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Freshservice pros and cons

Vendor: Freshworks
4.0 out of 5
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PROS

Freshservice offers strong workflow automation, routing tickets to the appropriate person based on certain actions, enhancing overall efficiency.
Its ease of integration is highlighted, allowing quick additions like change management, and requiring little time for setup.
Freshservice's flexibility and customization in certain areas like notifications and workflow changes are appreciated.
The platform speeds up operations significantly with automated tasks such as ticket responses and call assignments.
Users appreciate Freshservice's ability to facilitate a shift from a function-based to a process-oriented approach within organizations.

CONS

Reporting and management information are limited, restricting realistic and timely reporting on incidents and workflow management.
Freshservice doesn't allow multiple plans within one subscription, limiting flexibility in assigning plans to different users.
Technical support has issues with delays and lacks consistent integration with third-party applications like Microsoft Outlook and Google.
Data import can be problematic with large amounts getting stuck, reducing reliability compared to similar platforms.
Asset management needs improvement as it fails to detect all devices and requires manual data entry.
 

Freshservice Pros review quotes

reviewer1960482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good.
EM
Sep 7, 2022
Depending on the size of your organization, is pretty standard and useful.
Mark Freemantle - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 19, 2022
It has a very easy, flexible model. You can open up a particular module and work on the next. That's what we did. Overall, it provides a simple way of getting your support teams up and running. That was one thing that I thought was quite easy to do.
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reviewer1710462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 4, 2021
I do like the workflow automation capabilities, where based upon certain actions, it will automatically go and route tickets to a particular person. It is fairly user-friendly.
GeorgeMartin - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 29, 2022
The most valuable feature is the sandbox, which allows me to test new configurations, automations, and workflows before taking them live on the production system.
Tim Guilder - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
Ability to scan barcodes and a great search feature.
Curtis Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2022
We really like the Freshchat widget that allows people to engage with our FAQs on any kind of webpage or web property.
reviewer1086876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2022
What I have seen in Freshservice is there's no room for customization. Which works as an advantage in some cases and it works as a disadvantage in others. If you are someone that starts managing your IT services, it is a great solution, because there's no way to go out away from the direction of the system. You have to follow the process as it was intended for the designers of a solution because there's no room for customization or configuration.
CQ
Dec 30, 2020
The overall functionality of the product is excellent.
Eslam Adel - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2022
It has reduced the time to look up who is responsible for a service, and it has reduced the time to finalize a service request because it now goes directly to the person who is responsible for the service in that location. So, a service request is handled quickly and directly by the person responsible for it.
 

Freshservice Cons review quotes

reviewer1960482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 14, 2022
Some of the ways that tasks are reported on and shown can be better. You can't see tasks in your regular ticket list view. You can't see a combo view of tasks and tickets. It is a little bit difficult to get a solid overview of your list of things to do. You can only see them in separate views, instead of one single view.
EM
Sep 7, 2022
The round robin ticketing feature that they have is not ideal.
Mark Freemantle - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 19, 2022
On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages.
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reviewer1710462 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 4, 2021
The ability to customize the user interface is a bit lacking, and the reporting is a bit lacking because they're very stringent upon what you can pull reporting-wise within Freshservice. They have a lot of built-in reports that are very nice, but when it comes to customizing these, they just provide you with certain data. When you try to build your own report wizard, you aren't able to go and select some of the data that is shown in some of the reports that come with Freshservice. This is something that we have brought up with our account representative, and we have suggested these as feature updates in the future. We're still waiting on them to go and implement something like that.
GeorgeMartin - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 29, 2022
The most significant area for improvement is consistency across the different modules, as they are inconsistent. It makes me think the modules have different development teams with no consistent approach. From an end-user perspective, I can do certain operations in one module, such as instant management, but not in problem management, for example, and I don't see why that should be the case. It would be good to see more consistency in the development process.
Tim Guilder - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 20, 2022
Not integrated with Google.
Curtis Braun - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2022
Their analytics need improvement.
reviewer1086876 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2022
We haven't had any issues with the stability of Freshservice. However, we have had some issues with data imports, we have noticed that large amounts of data can get stuck. This is something that we haven't seen in other solutions.
CQ
Dec 30, 2020
The product should look at BCM or ServiceNow and see if there are features that would make nice additions. It would help them stay competitive.
Eslam Adel - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 6, 2022
There are some limitations in reporting. For example, I would like to have a report of conversations or replies.