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Executive Summary
Updated on Sep 5, 2023

We compared Freshdesk and FullStory across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:

  • Features: Freshdesk stands out for its ease of use and customizability. It enables users to connect with different folders and integrate seamlessly. Reviewers also mentioned Freshdesk’s strong reporting and comprehensive knowledge base. FullStory focuses on session replay, heatmaps, and conversion funnels to understand user behavior and enhance website performance.

  • Room for Improvement: Freshdesk could improve its ticketing system, reporting templates, integration with Freshcaller, and implementation of feature requests. FullStory could benefit from enhancements in pricing, user interface, performance, and data filtering.

  • Service and Support: Freshdesk’s customer service is regarded as efficient and prompt. Users described it as excellent, speedy, and attentive. FullStory's customer service is highly regarded for its quick and valuable assistance, extensive resources, and expertise.

  • Ease of Deployment: Freshdesk’s setup is quick, painless, and can be completed without outside help. FullStory is praised for its ease of deployment, clear documentation, and seamless integration with various platforms.

  • Pricing: Opinions about Freshdesk’s pricing are mixed. Some find it competitive and affordable, while others find it expensive, particularly when expanding or adding features. FullStory's cost can vary.

  • ROI: Freshdesk improves the efficiency of customer management, addressing requests, and organizing documentation, resulting in a favorable return on investment. FullStory aids businesses in comprehending user behavior. The return on investment (ROI) varies based on individual goals and objectives.

Comparison Results: Freshdesk is highly regarded for its user-friendly interface, easy setup process, customizable features, seamless connectivity, and efficient reporting abilities. Still, there is room for improvement in areas like ticketing, integrations, reporting templates, and pricing. FullStory is praised for its ease of deployment, session replay, heatmaps, and conversion funnels. However, some users find the pricing high and have reported occasional technical glitches.

To learn more, read our detailed Customer Experience Management Report (Updated: April 2024).
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  • "It was definitely not expensive. It was two grand or maybe three grand total for a year. It has just straight and simple standard licensing fees. There is no additional fee."
  • "The price could be better, but it's okay. Compared to ServiceNow and JIRA, Freshworks offers a competitive price. There are also additional licensing costs because you need Microsoft Outlook. Each new email account costs around $15 to $19."
  • "The best system plan is enterprise. It costs basically 79 Euros per agent per month when it's billed annually and 95 Euros per agent per month when it's billed monthly."
  • "We use a licensing model only so we pay for the number of agents we have configured in the system only."
  • "Freshdesk was the best solution with the best price. It was cost efficient and included all the features that we needed."
  • "We use a combination of Freshdesk, Freshservice, and Freshchat. We use the whole suite. Weirdly enough, we pay more for Freshdesk than we do for Freshservice. I would rate it a three out of five in terms of pricing. You can get different bundles, and you can always move to different plans that are standard. Freshservice can go anywhere from $19 up to $120 per agent, per month. There is such a wide range, and it is very customizable to your needs."
  • "It is costly."
  • "The pricing is pretty manageable and acceptable."
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    Top Answer:Freshdesk significantly improved our customer issue resolution process. We can now easily record and track all customer requests, ensuring that no tickets are lost.
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    Top Answer:I use Freshdesk to manage IT support tickets for our team of 15 IT professionals across multiple countries. It has been effective in ticket management, and we find the price-to-functionality ratio… more »
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    Overview

    Freshdesk is a cloud-based customer support solution that provides organizations with the features necessary to effectively streamline their support processes. This includes powerful multichannel capability, integrated game mechanics, smart automations, and more.

    The solution is designed to automate agent workflows and resolve routine questions using AI and bots. Freshdesk allows managers to prioritize, categorize, and assign tickets to their agents, making it easy for them to collaborate and quickly respond to customers. 

    Freshdesk Features and Benefits

    Some of the solution's top features and benefits include:

    • Simplified ticketing: With Freshdesk, you can easily prioritize, manage, and assign trackable tickets. The management system ensures that multiple agents don’t work on the same ticket by accident. You can easily set deadlines for ticket resolution based on specific categories and create custom statuses that suit your workflow to identify what stage a ticket is in.
    • Automation: Automatically assign tickets to agents and groups based on keywords and requests and set up automated repeated actions and provide quick, consistent responses to common questions using pre-formatted replies. In addition, you can choose to prevent the reopening of tickets when customers reply with a thank you.
    • Improved collaboration: Share tickets with other teams while retaining full visibility into the progress being made on the issue. Related tickets can be linked together to better keep track of the big picture. Tickets can also be split into smaller child tickets and assigned to multiple agents to help resolve complex, multi-stage issues.
    • Build up your knowledge base: Create effective support documentation by enabling agents to convert their ticket replies into knowledge base articles, while they reply.
    • Metrics and reporting: See how different agents and groups are performing by viewing various help desk metrics and improve performance by identifying problems based on insights.

      With Freshdesk’s reporting tools, you can schedule the periodic delivery of out-of-the-box and custom reports to your inbox. The solution’s customer satisfaction reports provide you with feedback on how your customers rate your support.
    • Forum moderation: Set up moderation workflows to ensure that forum posts that violate your guidelines are not immediately published. Critical issues raised in the community are automatically converted into tickets to ensure they get the required response.

    • Integration: Freshdesk’s open API can be used to integrate the solution with multiple  third-party systems. 
    • Comprehensive security: Freshdesk’s security features allow you to:

      • Set custom access permissions for agents.
      • Perform comprehensive audits of networks and systems.
      • Secure your own support domain or vanity URL with custom SSL certificates.
      • Whitelist IP ranges and restrict login access outside of work, or link IP whitelisting to a VPN.
      • Set up SSO scripts for credential authentication.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Freshdesk stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Two major ones are its effective ticketing system and its intuitive interface.

    Deepak B., an application manager, writes, “Freshdesk has allowed us to measure and track the response and resolution time of tickets which has been reduced from seven to eight hours down to 30 minutes to one hour. This information is valuable for board meetings.”

    Meet FullStory, the app that captures all your customer experience data in one powerful, easy-to-use platform. Our tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect session playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation – empowering everyone in your organization to help build the best online experience for your customers.

    FullStory takes a fundamentally different approach to understanding your customer experience. One tiny script unlocks pixel-perfect playback, automatic insights, funnel analytics, and robust search and segmentation – all without the need to manually tag your site’s code.

    FullStory’s playback perfectly captures even the gnarliest single-page apps built on any JavaScript framework. They’re not just videos either, our playbacks are fully-working recreation of your site, code and all, so they look great on any size screen and no detail is ever lost, no matter how tiny. A/B testing? Dynamic URLs? No problem. Our recordings present a 100% faithful recreation of the site as your customer experienced it.

    Plus, we capture the entire DOM and all assets, mutations and customer actions. That’s way more than any other playback or CX tool. Every click, keypress, page transition and more, all automatically indexed (without the need for manual tagging) so you can search on anything at anytime.

    By capturing more customer experience data than any other solution in one powerful, easy-to-use platform, FullStory is able to empower everyone in an organization to help build the best online experience for their customers.

    Sample Customers
    Honda, 3M, Hugo Boss, Petronas, Sony Pictures, The Atlantic, goodreads, Clear Channel Radio, Penn University of Pennsylvania, unicef, Kuoni, Movember
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Retailer21%
    Comms Service Provider11%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company23%
    Media Company6%
    Real Estate/Law Firm6%
    Educational Organization6%
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    Small Business59%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise28%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise57%
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    Freshdesk is ranked 2nd in Customer Experience Management with 27 reviews while FullStory is ranked 12th in Customer Experience Management. Freshdesk is rated 8.4, while FullStory is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Freshdesk writes "Incredibly user-friendly, flexible, and affordable". On the other hand, Freshdesk is most compared with JIRA Service Management, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Spiceworks and TOPdesk, whereas FullStory is most compared with Adobe Web Experience Management.

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