Scalable customer care via web & mobile apps
3.9/5 (28 reviews)Helpshift is an in-app customer engagement and web-based customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience, drive higher ratings, reduce churn and increase retention. By reducing the number of incoming support requests with an in-app knowledge base and leveraging in-depth user and device data to proactively engage mobile customers with targeted push notifications & in-app surveys, Helpshift’s customer care suite has proven to improve agent resolution times and increase user satisfaction with their in-app experience.
Helpshift understands the importance of meeting customers in their preferred context and continues to makes it easier for businesses, large and small, to care for their customers through in-app FAQ's, in-app Chat, and relevant device data, to provide customer care throughout the mobile user's experience.
Pros
Helpshift was easy to pick up for me ,and I think everyone in the sales/marketing department had very little problems understanding the workings of this tool.I have also found it easy guiding new employees in the department on how to use Helpshift effectively.
I think our web visitors also find Helpshift easy to use ,as I have got very few complaints from them in terms of being able to communicate with sales agents efficiently with Helpshift. Lastly,I must commend our Helpshift chatbot ,it has eased the level of workload we face during peak time when there are hundreds of visitors on our website seeking attention ; thanks to our chatbot ,we are able to focus on web visitors with complex complaints while the chatbot addresses the simpler queries.
Cons
Helpshift provides my team with just basic analytics on our engagement with web visitors.I will like to see a broad analytics breakdown of our daily activity on Helpshift. Aesthetic-wise ,I think informations can be better arranged on the Helpshift dashboard.
HelpShift has been a paradigm shift in terms of quality and up to date support for our users. Easily updatable FAQs and in-game support has been really well received by our players. Engagement is high and the easily searchable FAQs have been extremely helpful for self service support.
Pros
Helpshift is a great user experience, and integrates easily with our products.
The easily updatable FAQs have been a massive win for me over other competing products.
Cons
The analytics are thin and not quite usable.
Management of user roles is extremely limited and messy (not able to add admins to groups).
Views are a nightmare to manage as an admin and its far to easy to break them.
It does the basic job of getting a ticket and responding, splitting incoming tickets into queues, even classifying it with tags, but don't expect a fully developed solution like Zendesk. Helpshift is just no there yet.
Pros
The feature so far is the cod you can inject in your app to query the remote mobile device hardware and software spec that helps a lot when troubleshooting tickets received.
Cons
it totally lacks a module do some BI number crunching providing basic information like, how much time an agent spent on a ticket ? What's the agent RPH ? there are no statistics at all to help managers to improve the service quality.
Easy accessibility, Advanced Chat Portal, Easy Chat Transfers, Agent Tag Routing, Knowledge Database Integration. Multiple Widgets.
Pros
No Ugly Pop-Up, Persistent Chat, Chat transcripts, More competent service, Instant feedback,
Cons
Not great on mobile platforms, he user interface and some of the user experience design can have some, let's say, interesting glitches. However, none of these problems affect security.
The service itself is of good level, especially the integration in the game is of good value. Also the different tag options make it easy to prioritize the answering of the issues.
The only disadvantage of Helpshift so far was slow response to a significant issue on iOS and the difficult negotiations about renewing the contract whereby the price was increased in a non logical way. In the end this was resolved.
Pros
Easy to use in the game and quite easy integration
Professional: $95/user/month (billed annually)
Enterprise: $135/user/month (billed annually)
Platinum: $160/user/month (billed annually)
Reducing churn and promoting engagement are at the top of every company’s to-do list. Helpshift is a web-based solution that helps organizations work toward those goals with advanced tools designed to improve mobile customer service and simplify customer support operations.
Product managers, c-level executives, app developers, and customer support managers can use Helpshift to promote loyalty and engagement, understand customers beyond traditional tickets and ratings, and feel more confident knowing they’re making the right product decisions. Key features include automations, searchable native FAQs, in-app messaging and chat, and push message campaigns. Helpshift also provides managers with the ability to organize tickets by sorting issues and segmenting issues based on priority, language, and issue status.
Helpshift solves issues quickly with direct two-way customer messaging and native FAQs, which deflect up to 90% of tickets. The cloud-based solution delivers scalable customer support for both web and mobile apps, with an SDK that’s installed on more than 1.3 billion devices worldwide.
Organizations that use Helpshift can expect reduced mobile churn, along with improved loyalty and engagement. In order to achieve this, the app relies on a combination of ticketing, native FAQs, in-app chat, in-app campaigns, and in-app surveys. When mobile users have issues with the apps they’re using, Helpshift provides them with the ability to report bugs or find solutions to their problems without having to Google to search for answers.
Advanced capabilities within Helpshift are designed to prevent app users from sending blank messages or spam messages to developers. In order to send a message, the app must be installed on the user’s device and the user must describe the problem he or she is experiencing. Helpshift’s SDK also provides a significant amount of user information, which agents are able to use to diagnose and resolve customer queries in an efficient manner. Customer meta data is also available to segment and prioritize issues based on the behavior of individual app users.
Smart Views are an important part of Helpshift, since they provide agents with a way to segment issues based on tags or other criteria. Tickets can be assigned to certain agents based on topic, language, or urgency, and they can be organized in a way that prioritizes the support offered to a company’s most valuable customers.
Using the Smart View editor, you can segment incoming tickets by priority, language, or issue status. You can use the multi-select feature to create Smart Views with multiple options, as well. Or, you can create a single Smart View to see only iOS issues for multiple apps or only those issues that are in need of a response. One of the most strategic ways to take advantage of this feature is by creating a Smart View with issues that need to replied to urgently.
Helpshift’s automations keep teams on track. Agents are able to automate responses and set up assignment rules based on pre-defined business logic. The automation feature provides busy teams with a way to quickly sort and process incoming issues without the need for additional staffers or resources.
Helpshift’s automation feature can be broken down into two main solutions: new issue automation and auto-resolve automations. New issue automations are messages that go out to app users automatically based on the metadata they provide, and they are ideal for teams that manage a high volume of tickets. Meanwhile, auto-resolve automation sends messages to users who haven’t responded to issues after a pre-determined period of time (like 7 days or 2 weeks). This feature was designed to aid organizations in improving customer satisfaction rates.
With searchable native FAQs, app users don’t have to scroll through pages and pages of text to find the answer to their questions. Instead, a search bar brings up suggestions for user as they type in real-time. Helpshift’s native FAQs are localized in 34 languages, and they support rich media, like video and images.
In-app FAQ pages serve as an invisible assistant for app users, enabling self-sufficient users to find their own answers to questions without any delays or response times. Opting for a native FAQ solution means your users will be able to search and view content without having to download it from the web. Native FAQs also establish a feedback loop to help you refine your content based on customer search habits and preferences.
Helpshift facilitates direct two-way communication between users and support agents or developers. This communication occurs in a way that looks and feels native to the app’s experience.
Use the in-app messaging and chat feature to have direct conversations with your users. Your agents can use canned responses to reply to common questions faster with standard responses. In-app messaging also helps you collect feedback at scale, with the ability to re-direct unhappy customers to leave feedback with your support team rather than posting a negative review online.
Push messaging campaigns provide a way for developers and agents to proactive engage every customer who launches their mobile apps. Often, this means sending out things like version update notifications, in-app surveys, special offers for high value users, and solicitations for in-app feedback.
If you sit back and watch how users interact with your app at scale, you’ll be better prepared to send highly-personalized messages based on user actions and behaviors inside the app. For example, if it looks like a particular user is getting stuck on one level of your gaming app, then you could send him a guide for completing that level or an in-app survey to find out what’s stopping him from moving forward.
New users can install the Helpshift SDK quickly with the Helpshift Integration Assistant app or they can opt to install the Helpshift SDK manually using the company’s integration guide.
Small organizations can take advantage of Helpshift’s Starter plan for free. Upgraded features are available with the company’s Pro plan, which costs $150 per month for up to three team members. An Enterprise plan with custom pricing is also available for larger organizations.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Helpshift.
Helpshift offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $95/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Professional: $95/user/month (billed annually)
Enterprise: $135/user/month (billed annually)
Platinum: $160/user/month (billed annually)
Helpshift offers the following features:
Helpshift has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Small Business
Helpshift supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Helpshift has the following pricing plans:
Free, Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Helpshift supports
Helpshift integrates with the following applications:
Agent.ai, Campaign Monitor, Constant Contact, Dropbox, Mailchimp, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesforce Service Cloud, Twitter, Zendesk, Zendesk
Helpshift offers the following support options:
FAQs, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
Helpshift has made it easier for us to respond to our customers in real time, manage tickets effectively ,gain valuable feedback and overall achieve customer satisfaction in terms of the quality of support we provide web visitors.