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GrooveHQ Overview

What is GrooveHQ?

The refreshingly simple yet powerful alternative to Zendesk. Over 2,000 small businesses use Groove's help desk software to centralize and automate their customer support.

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Product Description

8,000+ companies provide personal support at scale with Groove’s Shared Inbox, Knowledge Base, and Reports. All without breaking the bank.


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GrooveHQ
Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Newport, RI
Twitter
@Groove
6,852 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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25 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Welcome to Groove – where we're committed to reshaping customer service for the better. We believe in the transformative power of good software, designed to tackle the challenges of inefficient support operations head-on. Groove is crafted to be the antidote to bad customer service, empowering small businesses with intuitive workflows, streamlined communication, and a suite of features aimed at delivering exceptional experiences. Say farewell to clunky interfaces and inefficient processes – with Groove, you'll discover a platform that prioritizes simplicity and effectiveness. Our mission is clear: to provide businesses with the tools they need to thrive in a customer-centric world. Join us in our journey to redefine customer service. With Groove, exceptional support isn't just a possibility – it's our promise.


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Recent GrooveHQ Reviews

Brady B. M.
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Brady B. M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"GrooveHQ simplifies our customer experience and consolidates our capabilities so we can be efficient"
GrooveHQ allows us to provide a unified voice for customer support!
Rheannon R.
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Rheannon R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"I've found Groove to be very clear and linear. I manage 3 separate inboxes. Groove makes it easy."
The ability to create custom canned replies! It cuts down my workload/time immensely.
TJ
Tom J.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"GrooveHQ new user experience"
1. Mails to shared mailboxes can be categorised in various ways making it easy for multiple team members to manage support queries collaboratively,...
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GrooveHQ Media

GrooveHQ Demo - Shared Inbox
A centralized location for your support team to manage your customers inquiries from email, social media, and live chat.
GrooveHQ Demo - Knowledge Base
Reduce your support volume and increase satisfaction with a self-serve knowledge base.
GrooveHQ Demo - Reporting
Reports that help you stay on top of the most important customer support metrics.
GrooveHQ Demo - Widget
Offer a contact form, knowledge base search, or live chat from your website and connect your customer to your support team in Groove.
GrooveHQ Demo - Mobile Apps
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TJ
Support Administrator
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

1. Mails to shared mailboxes can be categorised in various ways making it easy for multiple team members to manage support queries collaboratively, ensuring that customer queries are handled efficiently and that support staff are clear on ownership.

2.The flexible and configurable self-service support options provided by the Knowledge Base with its easy-to-build FAQs and guides, and seamless integration into our new IT system is a game changer for us

3. GrooveHQ's support team have been extremely responsive to all our setup queries, which along side their thorough and clearly presented help pages has made for a great user experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

I would like to be able to select which parts of a conversation to include in responses and 'forwards' to users. At the moment it's all or nothing. For some longer conversations involving input from various users, its not always appropriate for some recipients to see the full discussion. In these instances I revert to Outlook but then have a disjointed discussion across two platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a multi-head support team receiving mails into various shared mailboxes. GrooveHQ provides an effective way of controlling and managing resources. It enables us to log calls, allocate agents and manage cases end-to-end. It also helps us to look at patterns and trends, plus define standard responses to regular issues.

Secondly, its in-bult Knowledge Base means we don't need to build our own functionlaity, allowing us to focus on Knowledge Base content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

DP
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

GrooveHQ has proven to be a valuable tool for customer support. The ticketing system is pretty intuitive and has optimized our workflow and significantly improved ticket management.

The rules feature has been really helpful by automating repetitive tasks and allowing oursupport team to focus on more high-priority customer requests.

I also want to highlight they're support team. Their responses have been invaluable in helping us in our use of the platform and troubleshooting all the issues that we have, and also helped us to customize widgets.

Even though it's a great tool if you never used a Ticketing System before, there are some areas that can be improved. I think

GrooveHQ has been a great solution for our customer support processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

The areas where I think they can improve, are the rules feature, though has been a really good feature for our workflow, it can be improved by maybe adding some additional customization options. This way we're able to create more complex rule and improved our workflow even more.

Also, I think the reporting feature can be better, I would love to see them add more flexibility to custimize the reports, to export it some way and share it with my team or my superiors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We had a problem by responding to customer questions, our previous response time was 2+ weeks and even missed some emails. We found GrooveHQ and it was easy to setup, once it was done, our support ticket workflow improved, response time is now 1-3 business days.

Also since we have different products, it has been really helpful having different inboxes in one place, see who already responded to an email, and which ticket is still waiting for a response, without having to check each email separately.

The Knowledge base help us to gather all the repetitive questions and put it in one place, that reduced the amount of tickets asking the same question, and when we receive the same question, we can use a Reply Template, and send them to our Knowledge Base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JK
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

We like groove because everybody in the team has acces to the shared mailbox, but only the tickets who needs attention. In compare with a shared mailbox, or shared e-mail adress where you have to read all e-mails, is in groove only visible what needs to be done. The groove team is continously improving the systems and in case of questions their support team is really helpfull. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Miss sometimes some functions you are used to have from your e-mail programm. However, it brings you to rethink your work progress, or in case it's really important you can contact Groove and they are always open to help you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps us to have an overview of all communications with employees and clients and make it easy to assign communication or tasks to different departments or persons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Carrie  H.
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Vendor and Board Relations
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

It is very helpful to be able to send and receive email messages through multiple email accounts. I use groove on a near daily basis. Switching over from Gmail to GrooveHQ was an easy implementation. I have not had to use customer support yet. We were able to easily integrate this into our daily routines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

I wish groove had an address book, one for each email associated and one that can be combined to use across all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Groove has made it easier for teams to research past emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

François D.
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Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Groove was super easy to implement in our project. They have a bunch of prebuillt features that are easy to add or configure from their web interface. It was pain free to add and from our testing, looks fairly robust. Customer support is also super helpful and quick to respond. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

There was a cosmetic feature lacking from their software but after a quick chat with their customer support, they added the feature we were missing within a week! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps us alleviate the load on our client's customer support team. From our early testing, the users are using it to answer FAQs rather than sending emails to the CS team and in case it's a personal support question, it helps them find our helpline even faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AI
Homeowner Support
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

I like the ease of use. If there is issue within the program the customer support is always really helpful, and are really responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

There isn't anything I dislike about Grove. It was an easy transition from Gmail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

To be able to see what my teammates have going on and to be able to jump right in and help if they are out of the office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brady B. M.
BM
TEEX/ DHS Instructor - Enhanced Emergency Operations Training Center
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

GrooveHQ allows us to provide a unified voice for customer support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Merging tickets isn't as simple as I'd like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

This helps us to avoid collisions in responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KM
Board Support
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

I like that I can see if the end user has opened the email and the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

The only thing I don't like is you can only reply to the last thread. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GrooveHQ is solving having to forward emails to each other within the office. The ablitiy to share in boxes is invaluable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Groove has made some improvements to their interface over the years that make the workflow less frustrating. I like that you can more easily leave notes and the My New and Open folder gives visibility to what you need to manage. Ticket assignment is also easy to use and change the delegation.

Their customer support has greatly improved over the years, and I do think they are working to make positive changes. Hopefully, many of my pain points will be resolved in time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Groove leaves a lot to be desired. Within the actual email app, this is what comes to mind:

- the inability to filter tickets by date

- lack of filter options

- not being able to reverse a merged ticket

- emails that are forwarded are still in the original thread, it becomes messy very quickly

- when you close a ticket, it's moved to the date it was received. If you close something in error it can take forever to figure out what it was, it also doesn't show up at the top of recent updates.

- Internal notes and CSAT replies can easily be missed

Reporting:

- The views they provide give a very basic look at what is happening in support

- Nothing is customizable

- Nothing can be extracted

- Comments on CSAT don't show up in the reports, you have to go to each individual ticket and find it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

They are a place where all of our emails are funneled and we are able to then reply in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EM
Homeowner Support
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

It is very convenient and easy to use! It makes handling work emails less stressful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

There honestly isn't anything that I dislike about Groove! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Being able to have multiple inboxes is an awesome tool to help separate emails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.