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Jira Service Management is an ITSM software that unlocks high-velocity teams to deliver great service experiences fast and together.
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Jira Service Management is an ITSM solution that unlocks high-velocity IT, dev, operations, and business teams. Empowered teams can deliver great service experiences, without the complexity of traditional ITSM, and coordinate efforts for even more impact through Jira’s open collaborative platform. Streamlined workflows, automation rules, queues, SLAs, and a self-service portal all empower IT, dev, operations, and business teams to deliver exceptional service management at scale with no silos.
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Vision Helpdesk offers Help Desk, Multi-Company Help Desk, ITIL Service Desk & Live Chat Software Tools for every size business.
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Vision Helpdesk offers Customer Service Software Tools -
1) Help Desk Software (Multi Channel Help Desk)
2) Satellite Help Desk (Multi Brand Help Desk)
3) Service Desk (ITIL / ITSM PinkVerify Certified)
4) Live Chat Software
Vision Helpdesk is ALL IN ONE customer support help desk allows you to manage various channels like E-MAIL, Chats, WEB-FORMS, TWITTER, FACEBOOK, CALLS everything under single roof.
Vision Helpdesk is trusted by 15000 plus companies across the globe.
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Put customer service at the heart of your company. Make customers happier, agents more empowered, and your business healthier.
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Zoho Desk is Zoho's flagship web-based customer service software that helps companies deliver lasting customer experiences. It aims to make customers happier, agents empowered, and businesses healthier. With Zoho Desk, you can deliver seamless omnichannel support, improve agent productivity at scale, customize your help desk, leverage powerful AI capabilities, automate mundane tasks, get live performance insights, and deeply integrate with apps you use daily - all without spending a fortune.
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Bitrix24 is #1 free client management (CRM) and customer service solution, used by 12 million businesses worldwide.
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Bitrix24 is #1 free client management (CRM) and customer service solution, used by 12 million businesses worldwide. Cloud/mobile/open source editions available. Multichannel customer service — email, telephony, website live chat, Facebook, Instagram, Viber, WhatsApp, Skype, Slack and other mobile messengers are supported.
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HaloCRM is a cloud-based customer service solution for businesses of all sizes.
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HaloCRM is a powerful customer service solution, designed for growing teams in need of an all-inclusive tool that scales limitlessly. With no hidden fees or locked features, HaloCRM's omnichannel platform offers advanced reporting, self-service features, automation, website integration, virtual agents and much more. Quick to launch, master and scale, HaloCRM can flexibly centralise your customer communications with powerful yet intuitive functionality to drive exceptional customer satisfaction.
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Lokulus is a technology platform delivering business process automation tools to consumer-focused businesses
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Lokulus is a technology business providing AI driven process automation to consumer-focused businesses. Our platform empowers organisations to intelligently manage and adapt automated workflows as the needs of their organisation develop and grow.
We're a trusted independent advisor, partnering closely with clients to grasp their unique challenges. Our solutions are tailor-made, leveraging our expertise and technology, ensuring the perfect fit for your organisation.
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The worlds #1 customer service platform, empowers every service employee with the innovative tools, and unified data.
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Deliver great service and a flexible agent experience, from anywhere. Give agents a holistic view of every customer, whether they’re in the contact center or working remote. Scale and optimise service by leveraging AI and integrating popular support channels — like phone, messaging, and chat — directly into the agent workspace. Resolve cases faster by combining automated processes with easy access to the full details, context, and history of every case and customer interaction.
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Freshdesk is an easy-to-use customer service software that helps over 60,000 businesses worldwide create stellar customer experiences.
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Freshdesk is a cloud-based helpdesk system that offers powerful solutions for customer service. Freshdesk unifies conversations from email, phone, web, chat and social, and helps you resolve issues across channels effortlessly. With Freshdesk, you can also automate workflows, offer convenient self-service options, manage SLAs, and generate reports. Freshdesk is used by over 60,000 customers, including Bridgestone, HP, Harvard University and DHL.
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Bring together CRM apps for sales, service, marketing, commerce, AI, and more in one integrated solution.
Build a customer 360 with a CRM that is deeply integrated across sales, service, marketing, commerce, and more with trusted AI, data, analytics, and collaboration in one integrated solution. Discover how Einstein 1 helps you become an AI Enterprise by growing relationships, productivity, and your bottom line – all at the same time.
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Webex Suite is an all-in-one, intelligent collaboration suite built on an industry leading and secure Webex Platform.
Webex Suite is an all-in-one, intelligent collaboration suite built on an industry leading and secure Webex Platform with artificial intelligence features built-in. With 8 powerful individual workloads – Webex Suite brings together Meetings, Messaging, Calling, Webinar, Events, Polling, Whiteboarding and Video Messaging in one collaboration experience to maximize productivity and teamwork. With a variety of collaboration features, Webex Suite helps bridge the gap between office and remote workers, remove language barriers, and overcome time zone differences. Enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere and to keep teams focused and engaged with unified, intuitive experiences and integrated AI across the entire suite.
All workloads in the Webex Suite can be managed via the single-pane-of-glass administration portal, Control Hub. It also allows you to protect your teams’ data and privacy with enterprise-grade security built in from the ground up.
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Integrated business management solution that automates financial, customer relationship and supply chain processes.
Microsoft Dynamics is a line of integrated, adaptable business management solutions that enable your people to make important business decisions with greater confidence. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft software-easing adoption and reducing the risks inherent with implementing a new solution. These solutions automate and streamline financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes in a way that can help you drive business success.
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Zendesk is the all-in-one customer service support software that delivers exceptional experiences.
Power up your customer service with Zendesk, the all-in-one support software that delivers exceptional experiences. With intuitive self-service tools and AI chat capabilities that streamline support, 60% of customers see a CSAT increase, and 85% gain better visibility into their internal operations after implementing Zendesk. Provide self-service and cross-channel support, so it's easy for customers to quickly get the answers they need, when they need them.
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ConnectWise ScreenConnect provides the ability to view and control devices from anywhere there is an Internet connection.
ConnectWise ScreenConnect (formerly ConnectWise Control) is a fully functional remote support solution. The software gives you the ability to remotely view and control devices from anywhere there is an Internet connection. As a technician, regardless if you primarily support your customers personal computers or a huge enterprise infrastructure, the ability to quickly and effectively resolve problems allows you to save time and improve customer satisfaction.
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LiveChat enables you to have real-time conversations with your customers while they are on your website.
LiveChat provides a cost-effective way for your support team to deliver a great experience across the entire customer journey. It makes customer service more efficient by letting you hold multiple chat sessions at the same time, send canned responses to frequently asked questions, add chat tags, review chat transcripts and send files to customers through the chat window.
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Award-winning help desk, ticketing, live chat, and call center software, easy to use from the start. Try it with a free 1-month trial.
LiveAgent is a fully-featured Customer Support software with over 200+ integrations.
Streamline all customer interactions and manage them from a single platform. Enjoy social media integrations, unlimited ticket history, call recordings, self-service options, and more advanced features.
Companies like BMW, Yamaha, Huawei, Orange, and Forbesfone use LiveAgent to deliver superior customer service to 150M users worldwide.
Start with a 1 month free trial, no credit card needed.
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NetSuite, the world’s #1 cloud ERP, gives you the visibility and control you need to make smart decisions and grow with confidence.
NetSuite is an all-in-one cloud business management solution that helps more than 40,000 organizations operate more effectively by automating core processes and providing real-time visibility into operational and financial performance. With a single, integrated suite of applications for managing accounting, order processing, inventory management, production, and supply chain and warehouse operations, NetSuite gives companies clear visibility of their information and control of their business.
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Intercom is the complete AI-first customer service platform, improving experiences for customers, support agents, and managers
Intercom is the only complete AI-first customer service platform, enhancing the customer experience, improving operational efficiency, and scaling with your business every step of the way. Our AI-first platform is built on a single AI system, with three major components that will allow you to deliver the remarkable customer service you’ve spent decades striving for:
AI Agent: Customers no longer wait or get deflected. AI Chatbot provides instant accurate, responses, 24/7 to most questions. Only complex interactions transition to tickets.
AI Copilot: Agents no longer manually, slowly look things up. AI Copilot is ever-present, connected to all data and systems, and provides information in real time. Instant ramp time for new agents, and agents needing to know new things.
AI Analyst (Coming soon): Leaders no longer manually compile reports without full coverage. AI Insights proactively provides a holistic view across 100% of conversations, with clear suggested areas of improvement.
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Zoho Assist provides a simple and straight forward user interface to connect to remote computers anywhere on the globe.
Access your computer or mobile device from anywhere, anytime using Zoho Assist; your one-stop solution for remote support, screen sharing and unattended access. Get started today with one of the industry's most secure, reliable and affordable software. Requires no prior installation. Cross-platform support available. Works across devices. Supports all major web-proxies and firewalls.
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An open-source suite of integrated apps to manage CRM, PoS, Website, eCommerce, Sales, Accounting, Warehouse, HR, Marketing, and more.
Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with expertly designed, user-friendly business applications. Odoo's intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of any company, regardless of size (or budget).
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Easy to implement web-based Customer Service software with a focus on B2B customer management and team collaboration.
TeamSupport is a post-sale customer support software solution built specifically for the unique needs of B2B technology-enabled companies. Built around the entire B2B customer, rather than a focus on each individual contact or ticket, TeamSupport helps solve for sophisticated client needs, fuels successful client interactions, and ultimately results in increased lifetime customer value. Nationally recognized TeamSupport suite of solutions includes TeamInsights, and TeamSuccess.
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EngageBay is a simple, affordable all-in-one marketing, sales and service CRM software to acquire, engage, nurture, close leads.
EngageBay is a simple, affordable, all-in-one marketing, sales and support CRM software built for small businesses and startups to acquire, engage, nurture web visitors and convert them to happy customers. EngageBay offers free live chat software to deliver the personalised one-on-one support to every customer using a simple and powerful free live chat software. - all from one easy to use platform.
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Act! Premium empowers you to market better, sell more, and create customers for life.
Act! Premium, a powerful CRM and Marketing Automation tool in one platform, is perfect for small and midsize businesses looking to market better, sell more, and create customers for life. With unparalleled flexibility and freedom of choice, Act! Premium accommodates the unique ways you do business, whether it’s on-premises (Act! Premium Desktop), in the cloud (Act! Premium Cloud), or, you can leverage a hybrid deployment for maximum flexibility!
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Talkdesk is intuitive, cloud-based contact center software with advanced features, comprehensive reporting and seamless integrations.
Talkdesk is next-generation cloud-based call center software that helps you connect with your customers. The easy-to-use interface offers robust functionality with advanced features, comprehensive reporting and seamless integrations with 25+ business tools to empower sales and service teams to have personalized, effective conversations with customers.
Talkdesk empowers enterprise operations and CX leaders to deliver modern, tailored customer experiences. Our trusted, flexible cloud contact center platform leverages cutting-edge generative AI and automation to streamline workflows, optimize resources, and drive exceptional customer outcomes. With Talkdesk, teams can enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the bottom line—all while ensuring the best possible experiences for customers. Trusted by industry leaders, Talkdesk is the innovative solution designed to meet the evolving needs of enterprise contact centers.
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A powerful online CRM system to manage sales & marketing activities for your business. Integrated, highly configurable, easy to use.
Apptivo's online CRM system is a powerful tool to manage your sales, marketing, and much more. CRM sits at the core of Apptivo's integrated suite of business apps, providing a complete suite to tools to gain a 360 view of your customer. Our CRM includes lead management, an opportunity pipeline with intuitive dashboards, and flexible workflow tools including marketing automation. Everything is completely accessible from your Android or iOS device and integrated with Office365 & G Suite.
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Userlike is the leading GDPR-compliant software for messaging and automation that helps businesses transform customer communication.
Userlike is your customer service solution for website chat and mobile messaging.
Chat with your customers via your website, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS. Connect your chatbot and automate parts of your customer interactions.
Born and hosted in Germany. Userlike keeps your and your customers' data safe with a 100% GDPR-compliant communication solution.
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Customer Service Software Buyers Guide
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What is customer service software?
Customer service software is a ticketing system that documents, tracks, and resolves customer queries. It collates customer requests from multiple channels, such as phone, email, live chat, and social media, into a single portal so that agents can quickly and easily address the queries.
The software allows multiple agents to work on each ticket, making it easier for different departments to collaborate on solving the customer’s queries. The tool also provides detailed reports and insights into customer interactions, helping organizations assess the quality of their customer service.
The benefits of customer service software
Customer service software supports businesses in managing and maintaining a relationship with customers. The solution can help you realize the following benefits:
- Collate customer queries across multiple channels: Customer service software collates customer queries from multiple platforms into a single stream. Whether it’s a call to the helpline, an email to the support team, or a comment on your social media page, the tool generates a ticket for each customer query. These tickets get automatically added to the centralized stream, ensuring that no query is unaddressed.
- Reduce time that agents spend on each query: The software offers an easily searchable database for a quick reference. Agents can tag members of other teams or forward the ticket to the right team, directing the customer to the best resource. The standardized answers, easily editable templates, and the ability to simultaneously respond to multiple queries shortens the ticket resolution time.
- Increase customer satisfaction with faster issue resolution: The software lets users address each ticket as per priority and reduce the waiting time. It also organizes the ticket resolution workflow and allows agents to collaborate on tickets. This shortens the resolution cycle and improves customer satisfaction levels.
- Get insights into the team’s performance: Customer service software offers analytical capabilities, with customizable reports and dashboards, which provide insights into the performance of your support team. Find out the time your team takes to respond, how busy agents are on certain days of the week, and the frequent queries. This information can help you manage agents, improve their response time, and increase productivity.
Typical features of customer service software
- Knowledge base: Build and manage a centralized, searchable repository of information regarding frequent and previously asked queries as well as the responses.
- Support ticketing: Track interactions and autogenerate tickets for customer queries and service requests.
- Multichannel communication: Manage incoming and outgoing customer communication on multiple channels, including email, phone, live chat, and social media.
- Queue management: Manage the ticket queue to meet the team’s needs and monitor the wait time for incoming requests that haven’t been routed.
- Live chat: Chat with customers to resolve their queries in real time.
- Appointment management: Schedule and manage interactions with customers.
Considerations when purchasing customer service software
- The solution’s usability: A poor user experience (UX) is bad for business. The tool shouldn’t slow down agents and lengthen the response time. Therefore, before you purchase a solution, try it out and ensure that the UI/UX is not too complicated or messy for your agents. After all, they have to use it every day and should be happy doing it.
- Integration with existing third-party apps: While most software integrates with other third-party applications, check whether your preferred solution and/or pricing plan supports integration with the other solutions you use. After all, it can be wasteful and painful to find out after purchase that the software doesn’t support your applications.
- Omnichannel customer support: It allows you to centralize everything and make it easy to manage multiple communication channels. But not all businesses need to do it. If your customers are likely to reach out via chats or emails, choose a customer service solution that offers the option you need, so that you won’t have to pay for channels that aren’t being optimally utilized.
Relevant customer service software trends
- Chatbots to improve customer self-service: Vendors are using chatbots to resolve customer queries in real time without a ticket. The technology can simulate interactions like a human and resolve simple queries such as about working hours, contact info, and status update. It also recommends relevant sections from articles in the knowledge base—such as if a customer doesn’t know how to reset their password, the chatbot will direct them to a step-by-step description of the process. Businesses that use chatbots reported a 70% reduction in call, chat, and/or email queries.
- AI to increase the efficiency of agents: Customer service software providers are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to make agents work smarter. Some are using it to automatically tag, categorize, and index tickets for easy reference, while others are using AI to determine customer distress levels and predict chat answers. AI can also recommend changes to existing articles based on how customers communicate their issues, making answers easier to find and understand in the future.
