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Help Scout Overview

What is Help Scout?

Help Scout is the go-to support platform for growing businesses. It's quick to set up, easy to use, and allows teams to manage all support interactions—whether through email, live chat, social media, or self-service—in one unified platform. With advanced tools for collaboration and organization, teams using Help Scout are able to assist 52% more customers. Those who take advantage of our AI features see an additional 36% boost in productivity. Plus, you can build help centers and embed support options directly on your website or app, giving customers instant answers and reducing support volume by 30%. It's no wonder Help Scout is a favorite among support professionals and customers. You can get started in just 15 minutes and become a power user within a day. Teams using Help Scout achieve 25% higher CSAT scores than the industry average and consistently surpass their metrics, helping more customers while delivering exceptional service.

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Product Description

Help Scout is a customer support platform growing businesses use to manage all their customer conversations in one place.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Help Scout is the customer-first platform your whole team will love. For the last 12 years, Help Scout has been laser focused on the needs of growing businesses. We’ve ensured Help Scout is easy to set up and use—you’ll be having customer conversations in 15 minutes. Our pricing is simple and affordable for scaling teams. While other help desks and comms platforms built pricey, complex solutions for large enterprises, we focus on being the best choice for businesses that want to spend time on customers. Plus, we’re with you on the journey—our world-class support team is here for you 24/6, and we have award-winning education and classes to help you hone your craft.


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Year Founded
2011
HQ Location
Boston, MA
Twitter
@helpscout
11,816 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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250 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Help Scout is a customer support platform designed to facilitate seamless communication between businesses and their customers. It provides tools for shared inboxes, knowledge base management, and customer engagement, enabling teams to deliver personalized and efficient support. With features like live chat, reporting, and integrations with popular applications, Help Scout aims to enhance the customer experience while streamlining support operations. More information can be found on their website at [helpscout.com](https://www.helpscout.com/).


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Fahim M.
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Fahim M.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"One of the best support portal I ever used"
mail delivery was the faster like google mail. their documentation and blogs are super friendly.
Jonathan K.
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Jonathan K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Using Helpscout since 2015"
Helpscout has been the cornerstone of our support team for nearly 9 years. We've enjoyed the smooth experience, custom workflows and constant deplo...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Clear and intuitive platform for managing multiple inboxes within the team"
I use this tool daily to manage our company’s integrated Google inboxes. The clean, well-organized interface keeps distractions to a minimum, makin...
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Help Scout Media

Help Scout Demo - One unified platform
Handle all your 1:1 conversations and self-service support in one unified platform.
Help Scout Demo - Inbox
Respond to 52% more emails from the Inbox, with features to help your team collaborate, stay organized, and respond faster.
Help Scout Demo - Beacon
Give customers support wherever they are on your website or app. Guide them down a self-service path with help content, invite visitors to chat (never with a bot), or send proactive messages with Beacon.
Help Scout Demo - Docs
With Docs you’ll help customers answer common questions themselves in a snap while reducing email volume for your team by 30%.
Help Scout Demo - The customer-first platform, supported by AI
Use AI to draft, edit, and summarize, reducing response times while improving quality Teams using our AI features resolve 36% more emails.
Help Scout Demo - Easily analyze success metrics
​​Analyze team performance and monitor your most important success metrics in out-of-the-box or custom reports.
Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
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Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
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Help Scout is the all-in-one platform for delighting your customers. Simple-yet-powerful features allow you to handle incoming requests, give answers in an instant, and send messages beyond the inbox.
Email just got a whole lot easier with AI drafts! With the click of a button, AI generates high-quality replies to customer questions based off your historical conversations and help articles.
Play Help Scout Video
Email just got a whole lot easier with AI drafts! With the click of a button, AI generates high-quality replies to customer questions based off your historical conversations and help articles.
Need a simple way to give your customers the best support possible? Check out Help Scout, the simple, all-in-one customer communication platform.
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Need a simple way to give your customers the best support possible? Check out Help Scout, the simple, all-in-one customer communication platform.

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PB
Operations Administrative Assistant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Help Scout?

search feature. i also like how i can review all the emails and follow the conversation and easily find what i'm searching for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

not much, it always seems to be easy to find what I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

use the search feature super helpful and easy to sort by date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

i'm finding receipts and client information quicker than searching document files. benefits are the quick search feature and sort by date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

How organized and easy to use Help Scout is. I love the animations you get when you clear your inbox and it has a lot of helpful and useful tools. One of the my favourite features is the help article feature which is great for clients as well as saving me time when helping customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Sometimes when I search for a person it doesn't show up even though I know they're in there Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help Scout aids in customer success by making contact between the company and the clients simple, as well as with providing help articles for the customers to use which make my life easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

It is very easy to structure messages, share them inbetween colleagues and keep track of progress. Also, it always works and if there is an issue, it gets resolved very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Sometimes, mails that can be viewed within Google Mail, are not displayed in helpscout. Maybe 1 out of 1000 mails, but it happens. Also, it would be nice if spam mails would be moved into the spamfolder instantly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doing the entire customer support for our company in a very effective and quick manner. The benefits are easy tracking of incoming mails and moving them around colleagues to answer them in the best way possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Patrick M.
PM
Support Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

It was a simple product to use, and was a million times better than having agents manage customer requests in individual inboxes. Their tagging, contact management, and visibility into the queue are all perfectly adequate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Help Scout does not have the depth of features that I came to depend on in other help desk softwares (like ZenDesk) so I ultimately made the decision to move away from it. But for a company with modest incoming requests I believe this would not be a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Moving from individual email inboxes (or a shared gmail inbox) to Help Scout was an amazing step to improving our customer request response time and management. Help Scout makes things simple and organized immediately. Also working with their own support team was always a very nice experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Afton T.
AT
CRM Consultant
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

Found their onboarding to be very thorough, love their thoughtful emails with tips and articles, and a great, clean software overall. Clearly designed with a good understanding of what is helpful in a real-life customer service department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

No major complaints about this software, so far it's been great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needing an inbox solution that allows for reporting and for several people to work in the same inbox. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lizzie K.
LK
P
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

Their support team is super responsive and goes above and beyond to help whenever we need anything! We don't need a major solution like Zendesk, and Help Scout is the happy medium of exactly the features we need for our support efforts. I am able to quickly train new team members on how to use Help Scout, and that helps us scale quickly while spending smartly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

I truly don't have a bad thing to say about Help Scout! The only issue has been occasional outages, but their communication about them is transparent with quick resolutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

Be open and honest with the onboarding and sales team when evaluating Help Scout! They were immensely helpful to me when I was considering them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help Scout enables our users to not feel like a number in our queue. The user experiences emailing back and forth with us in a friendly conversation while we are able to track all the required things on our end through the platform. Ticket numbers exist but there's no reason a user needs to see them!

When Help Scout rolled out their new chat feature with their Beacon, I really appreciated that they understood that some of their customers won't be able to utilize chat. They built in the ability to turn this fancy new chat feature off yet still allow the use of Beacon for contact forms and help docs. That's huge in my eyes to be able to customize for exactly what I need for my unique user base and their needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Mental Health Care
AM
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite on behalf of seller
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What do you like best about Help Scout?

As a manager, it is easy to see an overview of all conversations going on at any given time, as well as have reporting in regards to metrics like support response times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Would love better API integration as well as the ability to construct and send email templates using user defined variables. Would also like better signature customization options (custom user-defined fields like preferred pronouns, etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Help Scout, the team was using individual email inboxes tied to our teams' Google Workspace email addresses. Moving everything to Help Scout has enabled us to vastly increase oversight into our support operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
AC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

What I like most about Helpscout is the customer service feature, we can assign new requests to different colleagues. Through automations, we can even say if it's about certain topics, then it goes to a certain employee. In addition, you can connect HelpScout to WooCommerce, for example, and directly view orders placed by the user. Furthermore, we use Helpscout to pop up pop-ups for specific actions. In addition, Helpscout can also be used to integrate a FAQ section, so if users can't find anything, they can contact support directly. Through tags, we can also see the performance on certain topics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

Unfortunately, there isn't much design flexibility for the pop-ups and support windows, leaving us little to go on in terms of our CI. Setting up workflows and tags is not always intuitive. In addition, when you want to forward mails outside of Helpscout, it's not always clear which mails are actually forwarded now. Whether the whole mail history or just the one mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mit Helpscout lösen wir unseren gesamten Kundensupport, zu Peakzeiten nutzen wir sogar die Live-Chat Funktion um unseren Kunden den besten Support zu geben. Weiterhin nutzen wir auch die FAQ Funktion, um häufig gestellte Fragen schon direkt zu beantworten, um unseren Support mehr zu entlasten. Durch "Beacons" können wir gezielt Pop-Ups an unsere Kunden senden und denen so z.B. Hilfestellungen geben oder sie auf bestimmte Aktionen hinweisen. Zudem nutzen wir auch die Workflow Automatisierung um bestimmte Supportanfragen direkt zu sortieren. Durch die Tag-Funktion können wir sehen, welche Fragen am häufigsten kommen und können dadurch unseren FAQ Bereich optimieren. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tiffany R.
TR
Customer Support Manager
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

Before Help Scout, I was managing all of our requests inside my inbox. I would forward emails to co-workers for them to help. Now co-workers can log in and grab tickets as they come in, or I can quickly assign them right inside the system. The option to see only tickets assigned to me also removes the overwhelming feeling of a full inbox. We recently started using tags as well, and that has been a game-changer as well. Also, seeing the notes pass right into our Slack channel helps speed up the process and keeps everyone on the same page.

I am looking forward to learning about the other features and implementing them as well.

Thank you for making me and my team more productive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

I have no grips about Help Scout. I think it would be awesome to have training webinars. Disclaimer there may be webinars; I may not have found them yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

Try it. You will love it. We haven't once considered another platform since signing up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Staying organized and productive becomes more difficult as a company begins to grow. You realize you now need an entire support team vs one support person. Then you realize you need a product to help organize support tickets and keep track of the tickets. This is where Help Scout came into play for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RR
Community Builder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Help Scout?

When I log in to Help Scout, I can immediately begin my workday in an organized and stress-free fashion. Its user-friendly interface allows me to get all of my work done in a timely manner. Customer care is of utmost importance to us, and thanks to Help Scout's reliable service, I am able to support all of my customer's needs, whether it be through email, phone calls, or chat. The "Saved Reply" feature is my absolute favorite and has saved me so much time in replying to my customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Help Scout?

I used to be able to attach photos to my Saved Replies, and now I'm unable to attach any images. Once in a while, It can be a bit slow when searching through past conversations or using keywords. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Help Scout:

I would strongly recommend Help Scout to any of my friends and colleagues. I have used other email-based customer support platforms, and Help Scout is by far the best. They win in style, technical support, organizational ability, and attention to detail. We wouldn't be able to offer the exceptional customer care we pride ourselves on without Helpscout. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Help Scout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help Scout helps me stay organized and allows me to give my customers the best care possible. With Help Scout, I can better manage my time on tasks, prioritize issues, and reach out for support from my superiors. I no longer look at a full inbox and feel intimidated. I start from the bottom, tag each email with our custom tags, and start responding to customers based on priority level. I feel a bit spoiled, having used this platform for three years now. It's so user-friendly, and the help I received from the support team is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.