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What is Freshchat?

Freshchat is a modern messaging solution for easy customer service for the digital-first customer anchored on artificial and human intelligence across messaging channels. It highlights key features including smarter conversations, which are available across first and third-party messaging platforms including web, mobile, in-app, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, Facebook Messenger, and more. It also has smarter self-service powered by AI chatbots, and smarter operations, that help lower the cost of support.

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Year founded 2010
Company size 5001-10,000 employees
Headquarters San Mateo, California
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306 Freshchat Reviews
4.5 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 14, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
B.
Budiono Darmawan .
Cmo
Share
"Bye Zopim Chat :)"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Integrate easily with magento. Good support and has pricing plan for startup. Very light and fast.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

I need more flexible settings for chat bots. For my plan, bots features is quite basic.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

For now, Im still working and trying with freshchat, but from my point of view, it supposed to be a better upsell channel.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Sep 26, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy way yo connect with your customers"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Implementing the plugin was so quick, within one day we were able to set up our chat support team. The basic plan itself have many features for a small organisation. We use fresh desk also to track customer tickets the integration with fresh desk helps us to manage our entire support operations efficiently and able to generate all require reports regarding support operations in a flash. Saves so much of time, also leaving many customer satisfied with prompt support.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

At times, the desktop notification fails to popup; Not sure if it's a bug or something. due to this the agents do miss some pings at times. We need to take it to the customer support. but it's not a trivial problem in managing the support workload.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Better visibility on how much support calls comes to team, reporting of the same to management was easy and clear. Billing for customer support became easy for us.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 31, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy to setup Live Chat in Mobile"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Have been using this service for more than 2 years now, and its easy to set up and efficient to use. Works like promised.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Mobile support for Agents is missing and which is fairly important today.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Live Customer Chat on our Android Application predominantly for customer support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 27, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AJ
Akshay J.
Sales And Marketing
Share
"Freshchat review"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Technically: The bot integration has been really smooth until now. it has definitely given us a lot of leads and being a premium product, even a single lead adds a lot of value to the sales process Generally: The team has been very helpful with deploying everything

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

There have been times when random messages were sent out to users. But that's fine.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Leads are captured more efficiently and there is a better response time to customer queries now

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 05, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Freshchat"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

I like how easy it is to chat through this with colleagues. The features are awesome.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

I don't dislike anything, but there are plenty of chat programs out there. We have recently switched to this one at work.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick communication with other colleagues from other areas within our department and even out of state partners.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 02, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
SK
Satwik K.
Growth Manager
Share
"Easy to use support handling tool"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

1. Setting up the chat flows is very easy 2. They have integrations with most of the major tools in the market

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

1. Sometimes I face latency in getting support for my queries. 2. A better (2-way) integration with Freshdesk would be helpful

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was trying to use Freshchat to handle the chat-based customer support on our platform. Setting up chatbots and the live chat feature helped us address the queries of everyone who is visiting our platform.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Oct 20, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Mohit S. avatar
Mohit S.
Customer Support Executive
Share
"First user experience"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

It is easy to use and navigate through features. I also like its compatibility and learning skills.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Sometimes it doesn't understand the matter and meaning of questions

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshchat helps me in research amd analysis of data I'm looking on internet for my organization research program.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Mohammed Z. avatar
Mohammed Z.
Associate Customer Experience
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"Good AI powered chat box"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

It's relevant, understands inputs. Gives near to accurate answers.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Lag time. 2-3 seconds. However, it is understandable as it's AI

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Reducing incoming volumes for humans.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
RS
Ravi S.
Founder
Share
"Freshchat review"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

The rephrase option is about the fresh chat

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Unavailability issue and no time monitoring on breaks

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

User interaction made easy with multiple chat at a time

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 11, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
YT
Yuvaraj T.
Founder
Share
"Notifications issue"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

It is fast, user friendly, new features are there.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

There is no chat delete or edit option, notification sounds will not work sometimes. No dashboard for all

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is no such option, which is benefiting. One feature is good, where we can see the customer reviews.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 10, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Freshchat works well and is intuitive"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Things I like about Freshchat: Not too many columns and features to memorize to be able to use it. Integration to Freshdesk to create additional tickets. Customers cannot see when the agents are typing Separations between my canned answers and company canned answers

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

The notification system is not as smooth as I want, especially if I'm not on the page/tab. There are no options for agents to edit, recall or delete a sent message, even if we've made a mistake.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our customer success team needed a platform for our customers to live chat with a CS agent. Since we already use Freshdesk.com for our customer ticketing system, Freshchat works well for us since we can escalate issues or follow up afterwards.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 23, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AB
Amit B.
Founder
Share
"Value for money product"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Bot flows and simple intregrations with different software. Able to set up FAQs Mobile UI on user side is good. Like the freedom it gives to customise

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Improve your support quality and train your executive better in terms of product knowledge otherwise it difficult to explain or understand clients issue

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping user to raise more chats quicker and helping decreasing the overall resolution time under 30 minutes User are able to talk to two different team at sams time

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 23, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy to chat with our clients with simple features"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Simple design and easy to follow up with clients on chats. Support agents on Freshcha are quick to responce and helpful.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

There seem to be no function to export full chats that our agents had for quality control and this would be helpful to have it in Reporting function. It has been difficulet for me to contact our Account Manager to discuss monthly/annual cost, which was a very important/ sensitive matter for me, as he seemed to have been traveling - it would have been better if they had someone else covering his work during his absence.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshchat has not had issues technically so fat so it has been a stable service. Easy to understand chat service and it helped our productivity.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 18, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
BS
Bernadette S.
Founder
Share
"Good but glitches sometimes"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

The bot is extremley helpful with new sign ups to our platform

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

sometimes the chat glitches and messages don't send or don't come through

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allowing customers to get answers from bot rather than talking to live agent

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 25, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
SD
Swathi D.
Program Manager
Share
"Face of customer support on your home page"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Freshchat seamless integration with the homepage is one the best tool for a startup to clarify queries quickly. Integrating with Freddy AI reduced the tickets up to 30%

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Integrations, it is not very easy to integrate with other tools, than Freshworks' ecosystem. Even if it allows, it's painful to get the full experience. UX looks like, it's from early 2010s.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is like any chatbot, the problem solving is simpler with its brilliant AI layer on top of the chat. It resolved tickets quicker than traditional chat queries!

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Jul 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
Chloe T. avatar
Chloe T.
Global Marketing Director, Biolage
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"Quick communication channel with clients and work colleagues"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

I use Freshchat to interact more easily and quickly with clients and potential clients that I contact through social media management through digital marketing. I can increase the flow of clients and implement the corresponding chat. I like that you have a lot of interaction with customers through contextual messages from the chatbot, this allows you to offer your services and products, it is even the way to make a sale. With webhooks, I can obtain data to provide users with the corresponding information, the one they are especially looking for, such as the status of an order, a payment, invoices or any type of activity that is related to our company and the use of this platform.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

At first, it is a bit complicated to use but I guess that happens when you are new to using this software, it was a bit difficult to adapt to but now I manage it very well. Many clients have told me that using the bot has been a challenge for them; it takes time for them to keep up with it. Another thing, to create the chatbot you have to invest a lot of time.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have gotten a lot of interaction with customers through tools that send automated messages, this is very beneficial because customers feel well taken care of and this leads to future sales and production. In addition, with the use of frequently asked questions, customers are cleared of certain doubts and proceed directly to make a purchase, it also relates products and articles according to what they know and proceeds to interact with the seller at once.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Feb 10, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
VG
Vipul G.
Customer Success Manager
Share
"Great But can impove"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Simple user interface Whatsapp connectivity Can onboard teams can create different divisions in it Chat Assigning feature

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Limited access in WhatsApp chats Bots are not very useful notifications can be a problem sometimes

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

WhasApp chats improvement and Bots allowing to connect with Saans system

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 25, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Students Outbound Campaign"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Using the Outbound Campaign Feature of the product. Good to see Inbound Contact Center and Collaboration/Messagaing capabilities in the out of the box product

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

It would be helpful to have examples of usage in different verticals to get someone organized initially. The details may be there in the user guides and online help.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Use the Outbound Campaign capabilities for student outreach

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 02, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Feature loaded but some basic use cases also needs advanced automation"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

The best thing about Freshdesk messaging is the easy of imlementation and availablity for bot flows. Then the assignment rules come in really handy and high level reporting too is easy to contemplate and use.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Primary use cases sometimes need an advanced automation plugin to be used, and one needs to write logic there. The problem with that arises as it is not as user friends as its other native features are, and also, there is a lot of abstract logic which one needs to understand while writing logic. And this needs constant support from product experts from support.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are reducing incoming calls to the customer service team. Also, we can use bot flows to route customer chats to requires teams effectively. Able to answer frequently asked questions without agent intervention.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 11, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"User Friendly, Worth it For the Price"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

So far, Freshchat has been easy to install, and their customer service, though slow at times, has been informative.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Sometimes things are unclear in terms of the initial setup, which was a bit frustrating, but once I got in touch with their customer support, they were able to point me in the right direction for several articles that explained what I needed.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshchat has already allowed us some leads directly from our website and allows us to answer questions as quickly as possible, vs. email. It's proving worth it just in the couple of weeks we've had it installed, giving us leads on a few products.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Apr 12, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Excellent chat, but needs a few more options for customization"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

We very much like the FAQ feature of the chat, as well as the fact that it can be integrated with other Freshworks products, making it so much easier to provide customer service. We also very much like the triggers and the nice text formatting we can apply to the messages we send.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

We feel there should be a few more options for customization. Specifically, we feel that the bot function, which is very useful, should provide separate options for offline and online which go beyond which messages are sent. Namely, we'd like to be able to turn off the bot when our agents are online, or at least decide to ask more questions when offline and fewer questions when online. Also, it would be great for the bot to support translations. Moreover, color customization is a bit limited, not allowing users to select the font size or color (which is a problem when the text color matches a background color, making text not visible).

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

We recently move to Freshchat from another chat service, specifically for the reason that it can be integrated with Freshdesk and Freshcaller. This allows us to provide better customer service, having all customer info at hand during any contact we have, whether email, chat or phone. We also decided on Freshchat for the excellent trigger feature.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 03, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
GV
George V.
Marketing Manager
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"Freshchat is a nice user friendly alternative to mainstream live chat channels"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

The wealth of information that you can get on the person that contacted you such as browser, last pages visited and social info

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

As of today the colalboration between other freshworks services such as the helpdesk is not seamless. ie we have to maintain the CRM data on both services

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

A step forward on unifying data and creating a true omnichannel helpdesk

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jun 20, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great Service!"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

I like the design of the user interface, the ability to set up an FAQ tab and the ability to set triggered messages

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

I wish we had the ability to see and proactively engage with visitors on the site, rather than relying on them engaging with automated messages.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

The service allows us to connect with the customer and provide excellent customer service.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 13, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Freshchat is a good tool for customer engagement!"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

The UI is great to use and watch. It seems so vibrant and is quite responsive

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

The Bots and campaigns don't work properly. The campaigns don't work exactly as they are configured and even the Technical support couldn't fix the issue.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Freshchat along with a suite of tools from Freshworks allows a tight integration for all around coverage

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 05, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Basic chat abilities with super powers"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

I love the dashboard feature. It allows me to see how my conversations are going and how often i talk with certain people . I have started a new sewing business also and this helps me to keep track with my customers. Facebook messenger is just to messy and i prefer this setting. I am hoping to bring my whole team to this platform as it is very business friendly.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

I wish it had a tutorial that made it a little easier to navigate. Its not extremely hard to get to know but still takes some work.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am able to keep better track of my sales and customers with this chat. The dashboard interface is the big winner with me. It also helps me keep up with how often I conversate with each person in my team .

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 17, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
MM
Manoj M.
Customer Service Associate
Share
"Good interface. User friendly and customised views"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Easy to use and AI-enabled which helps in communication. Customized view. User-friendly dashboard with graphs that can filter as per our needs. Ticket creation is good because it actually amends all the chat on a single click.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

While conversing with customers, it automatically changes the sequence as per the response which not suppose to happen. Also, it not showing the name of the customer while chatting.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using it as chat bot and live chat with customer so chat bot is giving most of the information to customer as per their query and if not sufficient then customer can also reach out to agents for more details on same platform.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 27, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Advantages of Freshchat"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

Tracking all agents and numbers, track all breaks for all agents and you can extract all reports from fresh coat to describe the number of AHT and how many chat he resolves

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

something get wrong when you extract any report you need to refresh again to extract it, could be better if we can extract any file immediately without refreshing the tab of fresh chat

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping me to track all agents who's online and who's offline if we are not in the same floor , for sure more productive with fresh chat, business performance increase

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 31, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
PS
Prathamesh S.
Team Leader
Share
"User friendly"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

User Interface (UI) is one of the best things that have come across

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Lack of features is something that is concerning.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Crm incoming chats and ticketing

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 14, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.0
MC
Merry C.
Owner
Share
"Customer Service is Iffy, Product Itself is Okay."
What do you like best about Freshchat?

I like that so much is customizable, from the coloring of your widget to the structuring around store hours.

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

A lot of this application is hit or miss. The product is one of the cheapest on the market, and I've realized why - the customer service is not helpful, and some of the settings do not "stick" initially. I had to hop on customer service chat three times for one issue with my store hours, but they didn't respond in the allotted five (or eight? either way) minutes - it ended up being an average of thirty. Ironically, for a chat company, their own chat is not preferable.

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

Once all the kinks (read: several hours waiting on customer service) get worked out, the app does what it's supposed to. It gets customer (or potential customer) messages to us in real time, is able to generate some leads, and can handle inquiries in a way that helps us out during the day and brings us into the 21st century.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Mar 15, 2021
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Negative Feedback"
What do you like best about Freshchat?

A lot of plugs and you have a lot of possibilities to improve

What do you dislike about Freshchat?

Take care from salesman name Shaik Ali he doesn't clarify you the Product and the procedure. he uses to push in different ways to sell you that. should be thinking more and read more about the product. he is not an honest person and he put me in trouble. the point of that whats app will not allow us to use the marketing apps was totally not clarified so after we move there we come to stuck there

What problems is Freshchat solving and how is that benefiting you?

as of now, we start on what's app so it is helping us to assign the chat and solve the ticket this feature is not available in the normal access

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