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CX & Support
Considering adding either Help Scout 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 Help Scout and Freshchat to see which one is right for your ecommerce brand.
Helpscout is a customer-centric customer support solution. Use it to connect multiple emails to one single platform and collate all customer queries in one place. Build an extensive database of customer how-to's and resources, and dynamically share those resources via a sleek chat bot.
- Centralize emails, chats, and calls into a single platform for streamlined support.
- Offer self-service options through an intuitive knowledge base and FAQs.
- Personalize customer interactions using detailed profiles and history.
- Automate workflows and responses to increase support team efficiency.
- Measure satisfaction and gather feedback directly through support interactions.
- Integrate seamlessly with ecommerce platforms for a unified customer view.
- 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.
Help Scout's pricing starts at $20 per user per month for the Standard plan. The plans are structured with increasing levels of functionality, ranging from the $20 per user per month Standard plan up to the $40 per user per month Plus plan, which includes additional features like custom reports and unlimited reporting history.
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.
Help Scout offers a range of integrations to streamline customer support and enhance workflow efficiency. Popular integrations include:
- Slack
- Shopify
- Salesforce
- Mailchimp
- Trello
- Zapier
- Jira
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Help Scout
 in their tech stack:
Wisp
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These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Freshchat
 in their tech stack:
Monos
Luggage
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.
Understatement
Apparel
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!
APL
Apparel
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.
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