HubSpot Service Hub

Cloud-based customer service solution for firms of all sizes

About HubSpot Service Hub

HubSpot Service Hub is a cloud-based customer service platform, which is designed to simplify processes for managing customer queries and improving client engagement for businesses of all sizes. It allows users to connect with customers through live chat, one-to-one customer communications, conversational bots, canned responses and more.

Key features of HubSpot Service Hub include customer feedback, surveys, insights, reporting, alerts, a customer database, knowledge base, goal management, and team email aliases. Businesses can use the platform to quickly answer customer queries by sending help documentation, recording short videos and creating custom email templates based on specific queries. It comes with an unified inbox, which records all communication and provides a full history of customer service for other representatives to refer to in similar cases.

With automated customer marketing emails and a searchable knowledge base, HubSpot Service Hub enables businesses to retain customers through streamlined, self-service access to case resolutions. It facilitates integration with several third-party applications such as Salesforce, HelloSign, Slack, GoToWebinar, CallRail, Typeform, Hotjar, Klipfolio, Lucky Orange, and more.

Pricing starting from:

US$50,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Key benefits of HubSpot Service Hub

• Turn customers into promoters with communication tools for carrying out conversational, contextual, interactions.

• Facilitate collaboration through the Conversations inbox which gives all team members a contextual overview of a customer's history and previous interactions.

• Turn chats and emails into actionable tickets which can be prioritized, categorized, and tracked, in order to facilitate end-to-end customer service.

• Aid customers with self-service resolutions by creating a custom Helpdesk and knowledge base for customers to access online.

• Utilize HubSpot Service Hub's feedback and advocacy tools to gather insight into customer sentiment and identify areas for improvement.

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark and 17 others

Supported Languages

English

Pricing starting from:

US$50,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Top 5 alternatives to HubSpot Service Hub

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Features

Total features of HubSpot Service Hub: 91

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Account Alerts
  • Account Management
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Management
  • Auto-Responders
  • Automated Routing
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Call Routing
  • Canned Responses
  • Categorisation/Grouping
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Client Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Communication Management
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Engagement
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Customer History
  • Customer Management
  • Customer Segmentation
  • Customer Service Analytics
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Storage
  • Email Management
  • Email Templates
  • Employee Management
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Event Triggered Actions
  • Feedback Management
  • Geotargeting
  • Health Score
  • Help Desk Management
  • Inbox Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Knowledge Base Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Live Chat
  • Macros/Templated Responses
  • Meeting Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Multi-Language
  • NPS of Customers
  • Offline Form
  • Onboarding
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Pipeline Management
  • Prioritization
  • Proactive Chat
  • Queue Management
  • Real Time Analytics
  • Real Time Data
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-time Consumer-facing Chat
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • Self Service Portal
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
  • Single Sign On
  • Social Media Integration
  • Support Ticket Management
  • Support Ticket Tracking
  • Survey/Poll Management
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Task Management
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Transcripts/Chat History
  • Transfers/Routing
  • Usage Tracking/Analytics
  • Virtual Assistant
  • Voice Mail
  • Website Visitor Tracking
  • Workflow Configuration
  • Workflow Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4,4 /5
(135)
Value for Money
4,2/5
Features
4,0/5
Ease of Use
4,4/5
Customer Support
4,6/5

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Georgia
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Everything in one place

Reviewed on 2019/11/14

We have one place for everything instead of multiple systems.

We have one place for everything instead of multiple systems.

Pros

I can see marketing and sales deals so I know my customers before they become customers. We have one place for everything instead of multiple systems.

Cons

It can be difficult to put principles together for where different tings are logged (Contact, company or deal) and therefore was difficult to get it to fit our business model.

Cierra
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  • Industry: Entertainment
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

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Reviewed on 2019/11/12

Overall the service hub has been a fantastic tool. We have been able to capture and manage customer...

Overall the service hub has been a fantastic tool. We have been able to capture and manage customer expectations immediately and effectively thanks to the Surveys specifically. We now capture results in real time direct;y after a customer has finished our sales cycle and their customer journey. The tool has allowed us to get quick responses, see where we excel and shine within our industry as well as where we can improve all from the voice of our customers. Love working with this tool

Pros

Hubspot has allowed us to save time and reach our customers on a whole new level. Once we implemented Hubspot the possibilities truly became endless. From a sales perspective we have learnt valuable ways to reach our customers through the sales blog, templates and snippet suggestions etc. In addition we have been able to market to our clients using platforms we didn't even know were possible. Created personalized landing pages, calendar links to schedule meetings and calls saving time going back and forth. Not to mention automation and work flows- a time saver!!! Cant rave enough about using Hubspot and cant wait to see waht they come out with next!!!

Cons

Honestly, I think thing we like least about the software is that you cant use the social features to post videos to Instagram from the social hub. Other than that there isn't anything we dont like!

Dan
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Hubspot Service Hub Review

Reviewed on 2019/10/17

Pros

It's categorization and click/drag feature of kb articles, ease of publishing, case workflow visualization

Cons

No public access for our own customers to view their own cases (open or otherwise) in the support portal. Organizationally, this means they will be managing case volumes through their email, only IF they were copied on the case to begin with.
File limitations; kb indicates there are no file restrictions other than on video, where we found there to be a 2 gb limit on ANY file.

Mandi
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Service Hub needs to be further developed

Reviewed on 2019/10/22

Our experience has been okay with Hubspot setup. Our onboarding specialist has been trying to help...

Our experience has been okay with Hubspot setup. Our onboarding specialist has been trying to help us through some situational challenges with what we are wanting to accomplish within Hubspot, but we keep running into limitations of what Hubspot offers within Service Hub so far. I think they just need more time to further develop with the feedback from customers.

Pros

I like the built in reports and default properties that minimized set up time.

Cons

I'm not able to customize ticket properties seen when creating/viewing tickets per pipeline so I had to set it up to see all needed properties for all 3 pipelines on each ticket. There is no visibility into our chatbot conversations before they are handed off to a human. Contacts are created from each email sent through service hub and also from ticket submission, when we do not want this to occur. I also can't edit the Support Form to have only ticket properties since it connects to the contact properties to create a contact. I get that Hubspot charges based on number of contacts, but they should give customers the option on whether or not certain actions will create a contact or not. It may make sense for sales hub to do that, but not for service hub. We don't want a bunch of contacts in our system that are possibly end users of our product and not customers.

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Reasons for Choosing HubSpot Service Hub

We loved that a lot of the features we were paying extra for through many different tools was included with Hubspot, such as the chat bot, meeting links with Google calendar integration, Slack integration, and easy to use automation setup.

Reasons for Switching to HubSpot Service Hub

For the complex automation and integrations we wanted Hubspot was the best choice.
Stefano
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Straightforward, out-of-the-box service solution

Reviewed on 2019/11/13

Overall Service Hub was very easy to set up, and the breadth of features integrated well with our...

Overall Service Hub was very easy to set up, and the breadth of features integrated well with our existing instance of HubSpot. However, in some cases, this comes at the expense of fully built out features. To be expected for a relatively young product, and I look forward to these flaws being ironed out in the months to come.

Pros

The ease of setup was the best thing about it, and given that it integrated seamlessly with our preexisting HubSpot apps, it was a no-brainer. It allowed us to continue using HubSpot and expand our view of our customer interactions to include support tickets.

The aspect we have made the most use of by far is the Knowledge Base functionality. This is easy to use, clear and customisable. The recent updates to the template editor are welcome and allow us to make our help centre our own. The insights we get on the helpfulness of articles is also useful to see where refinements can be made and where we are lacking.

Cons

The ticketing functionality is extremely limited and counter-intuitive to use. You get the sense that the functionality has been half-built and rushed out. For example, you cannot use HubSpot forms to populate custom Ticket properties, which renders them almost useless as a means of collecting information about the customer's problem. The UI for ticketing should have its own 'look', as they are basically indistinguishable from contacts, making it quite difficult to read simple information, like ticket status and description.

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HubSpot Service Hub FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for HubSpot Service Hub.

HubSpot Service Hub offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$50,00/month
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

HubSpot Service Hub is free to get started and will grow with you. Service Hub Starter starts at $45 per month. Service Hub Professional starts at $450 per month. Service Hub Enterprise starts at $1,200 per month. See more information here: https://www.hubspot.com/pricing/service?edition=starter&term=monthly

HubSpot Service Hub has the following typical customers:

2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000

HubSpot Service Hub supports the following languages:

English

HubSpot Service Hub supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

HubSpot Service Hub integrates with the following applications:

360NRS, Accelo, Actionstep, AdRoll, AdStage, Adam.ai, AgencyAnalytics, Airtable, Aloware, Ambassify, Asana, Autopilot, Aysling, Bedrock Data, BigTime, BrightTALK Central, BuiltWith, Call Loop, CallRail, Canva, ClearVoice, CoSchedule Marketing Suite, Cookiebot, Coupler.io, Cyfe, DataHero, Databox, DepositFix, Dialpad Meetings, Drift, Dropbox Sign, Eventbrite, Fivetran, Fomo, Forecast, Gmail, GoTo Webinar, GoToWebinar, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Meet, Google Sheets, Gravity Forms, Grow, Instagram, Instapage, Intercom, Jotform, Justuno, Klipfolio, Leadfeeder, LinkedIn for Business, LoyaltyLion, Lucky Orange, Mailchimp, ManyChat, Meta for Business, Modus, NeverBounce, Odoo, OptinMonster, Outgrow, PSOhub, Paycove, PhoneWagon, Pipedrive, PowToon, Privy, Project Buddy, Promo.com, Proposify, Pure Chat, Quuu Promote, Retreaver, Ringover, Sakari, Salesforce Sales Cloud, Salesmsg, Seventh Sense, Shopify, Sigstr, Skyvia, Slack, SnapApp, Stitch, Stripe, Stripo.email, Supermetrics, SurveyMonkey, Teamwork, Trello, Twitter, Unbounce, Vidyard, Wistia, Wix, WooCommerce, Woopra, WordPress, Zapier, Zoho Analytics, Zoom Meetings, monday.com

HubSpot Service Hub offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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