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About Kayako

With Kayako users can expand their helpdesk across different channels, including live chat, web, email, tickets, phone and self-service support.
Likewise, they can get insights from their customer support engagements to identify market patterns, buying behaviors, and bottlenecks in the service work flows. It automates helpdesk to manage repetitive queries so agents can focus on more important or urgent tasks. With Kayako agents can also sort, organize, and route emails faster and accurately.
Kayako stands out as one of the only solutions that actually integrates email, tickets, live chats, calls (with VoIP integration), self-service and remote desktop support into one virtual help desk.

About Help Scout

Help Scout features many functions typical for other help desk services, with an addition of personalized customer experience, just like any normal email.

Customers don't need to roam in a bulky ticket portal, or to bother with login credentials to get their issues resolved. Help Scout provides inbox, that each user shares with the team, enabling collaboration for support whenever a request arrives.

Simultaneously, it eliminates the complexities other help desk solutions usually bring, and makes responding to emails and team collaboration easy and plain. It smoothly integrates with other apps and business systems.

Features

  • Analytics
  • API
  • Batch Permissions & Access
  • Chat
  • Contact Management
  • Contact Sharing
  • CRM Integration
  • Customer Management
  • Dashboard
  • Data Export
  • Data Import
  • Data Visualization
  • Email Integration
  • External Integrations
  • Lead Management
  • Lead Scoring
  • Multi-User
  • Notifications
  • Scheduling
  • Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
  • Real-time Alerts
  • Workflow Management
  • Self-service Portal
  • Ticket Management
  • Instant Chat Integration
  • Social Media Integration
  • Call Integration
  • Knowledge Base
  • Support Forum

Features

  • Analytics
  • API
  • Batch Permissions & Access
  • Chat
  • Contact Management
  • Contact Sharing
  • CRM Integration
  • Customer Management
  • Dashboard
  • Data Export
  • Data Import
  • Data Visualization
  • Email Integration
  • External Integrations
  • Lead Management
  • Lead Scoring
  • Multi-User
  • Notifications
  • Scheduling
  • Third-Party Plugins/Add-Ons
  • Real-time Alerts
  • Workflow Management
  • Self-service Portal
  • Ticket Management
  • Instant Chat Integration
  • Social Media Integration
  • Call Integration
  • Knowledge Base
  • Support Forum

Summary

  • Multiple Help Desk Reports: Kayako comes with 100 help desk report templates, varying from peripheral overviews to in-depth analyses.

  • Manage and Track Customer Support Tickets: If a ticket goes overdue, Kayako can automatically escalate that ticket: change its priority, assigning it to someone or triggering notifications.

  • Increase Customer Engagement with Live Chat Tools: Kayako's live chat tool is equipped with real-time visitor monitoring and proactive engagement.

  • Intuitive Agent Control Panel: Navigation is organized by channel. Customizable color coding is used to draw attention to tickets that are overdue.

  • Customer-facing Support Center: It lets user's clients navigate content, submit their own support tickets and log in to view the current issue and conversations surrounding it.

  • Custom Fields and Customization: This customer support app can be tailored to user's specific workflow, with custom ticket statuses, types and priorities.

Summary

  • Create multiple mailboxes for each shared email address.

  • Help Scout’s collaboration features keep everyone on the same page.

  • Simple automation system based on if/then logic.

  • Measure team performance, spot trends to prevent issues, and monitor customer happiness.

  • Every customer has an auto-populated, editable profile.

  • Customer satisfaction ratings.

  • Phone calls and voicemails.

  • Collision detection.

Pricing

  • Credit card required: No
  • Case: $24 agent p/mo (billed annually), or $29 (billed monthly).
    Fusion: $39 agent p/mo (billed annually), or $49 (billed monthly).
    Engage: $24 agent p/mo (billed annually), or $29 (billed monthly).
    Free trial: 30 days.

Pricing

Basic

$12.00
1 user(s) / month
Included in plan:
  • Up to 10 Users
  • 1 limited Docs knowledge base
  • Reports (30 days of history)
  • Saved Replies
  • Beacon
  • Following
  • @mentions
  • Outstanding 24x6 Support
  • No Help Scout branding
  • iOS & Android App

Standard

$20.00
1 user(s) / month
Included in plan:
  • Unlimited Users
  • 5 Mailboxes
  • 1 Docs knowledge base
  • Reports (Full history)
  • Saved Replies
  • Beacon
  • Following
  • @mentions
  • Outstanding 24x6 Support
  • No Help Scout branding
  • iOS & Android App
  • Workflows
  • Satisfaction Ratings
  • Office Hours
  • 50+ integrations
  • API Access

Plus

$35.00
1 user(s) / month
Included in plan:
  • Unlimited Users
  • Unlimited messages & storage
  • Unlimited Mailboxes
  • 3 Docs knowledge base
  • Reports (Full history)
  • Saved Replies
  • Beacon
  • Following
  • @mentions
  • Outstanding 24x6 Support
  • No Help Scout branding
  • iOS & Android App
  • Workflows
  • Satisfaction Ratings
  • Office Hours
  • 50+ integrations
  • API Access
  • Salesforce Integration
  • JIRA Integration
  • HubSpot Integration
  • SAML Single Sign-on
  • Teams
  • Custom fields
  • HIPAA Compliance

FAQs

    Who are the main user groups of this service?
  • Kayako focuses mainly on medium to large-size corporations.

  • What is this service generally used for?
  • It is used as a help desk app.

  • What platforms does this service support?
  • Platforms supported: Linux, Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone-iPad, Windows Phone, BlackBerry 10.

  • Does this service integrate with any other apps?
  • It integrates with: Mailchimp, Basecamp, Freshbooks, Drupal, Magento , Salesforce Sales Cloud, Joomla, Wordpress, SugarCRM

  • Does this service offer an API?
  • Kayako offers REST API.

  • Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?
  • It doesn't offer multi user capability.

  • Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
  • They offer: email, phone support, and helpdesk.

FAQs

    What platforms does this service support?
  • Help Scout supports web-based platforms in addition to Android and iOS.

  • Who are the main user groups of this service?
  • Main users of this service are small businesses, medium-sized enterprises, and small teams within larger organizations.

  • Does this service integrate with any other apps?
  • Help Scout integrates with more than 50 applications, including:

    Wordpress, BigCommerce, Snap Engage, Hubspot, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, MailChimp, Shopify, Olark, Capsule, Webhooks, Pipedrive, Highrise, WooCommerce, and others.

  • Does this service offer an API?
  • Yes, it offers API.

  • Does this service offer multi-user capability (e.g. teams)?
  • Yes.

  • What are some applications this service is commonly used in tandem with?
  • Help Scout is frequently used in tandem with marketing and CRM platforms.

  • What is this service generally used for?
  • It is used as a powerful help desk application with personalized customer experience.

  • Does this service offer guides, tutorials and or customer support?
  • Yes, Help Scout offers:

    Email Support, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Video Tutorials, Help Desk, and Help Docs

Vendor Information

Founded:
2001
Based in:
London
Employees:
51-200
Likes:
Followers:
10k

Vendor Information

Founded:
-
Based in:
-
Employees:
-
Likes:
Followers:
12.3k

Other

Regional Restrictions:
No restrictions.

Other

Who uses Help Scout
  • Freelance
  • Startups
  • SMEs
  • Enterprises
Desktop Platforms:
  • Web App
  • Windows
Mobile Platforms:
  • iOS
Languages:
English
Regional Restrictions:
No restrictions.
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