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Giving your customers the support they expect and deserve is an essential part of any business, whether online or on the high street. In the digital eCommerce world, it can be difficult to keep up with the ongoing inquiries, orders, leads, and other communications that are part of your everyday operation.
For growing companies, this can be a problem as resources from within the company are directed away from where they should be to deal with problems that crop up. This could be offering customer support, answering queries, or scheduling work with agents. There are many companies offering solutions that are designed to enhance your productivity.
Freshdesk is a comprehensive package that provides you with support in many areas of a growing business, allowing you and your team to concentrate on what you are best at doing. Before we discuss the features, here’s more about how Freshdesk works.
Pros
- Easy to use, Fresh look and good user interface
- Power of reporting
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Good support from their team
Cons
- If you want a lot of features you will be pushed to the biggest plan
- To become the best they would need to do some updates on their integrations
How Freshdesk Works
Freshdesk combined actual personal support with automated features to help give users a broader reach in terms of organization, communication, and engagement with consumers. By way of handling several aspects such as ticketing, communication, field service, and more Freshdesk can help streamline your day-to-day operations and ensure better organization leading to greater productivity.
Part of the Freshworks family of tools and solutions, Freshdesk is easy to use and comprehensive and can be tailored to suit your individual needs. It’s also sensibly priced in what is a competitive market. Let’s run through some of the solutions that Freshdesk offers.
Ticketing Solutions
Freshdesk has many benefits in terms of ticketing, including bringing everything together in one inbox and enabling the allocation of tickets to the right agents seamlessly. This in turn prevents agents from working on the same ticket mistakenly. It can also stop the repetition, by not allowing a second automated response when customers in turn respond to a thank you message. These are just a couple of features in what is a comprehensive area of Freshdesk.
Collaboration
The Freshdesk package is big on collaboration, with the ability to handle group discussions to thrash out problems and to link related tickets so that things can be actioned more efficiently. It can also be used to handle shared ownership of tickets, with the emphasis being on keeping things visible at all times. This is another area in which productivity can be ably enhanced with the use of the Freshdesk features.
All-Channel Support
Modern business uses many different channels for communication, marketing, and other business. Freshdesk can help by offering support with email – it will convert mail into tickets in your helpdesk, for instance – plus is also offers a live chat function for customer support and engagement. In addition, you can set up a telephone call center, integrate social media across the board and allow customers to raise tickets via your website, or using WhatsApp.
Productivity Automation
Freshdesk has a few features that are based on automation, including the ability to assign tickets ‘intelligently’ based on keywords or workload and more. It can also trigger actions on tickets based on events – say a customer responding or placing an order – and when needed will notify agents of changes to the ticket, new tickets, or other information. The automation ability of Freshdesk also extends to automated responses and suggestions, a chatbot is available, and there are many more features to explore in a well-thought-out area of the package.
Data Analysis
So that you can keep an eye on how your agents and other areas of the business are performing, Freshdesk includes a series of customizable reporting and analytics options. These include customer satisfaction reports, helpdesk monitoring, and many specially tailored reports that you can specify. Each is created using the simple dashboard function.
The above should give you a good idea of what Freshdesk is all about, and how it can help your business in terms of increased productivity. What do we think of it overall?
Conclusion
Freshdesk is a very good – and comprehensive – example of a streamlining tool that will help you organize all your business communications in a way that should cut back on time spent where it should not be. The clever integration of ticket raising, customer care, and other areas makes it a worthwhile choice if you have a growing business that needs extra help, but you do not want to employ more personnel. It’s easy to use, effective and from a company that is well-known in the field, so is certainly one for the shortlist.