CX & Support
Considering adding either Hark or Freshchat to your ecommerce brand's tech stack? Customer support and delivering an exceptional customer experience are critical for success in ecommerce. The right tool for your brand's specific use cases can help you personalize your customer experiences, drive higher retention rates and deliver a better customer experience. Read our comparison below between Hark and Freshchat to see which one is right for your ecommerce brand.
Hark has created a contextualization engine that takes customers through a journey when getting in touch with service teams for support. This context creation drives much more efficiency for agents and elevates the customer experience.
Freshchat is a messaging app for sales, support and customer engagement. Freshchat's most loved features include the FAQ section, the canned response solutions, and the messaging integrations with tools like Whatsapp, iMessage, Facebook Messenger.
- Automate customer feedback collection via email and SMS after purchase.
- Customize feedback requests to match your brand’s voice and aesthetics.
- Analyze feedback trends with detailed reporting tools to improve services.
- Integrate with your ecommerce platform for seamless feedback loop creation.
- Use customer insights to tailor product offerings and marketing strategies.
- Encourage positive feedback sharing across social media platforms.
- Engage customers in real-time with AI-powered chat on your ecommerce site.
- Customize chat widgets to seamlessly blend with your site’s design and brand.
- Automate responses and support with bots tailored to customer queries.
- Analyze chat interactions for insights on customer behavior and needs.
- Integrate with major ecommerce platforms for a unified customer view.
- Offer proactive chat invitations based on visitor behavior to increase conversions.
Hark's pricing starts at £1.20 per ticket, with no setup fees or hidden costs. The plans are structured with a pay-as-you-go model, allowing businesses to scale their customer support services up or down as needed without any long-term commitments.
Freshchat's pricing starts at $19 per agent per month for the Growth plan. The plans are structured with increasing levels of functionality and user counts, ranging from the $19 per agent per month Growth plan up to the $99 per agent per month Enterprise plan for larger businesses with more advanced customer service needs.
The most popular integrations offered by Hark include:
- Zendesk
- Shopify
- Aircall
- Hubspot
- Instagram
- Facebook
- Klaviyo
- Amazon
Freshchat is designed to streamline customer communications by integrating with a variety of platforms and tools. Notable integrations include:
- Shopify
- WordPress
- Slack
- Salesforce
- Zendesk
- Mailchimp
- Zapier
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Hark
 in their tech stack:
BranchBranch furniture is modern, durable and backed by a ten year warranty. From desks and ergonomic chairs to conference tables, lounge furniture and accessories, they sell one product in every category and it's built to outlast your lease.
TovalaTovala is a meal service for insanely busy people. They've reinvented home cooking to save time. They do this with their prepared meals that you cook through their tech-enabled oven.
Scan the QR codes provided with the meals purchased on the oven, and it will start cooking your meals in 20 min.
ThesisThesis is the world's first personalized nootropics company to activate every kind of brain.
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Freshchat
 in their tech stack:
MonosLuggage
Monos is a Canadian luggage brand that offers high-quality, durable, and stylish luggage at an affordable price point. The brand is focused on mindful travel and sustainability, using the same materials as luxury luggage brands but selling directly to consumers to reduce costs. Monos luggage features aerospace-grade polycarbonate shells, waterproof interiors, and compression packing cubes.
UnderstatementApparel
Understatement was born from the desire to create women's underwear for women. Understatement set out to change an everyday necessity by creating underwear that feels as good as it looks. We share the vision of disrupting the underwear market and created an inclusive arena to lift up and pay homage to women!
APLApparel
APL sits at the intersection of luxury and performance, creating the world's finest footwear for optimum comfort for all aspects of your lifestyle from training to travel and everything in between.