Your Zendesk alternative
The Helpmonks team collaboration platform is the simple and affordable Zendesk alternative for your shared inbox. Now including a Live-Chat and an email marketing toolkit.
Your customers are human
Helpmonks has been built with you in mind. With Helpmonks you won't have to struggle with a complex Zendesk interface or with features of a customer support software you never use.
Helpmonks is so much more than a shared inbox platform. That's why, we don't label Helpmonks as a Ticketing System or Help Desk Software. Helpmonks can be used for any kind of email conversation and on any device with our mobile apps. Furthermore, Helpmonks is a true customer service software with Live-Chat and an automated marketing solution.
Moreover, your customer support team can leverage the following features; a Team To-Do app, a powerful customer management (CRM), and the ability to collaborate as a group in your shared mailbox
By using Helpmonks, your customer service automatically gains superpower and your team is taken to the next level of collaboration.
Work better together in an all-in-one collaboration tool
Compared to Zendesk everything is included in your Helpmonks account. No need to pay extra when you grow your business or want to send a marketing email.
Shared inbox
All your shared emails organized
Collaborate in your shared inbox together. Use our email collaboration suite to supercharge your email workflow — no complicated ticketing system.
To-Dos
Become a Task Zenbox-Master
The Helpmonks To-Do app supercharges your shared emails and turns your shared mailbox into a powerful task manager.
Save big by switching to Helpmonks
See how much you will save compared to Zendesk. Save hundreds today, save much more as you grow.
Helpmonks | Zendesk |
|  Zendesk |
3 mailboxes and 10 users | |
$57, $117 or $207 per month | $490 to $1990 per month |
10 mailboxes and 30 users | |
$190, $390 or $690 per month | $1470 to $5970 per month |
Dedicated Cloud Servers | |
Starting at $249 per month | Not available |
Self-hosted / on-premise | |
Self-hosted license | Not available (Vendor lock-in!) |
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A mighty email marketing platform at your disposal
The Helpmonks Email Marketing Platform helps you to stay in contact with your prospects and is the natural extensions to the Helpmonks email collaboration platform. As you already manage all your customer conversations in Helpmonks, turning a conversation into an promotional emails campaign is just one click away.
Engage your customers by sending them timely email campaigns and check the progress of your marketing endeavors with ready to use reports and analytics. Email marketing has never been easier and more affordable.
The Helpmonks email marketing solution helps you to reach more customers, resolve issues, sell more, and build lasting relationships. All in your email inbox.
Live-Chat widget for every website. Available in your shared inbox.
With the Helpmonks Live-Chat you can put a chat widget on as many websites as you like. Selected team members can become agents and respond to customers requests in a timely fashion. An additional benefit is that each chat widget provides you a real-time visitor list and an activity report with helpful details.
Targeted chats & triggers engage visitors with custom notifications and messages to emphasize your promotions. Chat messages are automatically tagged in Helpmonks, so that your support team starts collaborating efficiently on those messages and gain more leads and higher customer satisfaction.
It's never been easier to add Live-Chat to your website and follow-up with your service team. Every communication from different user accounts and email addresses is unified, and available in one tool.
Create and assign tasks. Collaborate on email conversations with ease.
The Team To-Do app enriches the collaboration between all team members. Create and assign a To-Do to an individual team member from any email with ease.
With To-Dos for Teams you can capture anything that needs attention. The To-Do management app is available throughout your shared mailboxes in Helpmonks. Besides, you can create individual tasks, visible only to you, to keep everything in one place.
The Team To-Do list is the perfect app when you need to delegate several tasks with multiple people for an email.
Helpmonks provides all the tools to increase your sales funnels with a sophisticated CRM out of the box.
Besides being a highly capable customer service email management software, Helpmonks can help your team with a dedicated shared inbox for sales and its built-in CRM.
Use the Helpmonks CRM to keep track of every conversation with your customers. Also, leverage our email marketing services and create targeted email campaigns or use the live chat to help customers in real-time.
All relevant customer information is one click away in one central location available on all your devices. Anytime. Anywhere.
You can use Helpmonks on our hosted platform, on a cloud server, or on-premise.
We don't like to have our data held hostage by our software choices. Helpmonks believes in extending the same courtesy. Therefore, we are the only shared inbox platform to offer hosted-platform (Saas), dedicated managed cloud servers, and a self-hosted edition.
Independent of the deployment plan, we respect and treat every customer the same. At Helpmonks we respect your privacy, and will never sell your data.
Your customers are human. Treat them as humans in your replies. This is how customer service emails should be.
Don’t burden your customers with your internal numbers that your ticketing system requires.
By using our email management software your customer won't get a generic email with a support ticket number, or be forced to sign into a ticketing system to track an issue. In fact, your customers won't even know that you are using a shared mailbox from Helpmonks.
See why so many teams have taken to working with Helpmonks to build a better customer experience.
With Helpmonks there's no need to give up your current email provider.
Helpmonks doesn't replace, but it enhances your current email capabilities, ensuring you always have copies of all of your workspace email.
You are in control, because it doesn't matter if your email provider is Gmail, Google Apps, Office 365, Microsoft Exchange server, or your own mail server. Helpmonks works with any email service and email account. Simply forward your email (i.e. sales@yourcompany.com, support@yourcompany.com) to your shared email in Helpmonks and let Helpmonks turn your email into a powerful team email management tool.
Accessible to everyone on your team. Anytime. Anywhere.
Helpmonks saves time by keeping your email communication in your shared mailbox organized.
At a glance see how many emails are awaiting a reply. Organize and prioritize emails by assigning them to team members, archiving important conversations or closing completed inquiries.
Keep track of customers, companies and service level agreements with the built-in customer relationship management.
Intelligent email management.
Keep relevant information with the email, where you need it, until you're ready to reply.
No more creating countless forwards of the same email, only to accidentally include the wrong people in your reply. Using notes store your internal information in the email itself, where it remains available to only you and your team, never to the customer.
Use notes to avoid delays in replying to your customers by embedding any text, images or attachments into the email. Your notes are only ever visible to you or your team, whether viewing the email from within Helpmonks or your current email client.
Designate who will reply by assigning emails to team members.
Ensure your customer's inquiries are not ignored by assigning emails as tasks, ensuring someone is accountable.
Everyone is aware of who intends to reply. Any team member, of a shared mailbox, can join in and collaborate on any email in that mailbox. At a glance see how many emails are assigned to you and the rest of your team.
Create a shared mailbox for free today and see for yourself how efficient your team inbox can be.
Every email conversation at your fingertips.
Conversation history retained.
No more asking your co-workers to forward the email you've lost. Helpmonks keeps all your email conversations within reach. Bringing new team members on board? No problem, they can easily get familiar with your customer's email conversations which took place before their arrival. That's what we call a unified shared inbox.
No need to recall when an email conversation occurred, easily find it again in your shared inbox, whether it be on your desktop or mobile device.
Update conversations directly from your shared inbox.
Execute commands simply by replying to emails.
Harness the power of email commands to assign conversations to co-workers, set a reminder for yourself or embed internal notes for your team to collaborate on customer inquiries. All this from within your current email client, with nothing to install.
Oh, and email-commands work with any email client, independent of your operating system or device.
Helpmonks can be used on your desktop or mobile device.
Helpmonks uses the latest web technologies and is available on every platform and device.
Helpmonks can be installed as an application on your Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, or Linux desktop. Furthermore, Helpmonks works on your Android, iPhone and iPad too.
Moreover, Helpmonks offers the same functionality, independent of which platform or device you work on. You will always have the same experience and always see the same results. Anytime. Anywhere.
Support included.
Helpmonks comes with our best-in-business support.
We understand. Your emails and communication with customers is extremely important to your business. That's why we provide support by email, live-chat and phone. Besides, a 24/7 support plan is available too.
Furthermore, our customers with a dedicated cloud server or self-hosted edition enjoy unparalleled access to our developer team with a direct chat tool.
Moreover, we provide free training and free on-boarding sessions for your team.
Everything is safe, secure and password-protected.
Your data is safe and your privacy is respected.
Keeping your data secure and private is a top priority at Helpmonks. The Helpmonks team takes proactive measures to guarantee a secure infrastructure and a safe application environment.
Our promise to you is that we will never read, scan or sell any of your data or information.
Hosted, dedicated cloud server, or self-hosted
Helpmonks is the only vendor with a multi-deployment model
Hosted
Use our hosted shared mailbox software for your business. Everything is safe, secure and password-protected. Works with any email account and email client.
Over 2,000 organizations use Helpmonks daily on our platform. Get up and running within minutes.
Cloud Server
Want your own server with unlimited mailboxes? Our cloud based servers are deployed with the highest security in mind and are GDPR compliant.
Dedicated Helpmonks shared mailbox servers are the perfect companion to your team workflow.
