent skills and services they were trained to do. The application is not necessarily appropriate for business's that don't utilize over the phone or web chat interactions.

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• knowledge bases
• company wikis
• onboarding

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• Easy to organize articles
• Easy to preview and publish
• Easy to edit
• Ability to add other users at different permission levels

Incentivized

• More features around tracking and understanding our users.
• Sometimes run into issues with development and connecting with existing components, which may require rework on our end to get up and running.

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• Some improvement needed to reviewing articles, as we can't do the reviews in the same place where we write and publish the article.
• Central KBs need to support version history, which some time lacks to give track of multiple review.

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The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again

Incentivized

Stonly is the only tool we have used for onboarding guides. We also use Zendesk to help create guides, but I don't think that is a good comparison. Stonly is much more focused on being within the application, whereas Zendesk is more documentation driven.

Incentivized

Freshservice also provides similar features to Zendesk Guide, however, I believe that it is not as good as Zendesk Guide. For example, in Freshservice, manageable and visibility permission can only be set at the folder level and not at the article level. Also security permission in Freshservice cannot be created from tags. This mean that without API calls or integration, admin has to assign employees to the specific manageable and visiblity permission group which is inconvenience and extremely manual. In our company, when there are more than 10 movements in a day as well as many employees hired and left in a month, doing this manually is not preferable

Incentivized

• Improved time to market for supporting documents.
• Provided a way for our content team to be autonomous.
• Helped us think more outside the box on how we tell user's about our new features.
• Helped migrate outdated users to our new applications.

Incentivized

• After the community came to us and we redesigned and made it more SEO-friendly and performance-efficient, its engagement increased by 30-40% in 1 Year based on different factors.
• It has returned the Invested money in best way possible and given the product a global name by distributing the queries and solutions to lakhs of community users.
• Increase in Page views by 32% in 1 year
• Increase in Community visits by 29% in 1 year
• Increase in Average Member online time by 54% in 1 year

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