HelpScout versus Live Agent

Founded in 2011, Help Scout has been a promotor of fully remote companies long before it reached mainstream popularity in mid-2020. With over 12.000 customers, they are a prominent player in the support-desk space. Help Scout is also a certified B-Corp.

Help Scout is a communication platform that helps teams across an organization have better conversations with their customers. Quick to set up and easy to use, companies use Help Scout to create email inboxes like support@ and info@, put live chat on their websites, build help centers, and more. All of those customer interactions flow into a single view that looks just like an inbox but offers powerful collaboration and automation tools under the hood.

Help Scouts offers an extensive collection of free templates, guides, courses, and resources in the Support Toolkit on their website. They also have a range of open source tools and APIs created by the community in the Help Scout GitHub repository

LiveAgent offers an all-in-one support helpdesk. What started out as a simple software development company from Slovakia, turned into a hyper-focused customer service company. It all started when they couldn’t find any software with the functionality they believe is essential for customer support.

Since LiveAgents’s start in 2006, they have been improving their products and functionality to offer a staggering 175+ features and more than 220 integrations, plugins, and apps.

A unique feature of LiveAgent is gamification to increase your agents’ engagement and promote healthy competition. You can award badges and rewards based on the evaluation of an agent’s performance.