We performed a comparison between Freshservice and Zoho Desk based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Help Desk Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its ease of use is fantastic. It is just above and beyond, especially when you compare it to something like Cherwell, Salesforce, or anything like that. It is on its own level. It is so easy to administer. The way everything is organized and the way it builds its own documentation is very good."
"Freshservice has automated a lot of our tasks, including ticket responses and call assignments, which has sped up our operations considerably."
"Ability to scan barcodes and a great search feature."
"Depending on the size of your organization, is pretty standard and useful."
"The solution’s timely automated triggers increase our IT team’s productivity."
"What I have seen in Freshservice is there's no room for customization. Which works as an advantage in some cases and it works as a disadvantage in others. If you are someone that starts managing your IT services, it is a great solution, because there's no way to go out away from the direction of the system. You have to follow the process as it was intended for the designers of a solution because there's no room for customization or configuration."
"The solution has been stable."
"The most valuable features of Freshservice are the notifications, customization, and flexibility."
"The most valuable features are that it's user-friendly, you can customize it the way you want it, and it is very easy to use. You don't need anybody else to configure it."
"The ticketing feature is very easy to use, compared to other systems."
"The most valuable feature of generating the ticket through the web form and for the e-mailers. So, if you are facing any issues, by the ticket, you can generate the issue in Google Test."
"Good at capturing online inquiries has portal functionality, and is very good at managing inbound customer inquiries."
"It is a highly scalable solution. You can easily add more users through the portal within seconds."
"Zoho Desk is very flexible, just like the other applications of Zoho."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Desk is the parent and child task management feature."
"The most valuable features of Zoho Desk are the user interface, pricing, and how they customize the solution for us."
"The reporting and management information (MI) are very limited, and stopped realistic and timely reporting on outstanding incidents."
"They can improve the search. While searching the inventory, when I cancel a selected category, the search box disappears, and I have to reload the page. It is a small glitch. Currently, we can have only one plan per subscription. All users have to be on the same plan. We can't have two users for plan A and five users for plan B. It might be good if there was an option to have different plans within one subscription so that you can assign each agent to the corresponding plan."
"We'd like better integration with other products."
"You can't implement a complicated delivery workflow. We don't have the same problems with incident and change workflows. It's only for delivery workflow. They have a mechanism for modifying your incident or change workflow. There's a visual interface for that, so there's no reason not to have the same function for request management."
"A chat bot needs to be added to the portal."
"The chat portal is not that great."
"On the reporting side, when we were doing reporting, one thing that was a bit of a limitation was when you had a data list containing a list of changes that have occurred for the whole time and you had to fit the list onto a page. If the list went over the page, it would just truncate it at the page. You wouldn't get all your data. So, it didn't work. That was one big stand-out for me. What we tended to do was convert things into a more readable format, and then we had more targeted exception reporting, but it would be nice to have a full list of things that could be automatically generated and that can flow over pages."
"Not integrated with Google."
"The solution urgently needs improvement in the display's night mode. When we use the system for a long time, it's very stressful for our eyes. I also need to see improvements that can help to find the assets under a previous owner."
"As per customer requirements, it may have some limitations."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support. It could be more knowledgeable."
"Zoho Desk lacks lookup fields for the layouts."
"I would like to have integrated support, and integration between the ticketing tool and the project management tool."
"I would want Zoho Desk to integrate Zoho CRM, Zoho SalesIQ , and Zoho Campaigns."
"The customization of modules and some blueprint in the solution are areas with shortcomings that need improvement."
"The solution should provide an option to autofill some values while creating tickets."
Freshservice is ranked 5th in Help Desk Software with 29 reviews while Zoho Desk is ranked 6th in Help Desk Software with 19 reviews. Freshservice is rated 8.0, while Zoho Desk is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Freshservice writes "Provides excellent traceability along with improved efficiency and reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zoho Desk writes "End-to-end solution to manage customer support tickets and consolidate all communication channels into one platform". Freshservice is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Microsoft Project, Zendesk and Moveworks, whereas Zoho Desk is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus, Freshdesk and Spiceworks. See our Freshservice vs. Zoho Desk report.
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