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FreshChat Overview

What is FreshChat?

Freshchat (a product of Freshworks Inc.) is a conversational engagement solution that helps businesses engage with customers across multiple channels such as web chat, email, phone, and social channels like WhatsApp, Instagram, and iMessage. Freshchat also offers native AI-powered chatbots that can be easily built with a no-code builder, which helps businesses provide personalized self-service at scale. With Freshchat's journey builder and ready-made playbooks, businesses can stay ahead of their customer's needs and support them proactively whenever necessary. Freshchat also provides a comprehensive view of the customer's conversation history and other relevant information, making agents more productive and enabling them to provide personalized experiences.

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Languages Supported
Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Georgian, Central Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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Product Description

Freshworks Customer Service Suite is a modern messaging software built for sales and customer engagement teams to talk to prospects and customers on the website, mobile app, or social pages.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Freshchat is the only complete conversational solution with powerful in-built AI capabilities. Freshchat's AI bots can be used on multiple messaging channels with ready-to-use templates that don’t require any technical knowledge to implement. Freshchat helps businesses offer not just reactive but also proactive support on numerous messaging channels. Further, Freshchat offers in-depth analytics, one-click integrations, and agent productivity capabilities. Finally, with its low total cost of ownership, Freshchat helps businesses deliver a great conversational experience without breaking the bank.


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Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
San Mateo, CA
Twitter
@FreshworksInc
18,854 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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What do you like best about FreshChat?

This is really an excellent tool provided by fresh books. The UX/UI and also the clean interface makes it very clean for the team members to connect! Internal communication is so much better all thanks to fresh connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

I personally hope fresh connect can improve and get better like fresh desk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I was able to connect better with my clients, and with my team members. We were able to co ordinate in a better way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Making use of whatsapp platform - most used and easily available contact channel of customers.

Ease of chatting with customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Unable to initiate a new chat with our customers

Comprehensive reporting options Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

A good tool to have - a long way to go!!! Cost-effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Reduction in turn around time

An easier communication channel for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pedro G.
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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Their support and resources are the best to organize customers data and improve their experience. You have tools to make internal and external communication more effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Sometimes their support takes a few minutes to awnser, but that's rare. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Use their best plan, it's a very a good investment on your company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With the feedback of our costumers we were able to improve their experience on our platform and also our results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

We very much like the FAQ feature of the chat, as well as the fact that it can be integrated with other Freshworks products, making it so much easier to provide customer service. We also very much like the triggers and the nice text formatting we can apply to the messages we send. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

We feel there should be a few more options for customization. Specifically, we feel that the bot function, which is very useful, should provide separate options for offline and online which go beyond which messages are sent. Namely, we'd like to be able to turn off the bot when our agents are online, or at least decide to ask more questions when offline and fewer questions when online. Also, it would be great for the bot to support translations. Moreover, color customization is a bit limited, not allowing users to select the font size or color (which is a problem when the text color matches a background color, making text not visible). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We recently move to Freshchat from another chat service, specifically for the reason that it can be integrated with Freshdesk and Freshcaller. This allows us to provide better customer service, having all customer info at hand during any contact we have, whether email, chat or phone. We also decided on Freshchat for the excellent trigger feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

The Freshchat support team. Hands down. They have worked for two+ weeks to help me with a situation that has been a major thorn in our side. I'm wholeheartedly thankful for the two individuals I have been working with over the past weeks.

On top of that, the integration with our website went seamlessly and we were up within minutes once we had the chance to add the code. In just under an hour, we had a chat system added to our site, custom trigger messages, and a system that matched the theme and colors of our website.

We are constantly on the go or busy with business tasks that require us to be away from the computer. With the FreshChat app, we can now respond to any questions while we are away. This was one of the biggest selling points for us.

It's an added bonus that the system looks amazing. It's the clean and fresh style that you want in 2019 and beyond. We tried many free plugins for our website, but they all looked disgusting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

The comments below that are hating on FreshChat. haha kidding.

But really, I have no complaints at the moment. I'm still amazed by the support that I have received from FreshChat and the individuals I have been working with. I have never worked with a crew like this that actually cared. They are right up there with the awesome support teams like WooCommerce, Amazon, and Stripe. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Use their FREE trial!

There is nothing to lose and it will give you a good picture of how your time with them will be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are solving the problem of being tied to a computer-based support system that needs to be attended to daily. Using the FreshChat app, our chains are broken.

I have also learned from the support team that I was working with that triggered messages are a great way to increase sales by being proactive. I have not really messed around with this yet, but my next task is to figure out the best way to use this feature.

As a small startup, a huge factor for us is free cash flow, and with the fairly priced plan we have, this worry is gone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jonathon L.
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What do you like best about FreshChat?

It does offer a decent experience on the customer side (as far as interface). If you are using it in the specific way that Freshworks intends for it to be used (in other words, using the specific workflow they want, I assume something like the workflow they use internally) then it probably works fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

I spent most of my first week talking to their support team trying to find options, trying to fix bugs, and asking questions that weren't answered anywhere in the documentation (such as it is). Most of the replies were 'we don't support that' or 'sorry, you should actually follow this workflow instead'. Why remove simple options that were available in the old version? A new version should be more customizable, especially when they redesigned it to be a fuller experience (I thought), it shouldn't be less customizable and restrictive. And of the 4-5 requests I've made for features to be adjusted, I've only 1 time heard 'I'll pass that on to our team'. Every other request? I was told we should change our processes and workflows to match Freshchat's intended flow. The Freshdesk integration is weak, and if you choose to send chats to tickets then your ticket reporting will be messed up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Mixed feelings. It is currently a frusrating tool with a lot of limitations for us. But they've acted on some of my feedback, and seem genuinely interested in improving, so that's a plus. Give it a try as it might fit exactly what your team is looking for, but at this point I would call it a rough tool that needs a lot of polishing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We were looking for a live chat tool. This has solved that business problem to an extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Quick integration

Integration with ticket management system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Automatic naming of chat user which was based on some random fruit name was bit of surprise on first use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Customer interaction and support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Easy of use, cost per license, easy integration with other Freshworks apps, Simple to implement In-App Chat SDK Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

The multi-language feature should be part of the other low-cost plans too. For startups in Europe, it becomes extremely important to be able to provide support in different languages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Better & quick support to our customers, across channels. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Felipe S.
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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Works in all my devices and whatsapp integration is cheaper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Is hard to integrate with the web page if you want to add a pre-form because you have to make certains configurations on the backend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Live interaction with all the users that came form Google or Facebook ads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Everything I like about freshconnect is the best part of this software and it is that dashboard which helps show up the conversation and helps team members to discuss on one point and come up with good positive fruitful decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Nothing is there to dislike about this. This freshconnect is awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

5 star recommendations from my side as it is the best product and will remain as well for the companies Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Here at my company me and my team uses this to to great kind of discussions and avoid non-useful meetings. It saves our time and also makes the best out of our discussions.

Freshconnect gives us a benefit to get connected internally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.