SocialIntents versus HelpScout

Social Intents offers a basic live chat widget that focuses on integrations with third parties.

Besides the live chat, Social Intents has apps for conversion popups and feedback forms available. They offer plugins for Shopify, WordPress, Bigcommerce, and Wix. You can set up your own chatbot through Google-owned Dialogflow.

Social Intents has also recently added ChatGPT integration in all their plans.

Social Intents doesn’t share any examples of its customer base.

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