Freshservice vs HubSpot Service Hub
Overview
Freshservice
The help desk platforms for IT support and ITIL management had already hit the market of business software. Freshservice turns out to be a good option if you are looking for produc...tive IT support with a ticketing system. This help desk offers a handful of advanced tools for handling multiple channels, automate workflows, prevent damages, and analyze problems in any corporate scenario.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
HubSpot Service Hub
Service Hub is a new software solution created by HubSpot which is concentrated on business workflow management for improving customer experience and general satisfaction level. Th...e platform contains a set of advanced tools which can help any support team automate a big part of their workflow while understanding and improving relationships with customers.
Platforms supported
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS app
- Android app
Support Options
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Phone Support
- Email/Help Desk
- Chat
Training Options
- Live Online
- Documentation
- In Person
- Videos
- Webinars
Screenshots
Pricing
Freshservice
- Freshservice Blossom $19
- Freshservice Garden $49
- Freshservice Estate $95
- Freshservice Forest $119
- Free trial
HubSpot Service Hub
- HubSpot Service Hub Free $0
- HubSpot Service Hub Starter $50
- HubSpot Service Hub Professional $400
- HubSpot Service Hub Enterprise $1,200
- Free trial
Feature comparison
Freshservice
6.5/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Auto Bcc
- Bulk actions
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Edit/hide threads
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Occasional agents
- Personal canned responses
- Private Comments within tickets
- Shared canned responses
- Tags
- Traffic cop
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Canned forms
- Email scheduling
- Email signatures
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Macros
- Restricted conversation views
- Skills-based routing
- To-dos
10/10
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
10/10
- Asset Relationship Mapping
- ITSM Process Integration
5.8/10
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Group contacts by organization
- Organization profiles
- Contact Form
- Customer 360
- Customer Lists
- Customer segments
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
10/10
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Round robin ticket assignment
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
8.9/10
- Business Hours
- Custom status
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- Ticket file attachment size
- Multiple Ticket Forms
10/10
- Approval Workflows
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Service Catalog
- Task Management
10/10
- Asset Auto-discovery
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- QR and Barcode Asset Scanner
- Risk Management
- Software Asset Management
- Software License Management
10/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Release Management
5.7/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
7.1/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Help Center insights
8.6/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
1.1/10
- MSP
- 1:1 video creation & hosting
- Call transcription
- Documents
- Email sequences
- Goals
- Open tracking
- Playbooks
- Sequence queues
7.1/10
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Overview dashboard
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Tickets closed reports
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Performance distribution
- Support Performance dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket volume trends
8.6/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Audit logs
- Business rules analysis
- Custom roles and permissions
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Data center location
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- Custom email servers
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Two-Factor Authentication
4.2/10
- Calling
- Live chat
- SDK
- Support Bot
- Web Widget
- Chat Support (in English)
- Customer Success Manager
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
8.7/10
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket templates
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Ticket export
9/10
- Announcements
- Backup
- Community forums
- Multiple currencies
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Project Management
- Unlimited End Users
- Voicemail integration
- Facebook in-sync app
HubSpot Service Hub
7.7/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Auto Bcc
- Bulk actions
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Edit/hide threads
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Occasional agents
- Personal canned responses
- Private Comments within tickets
- Shared canned responses
- Tags
- Traffic cop
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Canned forms
- Email scheduling
- Email signatures
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Macros
- Restricted conversation views
- Skills-based routing
- To-dos
0/10
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
0/10
- Asset Relationship Mapping
- ITSM Process Integration
10/10
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Group contacts by organization
- Organization profiles
- Contact Form
- Customer 360
- Customer Lists
- Customer segments
- Net Promoter Score® Surveys (Feedback)
8.8/10
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Round robin ticket assignment
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
8.9/10
- Business Hours
- Custom status
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- Ticket file attachment size
- Multiple Ticket Forms
1.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Service Catalog
- Task Management
1/10
- Asset Auto-discovery
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- QR and Barcode Asset Scanner
- Risk Management
- Software Asset Management
- Software License Management
0/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Release Management
10/10
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (email)
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
10/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Help Center insights
9.3/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Gamification
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
8.9/10
- MSP
- 1:1 video creation & hosting
- Call transcription
- Documents
- Email sequences
- Goals
- Open tracking
- Playbooks
- Sequence queues
7.6/10
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Overview dashboard
- Save reports
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Tickets closed reports
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Performance distribution
- Support Performance dashboards
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket volume trends
4.5/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Audit logs
- Business rules analysis
- Custom roles and permissions
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Data center location
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Log in with Google
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- PCI compliance (Level 1)
- Privacy Shield and Safe Harbor compliant
- Single sign on with SAML
- Single sign-on (SSO) for web and mobile
- SPF(Sender Policy Framework)
- Custom email servers
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Two-Factor Authentication
9.2/10
- Calling
- Live chat
- SDK
- Support Bot
- Web Widget
- Chat Support (in English)
- Customer Success Manager
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Phone Support (in English)
- Professional Services
8/10
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Email tickets
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket templates
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Ticket export
5/10
- Announcements
- Backup
- Community forums
- Multiple currencies
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Project Management
- Unlimited End Users
- Voicemail integration
- Facebook in-sync app
Reviews
Freshservice
5 of 5 May 22, 2020
Take all possible tools for handling support that come to your mind, and put them in a single dashboard. That’s exactly how Freshservic...
5 of 5 April 17, 2019
Freshservice is a multifacet platform that is flexible and adapts to your business process. The first thing that spring the mind is the...
5 of 5 April 16, 2019
The old platform lacked the required functionality while Freshservice delivers all necessary features. What’s more the implementation a...
HubSpot Service Hub
5 of 5 December 11, 2018
The ability to see and have everything on a single dashboard makes it simpler to overlook, understand and manage all the data we have. ...
4 of 5 June 1, 2018
In HubSpot Service Hub I like the ability to see the metrics considering how many times the particular email was opened, the number of ...
4 of 5 March 29, 2018
The best thing is that this tool is user-friendly and has a social media-like interface. So, it was very simple for literally everyone ...