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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
6,824 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

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Amy I.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Very useful email provider"
I like the ease of use. If there is issue within the program the customer support is always really helpful, and are really responsive.
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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!
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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.
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

1. the notes function - really helpful for the team!

2. accessibility to emails by the whole team - easy to look up and assist a client if the person handling their query is unavailable

3. the templates are very helpful

4. the out of office setting for emails is easy to use - so quick to set your box to unassigned :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

1. I wish Groove had an auto complete for sentences as in Gmail - would speed things up alot

2. Searching for emails can sometimes be problematic - you have to be very specific when searching

3. You cannot edit an email you are forwarding - sometimes you need to be able to remove parts of an email you are wanting to send to a client, but Groove does not allow it so you have to start a whole new email.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has really streamlined our reservations department, so we are all much more efficient as a team!

Nice to be able to see how our clients feel about our service as well with the ratings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Groove makes it really easy to manage email customer support. It's easy to use and learn and has continuously gotten better in the time we've been using it. It's not overly complicated and it's easy to onboard new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Pricing is per user and isn't related to volume of use. So for a small/bootstrapping company with people working in customer support part time it ends up being expensive compared to how much the team is using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I run a small startup and most of our customer support comes through email. As a busy founder I really struggled to keep up with customer support emails, and constantly felt stressed about it. Groove made it possible to delegate email support, and greatly reduced the average time it takes us to respond to customer email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Support is very fast, when you need it. It's not very often yo do need it, as Groove is quite simple to use and setup. Lot's of great features and rapid development keeps new features coming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Groove is a great service/app. Their mobile app could be better/more modern. Pricing is quite steep, but they do offer a very cheap subscription for startups who will get the first year almost for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Groove help us streamline our internal support for our entire organisation. We have one inbox for customer support, and another for internal IT Support. Groove works perfect for both purposes and do keep our contact inboxes nice and clean. It's a lot less streefull to start the day with a nice overview of ones tasks instead of a jammed inbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MW
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

The support is remarkable and very swift. The app itself is very good as well. It was an easy move over as most things in Groove were logically placed, and I've only seen that improve over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

I don't use functions past answering tickets, so the rest of the functionality is kind of lost on me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Organizing and deseminating tickets to our workforce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JH
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Streamlined dashboard that makes it easy to set up and manage multiple inboxes from one dashboard.

Customizational aspects of the dashboard is great as well. I really like the fact that the platform is so quick to get up and running, operates nicely, and simple to use.

We've managed over 10+ sites using GrooveHQ.

We used features such as:

1. Inbox

2. Chat

3. Knowledgebase

I really like to simple, yet powerful dashboard design and features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

I don't "dislike" anything about GrooveHQ, but what kind of review would this be if I wasn't at least critical on something that happened from time to time:

I'm not sure if it's a GrooveHQ thing, or a Google workspace thing — but our emails (from time to time) would become disconnected and I would have to re-connect them to the dashboard for emails to continue to sync.

Hasn't happened in about a year, though! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I like the fact that the dashboard is simple and easy to get started. Other platforms (are great in their own right), but they make things complicated and hard to understand.

I was up and running quickly, and the pricepoint is great for the value I get. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RP
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

GrooveHQ has revolutionised our being able to receive and respond to emails whilst simultaneously recording internal notes for tracking and ongoing customer service. This has meant that there are signficant gains in retaining staff notes for future enquiries for customers. Some of the recent features including AI summaries, Attachments collated in sidebar and updates to instant replies are fantastic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

We currently have limited integration of our other eCommerce systems into groove, however they have already offered a webhook solution for us to pull data in and solved our issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Streamlining customer service and allowing us to create segmentation and clear response frameworks. This has allowed our customer service agent to quickly see all external and internal correspondance about a particular issue in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PM
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

Easy to manage team and get a clear overview of customer communications. It took us just minutes to integrate it into our support workflow. Our team uses it every single day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

We have not encountered any downsides with using GrooveHQ. They are responsive, and always adding new features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

GrooveHQ helps our business stay organized. Before Groove, our customer support emails were frequently getting lost and not responded to promptly. GrooveHQ has completely solved this issue for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JF
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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

It's cheaper than alternatives such as zendesk, and honestly just as good! We've used Groove for the last 2 years now and they continue to develop the software implimenting new features. Integrates with Shopify really well, and the canned responses make our life SO much easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

The only downsides are the facebook integrations, we find it easier to use facebook business suite to manage any facebook comments. Saying that i believe the new facebook message feature works well! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helps us manage email response times. The canned responses make responding much faster, it also lets you know if someone else is currently viewing that email so there is no crossed wires and prevents 2 people from responding at once! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

I like how the all electronic communications come to one place that my staff and address so that nothing falls through the cracks...while also giving us the ability to backtrack if we have an issue and want to make sure where things went wrong doesn't happen again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

The interface can take a bit to get used to. With that said, there's regular updates being made from customers suggestions and the interface has continued to improve over the years we've been a customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We no longer have an email for every staff person for a seasonal business with frequent overturn of staff from year to year. And the mobile app has provided access to customer emails from anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about GrooveHQ?

I looked at dozens of alternative options, including shared inboxes and email ticketing systems, and GrooveHQ was the most feature-rich for the price. I liked that the layout was similar to a traditional inbox, but it has the functionality of a ticketing system. I also love the tags and automation rules and frequently use them. Internal notes on emails are also great for keeping communication consistent internally. They even have Live Chat widget, Knowledge Base and other integrations that I haven't had the chance to set up yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GrooveHQ?

Not much to dislike here, but if I were to nitpick, I would like to see the following things added:

- Expanded business hours (be able to set business hours by agent as this will affect the reports per team member)

- Automation rules that can use business hours (i.e. so I can set an automated reply once our store is closed)

There are some minor responsiveness issues after closing an email (sometimes having to refresh to see that it is closed), and I think managing contacts can be done better (there is no central way to manage contacts that I've found yet).

BUT these are minor, and the support and responsiveness to feedback have been great, so I'm confident it will be addressed over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We looked for shared inbox/ticketing system so that we can handle customer inquiries efficiently and without missing any. The extra features area a bonus for our use case. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.