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Help Scout

byHelp Scout
in Customer Escalation Management Solutions
5.0

Overview

Product Information on Help Scout

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Help Scout?

Help Scout is a help desk software designed to facilitate customer support through email management, live chat, and a knowledge base. The software enables businesses to organize incoming customer requests, track conversation histories, and assign queries to team members. It provides shared inbox capabilities, workflow automation, reporting tools, and integrations with various business applications. Help Scout aims to streamline the support process by allowing teams to collaborate on tickets and deliver responses efficiently. The software addresses business challenges related to customer correspondence management, support team collaboration, and maintaining records of interactions for improved service consistency.

Help Scout Pricing

Help Scout software pricing model is structured as a tiered subscription, with plans based on the number of users and features included. Monthly and annual billing options are available, and higher-tier plans offer additional functionalities such as advanced reporting and integrations. Pricing increases with the number of users and the level of support and customization required.

Overall experience with Help Scout

Assistant Producer
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
FAVORABLE

“Help Scout Simplifies and Improves Email Management”

5.0
Jun 24, 2025
Help Scout has been a game changer for customer relations and customer support.
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 6th March 2025

Help Scout is a service tool focused on customer support. It offers features such as email and live chat for direct communication with users. It also includes the option to deliver necessary support content directly. The user-interface is designed to be simple, making staff training easy, yet it retains features required for providing support on a larger scale. Additionally, Help Scout has in-depth reporting capabilities, an integrated knowledge base, and over 50 integrations. It also supports a robust API. The primary aim of Help Scout is to allow teams to solely concentrate on essential business aspects, predominantly the customers.

Company Details

Updated 27th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2011
Head office location
Boston, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://www.helpscout.com

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Like

What's not to love? The capabilities are a huge reason it's so amazing. Help Scout makes it so easy to handle emails and stay organized despite large tickets. I especially love the ability to automatically tag, assign, snooze, and escalate conversations. Third-party integrations are another thing to love about the product.

Dislike

There is limited reporting and analytics, there is no other channel integration, (like Social Media, or SMS), and the automation isn't highly customizable.

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