Built on the Salesforce Platform, the Helpshift integration is now available on the Salesforce AppExchange
Helpshift has announced an integration with new capabilities available on the Salesforce AppExchange. This integration is meant to improve the mobile user experience by enabling service agents to deliver support to app users directly from within their Salesforce Service Cloud Dashboard – In-app!
When a customer contacts support from inside the Helpshift-enabled app, a Salesforce case is created that the agent responds to, creating an in-app conversation. Customers get notified via banners, notifications, and badges, enabling them to continue at their pace.
“As mobile becomes the primary medium customers use to connect with brands, the ability to provide customer support through all touch points is vital to creating deeper engagement and brand loyalty,” said Abinash Tripathy, Founder and CEO at Helpshift.
“Organizations are seeing an explosion in demand for mobile solutions from their customers,” said Esteban Kolsky, President of thinkJar, customer strategies advisory firm, “and they quickly realize they can’t offer outdated and incomplete solutions without real-time data. Direct integration with systems of record is at the core of their strategies to support this trend.”
Helpshift has raised more than $38.2 Million and is backed by Cisco Investments, Intel Capital, Microsoft Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, True Ventures, and Visionnaire Ventures.
Enterprises can benefit from Helpshift’s new integration capabilities in the following ways —
In-app Messaging
Helpshift’s new integration capabilities allow existing Salesforce customers to provide support to mobile customers, which extends their ability to reach mobile customers where it matters: Directly in the app and supported by the smartphones’ powerful notification mechanisms.
Enhanced Knowledge Capabilities
Agent Management
Support for mobile customers can be delivered from inside the Salesforce Dashboard. Cases are directly created in the Salesforce Service Cloud when a Helpshift customer initiates a conversation. There is no need to switch to Helpshift. No tab change, no context switch, no training is required; the process remains unchanged for the agents, ensuring zero disruption and high efficiency.
Data Management
Customer data and metadata from Helpshift is available to Salesforce agents as part of the case in the Salesforce Service Cloud.
By adding new integration capabilities within Salesforce AppExchange, the enterprise no longer has to worry about uprooting their entire customer support structure and meeting customers on mobile devices.
“Helpshift customers can provide a support experience for mobile customers and support agents can meet their needs quickly while continuing to do what they were doing within the Salesforce Platform. Everyone wins.” — Abinash Tripathy, Founder & CEO, Helpshift
“Everyone and everything is getting smarter and more connected than ever before, and companies are looking to transform the way they connect with customers, partners, and employees,” said Kori O’Brien, SVP, ISV Sales, Salesforce. Kori adds, “By leveraging the power of the Salesforce Platform, Helpshift provides customers with an exciting new way to receive support experience across mobile touch points.”
Currently, Salesforce AppExchange is the world’s leading enterprise apps marketplace. The marketplace empowers companies to sell, service, market and engage in entirely new ways. With 3,500 partner apps and more than 4 million customer installs, it is the most comprehensive source of cloud, mobile, social, IoT, analytics and artificial intelligence technologies for businesses.