TrustRadius Insights for Freshservice are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Consolidation of Email Tickets: Users have praised the platform for consolidating email tickets in one accessible location, improving efficiency by centralizing communication channels. This consolidation simplifies ticket management and enhances collaboration among team members.
Workflow Automation Capabilities: Reviewers appreciate the workflow automation capabilities which boost productivity and streamline processes, making task management more efficient. The automation features help users save time on repetitive tasks and ensure a smooth workflow across different teams.
Asset Management Feature: The asset management feature is highlighted as beneficial for tracking assets within a single application, providing users with a comprehensive solution for managing resources. This feature enables organizations to keep track of their assets effectively, leading to better inventory control and resource optimization.
Freshservice is our ITSM tool of choice. With its scope of ITSM management suites, we are able to effectively manage Ticketing, Change Management, Asset Tracking, Project Management and live support all from an easy to use user interface. We are able to provide a visual service catalog to our end users and provide real time updates to ticket submissions and service requests through a service portal that is maintained easily through a comprehensive Administration panel.
Pros
Ticket Management
Change Management
Workflow Automation
Cons
Project management does not include agile methodology
Some admin features are not intuitive or well organized
Pricing and feature plans can be expensive
Likelihood to Recommend
Integration of the different Fresh modules can be very easy to accomplish, such as Fresh chat for live Agent chat and ticket creation. These integrations can be performed at a basic admin level, not requiring a code savvy developer to implement. The workflow automation is done very similarly, requiring basic understanding of flowcharting and decision trees to develop without requiring the understanding of code heavy development.
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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)
Freshservice started as an ITSM replacement project and has since expanded to 6 other departments in our company, with the prospect of continuing. In our case, we wanted to modernize our incident and service request handling practices. Moving away from manual, repetitive tasks, strengthening relationship with customers, and empowering technical teams to provide quality, efficient support. Our management teams also benefited from the ability to view insights quickly, and the continued progress of the platform has enabled progressive growth, and continual improvement. Customer transparency has greatly benefited from automated responses, SLAs, customer portal, service catalog and easy communication. While our technical teams are able to communicate better, handle escalations and improve their overall ticket management practices. Analytics and Automation really add an extra layer for us. We can make educated, data-driven decisions, and continue moving away from repetitive tasks by leveraging automation and apps.
Pros
Workflow automator
Service Catalog
SLAs
Business and Supervisor Rules
Custom Object lists
Customer Portal
Cons
AI/Chat
Multi-agent assignment for single ticket
Snapshot analytics
Granular roles
Likelihood to Recommend
The constant level of improvement is well suited for organizations that are on a similar path. There is great support from account managers, technical resources, documentation and other programs. The UI is intuitive, the system is easy to learn and navigate.
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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use Freshservice as our service solution for IT Help Desk services. We also use it as a place to track our problems and solutions. We can see which ones recur and find previously worked on problems, thus leading us to the current solutions. We store our Knowledgebase for IT members on Freshservice platform. Here we create documentation and SOP for our department. We also track changes through the platform. We can see what changes are being implemented and have completed. It's used for analytics and reporting; we can create widgets to see statistics as well. We can map out projects, too.
Pros
Help desk ticketing
Knowledge Base
Problems and Solutions
Cons
Would like to see easier to use reporting
Would like to be able to design more widgets for team members to see statistics
Would like to be able to compile information and results easier
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshservice is great for implementing a help desk solution for your organization. It's got many features and can combine some of your software into an easy-to-use platform. We not only use it for the ticketing program, but also for articles to help solve the tickets. We can document past problems and map new and tried-and-true solutions.
We use FreshService to streamline our interaction with clients. We previously used a number of shared inboxes, which lead to a great deal of confusion when working tickets. FreshDesk provides a streamlined way for all our technicians to work on issues, as well as a single pane of glass for our clients to reach out to us. So far we have implemented FreshDesk with two of our departments, and the success has been great!
Pros
Knowledge Base & Solution Articles
Workflows & Automations
Enabling Collaboration Across Teams
Cons
I would kill for there to be markdown support in the knowledge base section and the ticket notes section. Alot of our notes are already in markdown, so copy and pasting them into the knowledge management section is kind of a pain at times.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think, if you have a shared inbox with more than 5 or 10 team members, its worth 100% migrating to a ticketing system in general. We have tried a few in the past, but Fresh Service just happened to provide us a great experience. If I ever stand up a ticketing system again, I 100% would recommend this application to someone.
We use our fresh service platform for the following things. - Ticketing (Incident, Service Requests) - CMDB(asset management) together with the Intune (notebooks, smartphones, desktops), Freshservice Agent (for non Intune clients), Freshservice Probe (SNMP devices), VMware (for onPrem storage, vms, networks), Azure (for all Azure resources) and AWS (resources) Connector - Tasks - Changes - Software assets - Contracts - Product catalog(for assets)
Pros
Ticket routing
Incident, Service, problem, change management
SLA management
A lot of individual customizing is possible
Cons
Workflow management is hard to troubleshoot
Some default fields can't be changed
FAQ has no history
Work flow management can't be managed via API or a command line
Service Requests and contracts have no possibilities to choose how pricing will be calculated, like per month, per user, per year, per lifetime...
Automatic backup of assets and FAQ is not possible
Likelihood to Recommend
Offers a full ITSM suite, and core things like incident, service, and problem management are working well. But functionalities like Software, Contracts, and purchasing are too limited.
Workflow management offers various integrations like Active Directory, Entra-Id, Smartsheet, etc. But it is difficult to troubleshoot.
It Helpdesk and ticketing. It keeps are techs organized. Provides data to upper management for kpi. We are very happy with the product.
Pros
Ticketing
Workflow
Third party integrations
Cons
Asset management
Documentation
Onboarding
Likelihood to Recommend
We really like the ticketing features. Also provides data for our KPIs. We use the onboarding feature but would like some more flexibility. Support is responsive and helpful. Also pricing is very good compare to competitors.
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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Powerful but yet simple to use and configure yourself. It has the foundational capabilities to support the IT Service Managament framework with good support online.
Pros
Easy to use administration functions.
Clean and simple design for end users.
Feature rich mobile application.
Good documentation and online support.
Cons
The Solutions module is a bit too basic especially the text editing part.
ServiceBot agent is not able to answer queries correctly. It should be an agentiatic AI.
Requestor page does not have a search function making it hard for large organisations with thousands to users to find the right person.
Likelihood to Recommend
Easy to use self-configuration that doesnt require expensive consulting services.
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Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Freshservice is our one-stop IT service management platform. We leverage it for request management, incident management, and asset management. It allows us to build customized automated workflows based on predefined conditions allowing us to render better service to our end user population. The integrated apps allow us interact with 3rd party systems allowing us greater flexibility.
Pros
3rd party app integrations
automated workflows
seemless integration with a Slack based service bot
Cons
3rd party apps have limited support and documentation
vendor offshore support can be spotty at times
asset management can be tricky to fully map all desired field items
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshservice was relatively easy to get started as a rapidly growing small business. We are able to fairly quickly establish basic workflows to enable end users to submit tickets on relatively short notice. It was easy to set up a service catalog. The integration with an automated service bot enables our end users to quickly find documentation to resolve their own issues before the need to even raise a ticket.
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Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (51-200 employees)
We use Freshservice to track 1) SAP Support issues and 2) Mobile App support issues. It helps us a) prioritize the tickets easily b) easily move from one Agent to another c) keep track of all the discussions of a ticket in one place and not in company emails d) Make sure that all the tickets are addressed in a timely manner. e) Do some analysis of how many tickets we are getting on weekly basis f) Also, using it as knowledge base for future tickets. g) Option to check tickets from mobile phone also and respond. This is really good when we are out of office and not infront of the computer.
Pros
Helps keep all the discussions from multiple people in one place.
The dashboard is good for managers as they can see tickets at high level
The Announcements are a nice feature, to send any updates or notifications to the entire organization
Cons
Ability to create 'Statuses' at each 'Group' level. It is all or nothing for the entire organization
When there is a image embedded, you cannot click and zoom to make it big.
I have heard that creating workflow automator is little tricky. Ability to create workflow at each Group level would be great.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited as a ticketing system.
Not sure about Assets and Projects. We tried to use Projects but never got a hang of it and did not use it.
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Verified User
Vice-President in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
We use Freshservice for incident handling, service requests, inventory management, problem management and change management. We support sites globally around the world and has a broad variety of tasks coming our way from installing simple hardware/software to large IT projects. Freshservice is a great platform to automate our processes.
Pros
Workflow automation
Analytics reporting
Features
Inventory management
Cons
Automation of inventory management
Limited Individual workspace options
Likelihood to Recommend
Freshservice has different plans according to your business size/needs, so no matter what it's a great product and can be very simple to use if required.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Information Technology (501-1000 employees)