Intercom versus HelpScout

Intercom has some of the world’s largest tech companies among its clients. Intercom’s conversational support funnel is set up to efficiently filter support requests. Support tickets trickle through from proactive support to self-serve support via their knowledge base, to actual human support. Inbox automation can be set up to quickly prioritize tickets. Team efficiency and customer experience metrics are an integrated part of the platform.

Intercom has several pricing schemes, depending on your needs and the size of your company. Free trials are available. They require a credit card and for you to cancel your subscription in time which is a considerable downside.

A plethora of apps in multiple categories can be integrated in their messenger through their app store.

Customers of Intercom include Amazon, Facebook, Shopify and Udemy.

Help Scout is an all-in-one support service with live-chat being one of it’s many features.

Founded in 2011, Help Scout has been a promotor of the fully remote companies long before it reached mainstream popularity mid 2020. Help Scout is also a certified B-Corp.

With over 12.000 customers, they are certainly one of the bigger players in the support-desk space.

Notable customers of Help Scout include GrowSurf, Springboard and Zapier