Jira Service Management vs Zoho Desk vs Freshservice
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
Zoho Desk
Designed to deliver top of the line customer support, Zoho Desk is a platform that companies use to increase agent productivity, devise more accurate analytics, and improve general...workflow. The tool is also used to determine KPIs, as well as identify performance bottlenecks. It is a robust system that is trusted by many big name companies. It has gained trust among marketers, managers, retailers, and business owners as it allows them to provide a unified customer service that is not only of high quality but round-the-clock.
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
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
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
Zoho Desk
- Zoho Desk Free $0
- Zoho Desk Standard $20
- Zoho Desk Professional $35
- Zoho Desk Enterprise $50
- Free trial not available
Freshservice
- Freshservice Blossom $19
- Freshservice Garden $49
- Freshservice Estate $95
- Freshservice Forest $119
- Free trial not available
Feature comparison
Jira Service Management
6.1/10
- 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
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Macros
- Personal canned responses
- Traffic cop
- Dynamic content
- Shared canned responses
5/10
- ITSM Process Integration
- Asset Relationship Mapping
10/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
6/10
- 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 profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
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
- Ticket sharing
- Sandbox test environment
6.7/10
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Service Catalog
2/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Asset Auto-discovery
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- QR and Barcode Asset Scanner
- Software Asset Management
- Software License Management
6.7/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Release Management
5.7/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- Custom domain mapping
- FreshThemes gallery
4.4/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
- Help Center insights
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
8.1/10
- 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
- Endpoints
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
0.6/10
- Goals
- Active Blueprints per Module
- Call transcription
- Common Transitions per Blueprint
- Custom Functions in Blueprints
- Custom Functions using Deluge script
- Fields and Actions per Transition
- Global Reports
- Integration with Zoho products
- MSP
- Sentiment analysis
- SMS Add-on
- Transitions per Blueprint
- Two-way sync with Zoho CRM
- Zia Voice and Skill Builder
- Zoho Assist Add-on
7.4/10
- 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
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Ticket volume trends
- Ticket lifecycle report
6.9/10
- 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
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- SSL encryption
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
3.8/10
- Email Support
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- SDK
- Web Widget
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Professional Services
- Support Bot
- Twitter
5/10
- Email tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Split tickets
- Ticket templates
6.9/10
- 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
- Multiple currencies
Zoho Desk
7.8/10
- 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
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Macros
- Personal canned responses
- Traffic cop
- Dynamic content
- Shared canned responses
0/10
- ITSM Process Integration
- Asset Relationship Mapping
3.3/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
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 profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
10/10
- 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
9.1/10
- 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
- Ticket sharing
- Sandbox test environment
3.3/10
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Service Catalog
0/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Asset Auto-discovery
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- QR and Barcode Asset Scanner
- Software Asset Management
- Software License Management
0/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Release Management
10/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- Custom domain mapping
- FreshThemes gallery
8.9/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
- Help Center insights
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
8.1/10
- 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
- Endpoints
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
9.4/10
- Goals
- Active Blueprints per Module
- Call transcription
- Common Transitions per Blueprint
- Custom Functions in Blueprints
- Custom Functions using Deluge script
- Fields and Actions per Transition
- Global Reports
- Integration with Zoho products
- MSP
- Sentiment analysis
- SMS Add-on
- Transitions per Blueprint
- Two-way sync with Zoho CRM
- Zia Voice and Skill Builder
- Zoho Assist Add-on
7.9/10
- 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
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Ticket volume trends
- Ticket lifecycle report
7.7/10
- 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
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- SSL encryption
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
10/10
- Email Support
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- SDK
- Web Widget
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Professional Services
- Support Bot
- Twitter
9.4/10
- Email tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Split tickets
- Ticket templates
6.2/10
- 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
- Multiple currencies
Freshservice
7.4/10
- 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
- Agent collision prevention
- Bulk actions
- Canned forms
- Email signatures
- Macros
- Personal canned responses
- Traffic cop
- Dynamic content
- Shared canned responses
10/10
- ITSM Process Integration
- Asset Relationship Mapping
6.7/10
- Collaboration
- Linked tickets
- Parent-child ticketing
7/10
- 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 profiles
- Satisfaction Prediction
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
7.3/10
- 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
- Ticket sharing
- Sandbox test environment
10/10
- Approval Workflows
- Customize Incident Lifecycle
- Multiple SLA Policies
- Task Management
- Auto-suggest Solutions
- Service Catalog
10/10
- Asset Lifecycle Management
- Risk Management
- Asset Auto-discovery
- Contract Management
- IT Inventory Management
- Managed Assets
- Purchase Order (PO) Management
- QR and Barcode Asset Scanner
- Software Asset Management
- Software License Management
10/10
- Change Management
- Problem Management
- Release Management
5.7/10
- Branding removal (email)
- Complete portal customization
- CSS customization
- Public portal customization
- Branding removal (Help Center)
- Custom domain mapping
- FreshThemes gallery
5.6/10
- Community forums
- Knowledge base
- Related articles
- Unlimited data
- 301 Redirection
- Article Versioning
- Help Center insights
- Rich text Help Center articles
- SEO
7.5/10
- 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
- Endpoints
- Google Apps (G Suite)
- HubSpot Integration
0.6/10
- Goals
- Active Blueprints per Module
- Call transcription
- Common Transitions per Blueprint
- Custom Functions in Blueprints
- Custom Functions using Deluge script
- Fields and Actions per Transition
- Global Reports
- Integration with Zoho products
- MSP
- Sentiment analysis
- SMS Add-on
- Transitions per Blueprint
- Two-way sync with Zoho CRM
- Zia Voice and Skill Builder
- Zoho Assist Add-on
6.3/10
- 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
- Google Analytics for Help Center
- Schedule Data Export
- Schedule Reports
- Ticket volume trends
- Ticket lifecycle report
7.3/10
- 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
- Business rules analysis
- Content Delivery Network
- Custom email servers
- Custom SSL certificates (default free)
- Guaranteed availability SLA (1 Hour Support SLA)
- Network access restriction (IP Whitelisting)
- SSL encryption
- Advanced password policy for agents and customers
3.8/10
- Email Support
- Multibrand Support
- Phone Support (in English)
- SDK
- Web Widget
- Calling
- Chat Support (in English)
- Facebook
- Guidance Program
- Live chat
- Professional Services
- Support Bot
- Twitter
8.1/10
- Email tickets
- Outgoing SMTP settings
- Public and private notes in tickets
- Spam filtering
- Support workflow
- Ticket export
- Time tracking
- Watch tickets
- Custom Email Templates
- Email forwarding
- Mailboxes (inboxes)
- Merge tickets
- Outbound email
- Satisfaction surveys - Customizable
- Split tickets
- Ticket templates
6.9/10
- 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
- Multiple currencies
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...
Zoho Desk
October 18, 2020
It's an awesome platform. Very nice to see Zoho Desk as one of the standout products in G2Crowd. It deserves to be up there with other ...
October 1, 2020
Zoho Desk is one of the simplest tools for making and tracking tickets to help resolve problems brought up by customers. This can easil...
5 of 5 September 30, 2020
Its task distribution system, client database management, reporting, and chat system are some of the best features found in this tool. ...
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...