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Freshdesk
Effortless Customer Support
4.4
(3,051)
(Formerly Freshcaller)
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Freshdesk Reviews & Product Details

Freshdesk Overview
What is Freshdesk?

Freshdesk (formerly Freshcaller) is a cloud-based solution to improve a business’s customer service experience in the most cost-efficient way possible. With Freshdesk, users can deploy a flexible and smart contact center in a few steps, with zero phone hardware. Powerful features include multi-level IVRs, business hours, and holiday settings to help your agents manage call volumes without compromising your customer experience. 

Company Freshworks
Year founded 2010
Company size 5001-10,000 employees
Headquarters San Mateo, California
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Freshdesk Product Details
Capabilities
AI
API
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
Training Documentation
Languages English
Freshdesk Pros and Cons
Pros
  • There’s a free plan available
  • Freshdesk uses powerful Freddy AI for its conversational chatbot
  • You get access to high-quality website widgets like forms, personalized content, and click detection
Cons
  • Some key features like AI are only available on the most expensive plan.
Freshdesk Features
Asset Management
Audit Logs
Automated Routing
Canned Responses
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Custom Fields
Customer Feedback
Customizable Branding
Email Integration
Escalation Management
Incident Management
Knowledge Base
Live Chat
Macros/Automations
Mobile Access
Multi-channel Communication
Prioritization
Problem Management
Queue Management
Reporting and Analytics
Role-Based Permissions
SLA Management
Self-service Portal
Surveys and Feedback
Task Management
Third-party Integrations
Ticket Management
Time Tracking
User Management
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Last updated: February 20, 2025
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3,051 Freshdesk Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 14, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Lexi T. avatar
Lexi T.
Order Success Manager
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"Multifaceted and Nimble Solution Center"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Freshdesk has so much to customize and build out to be unique to my business needs, and it's really intuitive to use.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

It's difficult if not impossible to connect the Freshdesk service to our backend to have order information communicate between the two systems.

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

Our Customer and Order Support teams use Freshdesk to manage our incoming email queues and keep all of the information about an order or a question centralized for all Agents, Watchers, and Ticket Collaborators. Child Tickets allow us to keep conversations with customers separate from conversations with vendors while keeping the conversations connected to the related order.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 10, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Bharatwaj R.
Managing Director
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"Best support desk platform you will use"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

When you start with your business, you try to save the most money , freshdesk has helped me with that, you get it for free in start and it does come with all the essentials you will need.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Features can be put as add on rather than making ya upgrade to a whole pricing plan.

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

For us , it’s solving the main thing of customer support which is what we need.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 27, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Victor S.
Total Quality Management Manager
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"Freshdesk Evaluation Review"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Freshdesk provides very useful features with multiple support channels including live chat, email, phone and social media. Furthermore, it is a cloud base software that is easy to use with smart automation features to ensure things are done smoothly and faster which enables more efficient business processes for a better customer engagement and experience.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

I think it's a bit expensive per agent/user if you want to upgrade your reporting module in Freshdesk. Good thing is that we can test Freshdesk wide range of features using their free trial plan firsthand before deciding whether the cost for the upgrade is necessary or not for the business.

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

Freshdesk let our employees automate and monitor some of our process workflows. Furthermore, it is a better option than handling support via email. With Freshdesk, our customers can access their ticket status and ticket history and even gives their feedback and rating which provides a simplified way to top-rate customer support.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 23, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Sachin S. avatar
Sachin S.
Senior Team Lead
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"Best Ticketing Platform for Customer Support"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Customer support made easy. Deliver fast and consistent customer service across email, phone, chat, WhatsApp Business, and other social media channels from a single view. We are getting good insights for our brand.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

extend more desktop features to the mobile app client. There are some restrictions where you need automation and sometimes there is just no way to achieve what you need. I would like to be able to change the subject in emails for ourselves. If we could have the option to do that, it would improve our speed and the overall cleanliness of the CRM.

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

We are handling our customer projects for creating the e-commerce website and from that, we are able to track the internal team efforts. We are able to track the team performance as well.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 22, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
CP
Chetan P.
Analyst
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"Perfect solution to successfully run and manage a business"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

The UI is really great with all the tools exactly at the right places. Customer support even for small businesses is really good, they usually solve tickets quickly.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Not every type of API is available here and they simply deny making one if we want them.

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

Managing bookings using ticket management system. Maintaining transparency with employees about their work.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 26, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
SK
Sameer K.
Manager
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"zoho to freshdesk a fresh journey"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

the tools and wide reach of offerings, helpful other party integrations. Freshdesk is once of the best CRM in market

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

pricing is a little on the higher side. but the tools and services are unmatchable.

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

The tool's multi-functional chat window makes the agent's life easy.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 20, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Johan O. avatar
Johan O.
Sales And Service Specialist
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"Best CRM Platform."
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

The fact we have everything easily distributed by departments and how we have followups set automaticly.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

That needs to sync better with fresh connect.

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

Basically all the Operation of our company.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Apr 19, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Benny S.
Travel Support Specialist
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"Freshdesk is everything in Customer Support"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

It's very easy to use, has almost every option to make life easy and keeps evolving everyday

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

the analysis section is a bit complex for novice

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

Customer support and escalation

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 05, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AD
Andrew D.
Vice President, Business Development
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"The best customer support platform"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

FreshDesk is easy to set up and get started. It has the quickest go-to-market deployment, even when considering novice users. The integrations with third-party platforms are seamless. Even on the Sprout (basic and free) plan, there aren't many restrictions. Free email support and integration with automatic ticket creation allow easy access and reporting for running a user helpdesk. The ability to reply via email directly greatly increases efficiency and response time. The export function allows further classification and advanced reporting with custom filters for better data representation. The help documentation is very detailed yet easy to understand and implement. The support is always reachable and offers excellent resolution in a quick turnaround time.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Nothing... everything works flawlessly. I am using both free and paid subscriptions and so far have not been wanting any further support.

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

Customer outreach and helpdesk support are what we use FreshDesk primarily as a ticketing solution. It offers excellent Email integration for virtual helpdesk support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 22, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
AM
Andrei M.
Managing Director
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"Perfect solution for small business"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Friendly interface Integration with e-mail Answer Templates

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Spam folder Template search Less statistics customisations

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

Fresdesk helps me to support my clients and for daily communication with users.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 18, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
Biki D. avatar
Biki D.
Head Of Design
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"Best customer support software for small businesses"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

The onboarding experience of freshdesk is really amazing for a layman like me who have no prior experience in setting up customer support softwares, plus they have lot of tutorials for learning.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Although their pricing can be more pocket friendly but they can also improve their user experience more which will help layman users like us to navigate through the software better.

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

I'm solving customer communication and support services challenges with freshdesk software. I'm also using freshdesk to understand and plan my support resource efficiency.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 14, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
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Pauline L.
Ehr Support
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"Its very easy to use!"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

I like that when you copy and paste screenshots and images from another document, it just paste the contents as is.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

There is none that I can think of so far.

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

I am in charge of the electronic health records system issues. Its easier to organize priority instead of writing down everything on a notepad.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 11, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
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Arpit D.
Crm Specialist
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"Intuitive and Flexible Solution to Grow Customer Retention"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

There are some of the most advances and useful features like Screensharing, CRM Integration, Chatbot, CSAT, Ticketing Management, SLA, a Day pass for agents, etc. The capability to integrate with Chatbot, Magento, and other marketplace apps is phenomenal. It is a must go!

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

I did not like the mapping management of fields with 3rd party platforms. There are API limitations that create a challenge for data modifications.

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

Real-time customer resolution, Access to the knowledge base, Q&A

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 20, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RS
Ramona S.
Business Support Engineer
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"Really satisfied with Freshdesk"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

I started to implement Freshdesk as our first ticket system and I am still glad with this choice. You get a lot of features for a very good price. Freshdesk regularly updates features based on user experience. The videos are easy to follow and the UI and all included menus (user interface) are easy to walk through. I found my way before having the onboarding call and had not much questions left during this session. All tuorials were really helpful to almost independently finding my way to configure Freshdesk for our purposes. When I sended requests I was helped quickly and problems were always solved within a short timeframe. Never experienced downtime in the last 6 months. I really like that you can customize your brand and portal with your own code. We had help from Freshdesk partners to design our Knowledgde Base Portal as we wanted it to look like and we are able to change the code whenever we want. All app integrations, like the Kanban board are really helpful to organize the workload and making your work more scalable and efficient. The dashbord gives you a good overview and there are many options to optimize your tickets by changing the required information by ticket fields etc. The reports are quite handy and accessible and do you have the opportunity to create your own reports. The Knowledge Base report is still a Beta version, but a good start to get an overview which articles are used the most. For advanced insights I use the reports in combination with Google Analytics, which you can easily integrate at the marketplace. For technical issues I use trackers and integrated Jira for our development team. Working a lot with the mobile app and being able to answer tickets from everywhere if there are problems with high priority. Makes it really easy to reacting on downtime of your products and contacting team members immedeately. In other words, Freshdesk comes 98% close to what I expected and what I was looking for.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

I miss some small adjustments since I use Freshdesk also for incidents and escalations. For example a major incident button where you can connect a lot of tickets would be great, but I understand that this is a tooling which you will find more likely when using Freshservice. I also miss an option to give knowledge articles a certain due date or expiration date, so that you are automatically forced to review them and check if the content is still up to date. It would be also nice to get a list of what people filled in on the search bar to get an idea which content potentially misses and has to be written. These are small details I passed through as feedback already and might be already in development for future releases.

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

I use Freshdesk mainly to improve our product lifecycle. We are able to detecting issues early by analysing all requests and were able to downsize our solution release time. Furthermore, we get a better impression where users of our products are looking for and what we need to improve our user expirience.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 16, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
VT
Viviana T.
Business Process Analyst
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"I love all the reports and analytics"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Adding notes to have trazability Customizer fields and widgets to gather info that we need to resolved tickets effectively Communicate with the client thought the platform All The reports and analytics

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Maybe generate alarm to send to the agents regarded with the tickets unresolved or to the manager when we get a bad or just ok answers from the survey

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

Workload Performance Client focus Business decisions

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
VK
Vivek K.
Customer Support Executive
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"Freshdesk review"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Prompt and speed connectivity never gets lagged or never down perform every feature and all the options are best

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

nothing to be disliked in Freshdesk everything is just great

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

forward the request to the concern team to resolved our customers issues

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 15, 2022
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Overall Rating:
5.0
KK
Kennedy K.
Customer Verification Officer
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"freshdesk is versatile and easy to use"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

The fresh desk allows me to raise tickets quickly, monitor them up to the closure, and refer back using the ticket ID.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

I like everything about fresh desk because the challenges that generally arise are quickly sorted

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

I currently use Freshdesk to raise aftersales tickets source the HR management tool, among other solutions.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 11, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
RM
Richie M.
Developer
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"Easy To Manage Helpdesk + App"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

It's fast and has all the features of a help desk ticket that I need. I can customize by adding fields of different types, and the API is easy to use also. It's really fast, upon clicking create ticket my app is dinging that there is a new customer need or response.

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

I wish the app could handle user switching. Many helpdesks use Freshdesk, but I can only use one on my phone as it takes too long to log out and log in again.

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

My clients can make requests and report problems easily. I can track the hours that it takes me to work on each ticket and quickly cross-reference other tickets being able to search for keywords or tags.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 10, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
HR
Hugo R.
Coo
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"Amazing Tool !"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Even in the free version, many excellent features make any helpdesk setup task easy and fluid!

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Almost nothing. Some reports could be better in the free version, but you can export a CSV file and make your analysis.

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

Ticketing in general, task assignment, and knowledge base are great !

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Feb 10, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
MN
Madan N.
Manager Customer Support
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"One of the Best and Constantly Evolving Ticketing Application"
What do you like best about Freshdesk?

Manage tickets with ease. - Set Automation Rules on frequent use cases - Set Team-based & Category-basrd SLA policies - Triage tickets - Web-forms customisation - Marketplace Applications for special needs - Intelligent Bot - Space to create Exhausive Knowledge base - Customised Dashboards - Surprisingly Cool Support Experience

What do you dislike about Freshdesk?

Not a lot. But, - Complicated Rules for some automations - Lesser scope for detailed customisation

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

- Increased Answer Rate - Reduced TAT - Escalation Matrix triggers notifications on missed SLA - Prioritise Social Media Responses - Bot as first level support optimises FTE count - Improved CSAT Tracking - Web-forms with predetermined categories helps automate ticket assignment to relevant teams - Parent-Child ticketing option helps track progress on assigned tickets to other teams. - Customised Reports.

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