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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?

A well thought workflow to connect all incoming requests to the support platform. Extensive reports to evaluate and analyse. Support is amazing and really efficient. Pleasure to work in a well planned and thought product. The bot takes care of registering queries if the team is not online and can follow up really easily later. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Nothing as of now, some additional features when added would convince me to give them a full rating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Would love to recommend this service to others along with other Freshwork services. Efficient support and quick resolutions with extensive Knowledgebase/ Documentation has a lot to do with my recommendation.

Kudos to the workflows in the support system and the ease with which you can set them up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using freshchat to connect our support mainly apart from creating more leads and help closing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

I love that as I small company we have everything that we need in the free version of freshdesk. Hopefully soon we are big enough to graduate versions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Some things could be smoother. For example it is kind of difficult to follow a very long thread of emails from users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

I would recommend Freshchat to anyone looking to provide their customers with live support. If you have one agent dedicated to live chat then the free version is the way to go. If you are a bigger team, then I recommend looking into the paid versions because they offer a lot of functionalities. Additionally, Freshchat integrates seamlessly with Freshdesk, which allows you to never miss any customer communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are able to keep track of our users better. We can assign tickets to people in our other office Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Simplicity and Design are two of the most life-changing features of Freshchat. The possibility to add Freshchat on your website and on a blink of an eye start supporting your precious customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Some issues, I believe Freshchat team is already fixing... In some cases customers won't receive supporters chat, and this can be a con for a while. But the tool keeps being an amazing idea, changing the way you interact with your customers... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

If you really want to get in touch and aggregate value to your customers, Freshchat is the right tool for you.

Freshchat for sure is going to change the way you chat with your customers and they'll definitely going to love the simplicity of getting help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The simplicity of Freshchat and the ability to break barriers when supporting a customer is the main reason why we'll keep using this amazing tool. Customers are in love with Freshchat since the beginning as they are supported really fast on a casual and simple way they are already using on their daily life on other private messaging softwares... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

I love how easy it is to use. We haven't had a chat for our customers before and we've had 0 problems getting started.

The FAQ is a wonderful addition to our supporttools that will help lower pressure on our helpdesk.

The monitoring pages are great. I can see up to date information of my team's performance whenever I want.

We're still experimenting with the canned messages and campaigns, but it looks very promising. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

I would like some more customization options for the FAQ and chat. Screen size, tags, more categories etc.

The bot could be better, but it seems new stuff is being released every month, so perhaps we'll see that in the near future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Just try it. I'm pretty sure you won't be disappointed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With 4 people on support we're not a huge part of the company but we handle hundreds of tickets.

Freshchat (and Freshdesk) have replaced 3 other programs that were taking way too much of our time.

The FAQ and knowledgebase have consistenly lowered incoming calls. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

range of products offered by freshworks platform is what caught my initial interest - everything we need to handle leads, customer engagement, support. I especially like the al-a-carte but it all plays nicely together - pretty intuitive and easy to get setup and going. The phone app is great when I'm mobile and need to engage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

only issue I'd say is the delay in response to support questions. Team is super friendly and helpful, but I see there is time zone delay. Not end of the world but would be nice to have support closer to my time zone but prefer to have the product affordable like it is so willing to wait for answers to questions. Self-support site is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

if your just getting started or looking to consolidate back office support services, you should really consider looking at freshworks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

simply engagement with prospective customers and actual customers. Freshworks products have a very clean professional looking face to customers and the workflows are sensible/logical. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

FreshWorks has just upgraded and combined FreshConnect across all platforms. The best part is that I only made the suggestion 1 day ago & they published it almost immediately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

At first, it was completely separated by service; however, they have since combined it. Some of the icons are a little small to see; however, does not hamper the functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Looking to simplify interoffice communication all within 1 system as some of our staff aren't quite as technologically inclined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Native integration with channels like WhatsApp, Instagram Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

The response times from Freshworks support, and the lack of interest in understanding and assimilating new requirements to improve the product.

There is NO native support in Spanish. Contacts that require phone communication cannot be conducted in our base language; and not all of us have the ability to use a second language.

There has been NO timely response regarding our enrollment in the partner program (businesses are waiting for a response). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Patience when addressing technical concerns and support in Spanish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Capture of contacts (prospects) on the portal, with timely attention to their needs. Closing of deals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Freshchat has a Simple interface and is easy to setup. Freshchat integrates well with Freshdesk to create tickets that contains the chat session information. Freshchat allows us to interact with our customers to resolve support issues and communicate training information. Freshchat allows us to send links to documents that the customer needs to reference from our knowledge base instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Some of the features are out of our price range. It would be nice to be able to add individual features to a basic subscription. A basic price with an a'la cart addition of the desired features would be great. I would like to be able to have agents set their availability inside the help desk screen so if they are working with a customer they will not be disturbed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

Freshchat makes a great addition to your help desk allowing you to interact with your customers in real time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Freshchat to work with customers to answer questions about setup and configuration of their system. Support agents can send a link to documentation for the customer to reference while helping them with specific issues they are having. Being able to interact with the customer in real time is much more efficient and resolves the customers faster than email reply's. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Chats are fully visible to other agents. Agents can view other chats and leave private or public messages. This makes it very easy to collaborate in the background, step in where needed or use chats as studies for the team. As a manager it's very useful for keeping an eye on chats that might have been missed by the agent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

Asynchronous messaging is really cool, but still confuses some visitors. Despite careful tweaking of the offline messages, some visitors still explode because they think they are being ignored when all agents are asleep. I would like to see an option to make business hours more explicit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

The Freshchat team are incredibly responsive with setup questions both at the start and ongoing. You can be sure that they will help you to reach your goal even if you're simply failing to find the settings that you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Freshchat is integrated nicely with Freshdesk. The primary problem that it solves for us is providing an instant communication method for customers who have urgent requests, while keeping their conversations synced with the main support desk so we never lose a topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about FreshChat?

Ease of set-up is what I love the most. Not being a tech person, a lot of tools tend to get very intimidating when it comes to setting things up. FreshChat simplified a lot of other things for me moving forward from setting up as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about FreshChat?

I faced certain situations where delivery of my chat messages were being disrupted due to add-ons to my browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering FreshChat:

If you are using a chat tool for the first time and considering FreshChat, It's better the scope of requirements are understood first. The jump in features is quite extensive as you move through plans and their pricing. Knowing the scope lets you understand what can be compromised and what can't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Given the right kind of text in the right campaign, I understood customers were more comfortable in dropping contact information within FreshChat than going through an obligatory sign-up route. Using FreshChat increased my in-bound leads by a good margin. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.