Help Scout vs Freshdesk vs Jira Service Management
Overview
Help Scout
Help Scout is a cloud-like customer service platform being able to scale its toolset for businesses of any range and field. What makes it different from the systems on the market i...s no ticketing or portals for managing customer requests. Help Scout is built in an alternative way - as a shared mailbox that enables providing your customer service in the most human-like manner. However, it but doesn’t forget about your business management needs as well.
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
Freshdesk
Freshdesk is a cloud-hosted platform that helps businesses of all sizes deliver a quality support service. It unifies conversations from email, phone, web widgets, chat, and social...media to help agents resolve issues across channels smoothly. With Freshdesk, you can stay on top of customer support by automating workflows, offering self-service options, and managing SLAs.
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
Jira Service Management
Built with IT Service Management in mind, Jira Service Management is a help desk system created for developers and by developers. Right from the get-go, the tool aims to enhance th...e customer experience through a set of specific features that help agents push more sales, better service, and most importantly, establish your business as a brand.
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
Help Scout
- Help Scout Standard $22
- Help Scout Plus $44
- Help Scout Pro $65
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- Free trial
Freshdesk
- Freshdesk Sprout $0
- Freshdesk Blossom $15
- Freshdesk Estate $49
- Freshdesk Forest $79
- Free trial
Jira Service Management
- Jira Service Management Free $0
- Jira Service Management Standard $24
- Jira Service Management Premium $53
—
- Free trial
Feature comparison
Help Scout
6/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Auto Bcc
- Bulk actions
- Edit/hide threads
- Email signatures
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Personal canned responses
- Private Comments within tickets
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
- Shared canned responses
- Tags
- Traffic cop
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Canned forms
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Occasional agents
- Restricted conversation views
- Session replay
- Skills-based routing
- Summary app
- To-dos
- Light Agents
2.5/10
- Collaboration
- Contextual collaboration with Freshconnect
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
5/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Customer 360
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer segments
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Organization profiles
8.9/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
- Round robin ticket assignment
4.5/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Set your Time Zone
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- SLA reporting
1.7/10
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
7.1/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
8.8/10
- 301 Redirection
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- Community forums
7.3/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Email integration with Outlook
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Gamification
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Custom objects
8/10
- Beacon builder
- Javascript API
- Open tracking
- Update conversations remotely
- Goals
4.8/10
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Tickets closed reports
- User-specific reporting
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Overview dashboard
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Zendesk Benchmark
7.3/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Business rules analysis
- Custom roles and permissions
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Independently Tested
- 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)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Audit logs
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Data center location
- Field-Level Access Control
- User provisioning
3.6/10
- Calling
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- SDK
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Phone Support (in English)
- Support Bot
- Twitter
- Web Widget
3.5/10
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Annotated image attachments
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Sort ticket conversations
- Split tickets
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Time tracking
- Undo send
- Watch tickets
5.8/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Date comparisons
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Voicemail integration
- Announcements
- Community forums
- Facebook in-sync app
- Agent Limit
- Project Management
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
0/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
Freshdesk
9/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Auto Bcc
- Bulk actions
- Edit/hide threads
- Email signatures
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Personal canned responses
- Private Comments within tickets
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
- Shared canned responses
- Tags
- Traffic cop
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Canned forms
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Occasional agents
- Restricted conversation views
- Session replay
- Skills-based routing
- Summary app
- To-dos
- Light Agents
10/10
- Collaboration
- Contextual collaboration with Freshconnect
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
10/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Customer 360
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer segments
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Organization profiles
8.9/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
- Round robin ticket assignment
10/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Set your Time Zone
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- SLA reporting
6.7/10
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
10/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
7.5/10
- 301 Redirection
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- Community forums
9.3/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Email integration with Outlook
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Gamification
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Custom objects
0/10
- Beacon builder
- Javascript API
- Open tracking
- Update conversations remotely
- Goals
7.6/10
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Tickets closed reports
- User-specific reporting
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Overview dashboard
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Zendesk Benchmark
6.9/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Business rules analysis
- Custom roles and permissions
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Independently Tested
- 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)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Audit logs
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Data center location
- Field-Level Access Control
- User provisioning
10/10
- Calling
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- SDK
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Phone Support (in English)
- Support Bot
- Twitter
- Web Widget
10/10
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Annotated image attachments
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Sort ticket conversations
- Split tickets
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Time tracking
- Undo send
- Watch tickets
7.5/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Date comparisons
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Voicemail integration
- Announcements
- Community forums
- Facebook in-sync app
- Agent Limit
- Project Management
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
0/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
Jira Service Management
4.7/10
- Agent collision prevention
- Auto Bcc
- Bulk actions
- Edit/hide threads
- Email signatures
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Interaction History (Ticket activities)
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Macros
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Personal canned responses
- Private Comments within tickets
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
- Shared canned responses
- Tags
- Traffic cop
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Canned forms
- Contextual Workspaces
- Custom & Group Views
- Dynamic content
- Occasional agents
- Restricted conversation views
- Session replay
- Skills-based routing
- Summary app
- To-dos
- Light Agents
7.5/10
- Collaboration
- Contextual collaboration with Freshconnect
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
5/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Customer 360
- Customer profiles
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer journey
- Customer segments
- Group contacts by organization
- Identify contacts using external ID
- Organization profiles
7.8/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
- Round robin ticket assignment
8.2/10
- Business Hours
- Custom ticket fields
- Set your Time Zone
- Ticket file attachment size
- Ticket sharing
- Custom status
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Sandbox test environment
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- SLA reporting
6.7/10
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Form templates
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
5.7/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Custom domain mapping
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- FreshThemes gallery
5/10
- 301 Redirection
- Internal Help Center
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
- Unlimited data
- Community forums
8.7/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Email integration with Outlook
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Gamification
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Custom objects
2/10
- Beacon builder
- Javascript API
- Open tracking
- Update conversations remotely
- Goals
6.7/10
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Tickets closed reports
- User-specific reporting
- Advanced Insights
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Overview dashboard
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Zendesk Benchmark
6.9/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Business rules analysis
- Custom roles and permissions
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- GDPR compliance
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Independently Tested
- 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)
- SSL encryption
- Two-Factor Authentication
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Audit logs
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Data center location
- Field-Level Access Control
- User provisioning
4.5/10
- Calling
- Live chat
- Multibrand Support
- SDK
- Chat Support (in English)
- Email Support
- Facebook
- Phone Support (in English)
- Support Bot
- Twitter
- Web Widget
4/10
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Annotated image attachments
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email tickets
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Sort ticket conversations
- Split tickets
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Ticket templates
- Time tracking
- Undo send
- Watch tickets
7.5/10
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Backup
- Date comparisons
- Notifications
- Printer-friendly
- Unlimited End Users
- Voicemail integration
- Announcements
- Community forums
- Facebook in-sync app
- Agent Limit
- Project Management
10/10
- ITSM Process Integration
10/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
10/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
Reviews
Help Scout
4 of 5
PROS: Help Scout offers a well-designed interface that is easy to use. The Saved Auto Replies feature helps us to respond quickly to cu...
3 of 5
Help Scout offers wonderful customer support and a community experience. Our company has 80 employees using this software, and they are...
5 of 5
An admirable aspect is the vendor keeps improving the software by constantly releasing new features. One feature I love is “Edit this a...
Freshdesk
4 of 5
The call center integrated with Freshdesk works great - the call is turned into a ticket right away after the agent has finished a conv...
4 of 5
Freshdesk delivers lots of useful options. To be more precise, it enables dealing with multiple customers at the same time without any ...
5 of 5
The fast and quality service become an obligation if you want to retain a customer. How to handle multiple tickets? The answer is in he...
Jira Service Management
4 of 5
The good part about JIRA is that teams can configure their own service offerings and customer portals without the need for special acce...
4 of 5
PROS: The Jira Service Management has a clean and sophisticated UI that is a cut above what others offer. Our team is ...
4 of 5
JSD is pretty intuitive and does not require a lot of documentation to get started. The starter pack is pretty attractive but expect to...