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Helpshift
Effortless Customer Support Solutions
4.3
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What is Helpshift?

Helpshift is an in-app customer engagement and web-based customer support platform that helps improve customer experience via mobile apps. With the platform, users can help drive higher ratings, reduce churn and increase retention. Helpshift’s comprehensive customer care suite is notable for improving agent resolution statistics and boosting user satisfaction with their in-app experience.

Company Helpshift, Inc.
Year founded 2012
Company size 51-200 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, CA, USA
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Segment
Small Business
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Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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Languages English
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Agent Collaboration
Agent Performance Analytics
Audio and Video Chat
Automated Responses
CRM Integration
Canned Responses
Chat Encryption
Chat History
Chat Routing
Chat Tags
Chat Transcripts
Chat Transfer
Chatbot Integration
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Custom Branding
Customizable Chat Widgets
Email Integration
Feedback Collection
File Sharing
Mobile Compatibility
Multi-language Support
Offline Messaging
Proactive Chat Invitations
Queue Management
Real-Time Chat
Social Media Integration
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Visitor Information Dashboard
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Last updated: July 05, 2024
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379 Helpshift Reviews
4.3 out of 5
Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 29, 2018
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Overall Rating:
4.5
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"Helpshift"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

The ease, all of the information is in one place. It's very intuitive and user-friendly. Their customer support is top-notch!

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

It isn't real-time. Productivity is harder to measure when it's not in real time. Sometimes takes awhile to load, and can be glitchy.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use them for all of our customer support. It's a great platform. Their automations are great, live chat is great.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Sep 06, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Helpshift: A good entry point for chat and email support"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

Helpshift is intuitive. Depending on your access, you may be able to review tickets handled by your colleagues and learn from their experiences. Additionally, Helpshift is shown to be extremely reliable with minimum Downtime.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Helpshift could be overwhelming sometimes due to the number of possible Smartview/Segmentations available for each member. Helpshift's also do not show the number of minutes in the ticket's age if it it's already shown in hours.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helpshift primarily helps us manage our CS requests. As one of our goals being response time; Helpshift's ability to show the age of each ticket helps in keeping track of this goal.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 24, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Help Shift"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

Easy of initial integration for gaming platform (Unity)

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Pricing is not the greatest compared to others (Zendesk), and support can give you run around (take weeks to get a dev on the call to troubleshoot).

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ease of initial integration and getting started. Unity plugin is a plus!

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 17, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"System work well for us, support is always fast to handle questions, address issues."
What do you like best about Helpshift?

No system downtime, works as expected once integrated, HelpShift support are always quick to respond. they are also somewhat flexible on service package fees.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

While it can handle multiple languages, it doesn;t easily allow locations specific customisation of content (eg if i want to show different FAQS in say TW versus AU - I can show different languages for same FAQs but not dif FAQs) .

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

In App support - presentation of FAQs and an an in-App channel for logging help requests.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
May 17, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Good customer experience, but difficult integration and useless analytics"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

The in-app chat feature has been a game-changer for our users. They can contact us from within the app, without exiting the app to fill out an online form. Users can interact with the bots we put in place and find self help solutions faster than they would if we didn't have this feature.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Transitioning from any CRM is a difficult task for any team. It required eng resources and months of work. The lack of analytics capabilities is one of my least favorite features of Helpshift.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've implemented a lot more self-help using Helpshift. The benefit is we're deflecting tickets, helping users get support faster.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 13, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"We're fans of Helpshift"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

The abillity to track tags through the analytics has helped us learn where we need to offer more support to our players.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

We look forward to feature requests such as scaling images and video within FAQ support articles. We also look forward to seeing player FAQ journies.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

We're answering questions players have before they ask them because of the analytic tools. We can see which articles are most visited and respond in articles before players reach out.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 09, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Useful tool in customer experience"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

The interface is uncluttered and straightforward to use. Allows the metering of triggers, inclusion of tags and division by queues (related to each specific subject)

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Drops or failures in the system directly impact the operation. The search engine is also imprecise at times, and there are difficulties in integration with the database

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helpshift facilitates the organization and division of customer requests. Allows the use of chatbots, which deflects part of the calls; as well as enables the forwarding of certain requests to specific queues

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 14, 2021
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"We are using HS for our all customer support processes."
What do you like best about Helpshift?

I can find everything pretty easily from the menus etc, CustomBost, etc developing is "easy". Auto answers are easy to set and manage. AI development is a great plus, though we don't at the moment have enough resources to utilize it properly, it's on the to-do list. Co-operation with success manager works swiftly and easily, Nicola always is available to answer tricky questions and gets back to us quickly!

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Sometimes some occasional problems, but the HS support team has been a great help and these issues have been resolved VERY swiftly! Better mobile support, since I don't always have my laptop or PC nearby, so it would be great as a team lead to having a possibility to check tickets swiftly and easily from the mobile interface. The mobile interface could look better as well for the customer, but I hope the new Helpshift FAQ etc design comes soon for everyone!

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast customer support experience and easy implementation into the application (Unity SDK). As well, Helpshift helps us to provide players easy to use and quick support with automation and self-service tools such as FAQ and Chatbots. Pricing and business negation with Helpshift has been always understandable and there hasn't been any problems for us regarding pricing and such.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 01, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Helpshift is overall pretty helpful, but still lacks some features that I would like."
What do you like best about Helpshift?

It's pretty straightfoward to learn and use, and the bots are helpful for managing tickets. I also like the tagging and smart view options.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

I wish it was easier to sort tickets in different ways, like 'date created' so that it's easier to organize in ways that help me. It would also be helpful to know how much time an agent is spending on each issue. For the FAQ/knowledge base, it would be really nice to be able to see what keywords people are looking up most frequently.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helpshift is integrated right into our game, so users can access it without leaving the app.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 29, 2020
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Industry standard in customer support"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

Clarity of the interface is my favorite part

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Focus is shifting away from customer support

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Single point of contact for customer inquiries

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 26, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Adequate support portal for mobile gaming"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

The organizational process is relatively easy once you learn the work flow. Shortcuts like Quick Replies and accessing FAQ entries (both published and unpublished) expedite time spent on support. The Analytics section covers all the baseline info I like to see and more.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Too many SDK updates. I dislike having to beg engineering for devoted time to updating SDKs. FAQ is limited in depth. I would like to see more than just Section > Question & Answer. Example: Section > SubSection > Question & Answer.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fast response times. Easy management across team members. Ability to insert images to the FAQ has helped with providing updates to player base by focusing player attention to FAQ.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 19, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"A lot of potential"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

Solves a lot of challenges with supporting mobile apps in one package.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Expensive and very obviously designed to make basic operations cumbersome and not iser friendly, pushing you to higher plans (double the price). The sales process is not very transparent in this sense, ie explaining that the most basic of operations is a lot more of a hassle than comparable tools.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

A smooth mobile support solution for customers with way less implementation effort than ZenDesk.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 19, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Overall, A Great Customer Service Tool"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

I like that HelpShift is easy to use. It does not take long to get used to the process of answering and closing chats. I also find the search feature very helpful, it makes it easier to locate a certain chat with only a few keywords.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

I dislike that we do not have the option to delete/unsend chats that have been sent. I also dislike that there is no notification to indicate that a customer has returned back to a chat, which makes them end up waiting for quite some time before they get a response.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helpshift allows us to be in contact with our clients. The benefit of Helpshift is being able to see the metadata of the device a customer is using because it helps with diagnosing an technical issues. A lot of or clients have issues with remembering their information to log into their account. So the option for them to do a live chat with one of our agents is essential in providing a quick response/solution to their problem.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 01, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"crm funcional"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

es un buen crm para mobile app. tags y q/a bueno

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

las métricas no son muy adaptables , podrian mejorar los reportings y monitoring

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

priorizacion, gestion de colas y categorias de issues

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Sep 30, 2019
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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"Integrated function & Easy to use"
What do you like best about Helpshift?

Being able to analyze data with Power BI which helps us to understand players even more.

What do you dislike about Helpshift?

Same as above. I like the fact that there is data for us to understand more about our users. However, Power BI is the most user friendly data analysis tool. Sometimes there are error occur, and sometimes you don’t get the detailed data you want.

What problems is Helpshift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helpshift helps to answer player more efficiently.