Jira Service Management vs Freshdesk
Overview
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
Freshdesk
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
Pricing
Jira Service Management
- Jira Service Management Free $0
- Jira Service Management Standard $22
- Jira Service Management Premium $49
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- Free trial not available
Freshdesk
- Freshdesk Sprout $0
- Freshdesk Blossom $15
- Freshdesk Estate $49
- Freshdesk Forest $79
- Free trial not available
Feature comparison
Jira Service Management
4.8/10
- Auto Bcc
- Custom & Group Views
- Edit/hide threads
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Occasional agents
- Private Comments within tickets
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
- Restricted conversation views
- Tags
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Canned forms
- Contextual Workspaces
- Dynamic content
- Email signatures
- Macros
- Personal canned responses
- Session replay
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Summary app
- To-dos
- Traffic cop
10/10
- ITSM Process Integration
7.5/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
- Contextual collaboration with Freshconnect
5/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Group contacts by organization
- Organization profiles
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer 360
- Customer journey
- Customer profiles
- Customer segments
- Identify contacts using external ID
7.8/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Round robin ticket assignment
8.2/10
- Business Hours
- Custom status
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Sandbox test environment
- Ticket sharing
6.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Form templates
10/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
10/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
5.7/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- Custom domain mapping
- FreshThemes gallery
5.7/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Unlimited data
- Internal Help Center
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
8.7/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
10/10
- Goals
6.7/10
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Tickets closed reports
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Advanced Insights
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
7.8/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Audit logs
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- Field-Level Access Control
- GDPR compliance
- Log in with Google
- 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)
- Two-Factor Authentication
- User provisioning
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- SSL encryption
4.5/10
- Email Support
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- SDK
- Web Widget
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Facebook
- Live chat
- Support Bot
- Twitter
4/10
- Email tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Annotated image attachments
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Sort ticket conversations
- Split tickets
- Ticket templates
- Undo send
7.5/10
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Project Management
- Unlimited End Users
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Printer-friendly
- Voicemail integration
Freshdesk
9.3/10
- Auto Bcc
- Custom & Group Views
- Edit/hide threads
- Filtered Search
- Group your agents
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Light Agents
- Mobile app
- Multilingual (Multiple) content
- Occasional agents
- Private Comments within tickets
- Responsive, mobile-friendly Help Center
- Restricted conversation views
- Tags
- Add reminders on to-dos
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Canned forms
- Contextual Workspaces
- Dynamic content
- Email signatures
- Macros
- Personal canned responses
- Session replay
- Shared canned responses
- Skills-based routing
- Summary app
- To-dos
- Traffic cop
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
10/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
- Contextual collaboration with Freshconnect
10/10
- Contact Form
- Contacts & Accounts Management
- Contacts & ticket history
- Customer satisfaction ratings (CSAT)
- Group contacts by organization
- Organization profiles
- Custom user and organization fields
- Customer 360
- Customer journey
- Customer profiles
- Customer segments
- Identify contacts using external ID
8.9/10
- Auto reply
- Automatic ticket assignment using Dispatch'r
- Custom business rules (triggers & automations)
- Event-triggered workflow automations
- Time-based Rules
- Time-triggered automations
- Workflow automations
- Multi-task workflows with one-touch Scenarios
- Round robin ticket assignment
10/10
- Business Hours
- Custom status
- Custom ticket fields
- Dynamic ticket forms
- Multiple Ticket Forms
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) management
- Set your Time Zone
- SLA reporting
- Ticket file attachment size
- Sandbox test environment
- Ticket sharing
6.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Form templates
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
0/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
10/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- Custom domain mapping
- FreshThemes gallery
8.6/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Unlimited data
- Internal Help Center
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
9.3/10
- API rate limit
- Cloud telephony integration app
- Custom objects
- Email integration with Outlook
- Gamification
- Integration with Atlassian Jira
- Integrations
- Private custom apps
- Public apps (Marketplace)
- Salesforce integration
- Slack integration
- Webhooks
- Zapier integration
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
0/10
- Goals
7.6/10
- Agent Dashboard (Agent Scorecard)
- Analytics
- Custom Reports
- Export reports
- Helpdesk in-depth report
- Manager Dashboard (The Headquarters)
- Overview dashboard
- Performance distribution
- Save reports
- Support Performance dashboards
- Team Dashboards
- Tickets closed reports
- User-specific reporting
- Zendesk Benchmark
- Advanced Insights
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Ticket drill down in reports
- Ticket lifecycle report
- Ticket volume trends
7.8/10
- Ability to configure for HIPAA
- Audit logs
- Custom roles and permissions
- Data center location
- Digitally signed emails (DKIM/DMARC)
- Disaster recovery
- Domain Whitelisting
- Encryption: data at rest and in motion
- Field-Level Access Control
- GDPR compliance
- Log in with Google
- 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)
- Two-Factor Authentication
- User provisioning
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- SSL encryption
10/10
- Email Support
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- SDK
- Web Widget
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Facebook
- Live chat
- Support Bot
- Twitter
10/10
- Email tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Annotated image attachments
- Assume identity
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Sort ticket conversations
- Split tickets
- Ticket templates
- Undo send
7.5/10
- Agent Limit
- Announcements
- Backup
- Community forums
- Date comparisons
- Facebook in-sync app
- Notifications
- Project Management
- Unlimited End Users
- Automatic sitemap generation
- Printer-friendly
- Voicemail integration
Reviews
Jira Service Management
4 of 5 March 22, 2020
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 October 23, 2018
JSD is pretty intuitive and does not require a lot of documentation to get started. The starter pack is pretty attractive but expect to...
4 of 5 March 12, 2018
Generally speaking, this is a very complete application. It’s very useful for both small and large teams, although more effort went int...
Freshdesk
4 of 5 March 28, 2019
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 March 28, 2019
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 March 18, 2019
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...