Groove

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Cloud-based helpdesk solution for small businesses

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Josh
Josh
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Useful and easy to use!

Reviewed on 2018/04/30

We are helping to solve the issues that clients get when using their websites. It's been a great...

We are helping to solve the issues that clients get when using their websites. It's been a great way to keep on top of problems that are being reported.

Pros

It is good to keep track of all the support requests that we get in. It's a great way to keep on top of issues reported by clients.

Cons

The user interface can be slow sometimes to use, but I think they are doing a refresh soon so hopefully that will solve it.

Brendon
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  • Industry: Apparel & Fashion
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Simplified ticketing for small teams

Reviewed on 2018/07/16

Pros

Groove has some great features: Mailboxes (with assigned teams) with incoming email addresses for different topics, canned replies, tagging, assignment, email notifications. The interface is intuitive even for my veteran staff, and the Zapier integration is a bonus!

Cons

Groove lacks customizable embeddable web forms, so you are stuck with their big green "?" or a workaround via email Zapier. Reporting could be better - more details helps managers make better-informed judgements about staff performance.

Mark
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  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

I so want this to be better!

Reviewed on 2017/01/04

I really like what Groove is all about as a company and what the product claims to be...Sadly, it...

I really like what Groove is all about as a company and what the product claims to be...Sadly, it falls well short of expectations.

Martin
Martin
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  • Industry: Computer Software
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The most easy to use and transparent support app

Reviewed on 2015/09/17

We've been switching from our previous (free) support system over to a new one lately.

After...

We've been switching from our previous (free) support system over to a new one lately.

After testing a dozen of different services in process, we instantly fell in love with Groove in just a few days of live usage – especially with the clean and modern interface and the knowledge base functionality. Even though Groove lacks a few minor features, we've been informed they are on the roadmap already.

In addition to this, Groove's got the most responsive and friendly team we've ever encountered, which is great and makes a lot of sense for a company creating a support system. Definitely not going anywhere anytime soon!

Pros

- Clean and modern interface
- Awesome knowledge base functionality
- Great support and development team
- Overall ease of use
- Lots of integration possibilities
- Best value for money

Cons

We've missed a few features from our previous system, such as a possibility to split tickets and a more functional rich text editor. However, the guys at Groove promised us they're planning to get this into one of the next releases :)

Tim
Tim
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
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Pretty good, give it a try.

Reviewed on 2016/04/04

I love the Groove blog. It's a must read for anyone making Saas. As a result I was trying to find a...

I love the Groove blog. It's a must read for anyone making Saas. As a result I was trying to find a reason to use Groove. I signed up once we had enough customers and support requests to warrant having a KB.

I have found the support ticketing system really quite good. Keeps things in order amongst our small team.

I am frustrated by the KB though. In my opinion, it's not very user friendly...which has been a surprise given Grooves Blog.

Overall, definitely worth a try and you can decide.

Pros

Support Tickets
Easy to get started
Good support response

Cons

KB hard to customize
Not seeing improvements lately to KB

Piyush
Piyush
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The only helpdesk you need for your SaaS Business

Reviewed on 2017/05/03

Pros

Easy to setup. Multiple inboxes and ticket handling. Widget to include knowledge base into the web app.They have good decent integrations like facebook, twitter, slack.

Cons

Can't show related articles when you open any article in the knowledgebase section. Layout customization could have been easier.

Saminu
Saminu
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  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I loved how Groove works/

Reviewed on 2019/08/30

Pros

I got to use Groove for some months before the company I work for decided to switch to another software. I've never had a single issue using Groove and I missed it.

Cons

None that I know of. Groove is a really cool software.

Michael
Michael
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A service-ticket platform with loads of features!

Reviewed on 2018/10/03

Groove lets us get feedback from our users when something isn't working and allows multiple people...

Groove lets us get feedback from our users when something isn't working and allows multiple people to work on a single issue with notes and actions tracked within the service.

Pros

The ability to track customer service tickets within our team, and get notified when a ticket is submitted via slack integration

Cons

Currently, Groove is meeting all of our needs as a ticketing platform,

David
David
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  • Industry: Online Media
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Inexpensive FAQ platform

Reviewed on 2016/08/16

we use groovehq purely for managing our FAQ. it's very inexpensive to have a single-user account...

we use groovehq purely for managing our FAQ. it's very inexpensive to have a single-user account and handle the FAQ. most of our cs issues happen within our facebook fan page so we haven't used the CS component much.

Pros

ticket-based cs management
easy to setup, inexpensive faq platform

Cons

does not have bulk mailing with templates

Chris
Chris
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Decent helpdesk software

Reviewed on 2019/01/14

Great tool overall. Improves our response time.

Great tool overall. Improves our response time.

Pros

Good UI - clean, simple
East to use
Value for money

Cons

Nothing negatvie I can think of currently. More integrations possibly needed.

Emanuela
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Easy to use and very efficient!

Reviewed on 2024/01/24

Pros

The whole set up is very easy to use, the AI features was a complete game changer for my daily work.
I use it daily (almost 2-3 hours working through Groove emails) and receive suggestions, summary and edit the message according to the customers I am sending it to feels great and changed the pov for our customers too as they felt communication was more personalised. New features notification helps me being always up-to-date with new implementations, and quick video explaination made a huge difference for my team too.

Cons

Not a big fan of the rating from customers

Lo
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  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Great look, needs some work on search and reporting

Reviewed on 2017/01/05

We initially chose Groove because we found it really easy to use, it didn't feel robotic and clunky...

We initially chose Groove because we found it really easy to use, it didn't feel robotic and clunky from to our customers, you guys offered simple and easy tagging, and the promise of the added snooze feature. Those things have been great for us and I think has made our move to Groove a step above email.
There is a lot of room for improvement in a couple of areas I can see. First would be search - I find Groove's search functionality slow and clunky. Almost every time I need to search for something, I find myself going back to Gmail and since this is something I do daily, I always need to have the account open in Groove and in Gmail. Our hope in this switch was to completely get out of email and the search functionality has made that impossible. I love being able to use the search operators Google has and if they're available in Groove as well I have not figured out how to get them to work. Additionally, the time frames I can search are very limiting.
I have also found the reporting to be lackluster. We want to use this to help make our product better and we use tags on our messages to help keep track of what our customers are writing in about. It is helpful to see how many times each tag has been added to a message but that doesn't really give me the whole picture. I need to be able to see the messages themselves, which leads me back to the search function, and because the tags don't translate back into Gmail I'm stuck with the search available.

If all I wanted to do was answer customer emails quickly in a pretty environment, Groove will get the job done without an issue. Because we're trying to use customer support to make our product better, I think there is a bit of a disconnect.

There are a couple smaller bugs I see regularly but haven't been bothersome enough to write into support. For example, if I make a typo when I'm typing a tag in and backspace, then I am no longer able to use my arrow keys to navigate up and down the auto-complete list.

Pros

Pretty, easy to get new people on and teach them how to use the basic functions, tagging is super easy

Cons

Search, snooze options are limiting and need to be available when I'm composing a message, reporting

William
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Manages our support inboxes with ease!

Reviewed on 2020/02/06

Pros

Groove does what it sets out to in the most simple and easy to use manner. Shared Inboxes allow teams working on programs to efficiently respond to members. Coming from emails request with multiple recipients we ran into a lot of collision (having multiple agents respond simultaneously), but now you can see when/if a message has been answered and even when another agent is reviewing or responding IN REAL-TIME! Not to mention canned-replies allow teams to hone responses to common questions and agents can send accurate answers, consistently!

Cons

Searching for closed requests can be difficult, especially when searching for a particular issue. You can use tags, however it would require tagging every message, consistently while predicting queries necessary in the future.

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Suite
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Helps keep support and sales on track

Reviewed on 2018/09/19

We have been using groove to ensure timely communication with new clients and that check-ins with...

We have been using groove to ensure timely communication with new clients and that check-ins with clients are performed at the correct intervals. For sales we use it to ensure that no one gets missed in the follow up process after demos or leading up to a demo.

Pros

I like the automatic reminders about what needs to be done each day. It takes the guess work out of what you should be doing first or next when you sit down to start your day. It is easy to use when setting up flows and integrates well with salesforce.

Cons

There are some things that would be great if you could automate, like adding people into flows when specific actions happen. I have tried to make some of this work but ended up being more trouble than it was worth.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Merchline.com - Nate Murray review

Reviewed on 2017/01/04

Hey guys, really enjoy the product. Keep up the great work. Here is some feedback from using the...

Hey guys, really enjoy the product. Keep up the great work. Here is some feedback from using the app for over a year now:

The search function has become better than what it used to be, but it still has a long way to go. We have all of our tickets synched to a webhook we set up in our Slack account, and we find ourselves searching within Slack to find details/tickets/customers within that channel with far greater effect than searching natively within Groove. The relevancy of searches doesn't make sense most of the time, and searching for the details that we need just takes too much time sifting through when searching within Groove.

There needs to be a way to effectively view/sort Labels. I can see the list of Labels we've created by going to Settings > Ticketing > Labels, but I have no way to view the tickets that have been assigned those Labels. Doing a search for the text string of the Label within the Search field doesn't always produce results. The ability to label tickets and then be able to categorize them and efficiently reference them is a bit imperative.

Overall, pleased with the ease of use of the app, and overall interface. These features above will only enhance and make it better from our opinion.

Pros

(see my review on previous page)

Cons

(see my review on previous page)

Ronald
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love the company and the product

Reviewed on 2019/02/26

Great blog and support from Groove. I've learned a lot about providing great customer service to my...

Great blog and support from Groove. I've learned a lot about providing great customer service to my clients.

Pros

It is easy to use and fits my need as a small company. It just fits that we can use email for support and use Groove as a way to manage that interaction. The knowledgeable is very helpful for us.

Cons

There are features I don't use but no complaints.

Response from Groove Networks

Thanks for your Capterra review, Ronald! We are happy to hear that you found not only the product helpful but also the blog :)

Laurens
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  • Industry: Airlines/Aviation
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Easy and affordable

Reviewed on 2019/02/26

Their support is AMAZING. They always respond quickly and friendly. Problems are quickly fixed....

Their support is AMAZING. They always respond quickly and friendly. Problems are quickly fixed. Suggestions are always considered. I often receive updates on my feature requests.

Pros

Groove is great value for money. Functionality is updated all the time. The new 2.0 software looks awesome and is easy to use.

Cons

It's still a bit limited in functionality, but that's nitpicking.

Jacki
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Tool I use!

Reviewed on 2018/05/17

Pros

Easy to navigate and organize messages, love the accuracy when dealing with customer and that it integrates to my Slack

Cons

Wish it was easier to toggle between assigned users, now it is difficult to respond then have to go back in to reassign.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Goods
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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Nothing bad to say

Reviewed on 2017/11/01

Pros

Their customer service is incredible (not surprising for a customer service software company), and made our integration very fast and easy.

Cons

We ended up leaving for a newer lower priced competitor based solely on price. Due to the difficulties however, I think it would have been better to stay with Groove despite the increased cost.

Michael
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  • Industry: Luxury Goods & Jewelry
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Perfect Tool For CRM

Reviewed on 2019/04/18

Great customer service and product.

Great customer service and product.

Pros

Simple and easy-to-use interface. Offers advanced rules to automate.

Cons

Nothing. Groove team has been constantly improving the system.

Daniel
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Excellent Software Integrates with Salesforce

Reviewed on 2018/06/18

Saves loads of time

Saves loads of time

Pros

I like that it automatically logs my gmail straight into salesforce quickly and easily. The calendar booking system is really useful for customers wanting to book a time to call.

Cons

Rarely doesn't find a record however is very easily fixed by manually searching and logging. Sometimes the logging bar gets in the way of the other gmail icons.

Lana
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  • Industry: Photography
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great Software!

Reviewed on 2017/01/04

Love Groove! It's made it much more simple to set up and operate our customer service emails! Love...

Love Groove! It's made it much more simple to set up and operate our customer service emails! Love love love!

Pros

It's easy to use! Doesn't have hard to operate features and systems like Desk.com did.

Cons

There are still some features that could use some tweaking. (It would be nice to undo a merge.)

Anna
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  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Love using Groove to take care of customer support tickets

Reviewed on 2017/07/11

Efficient customer support platform

Efficient customer support platform

Pros

They have an awesome blog, it is very easy to use, you are able to merge tickets, has all features needed to provide efficient support.

Cons

It would be nice to hear of some new integration capabilities within Groove. I would like to see a customers shopify history while answering their ticket.

Carlos
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best support system out there for small businesses

Reviewed on 2018/11/27

It has been a great benefit for our company. Now we have a way to track down tickets and get things...

It has been a great benefit for our company. Now we have a way to track down tickets and get things resolved without losing emails. The interface is just great!

Pros

I love the interface and how easy is to use. We were using the software with 30 min of configuration. We love how the system is so simple and intuitive. I cannot say enough!

Cons

None. Really, I like the software and what has to offer!

Matthew
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  • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Groove HQ Online Help Desk

Reviewed on 2017/02/01

Groove is a powerful tool that any startup team should have. It's incredibly easy to learn. Don't...

Groove is a powerful tool that any startup team should have. It's incredibly easy to learn. Don't be fooled by its ease of use and simple design though.

I've used many similar products before, but Groove surpasses them all. It makes it seamless to communicate with my team and my company's clients. Groove eliminates cluttered inboxes and makes managing multiple tasks simultaneously a piece of cake.

Pros

Simple design, and easy to learn.

Cons

No real cons, but when searching for tickets it could be easier to see what is open, and what is closed.