Help Scout

United States HQFounded 2011

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Overview

About Help Scout

Help Scout is designed with your customers in mind. Provide email and live chat with a personal touch, and deliver help content right where your customers need it, all in one place, all for one low price.The customer experience is simple and training staff is painless, but Help Scout still has all the powerful features you need to provide great support at scale. Be available right where your customers need it, and give your team the collaboration, organization, and automation they need to move faster.

Help Scout is as easy to use as an email inbox, so your whole team can focus on what really matters: customer relationships. Level-up your teamwork, organize your inbox, and automate repeated tasks so your people can respond to more customers. Unlock power as you grow. Global teams use Help Scout to support tens of millions of customers and get to inbox zero.

At a glance

Software information

Industries served, licensing and the support Help Scout provides.

Industries

  • Education-management
  • Financial-services
  • Hospital-health-care
  • Logistics-supply-chain
  • Media-production
  • Professional-training

Licensing

  • Proprietary
  • Monthly Payment
  • Free trial

Support

  • Email
  • 24x7 Support

Training

  • Help Guides
  • Video Guides
  • Blogs
  • On-Site Training

Knowledge Base

  • Help Guides
  • Video
  • Blog
  • On-Site Training
Languages (1)
English

Review analytics

What customers report

4.0
Based on 2 verified reviews
Ease of use4.5
Features & functionality4.0
Customer support4.0

What users say

Review Analytics of Help Scout

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4.02 Verified Reviews
Ease of use4.5
Features & functionality4.0
Customer support4.0
Detailed Reviews of Help Scout
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Sanjay Gupta, President at Santa MedicalVerified Review
Posted on Apr 20, 2023

“The interface is friendly to users and simple to operate”

Overall rating4.0
Ease of use5.0
Features & functionality4.0
Customer support4.0

We Santa Medical use Help Scout. Provides service via multiple channels, including email, chat, various social media platforms, and the phone. Integration with well-known applications such as Salesforce, Slack, and Zapier, among others. Ticket management, automation, and reporting are just some of the features. Workflows and templates that can be customized. There are not many choices available for personalizing the user interface. It can be a costly endeavor for one's own tiny business. It's possible that some users will find the reporting capabilities to be too simplistic.

Eric Dalius, Executive Chairman at MuzicSwipeVerified Review
Posted on Apr 20, 2023

“With the help of Help Scout workflows can be configured to automate actions”

Overall rating4.0
Ease of use4.0
Features & functionality4.0
Customer support4.0

We MuzicSwipe use Help Scout. When designing this platform, the pioneers had customer satisfaction in mind. It is prevalent among companies with a focus on customer growth. Support departments are streamlined due to the shared inbox. There are notes, tagging, and stored replies for collaboration. You also get collision detection. All issues contain complete customer information. This includes all prior inquiries from customers for each contact. It utilizes fundamental if-then functionality. The knowledge base enables rapid article creation. You can also brand it with your own logo. Also available is in-app messaging. This enables agents to be proactive in ensuring a superior user experience. Standard Help Scout pricing is $20 per user per month, invoiced annually. It gives you three mailboxes. The following plan costs $35 per user per month, annually invoiced. Here, you get 10 receptacles. Contact Help Scout for unlimited receptacles. There is also a complimentary trial for 15 days.

Capabilities

Help Scout features

The full feature set, grouped by module.

Customer Service Software

  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Management
  • Help Desk
  • Live Chat
  • Response Templates
  • Self-Service Portal
  • Social Media Integration

Help Desk Software

  • Analytics & Reporting
  • Alerts
  • Customer Review
  • Customization
  • Dashboards
  • Escalation
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Knowledge Base
  • Live Chat
  • Multi-Channel
  • Multilingual
  • SLA
  • Ticketing Management

Ticketing Software

  • Branding Control
  • Customer Portal
  • Event Ticketing
  • Mobile Ticketing
  • Online Ticketing
  • Payment Processing
  • Reporting & Analysis

Live Chat Software

  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Chat Bots
  • Proactive Chat
  • Reports & Analytics
  • Secured Encryption

Service Desk Software

  • Knowledge Base
  • Mobile Access
  • Problem Management
  • Procurement Management
  • Reports
  • Self Service Portal

Plans

Help Scout pricing

Price Type
Month
Free Version
No
Payment Frequency
Monthly Payment
Preferred Currency
USD ($)
Free Trial
15 Days
Standard$20 / month
Plus$40 / month
Pro$65 / month

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Screenshots & video

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