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Amy D.
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

Freshsales allows you to mark the client as yours and also allows you t track where you are with the clent and leave notes from when you and the client talked aboiut Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

Fresh sales is very basic and you need to add different properties to fresh sale in order for you to see what you want when receiving a call Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not so sure what they are solving but their freshacller def needs some updating work done where you can see the client info when the call is given instead of looking for the client in the search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Freshsales Overview

What is Freshsales?

Freshsales is an easy-to-use, AI-powered sales CRM software. Trusted by 65,000+ businesses worldwide, Freshsales CRM helps sales teams attract quality leads, engage in contextual conversations, grow sales pipeline, boost conversions, and power productivity. Freshsales CRM provides a 360-degree view of contacts and accounts to empower sales teams with context to sell better. Sellers can manage sales pipelines to visualize deal progress and define and track sales targets. Sales teams can effortlessly engage with prospects and customers with the built-in phone, email, and chat capabilities. Advanced automation features like workflows and sales sequences boost sales productivity and ensure better prospecting. Freddy AI in Freshsales helps sellers draft contextual sales emails, receive actionable deal insights, and never miss out on revenue opportunities.

Freshsales Details
Languages Supported
Arabic, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Freshsales is a sales CRM built to help you stop juggling between multiple tools. It’s ideal for small businesses and refreshing for enterprises.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Freshsales comes with a powerful feature set available at an affordable price point. With ease-of-use at its core, Freshsales CRM helps businesses to quickly organize contacts through simple drag-and-drop, get a snapshot of the customers, and send an email or phone call to the prospects in one click. Sellers can improve conversions with multichannel engagement capabilities.

Freshsales CRM is comprehensive and is built for businesses of all sizes. With quick onboarding and out-of-the-box templates, SMBs and startups can go live in less than 24 hours and experience faster time-to-value. Enterprise-grade features like customization to meet the business needs, security settings, CPQ, and sandbox are tailored to enable large-size sales teams to personalize engagement at scale and expand revenue.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
San Mateo, CA
Twitter
@FreshworksInc
18,862 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
8,591 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NASDAQ: FRSH
Phone
+1 (866) 832-3090
Description

Freshworks makes it fast and easy for businesses to delight their customers and employees. We do this by taking a fresh approach to building and delivering software-as-a-service that’s affordable, quick to implement, and designed for the end-user. Unlike legacy software, Freshworks builds tech that works for everyone, making it easy for IT, customer service, sales, marketers, and HR to do their job and delight their customers. More than 50,000 companies use Freshworks’ SaaS to enable a better customer experience (CX, CRM) and employee experience (ITSM, HRSM).


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Carsten M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
0.0 out of 5
"AI kills the leadscore"
Freshsales provides the basic CRM functions
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Umair U.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"FRESHSALES IS BEST"
Very hand alot of features very economical price
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Alexis L.
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What do you like best about Freshworks?

A Standard CRM tool.

Plenty of functionalities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshworks?

Upon automatic renewal of my subscription, I asked them to refund me as we were not going to need it for the upcoming year.

The response I received was: "I checked this with the internal team, and I'm sorry to say that we can't make changes to the subscription now. We would be able to make any changes to the subscription by the end of the subscription period and not anytime in between.

It's better if we can take this forward in the direction where we can help you to make the most of the product."

Taking customer hostage as a strategy, a new book that should be written by Freshworks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshworks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshworks eneqble smy business to properly collect prospect leads and interact with those leads using email automation and sales pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Davi A.
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Freshworks Tools Agent / App Developer
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

Overall looks and layout, deal viewer is nice, so is company view

Allows customizations of deals, fields among other aspects, helping to make custom apps possible

Task and agent delegation on deals are nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

Configuration settings are numerous and cluttered, making it hard to follow along

My peers on the sales sector have expressed better sentiment towards their previous CRM ecosystem called "Salesforce". Could be a good competitor to analyse.

It is very detrimental to develop apps for Freshsales, since upon making a get request of a sale for exempla, returns a specific json structured body, upon uploading an app to production, that json structure is completely* different, adding new structures (data becomes the top object), moving vars to other objects(in case of contact info, moves it to association obj), changing var names entirely (custom_field to custom_fields) etc, making it so if you'd like to have a version of your app to run locally, you'd have to make one version for running locally, and one version with the proper alteration to publish live, making it so you can only test it by constantly publishing new versions of the app, since you cant test the live version locally

"Recent Conversations" tab wont show emails pertaining to that particular deal, but instead in general Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sales platform for tracking every income the company gets, delegate tasks, agents, and next steps for that sale, automations for quicker use, among others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Larry V.
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

We use freshsales mainly as a call management program, as our company does not use the lead-> sale type model. It has worked very well for us, and the customer service is top notch, replying to our inquiries very quickly and effectively. It is also a good way to send emails and have all agents with visibility and the ability to step in if needed.

It is easy to use, and intuitive.

We use it daily, at all times of year. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

The only thing left desired is the ability to quickly manage leads (especially removing undesired lead or figuring out which need to be combined)

Some sort of CRM management features at our pay level is what would would like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshsales is used extensively for inbound calling and tracking of CRM in our business. It's email tracking with multiple agents having visibility AND integrating with our business emails is top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chris F.
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President | Managing Director
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

I've enjoyed using Freshsales. It has an intuitive interface and essential features that make it easy to use. The platform's pipeline and contact management have improved the way we manage our client relationships. Most of all, I like that Freshsales gives me the tools I need without overwhelming me with too much. As an example, another CRM I considered had over 45 apps, but there was no way I'd use them all. In some ways, I felt it would be a distraction to try to learn them, so I chose Freshsales because it gives me all I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

Freshsales appears (at least to me) to be a product-driven sales CRM. At least, that's my takeaway based on many of the features it offers. I'm a service-based business. So, to get the most from Freshsales, I've had to see my service as a product. Doing so has helped me adjust some of the features to fit my business. Another thing I don't like is that Facebook and Instagram are the only two social media platforms you can integrate (at least, for now). They just introduced lead gen forms for LinkedIn, but you can't integrate LinkedIn as a social platform the way you can with FB and IG. I'd like to see that feature since LI is such an important platform for B2B sales. Also, the styling options for lead-gen forms and web forms is lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshsales has helped me become more organized by providing a central hub for all my sales and customer information. I can easily find what I need when I need it, which has reduced the aggravation of keeping up with projects and client communication. I get a much clearer view of what I have going on because Freshsales provides a nice overview of my sales pipeline, customer interactions, and overall progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Products used within Freshworks: Freshdesk, Freshsales, Freshteam by Freshworks
What do you like best about Freshworks?

As someone who used Freshworks CRM, Freshdesk for ticketing and Freshteam, I can vouch for their UX, some of the intuitive easy to use features in the CRM.

Freshteam solved for one of the easiest ATS tools to implement and utilise. The kanban board view to show which step of the process a candidate is in, was very efficient. Quickness of their customer facing teams getting things live was commendable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshworks?

Customisation in terms of workflow, access levels gets tricky for complex/matrix organizational structures.

As for the CRM, not on par with industry leaders when it comes to solution for an enterprise level company.

Beyond ATS, Freshteam lacks lot of core functionalities to be utilised as the single HRMS solution Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshworks solving and how is that benefiting you?

Talent acquisition for a scaling org was made so much easier. Creating a pool of candidates with specific tags to later broadcast to was also helpful in Freshteam.

The ticketing system helped us track a lot of metrices across various teams and stakeholders allowing us to relook at the processes and internal dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aleksandr A.
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Information Technology and Services
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

They have one of the best pipeline interfaces among all competitors today. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

My experience with this product ended when they asked me to lower my browser's security to allow cross-site tracking. Here's what they ask for: 'Please uncheck "Prevent cross-site tracking" in Safari (17) privacy settings.'

If you want to use the marketplace and their other products, you'll have to allow them to track you so that Freshworks' partners can see how you spend time on other sites and offer their services accordingly.

The second reason I don't recommend this product is directly related to the first: after you register, they share your data (name, company, email, etc.) with third parties. You'll start receiving emails from unknown companies that claim to have received your information from Freshworks. The company does not deny this and refers to its terms of service.

In my view, selling or sharing customer data is a serious reputational risk that is incompatible with trust and integrity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ecosystem is reminiscent of Zoho, but the marketplace is less developed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carolina R.
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

FreshSales offers excellent value for its price, making it ideal for small businesses or companies that want an effective CRM without breaking the bank. It is a very intuitive tool with features (such as email marketing) that make it easy to manage the business. The customer service is top-notch, and they are always available to assist, which has been a huge plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

One downside is the reporting functionality. Generating reports can be frustrating, and it lacks the flexibility and ease of use that some other CRMs provide. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

FreshSales helps streamline business operations by centralising key functions such as customer relationship management and email marketing in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ted K.
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What do you like best about Freshworks?

It packs a powerful set of tools at your disposal for a great price. It is easy to implement and the support is excellent and timely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshworks?

I wish more AI features are available at all tier plans and not only at the most expensive tiers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshworks solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us engage our customers in all the channels that we need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ray H.
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

I tried one of the "mainline" CRM/Sales companies, but they were NOT interested in helping me, a 1-person shop. FreshSales folks have been so very helpful all along the way. Also, I've been able to customize the fields to meet my needs, so that it's not just sales-oriented, but also good for lists, company updates, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

Some of the online help pages are a little confusing at first, but... you can get directly to them without issue, which I couldn't event get to the ones at the "big box" software I tried at first. And if you have any questions with the documentation... no biggie... the customer support people are very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

I enter all current clients, all potential clients, all attendees and presenters at events that I produce, and even some people I see at technical meetings. I put in their LinkedIn address, and if I have it, an email address. With the help of a filterable "Contacts" list, I can see various views of people, including actual potential clients, but also presenters for specific events, new visitors to landing pages, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nate T.
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What do you like best about Freshsales?

I love the sales sequences and customer journeys, there is SO MUCH automation and customization that is available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Freshsales?

There are so many steps for even the most simple steps. For example, when you are writing an email, you have to go through several clicks to get there, and then to make it public you have to go to another part of the platform and change the status one by one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Freshsales solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customer contact organiazation and it does a GREAT job at it. We have so much information stored in freshsales and it has taken our organization to the next level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.