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Anna
Verified reviewer
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2022
Excellent tool to manage the Knowledge Base
The customer service is great. We suggested adding an option to link to the internal content and they actually implemented it. It was very helpful.
PROSThe product was easy to setup. There is a way to customize templates applying your own brand, color, etc. The customer service is great. They worked with us on couple of very custom authentication setup. Resoond to emails is fast.
CONSWish to have more customization option for the front-end. Particularly for setting up the landing page and categories. For the analytics would be great to have some sort of the reporting functionality added. Also we should be able to setup SEO-friendly URL handle for google analytics.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
We needed a tool that can be integrated with internal application and allow for authentication via authentication token. HelpSite provided the easiest solution and assisted us with setup.
Haris
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2023
If you're looking for simplicity and cost-effectiveness, you're at the right place.
Overall, fantastic. My free trial was extended while I was in the selection process for my organization. I was offered some help on HTML aspects which I will need to integrate at some point. [sensitive content hidden] did not get tired of my constant back and forths and helped me each step of the way.
PROSFor me, the customer service, specifically from [sensitive content hidden], is second-to-none. I considered various other platforms, but the customer service really sold me. HelpSite is willing to work with you and walk you through your questions, concerns, and issues. For me, that's everything.
CONSI wish the Text Editor was more robust, and I could do more changing of templates without needing to do something technical via the HTML.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Overly complicated learning curves, hardly simple (although capable), poor customer service.
Reasons for switching to HelpSite
ServiceNow is clunky and it was extremely difficult to use from the backend. Not simple at all, very tough to make changes, and slow.
Jack
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed February 2024
Easy to use, great looking website
Great. Have never had an issue with its reliability and is a pivotal asset within our company.
PROSThe ease of use means that anyone within the company can use the site - both our clients and employees who are adding to it daily.
CONSThe options to customize could be slightly better. But i hope with more updates we can achieve this.
Pete
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed November 2019
Difficult to integrate and linking and security remain a problem
It is easy enough to update pages. Search functionality for users is decent.
CONSSecurity isn't something the company takes very seriously. That has been frustrating. The way linking works is complicated and it is not intuitive how to point to your help articles from other places like intercom or support emails unless you know the special way to craft URLs. I would not buy this product again if we were starting over. We'll keep it due to the high switching costs of having to integrate another product and move all our documentation.
Vendor Response
Hi Pete, We are sorry and surprised to hear that you've been unhappy with HelpSite. It's a surprise because I just reviewed all of our past support interactions with your company and after every request it's seemed like your company walked away satisfied by our responses. This is the first time we are hearing from you about any issues! We absolutely do take security very seriously as a company and within our product. If you're looking for an additional security measures that can be implemented for private/internal help sites, can you please reach out to us at info@helpsite.com? We've got some new integration options that weren't available when you first reached out in 2017. Thanks for being a HelpSite customer and we intend to regain your happiness again!
Replied November 2019
Indy
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2022
HelpSite is the best knowledge base option for price!
Great. I am overskilled for the product and that's not their fault. I love the default template's minimalist composition, I love the design of article management, all of it.
PROSI am really impressed by the bespoke design for a wiki. We really need a wiki that can be used for internal and external content hosting to support our customers and employees, and HelpSite does that with a minimalist design that makes content management easy to pick up.
CONSI used to be a web designer, so I did find the custom HTML/CSS templating a little restrictive. I had to search the FAQ to discover how the templating worked so I could override it in places for my own color choices (add a numerical ID to a class and specify it in header, the template calls bootstrap 3.4 defaults) and I'm used to a more DIY approach. I'd love to see prebuilt theme options in the future, or maybe a "pick your own adventure" approach with the templating: simplistic or full control. At the same time I appreciated that I only had to change colors and the rest was done for me - not common. It also didn't affect my purchase choice.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
We needed simplistic design, cost effectiveness, SSO/auth generally, a bespoke wiki, ease of content and user management, etc. HelpSite is hard to beat for cost effectiveness and we couldn't justify higher price points or more exhaustive feature sets.
Reasons for switching to HelpSite
We were getting too big for Drive to be a viable option for hosting customer facing material and needed to scale a little bit.
Jennifer
Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
HelpSite is amazing! Highly recommend for anyone looking for a knowledge base site
With HelpSite, we were able to build an easy FAQ site for our customers/stakeholders. It is clean, organized and easy to maintain.
PROSIt is easy to integrate with our existing software/programs and documents. Seamless.
CONSThe feature I would recommend is the option to shorten the URL name.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Functionality, ease of use and help desk feature.
Gabriel
Online Media, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed September 2023
Streamlining Customer Support and Engagement
My overall experience with HelpSite has been positive. It's a robust tool for businesses looking to enhance customer support and engagement, especially if budget constraints are not a concern.
PROSAs a lover of SaaS, HelpSite's cloud-based platform offers scalability and convenience.
CONSThe UI is not up to date, the whole UI does not look modern.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
For the simple and minimalistic use and options.
Francois
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
Powerful, Easy to use WYSIWYG Helpsite
Powerful tool to help reduce OPS overheads, easy to maintain, useful internal help-site to capture and make organizational knowledge accessible,
PROSVery easy to use, can have completely non technical people use it. Intuitive, clean editor, easy to import articles form other sources, good formatting tools, nice clean look and feel, easy to navigate and get information, useful features like internal/external help sites.
CONSNo complaints here, I'm quite happy with it.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Easiest to use, most powerful editing tools.
Reasons for switching to HelpSite
Too difficult to use it. Formatting often broke.
Duncan
Verified reviewer
Internet, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2023
Easy, easy, easy
Smooth. It does what it says it will. The UI is well designed. It's not cluttered either on the Admin side or the user-side.
PROSIt was easy to add content right from the off. I like the simplicity of both the Admin interface and also the actual user-facing sites.
CONSNothing much. I just wish I had started using it 5 years ago when my brother first sent me the link!
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Helpsite was better value and just did exactly what I wanted.
Chris
Information Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Golden Needle in a Haystack
We are using Helpsite as an FAQ and progress portal. Client users find it easy to access information and we find it easy to update to add new information.
PROSHelpsite is so simple to get into and set up and of source, use. Contains all the features you want and none of the features you don't need.
CONSCannot think of any negatives. Helpsite in a one-off. You can get WordPress alternatives, but Helpsite is a no-brainer, better vale and better features option.
Vendor Response
Thanks, Chris, glad you've found HelpSite to be simple and a great value. Let us know if we can ever help with anything.
Replied July 2023
Pius
Internet, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2022
Helpsite
Helspite is so easy to use, from creating an article of help for your users to adding a custom domain. The content editor allows all media types from images to embedding videos. Most importantly what I liked most about Helspite is the fact that they offer a free plan that covers most of what a new founder needs Most similar services limit the number of articles and help material you can publish. Help you can publish a lot of articles in the free plan. I have not reached the cap, but I have 1 article already published for free.
CONSNo outright cons to be honest! But I would appreciate if we had a better UI in terms of outlook. Colorful and fully customizable to look very appealing. Right now helpsite is just straightforward and serves its primary purpose of creating help material for our users. Although really it would be nice to have a better looking interface for our customers too.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
It ad a free plan that was very comprehensive, covering much of what I needed.
Jayse
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2022
Exactly What I Needed
My experience has been good so far. Simple setup and personal communication from their team.
PROSI have a bootstrapped software startup and this is exactly what we were looking for. We needed a simple, but professional looking knowledgebase that we could build our support portal up while we went through beta with our customers, but still using our own custom URL. Our focus was on a product that would let us get a help site up and running easily without a financial commitment until we were ready.
CONSI really think they do what they do well. If I had a critique, it would just be they need a little CSS / UI refresh, as everything feels a tad outdated and cramped on the internal side. I think the customer side is actually pretty good. The internal user portal probably works great for those with smaller screens, but for those of us with large format monitors, getting a bit of spacing, margin, padding, etc in the UI would go a long way.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
For me, it was the simplicity. I'm pretty big on trust and allowing customers to grow into a product. It's what we do with our own customers. All of the other platforms required some financial commitment, or would not allow a custom domain on their trial plan. Because HelpSite allowed this, we are going to use them.
Vendor Response
Thanks Jayse! We would like to do some UI refreshing on the admin side. If there are any particularly cramped screens, please do email us screenshots.
Replied June 2022
Fair
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
User Friendly
I would highly recommend this to my colleagues and peers.
PROSIt is easier to setup the number of users to create a certain group subject that can be exclusively accessible to those given the link. The end-user view is also simple and can be easily read by any common person.
CONSLiterally, there's none. Any ordinary or common person can easily use it. Friendly-use as what they call it.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
The overall is just phenomenal.
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review! We definitely aim to make HelpSite the easiest-to-use knowledge base system and we're glad you find it simple. Get in touch if we can help any way!
Replied October 2020
Lisa
Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
User Friendly, Business Effective.
We use this as our Knowledgebase for internal and external purposes and with our content we have effectively reduced our support cases (roughly by 30% in first year in UK) Overall, very happy with its performance and [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] has been prompt and helpful via email when needed.
PROSIt is a very user friendly piece of software, uploading articles etc. It is really straight forward. As an administrator I can comfortably manage my teams and multiple sites so it works well for me. I am now looking to create sub headings within the main sections which I feel would give the client facing page a better structure.
CONSI wasn't initially aware that any other sites (other than the one with a login) can be publicly accessed so I have had to change this to not be 'searchable'. Also we are looking to implement the JWT code but this will require someone with solid technical / development knowhow to put in place (especially for the way we use it)
Reason for choosing HelpSite
n/a
Sandy Helen
Consumer Goods, 201-500 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
HelpSite como FAQ interno
A eficiência da busca por artigos foi o que mais me impressionou. De acordo com os testes que fizemos, ela se provou como uma das mais eficazes, e foi o fator decisivo para a escolha da ferramenta que queríamos.
CONSNas configurações de privacidade existe uma opção de bloquear o acesso ao site por senha, porém, depois que acessamos, a senha fica visível na URL, no link. Isso fez com que tivéssemos que liberar o acesso a cada operador por email, já que o possível vazamento do link com a senha incluída acabaria liberando informações sigilosas da empresa.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
A busca do outro produto não era tão eficaz e rápida quanto a do HelpSite
Vendor Response
Thanks for the review! Glad to hear you're especially happy with our search feature. We do have a variety of privacy/security options with different tradeoffs between convenience and security. The shared password/URL one is the weakest security (but most convenient) of them. Alternatives include individual password/invites per user (as you figured out) or our JWT/SSO option. Get in touch by email if we can help in any other way!
Replied January 2023
Erich
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2022
HelpSite helped us make our knowledgebase "out-of-site"
Overall, we evaluated many different Help Desk/Knowledgebase solutions and choose to keep our help desk separate (for cost reasons) and use this knowledgebase product to get the biggest band for our buck.
PROSCloud-based and very easy to use, for the price you're getting a great package with easy to use tools that allowed us to take the management of the system off out of our hands and focus on creating great content that will help our users.
CONSIntegrating videos can be a bit cumbersome when trying to resize appropriately, while a native plug-in for YouTube is included, the default size for videos and how they appear could be a little more robust.
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed October 2019
Fit for purpose
Great place for processes Useful for large teams
CONSWould love for my staff to be able to edit articles but for me to be able to sanity check what they are adding
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Value
Vendor Response
Thanks for your review! We do plan on adding more features around article approvals or changelogs. Please reach out at info@helpsite.com if you have any more feedback!
Replied November 2019
Julian
Telecommunications, 201-500 employees
Used monthly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed October 2020
All the basic features you need at an incredible price
Support has been 100%. It's simple to use, and a great price. If you have simple needs for storing documentation online, this is a great place to start.
PROSOur company has several brands, and each brand has their own support site with different help articles. HelpSite lets us administrate each brand in a central location, with customised design and content for each site. It is incredible easy to use, has all the basic features you would expect from a simple CMS, and is fully hosted so we don't have to worry about anything except the content.
CONSThe feature list has everything you need to get started, but if you want to take your management of online articles to the next level you are restricted. Would be great to see an asset library that can be used across each site you manage, rather than having to duplicate content. Can't upload files to a shared repository either.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
Price for supporting multiple instances
Reasons for switching to HelpSite
Price and ease of use
Aimee
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 201-500 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2018
HelpSite is our number 1 Tool
I would likely to recommend this to other businesses like us. Big or small, definitely HelpSite is a must especially on documenting policies and processes updates.
PROSWe've been building knowledge banks from time to time however, we it is expensive to hire an IT guy to do the coding for us to create a robust KB . Thanks to HelpSite for providing us a solution that is just fit with our needs.
CONSFor now, it is not giving us the kind of IP whitelisting yet.
Mieko
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2022
Easy to use, looks great.
Super easy to use, converted a long Google Doc into a nice looking helpsite in one day. Fantastic!
PROSBeing able to keyword each entry was super helpful since we search through all our articles on a daily basis to find answers for customers on the fly. Categorization and clear layout also makes it easy to use when looking for content on here.
CONSIt would be nice to be able to assign drafts of articles to users on our account.
Reason for choosing HelpSite
It was recommended by someone on our Social Media team.
Reasons for switching to HelpSite
The document was getting too long and cumbersome to search through each time for answers.
Danielle
Health, Wellness and Fitness, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2020
Just what we needed!
We needed a way for all of our staff to have access to our company policies and procedures in an easy to access (and easy to update!) format. We use HelpSite to organize these policies and make them accessible to all of our staff across multiple locations. HelpSite's awesome user interface allows us to quickly add a new policy or update existing policies, including graphics, tables, different fonts and colors...just like using a typical word processing editor.
PROSSuper easy to use, just like editing a document in any word processing program.
CONSNone! We have had a really positive experience.
Melissa
Events Services, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2020
Super easy to use!
I love how easy it is to get started on Helpsite. We use it as a documentation base for our product's content management system to provide guidance and support for users both internally at the company as well as clients and customers. It's so simple to write an article and get it published on the site immediately. Also, I really love how the article text box keeps all formatting it might seem small but this is such a great timesaver when copying documentation into Helpsite from other resources.
CONSIt'd be great if the UI was a little bit prettier or more modern. And maybe a little more flexibility in how we categorize articles and how they display on the public Helpsite. I'd love to be able to put an article under several categories!
Reason for choosing HelpSite
I was looking at at least 2 other documentation bases but I don't remember what they were. I ended up choosing Helpsite because it was the clearest and easiest, and simply did exactly what we needed.
Jatin
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2019
Outstanding product
We use helpsite to manage our help pages for all of our products. We've also recommended to other business who now use it. It's always been a great, simple resource.
PROSIt does what it says really well. We've never had an issue
CONSWe wish there were more options for the contact us
Reason for choosing HelpSite
The price is awesome! ? Great value.
Vendor Response
Thank you so much for your review! Glad to have you as a customer.
Replied November 2019
Victor
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed November 2020
Easy to setup, fair price
I choose helpsite because it was easy to setup and very cheap compare to others. I particularly liked the free custom domains.
CONSDesign can be improved to look more recent
Junior
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2023
Great software to create documented help articles.
Overall, my experience with HelpSite is second to none. I have loved being able to quickly get started into writing articles that will soon allow users of my software to understand everything they need to know. The simplistic design, though unchangeable without Gold, works very well with allowing users to find what they need.
PROSThe software is very quick and simple to get started into. Creating articles and organisation is very simple and allows for detailed articles from the get go. Allowing users to also have their own domain connected to the website for free to normally extremely rare in software's now a days, however make using this even more pleasurable.
CONSThe lack of customisation outside of the gold tier is mostly non existent. You are not able to change the colours, layouts or anything - you are stuck with the default layout. It would be nice, even at the Standard Plan, to have a few options for layouts or change the colour of certain things.