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Pros
Awesome customization and ways to stay in contact with customers, great customer support too.
SupportBee is very easy to use and helps resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. The features that I like the most are.
Good software, we are a happy user for years now. Works great and does what is says is does.
This made it extremely easy to manage upwards of 200 requests in one day, routing them all to the appropriate department. Once in your queue, it is also a great way to track to-do's.
Cons
Search feature is completely useless. Formatting a message properly is a nightmare, especially when copy/pasting formatted text.
We can also report incidents about whether our applications have failures. In addition, we previously reported incidents through calls that had higher costs than those assumed with SupportBee.
We have been able to use the knowledge base with SupportBee to provide information about queries, execution scripts and solutions to problems in our databases.
I think it is confusing when you respond to a ticket, and it shows up in an answered section. Sometimes I would still like to see a ticket but forget about it because it isn't clearly in my inbox.
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"A help desk platform with potential growth"
Overall: We have been able to use the knowledge base with SupportBee to provide information about queries, execution scripts and solutions to problems in our databases. We can also report incidents about whether our applications have failures. In addition, we previously reported incidents through calls that had higher costs than those assumed with SupportBee.
Pros: SupportBee is very easy to use and helps resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. The features that I like the most are: 1.- The helpdesk portal is similar to the user interface of an email, so adapting to its use will be quick. 2.- You can generate significant reports on our volume of tickets resolved in a period of time. 3.- It is possible to create a knowledge base to provide customers with answers to their frequently asked questions. 4.- It has a tool to establish reminder events, so that you can always be aware of the activities in the organization. 5.- It has a highly competitive price. 6.- It is a software with great experience, so it is backed by various market providers. 7.- It has extensive documentation on its website.
Cons: SupportBee should improve its loading times in the browser, since it is slower when there are many entries in the mailbox. It is also not recommended to open the application in Safari or Firefox because they are not optimized to support it.
"Clear and easy set-up and workflow..."
Overall: I like the easy set-up and I can start working with it right away. And it works professionally for my company.
Pros: What I like is that it fits my company size. I can work with it quite easy so I don't have to go through a big learning curve. My clients can easily leave a ticket through a button on my website and raise a question.
Cons: Maybe it can be expanded with a chat-function?
"Does part of the job but could be so much better"
Pros: Possibility to manage incoming messages in teams, to see messages from all the teams, to assign messages to coworkers, to add comments. Support team answers quickly to questions.
Cons: Search feature is completely useless. Formatting a message properly is a nightmare, especially when copy/pasting formatted text. Snippets management is not user friendly. Filtering messages from a particular team if you are not a member of the team does not work as expected.
"Multiple Knowledge Bases"
Overall: It has been a very positive experience overall so far. Their customer service is top tier.
Pros: We were most impressed with the ability to easily set up multiple, seperate knowledge bases and ticketing systems. We have two completely different product lines so being able to differentiate between them was important to us. The user interface is easy to use and aesthetically pleasing.
Cons: There isn't a lot of customization available to the program. For example, I would like to be able to code in my own layout for the knowledge bases.
"Perfect for startups and easy to use"
Overall: Easy to manage customer service and our day to day
Pros: It's integration was extremely easy and quick; the support was extremely helpful in the implementation. Made managing the queries much easier.
Cons: It would be nice to have a phone number to contact support in case of urgent help Emails for survey in English only, would be great to allow option for French / English KPI's dashboard would be ideal and can be improved (including reporting on customer service results).
Vendor Response
"Good but still a long way to go"
Pros: Decent ticket system to have multiple agents able to deal with all clients.
Cons: Many little bugs, some fixed after advising support however there are other new ones now. I get a feeling this is not a completed product
"Good alternative to Zendesk"
Overall: We still have not enough traffic on the website so the feedback will not be objective.
Pros: Integration was seamless, the product is easy overall and is simplified enough to the clients.
Cons: Forms. Very big miss. This helps the support process so much but forms are unavailable with you.
"The Ultimate Support Companion"
Pros: I quickly assigned a customer's problem to the right team member and tracked it until it was fixed.
Cons: I wish the reporting tools were more detailed for better insights into our support performance.
"Excellent & Affordable Support App without a "per agent" fee."
Overall: I've been using SupportBee since September 2013 and really love it. The pricing model is different from most other Support Ticketing Apps in that you are charged based on volume of support tickets and not on the number of agents. This pricing model means that it's more beneficial and affordable for small businesses where few people were many hats, as one of those 'hats' is doing support. It has all of the essential features that the other established support ticketing companies offer with their apps. And whenever I had a question or issue, I was given a quick and thorough answer by the owner himself.
Pros: - Pricing model is based on volume of tickets, not based on number of agents - Is an "inbox" style of ticketing system. (Customers only need to click reply) - Great after-sales support from the owner - Does not require my support team to be logged into a separate app to answer tickets. They can do it directly from their inbox if they wanted to - Allows me to forward a support email from a customer (which was sent to my direct email address), and it will generate a ticket on behalf of the original sender. *AND* it parses it correctly when sent from my iphone --- This is a HUGE benefit!
Cons: Does not yet offer "How Do You Rate Our Support?" like Help Scout does, but when I asked for this feature, I was told it is on their future roadmap.
"Support Tickets"
Overall: Overall very positive for a helpdesk ticketing system tool. I would recommend using for any helpdesk team.
Pros: We used this as a trial among a few other helpdesk tools. It was simple to use and assigned each new email as a support case. You can then go in and assign a case to yourself to be worked on. The process was simple and intuitive. This made for easy and quick responses back to the customers. I helped trial this for a few weeks and then I switched departments. I don't know which product was chosen in the end, but this would have been one that I would have enjoyed using daily.
Cons: I wasn't able to attach some files to send back to the customer in the support tickets.
"One of the most time-efficient ways to handle customer support"
Pros: It has made it so much easier to handle our customer support and organise it by priority levels. It gives a great overview of open tickets and allows us to set completion criteria for our support team. Before we had support bee it was very messy, receiving hundreds of emails, now it all sits neatly within the portal for us to review and allows us to set owners to each ticket
Cons: It is not always fast to get new features, but the SupportBee team does listen to our requirements and helps with them
"Logiciel de support client"
Overall: Dans l'ensemble , c'est une meilleure solution pour résoudre les problèmes des clients , très facile et très intéressant apportant plus de valeur aux entreprises . Je le recommande
Pros: C'est un très bon logiciel pour le service clients et qui m'a beaucoup aidé à aider les clients pour trouver de solution à les problèmes . Très facile à utiliser et présente de bonnes fonctionnalités .
Cons: Un très bon logiciel pour le service clients et qui m'aide beaucoup mais la version gratuite n'est pas disponible pour tout pays
"Logiciel de Support client "
Pros: Un très bon produit de support client très simple à utiliser avec l'une des meilleures solutions pour stimuler plus de vente aux entreprises. Flexible et rapide pour répondre aux exigences des clients
Cons: C'est le meilleur avec une meilleure équipe d'assistance. J'adore et je le recommande
"My review of Supportbee"
Overall: Overall Supportbee is an affordable solution to our business needs. We are able to have multiple emails accounts come into one place. Emails can be auto assigned based on keywords reducing the need to manually assign tickets. I can see our small organization growing with Supportbee over time.
Pros: The Supportbee software was easy to intergrate into our web app. Customer support is very responsive with questions and training. Onboarding users in our organization was was easy. The Help Docs are designed well and look clean and professional when published. Assigning tickets is easy and straightforward. I also like that I can get alerts through Slack. It was easy to set up too. Overall I really like this product.
Cons: There are areas that Supportbee could improve. The forward feature does not format properly and I end up using my Outlook to forward those emails to outside partners. The formatting in the HelpDocs is challenging to use, specifically when I use the table feature. An undo button would be helpful when trying to format considering the challenges in formatting. There were times when I had to completely redo a document do to the issues in formatting. I recommend creating the document in Word first. Finally, it is extremely easy to miss comments that I am tagged in. Slack alerts help do help with this though.
"I've been answering tickets on this for 2 years, great way to make emails organized to-do items. "
Pros: I like that random emails into our non-profit are converted into issues/tickets to solve and answer. It makes sure that nothing gets archived and forgotten before it's completely finished.
Cons: Sometimes the order of replies can get scrambled. For someone coming into the conversation mid-issue it can feel overwhelming to know where the conversation started and what has happened since.
"Simple and efficient ticketing service"
Overall: I highly recommand
Pros: Unexpensive. Easy to setup. Do the job Good support
Cons: Not that easy to produce usage report (have to screenshot report page)
"Room for improvement."
Overall: Overall this has allowed us the opportunity to document customer requests and issues to have a historical reference which was not happening previously and allowed for things to oftentimes not get addressed at all or very delayed before they got addressed.
Pros: The ability to build an internal knowledge base and external customer kb is a nice feature. I wish the licensense werent so expensive.
Cons: I hate that when you add a customer name and email to supportbee that it doesnt keep the customer name you set when they client responds with email it changes the client name field that is really irritating. It would also be nice if parties cc'd on the case would flow to the same customer and not create a new customer entry in the supportbee customer portal.
"Very user friendly "
Overall: There were several ways to utilize this system but over all the best benefit I found was the lay out. It was simple to use and we were able to train each department in this software even if they did not work in the customer support department.
Pros: This software is very user-friendly, it provides our customers with a seamless ecxperience.
Cons: We have had a couple issues with the site going down, but customer service was quick to respond.
"It's a must-have for handling our website support requests"
Pros: I love how SupportBee keeps my team organized and on track. I am able to directly assign tasks to my team either within SupportBee or with the Basecamp 3 integration, and it keeps me in-the-know on all of the support tasks coming in from our clients with a shared inbox.
Cons: The UI feels like it could use an overhaul. The reply function is not very intuitive, and it's just overall a bit cluttered.
Vendor Response
"review"
Overall: time saving writing emails to customers,
Pros: Snippets feature is useful, easy and quick to use
Cons: The junk mail gets through, not filtered
Vendor Response
"SupportBee does the job"
Overall: Good choice if you need an application to streamline your e-mail support in a team.
Pros: Good software, we are a happy user for years now. Works great and does what is says is does.
Cons: Some other bigger SAAS solutions offer more integrations and options. For example it is not yet possible to integrate Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp into one supportdesk.
"best ticket management system for small business"
Overall: I am using Support Be for around more than 1 year and very satisfied with its service. I answer many emails from my customers very quickly using snippets and I love the way they work. very easy and nice system.
Pros: Its the best ticket management system for small businesses bacause its very easy to use although it has all features that are required to run your customer service support.
Cons: I do not think I have any problems with some features of this software. It's all good.
Vendor Response
"SupportBee is a great place to manage your company's emails."
Overall: SupportBee is great because it gives all of our customer service team access to our emails so they can all go and access information sent in from our customers. Aside from a few bumps that we experience using the system, I am very happy with the product.
Pros: I really like how organised the SupportBee software is. It is pretty easy to go and access the incoming emails/tickets that we receive and even easier to access our archived emails.
Cons: Sometimes the SupportBee system crashes and doesn't run very smoothly but for the most part their team gets it fixed pretty quickly.
"Room for improvement"
Pros: It's easy to use and facilitate. It's easy to employees to navigate. The reporting is a nice feature.
Cons: I would like to see some features added. For example can we auto-archive after a certain amount of time? When we forward a ticket to someone outside of SupportBee, only the first or last correspondence will show.
"SupportBee is a great issue tracker system for small companies!"
Pros: I like that the system's interface and how easy it is to assign tickets to their proper departments. I also like that I am able to easily see all my departments' tickets.
Cons: I think it is confusing when you respond to a ticket, and it shows up in an answered section. Sometimes I would still like to see a ticket but forget about it because it isn't clearly in my inbox. Also, the email threads are a little hard to read.