HelpSite
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Starting price:
$14.99 per month
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Most Helpful Reviews for HelpSite
1 - 5 of 62 Reviews
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.