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What is Kayako?

Kayako is effortless customer service software that helps teams be more productive and build customer loyalty. Unlike legacy support tools, Kayako brings together your multi-channel conversations and customer information, so you can support customers as a team and keep the personal touch, even as you grow.

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Kayako is effortless email, live chat, and knowledge base software that helps teams be more productive and build customer loyalty.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Kayako is help desk software that's a lot more helpful. Effortless customer service software that puts your customer at the heart of things: helping your team be more productive and your business build customer loyalty. Kayako Live Chat Software improves your client services by reducing response rates with quicker connect times.


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Abin K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Kayako- One of the best ticketing panels out there"
Easy to assign tickets and inter department changes are also really smooth. The options for adding followup notes for tickets saves a lot of time a...
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Sanju K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Kayako review"
Kayako is makes it easy to view the tickets assigned to particular users with a priority order. The dashboard has all the necessary informations su...
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M A.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"User frindly and smooth ticketing platform"
Easy and smooth ticketing platform. Feels lightweight and loading time and user interface is very good.
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IT Senior Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Kayako?

This amazing software is actually one of the best CRMs out there. Provides to its users the ability of communicating with clients and managerial roles at the same time by applying an intranet unallocated cloud service (for companies) with the Internet (for everyone). Also, allow users to customize the client to the final end that they want for attending clients and chat between colleagues, peers and managerial people as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

Sometimes system just went down and takes certain amount of time to getting back from the bug or freeze issue that took lot of time and make peers and colleagues lose precious time. Besides that, the pricing is also pretty expensive for what actually offers, and in other words this software provides what actually offers to all the clients out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

This is the best asset for ticket tracking, ticket assignation and everything related to ticket and customer service for either clients or third-party providers as well and that has been really helpful for our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Highly recommended tool for those who are looking forward to take the customer service invoice and ticketing to the next level. Kayako delivers nothing but the best and reliable service that they say they will deliver to its clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

I think one of the most outstanding features of this Kayayo platform is its versatility to join conversations from different sources, such as email and social networks. In addition, the user interface offered by Kayako is very easy to understand and use, since it has a complete set of tools that facilitate the execution of the work.

Kayako is a very fast, easy, productive and comfortable platform to be used by any company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

Kayako seems to me an excellent software, I do not have bad experiences with it, but nevertheless I would like to offer my opinion about its technical support, because it needs to improve its response time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

Probably my only suggestion for anyone who wants to try to prove Kayako's usefulness is to try it! and then provide the opinion of your experience Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our company has obtained benefits from Kayako because it has helped us in different ways, one of them was to provide the company with a better service for potential customers within our company, so we have opted for a better job performance, such as have better financial benefits of the company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

What I like most about Kayako is its intuitiveness. I didn't require more than basic training to start using it properly, even taking advantage about every single one of its multiple features. Workflow is easy and it's great to build support channels according to our basic business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

Isn't something I trully dislike, but I can tell that this is a basic tool without having some of the biggest or hardest features to build an entire support team. Mostly, is just a solution to business which needs are basic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

The main piece of advice that I can give to all users that are looking a software of this kind is: don't be afraid. Using Kayako you can build a proper Customer Support system that will work perfectly if you're a small or mid size company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Its main benefit for our company is that we were able to create a Customer Support platfmor effortlessly without having to use our own site. Also, it's perfect if you want to classify emails and analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

Kayako is a great communication tool, provides an excellent app navigator through its functions and live chat is pretty reliable. Messages sent and received with no delays are the proof of its reliability, Also, all the features that you set for the software are separated with the right amount of things around. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

For reporting bugs or glitches happening, tech support and live support would take a while in order to process them or to be done. And full automation of things, the price is a little bit expensive for what actualy offers. In other words, this software do the job with some bugs but nothign to worry about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

Kayako is the proper tool for saving time and efforts with organizing emails, messages and monitoring dialogs and logs from third party clients, direct clients and departments through the company. Also, this software will make you more proactive to do more things with Kayako. Highly recommended for proactive companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

With Kayako we as a consolidated business are able to control, manage, monitor and check how clients are doing their dialogs with our shared team box and also we are able to control, organize and split emails that are sent or received through our servers and then. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

I love the UI and functionality of the platform. I love the Apps it provides for iOS and Android, It make it easier for our team to provide support.

Managing cases is very intuitive and easy, it keeps all conversations in place. Nothing ever gets lost.

Love chat window is very responsive, it has a great design and though it lacks customization features for widget placement it still looks great. Automated responses makes it very easy to provide answers for commonly asked questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

I've had Kayako for over 10 years. Support has been a downside for most of the time. I can say it has improved over the past year.

I believe Kayako lacks many features compared to their competitors. Many have been added but they're running at a very slow pace. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Compared to competitors, I believe Kayako has the best UX. That is what keeps me using Kayako. Consider that compared to it's big competitors, such as ZenDesk, it has way less features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I'm using Kayako for sales, support and customer care.

As a Logistics company, we use Kayako for online sales, interacting with possible customers.

On the support side, we use the helpdesk for our customers to query FAQ's and provide tutorials for other platforms that are already integrated in our company. We also use it to follow up customer satisfaction surveys regarding our service. All of this help us manage time in a more efficient way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

Kayako offers all of the fundamentals of a customer support channel as well as some awesome features. Custom domains, email forwarding, chat based support, knowledge base and help center, it's all there. Macros and rules make sorting and organizing workflows easy, and the collaborator seats are great for users who just need to be able to see customer cases. Some other systems have so many features it's overwhelming. For a small to medium sized business, Kayako is perfect for managing customer support without any of the background noise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

Things like user management aren't very intuitive, and the settings and configuration in general are difficult to understand. The help articles on using Kayako have some major gaps, and when I've asked for help from Kayako support, I've had to wait for more than a day for a response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

Kayako is an excellent, basic customer support suite that offers all the basics for a no-frills support channel. If you need advanced functionality or robust custom fields, this may not be the best product for your business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We needed a solution that offered customer support channels and a knowledge base that could be connected to our platform with SSO. Kayako was able to offer this to us and get us up and running on SSO within a week. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JG
Customer Success Manager
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What do you like best about Kayako?

I really appreciate how easy it was to set up the backbone of our knowledgebase. There was no coding required, article adding and editing was a breeze, and it took little to no effort to make it look good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

The support and live chat features are a little lacking. It would be nice if there was more ability to customize the live chat window and insert html more easily. Kayako could also do a better job of providing more advanced support for custom projects, especially when it comes to the chat function or html. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The main beneift of this product for us is the knowledgebase. It is great to set up , and out of the box looks serviceable. We have yet to add css for more customization on the style, but from the small sample size that seems easy enough. The live chat is a nice feature, but is not very customizable and companies like hubspot are miles ahead on that type of feature. If what you are looking for is a nice knowledgebase platform and are not too bothered about the support and chat platforms then this is the product for you. If you want to get into advanced chat and automation features you can find a better product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use kayako for our self service portal. Most notably it houses our getting started guide which is used by all of our new customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Kayako?

Kayako is a good solution for ticket management, integrates well with the email system, and also offers APIs to create tickets directly from your web applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

The mobile app and the desktop system are a bit limited, and there are also problems in the web part both in language management and in the response editor. Problems are encountered in the ticket search functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

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What do you like best about Kayako?

We have been using this for years it suits our purposes for the moment as it allows us to customize for each of our product set reporting is powerful as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

Lack of mandatory closure fields on the classic interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Capturing the relevant information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Growth Manager
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What do you like best about Kayako?

Very good price for the features you use, nice design for live chat widget, easy navigation through administrator section, grouping users by companies (according to email domain), and of course API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Kayako?

If you requested a feature or reported a bug, it can take a lot of time to be done. Some very comfortable and easy automation are available only for the most expensive plan. Not a lot of SEO features available for Help Desk platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Kayako:

If you are looking for something not too difficult, Kayako is a good choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using Kayako as the main tool for our Customer Support and Success Teams (emails, social networks and live chat are 100% covered by Kayako CRM). Our FAQ and User Guides are completely written on the Kayako Help Desk platform. It saves a lot of time when you don't want to develop your own section. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.