Email, SMS and automation with a generous contact allowance
Best for: Budget-conscious teams and businesses with large lists
Brevo combines email marketing, SMS, chat and automation in one platform. Its free plan stores up to 100,000 contacts with a 300 emails per…
Open-source customer engagement platform you can self-host
Best for: Technical teams that want an open-source, self-hosted support tool
Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform that unifies live chat, email, social channels and messaging apps in one inbox. Because the Community Edition…
Affordable live chat and unified inbox for small businesses
Best for: Startups and small ecommerce teams wanting affordable live chat
Crisp provides live chat, a shared inbox, a chatbot, a knowledge base and a basic CRM in one product aimed at small businesses and…
Conversational marketing and chat platform, now part of Salesloft
Best for: B2B sales and marketing teams with high-intent web traffic and rep capacity to staff chat
B2B conversational marketing and chat platform, now part of Salesloft. Quote-based annual contracts.
Combined CRM, marketing and service suite with a limited free tier
Best for: Small businesses wanting sales and marketing in one
EngageBay combines CRM, marketing automation, live chat and help desk tools in one suite. A free plan with a limited contact allowance lets small…
Messaging platform with free plan, AI agent and WhatsApp, SMS and social channels
Best for: Teams already using Freshworks products, and startups that want a free start for chat
Messaging platform from Freshworks with a free plan, Freddy AI agent and WhatsApp, SMS and social channels.
Collaborative shared inbox for teams that live in email
Best for: Customer-facing teams that prefer a collaborative inbox over rigid tickets
Front combines email, SMS, chat and social channels into a shared inbox that feels familiar but adds assignment, internal comments, rules and analytics. Teams…
Help desk built for ecommerce stores with deep Shopify integration
Best for: Ecommerce brands with high order-related ticket volume
Gorgias is a help desk designed for online stores. It pulls order, customer and shipping data from platforms such as Shopify into each ticket,…
Human-feeling shared inbox and help desk for small support teams
Best for: Small teams that want a human-feeling shared inbox
Help Scout is a help desk designed to feel like email rather than a ticket queue. Teams share inboxes, add internal notes, assign conversations…
Ticketing system with AI agents for small teams, from the makers of LiveChat
Best for: Small teams that want an affordable ticketing system with built-in AI assistance
Affordable ticketing system with built-in AI agents, from the LiveChat team. Plans from $19 per user per month billed yearly.
Gmail-based help desk that turns shared inboxes into tickets
Best for: Google Workspace teams handling support by email
Hiver is a customer service tool that works inside Gmail. Teams share inboxes such as support@ or sales@, assign emails, add notes and track…
Help desk built on the HubSpot CRM so support sees the whole customer
Best for: Teams already using HubSpot CRM, sales or marketing
HubSpot Service Hub adds ticketing, a knowledge base, customer feedback surveys and a customer portal on top of the HubSpot CRM. Because tickets live…
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