Smartsupp versus HelpScout

Smartsupp is a Czech based live chat company focused on providing innovative solutions for customer care and e-commerce. Their software is user-friendly and offers tools improve support, engagement, and overall customer experience. They offer live chat, chatbots, and session recordings easily installed through a variety of plugins and integrations with popular e-commerce platforms like Joomla, Prestashop, and Shopify.

One of Smartsupp’s key features is video recording, which allows businesses to replay visitor website sessions and analyze their behavior. This helps businesses identify issues and deliver a more personalized experience to their customers. Each recording is automatically linked to the corresponding live chat session, making it easy to navigate and analyze.

Smartsupp also offers helpful resources to support their customers. Their website includes an extensive FAQ section and documentation for developers who want to integrate their software with their website or application. The documentation includes detailed instructions and code examples to help developers get up and running quickly.

Overall, Smartsupp is an excellent choice for businesses of all sizes looking to improve their online customer support and e-commerce capabilities.

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