Help Scout vs Jira Service Desk vs Zendesk

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Help Scout

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Jira Service Desk

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Zendesk

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Pros of Help Scout
Pros of Jira Service Desk
Pros of Zendesk
  • 19
    Email based helpdesk
  • 18
    Great user experience
  • 10
    Reasonably priced
  • 7
    No helpdesk branding
  • 6
    Free plan for startups
  • 1
    Integration with Jira and Confluence
  • 135
    Centralizes our customer support
  • 73
    Many integrations
  • 59
    Easy to setup
  • 26
    Simple
  • 26
    Cheap
  • 12
    Clean
  • 7
    Customization
  • 5
    $1 Starter Pricing Plan
  • 4
    Woopra integration
  • 3
    Proactive Customer Support
  • 1
    Remote and SSO authentication with CMSs like WordPress
  • 1
    Charitable contribution to SF hospital for $20 plan
  • 1
    Full of features
  • 0
    Integrations

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What is Help Scout?

With best in-class-reporting, an integrated knowledge base, 50+ integrations and a robust API, Help Scout lets your team focus on what really matters: your customers.

What is Jira Service Desk?

It lets you receive, track, manage and resolve requests from your team's customers. It is built for IT, support, and internal business teams, it empowers teams to track, prioritize, and resolve service requests, all in one place.

What is Zendesk?

Zendesk provides an integrated on-demand helpdesk - customer support portal solution based on the latest Web 2.0 technologies and design philosophies.

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