Manage all your customer conversations in one easy-to-use platform.

Help Scout makes it easy for teams to work together in email inboxes like support@ and info@, offer live chat, build help centers, and more. Take a five-minute tour, or keep reading to learn more.

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The features you need

Every feature in Help Scout is built to help you stay productive while building stronger customer relationships. We give you all power without the complexity.

Intuitive email support

The shared inbox that helps your team do more with less, while giving customers a human, helpful experience.

Collaborate with ease

Private notes, collision detection, assignments, and more help your team work better together.

Automate complexity

Create manual or automatic workflows to take care of repetitive tasks with simple if/then logic.

Organize your inbox

Sort your incoming email by priority, create inboxes for different teams, and assign conversations automatically.

Personalize conversations

Track and display customer information to provide better support faster no matter the channel.

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Help customers in real-time

Provide 1:1, live assistance to your customers on your website or in your app.

Start in minutes

Install Beacon on your website or in your app and start chatting with customers right away.

Work together live

Collaborate with the same notes, assignments, and permissions you use to manage email with your team.

Chat on your terms

Chat when your team is available, and seamlessly direct customers to other options when they're not.

Know who you’re talking to

Use tags and customer profiles to provide faster, more personalized help to each customer.

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Proactively engage with Messages

Promote new products, invite customers to reach out, or make announcements with proactive Messages sent through Beacon.

Target your audience

Use customer properties and events to reach the right customers at the right time with your message.

Build rich messages

Make your messages pop with links, CTAs, images, and more to engage viewers and drive action.

Find what resonates

Track views and clicks on messages over time to learn what your customers care about.

Manage everything

The Messages dashboard gives you a complete view of all Messages, monthly usage, and reporting.

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Provide customers instant answers

With a self-service knowledge base, you'll have happier customers and fewer conversations — everyone wins.

Easy to build

Create your Docs site and publish your first article in minutes to start answering frequently asked questions.

Understand customer needs

Report on what your customers are searching for and which articles get the most attention.

Beautifully branded

Ensure your knowledge base matches your brand with your own with custom company branding.

Organized and searchable

Use categories and collections to organize your articles and make search easy.

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Out-of-the-box reporting

Use Reports to track and optimize team efficiency, channel effectiveness, and customer happiness.

Report on what matters

Track volume, response time, resolutions, user-specific stats, and all your most important KPIs.

Track custom data points

Using tags and custom fields to measure what you care about most, and follow your unique data points.

Create custom views

Filter your data to dig deeper on the trends you’re interested in, and save reports to revisit over time.

Take it with you

Export your Help Scout reporting data to CSV or XLSX on demand for additional analysis.

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Connect your tech stack

Integrate Help Scout with 90+ tools to keep your business in sync, or create your own experience with developer tools.

90+ integrations

Connect an app store of your most crucial business tools including Salesforce, Jira, Zapier, and more.

Mobile SDKs

Customize the customer experience on iOS and Android using our Mobile SDKs for Beacon.

Open API

Take advantage of our open API to make Help Scout work for your specific business needs.

A true platform

All Help Scout products work together out of the box for a powerful, connected support experience.

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Over 80% of midsize businesses that start with Help Scout stick around for 4 or more years

Why? Because our platform helps you have better conversations with customers, whether you have 100 or 1,000,000.

Get started in an hour

Get started in an hour

Help Scout’s intuitive design frees up more time to delight customers. Set up new channels in minutes, and make any team member a power user in a day.

Serve more customers

Serve more customers

Add all the collaboration tools, automations, and integrations you need to help your team move fast, and use out-of-the-box or custom reports to optimize.

Reduce email volume by 30%

Reduce email volume by 30%

Help customers help themselves with the Beacon help widget and your knowledge base, giving them answers faster and lowering volume for your team.

All-in-one meets affordable

Meet customers where they are looking for help across channels, with all the collaboration, organization, and automation tools your team needs to create the best customer experience.

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A complete suite

Inbox, chat, and knowledge base all come standard
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Transparent pricing

No surprises or hidden fees
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No contract required

Add or remove users whenever you need to

What you can do with Help Scout

Whether customers come in through email, live chat, or your help center, your team will be ready with advanced features for collaboration, organization, and automation.

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Customer stories and use cases

Companies that use Help Scout create happier teams and customers. Learn how with success stories and thought leadership from our award winning blog.

How OnePageCRM Reduced Their Team’s Workload by 50%
How OnePageCRM Reduced Their Team’s Workload by 50%
How Brain.fm Achieved a 95% CSAT Score With Help Scout
How Brain.fm Achieved a 95% CSAT Score With Help Scout
How Beacon Helps You Deliver Great Customer Service
How Beacon Helps You Deliver Great Customer Service
The HIPAA-Compliant Help Desk Software You Can Trust
The HIPAA-Compliant Help Desk Software You Can Trust

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