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Freshdesk pros and cons

Vendor: Freshworks
4.1 out of 5
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PROS

Freshdesk automates ticket creation through emails, saving time and effort.
Users can easily integrate Freshdesk with other tools such as Jira, enhancing its functionality.
Freshdesk offers valuable features like omnichannel support and efficient ticket assignment automation.
The system improves ticket response and resolution times significantly.
Freshdesk's knowledge base and technical support are highly effective and beneficial.

CONS

Technical support needs significant improvement and the handling of tickets by multiple team members is inefficient due to the parent-child hierarchy.
There is a lack of flexibility in reporting templates and automation, and users desire the ability to change email subjects.
Dashboard and analytical capabilities require enhancements, and the process of integrating code for functionality is cumbersome.
Restrictions in integrating tools for app reviews and social channels like Twitter incur additional costs, limiting function.
More advanced features in Freshdesk's free version are insufficient, with users needing improvements in report scheduling and account management visibility.
 

Freshdesk Pros review quotes

reviewer1960482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
Their knowledge base is phenomenal. The way that it learns from our users is awesome, and responses are really awesome as well. It does a pretty good job of picking up what's needed. The knowledge bases are great.
DS
Nov 16, 2021
It is quite easy to program custom apps and integrate them.
reviewer1580043 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 22, 2021
Its simplicity is most valuable. It is easy and simple, and it requires negligible training effort. I don't spend all my time goofing around trying to find stuff in the ticketing system.
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DB
Dec 28, 2021
Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour.
PV
Nov 19, 2021
The feature that I have found most valuable is the way that it connects to various folders especially because we use it as a CRM tool. We can connect it with our phones and our chat, and also with the API and have it as an email service. Freshdesk just makes our life easier.
AA
Nov 10, 2021
I like that it's very user-friendly. The way they designed this application, any layperson can just do some drag and drop actions and use it. It's not that difficult. It's also easy to implement. The most important thing is, you don't need to go to this application to create a ticket. You just send out an email, and the ticket is created automatically. I have never seen a feature like this before.
reviewer1752960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 28, 2021
The user experience on the platform itself is fantastic. The UI is clean and uncluttered, so it's easy to find any information about your customer or the issue at hand. You can find out the person responsible for that particular issue, what the problem is, who the stakeholders are, and how to resolve it. There are lots of tools that will help you do that as well.
Jovana Pavlovic - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2022
It is very easy to make reports.
FR
Aug 28, 2023
It generated reports for us, which helped us identify the status of requests and the aging of requests.
Alexey Timchenko - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2024
Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost.
 

Freshdesk Cons review quotes

reviewer1960482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
If Freshdesk had forms in it so that I could go to the portal and fill out a service request, that would improve it immensely and make it more valuable for enterprise customers, but that's not a current functionality. You can't have a certain catalog of any type. You can't be like, "Hey, I want to just go submit a ticket," and then type in. You can't prompt them to ask anything. It is just a blank form.
DS
Nov 16, 2021
There are some restrictions where you need automation and sometimes there is just no way to achieve what you need.
reviewer1580043 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 22, 2021
We have many cases where a ticket comes in, and it ends up having multiple team members working on it. It would be really nice to be able to assign a single ticket to multiple people, rather than having to create the parent-child hierarchy that they have set up. It generates a proliferation of tickets that I really don't want to have. Having to jump from a parent to one child and then to another child makes it harder for me to be able to see the entire case from end to end. A simple example is our new hire process or our termination process. We have people who leave. We also have people who come on board. We have got multiple people participating and doing things related to the leaving or onboarding process. Currently, I have to go to different tickets to be able to see whether all tasks are really done or not. If I could assign lots of people to one ticket, it would be really nice.
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DB
Dec 28, 2021
For integrations, we need to write code that communicates with their system in order to enable certain functionality in the system. This is a lot of work for their customers.
PV
Nov 19, 2021
I would like to be able to change the subject in emails for ourselves. If we could have the option to do that, it would improve our speed and the overall cleanliness of the CRM.
AA
Nov 10, 2021
There are a few things we have asked for, like a forward button. When a ticket comes in, we forward it, but it doesn't sync up with the forward. That is the one they have to rework. The other is when we forward the ticket, it doesn't go all, or certain things don't go with it. We have told them about it, and they are working on it. It would be better if they gave us a more standard reporting template. Although they already have some, many aren't usable. It would be easier if we had more templates to work with.
reviewer1752960 - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 28, 2021
There aren't any features that we want to enhance, but we need to mature in our usage of some of them. I can't say any feature is missing or needs improvement, but a tool's built-in features need to evolve customer feedback. We have a dialogue set up for that kind of feedback.
Jovana Pavlovic - PeerSpot reviewer
May 16, 2022
Having so many tags makes everyday work a lot more complicated, and a lot more time-consuming.
FR
Aug 28, 2023
I would like to see a little bit more color in the solution.
Alexey Timchenko - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 26, 2024
I would like to see improvements in the account management aspect, having a customer portal for better visibility into my subscription, invoices, and trouble tickets.