Salesforce Service Cloud

About Salesforce Service Cloud

7 Key Ways Service Cloud Empowers Companies to Deliver Frictionless Service:

CONSOLE
With Service Cloud, you can manage all of your cases faster, in a unified agent experience. And the Salesforce1 Platform makes the console really sing — on your desktop and mobile devices.

COMMUNITIES
Service Cloud Communities allow customers to help themselves and each other. Wherever they are and whatever device they are on, communities give them the tools for self-service troubleshooting.

MULTI-CHANNEL
Multi-channel customer service is a whole new ballgame. With connected objects and predictive intelligence, Service Cloud gives you the power to provide the customer service of the future. Now.

KNOWLEDGE
Quickly search your knowledge base for relevant answers. Or make it easy for customers to do it themselves. Either way, your customers get the answers they need, exactly the way they want to get them.

SOCIAL SERVICE
Deliver service to your customers on the social media channels where they live, on whatever device they are using. Give your agents the tools for collaboration that allow them to deliver outstanding customer service.

AGENT COLLABORATION
With Chatter, agents can quickly escalate cases to experts to close cases faster. And with the Salesforce1 Platform, your Chatter feed is integrated into the Service Cloud console for a truly unified experience, whether at your desktop or on a mobile device.

MOBILE
Manage Service Cloud cases from anywhere with the Salesforce1 Platform — the fastest, smartest platform for customer service.

Pricing starting from:

Not provided by vendor

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Key benefits of Salesforce Service Cloud

-Increased Customer Satisfaction

-Increased Agent Productivity

-Decreased Support Costs

-Integration to Platform Ecosystem

-Companies can now deliver a full range of self-service options so that customers can
help themselves, which leads to increased Customer Satisfaction and decreased Support Costs.

-By empowering Agents with all of the information they need to resolve customer in a single interface drives increased Agent Productivity.

-The Salesforce platform allows companies customize business processes and leverage the pre-built integrations with the ecosystem of ISV and partner applications.

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada and 28 others

Supported Languages

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German and 8 others

Pricing starting from:

Not provided by vendor

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Features

Total features of Salesforce Service Cloud: 203

  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Alerts/Escalation
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Appointment Management
  • Approval Process Control
  • Asset Lifecycle Management
  • Asset Tracking
  • Assignment Management
  • Audit Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Auto-Responders
  • Automated Routing
  • Automatic Call Distribution
  • Availability Management
  • Bid Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Blended Call Center
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Call Center Management
  • Call List Management
  • Call Logging
  • Call Monitoring
  • Call Recording
  • Call Reporting
  • Call Routing
  • Call Scripting
  • Call Tracking
  • Call Transfer
  • Callback Scheduling
  • Caller ID
  • Campaign Management
  • Canned Responses
  • Capacity Management
  • Case Management
  • Cataloging/Categorization
  • Change Management
  • Chat/Messaging
  • Client Portal
  • Code Enforcement
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Computer Telephony Integration
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Configuration Management
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Content Library
  • Content Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
  • Customer Complaint Tracking
  • Customer Database
  • Customer Experience Management
  • Customer History
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Dashboard
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Visualization
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Dispatch Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Signature
  • Email Alerts
  • Email Management
  • Email Templates
  • Email Tracking
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Equipment Maintenance
  • Event Logs
  • Event Triggered Actions
  • Feedback Management
  • File Management
  • File Sharing
  • File Storage
  • Fixed Asset Management
  • For Call Centers
  • For Insurance Industry
  • For Small Businesses
  • For iPad Devices
  • Forms Management
  • Full Text Search
  • GPS
  • Geotargeting
  • Help Desk Management
  • Historical Reporting
  • IT Asset Management
  • IT Incident Management
  • IVR/Voice Recognition
  • Inbound Call Center
  • Incident Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Inspection Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Inventory Control
  • Inventory Management
  • Investigation Management
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Job Costing
  • Job Management
  • Job Scheduling
  • Job Tracking
  • Knowledge Base Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Labor Forecasting
  • Lead Distribution
  • Lead Management
  • Live Chat
  • Location Tracking
  • Macros/Templated Responses
  • Maintenance Scheduling
  • Manual Dialer
  • Mobile Access
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Communication
  • Multi-Channel Management
  • Multi-Language
  • Multi-Location
  • Multiple User Accounts
  • Offline Form
  • Online Forums
  • Online Time Clock
  • Outbound Call Center
  • Payment Collection in the Field
  • Performance Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Permit Issuance
  • Predictive Dialer
  • Prioritization
  • Proactive Chat
  • Problem Management
  • Progressive Dialer
  • Project Management
  • Projections
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Quality Assurance
  • Queue Management
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Real Time Analytics
  • Real Time Monitoring
  • Real Time Notifications
  • Real Time Reporting
  • Real Time Updates
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-time Consumer-facing Chat
  • Records Management
  • Release Management
  • Reminders
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Risk Alerts
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Assessment
  • Routing
  • SMS Messaging
  • Safety Incident Management
  • Sales Pipeline Management
  • Scheduling
  • Screen Sharing
  • Self Service Portal
  • Service Catalog
  • Service History
  • Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
  • Service Request Management
  • Single Sign On
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Media Monitoring
  • Status Tracking
  • Support Ticket Management
  • Support Ticket Tracking
  • Survey/Poll Management
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Tagging
  • Task Management
  • Taxation & Assessment
  • Technician Management
  • Third Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Training Management
  • Transcripts/Chat History
  • Transfers/Routing
  • Utility Billing
  • Virtual Assistant
  • Website Integration
  • Widgets
  • Work Order Management
  • Workflow Configuration
  • Workflow Management

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Reviews

Overall rating

4.4 /5
(744)
Value for Money
4.1/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
4.2/5

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Romy
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  • Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

SalesForce is the best web-based platform to do Sales, BD and Recruiting!

Reviewed on 18/08/2018

SalesForce is a great tool that will help small to big companies in driving revenue, and helping...

SalesForce is a great tool that will help small to big companies in driving revenue, and helping each company drive results and performance to each client in their business development, recruiting and lead generation efforts in just a short span of time.

Pros

We've been using SalesForce for roughly 3 years now, and it helped us drive great ROIs due to its easy usage in terms of data entry, categorizing each client or candidate, and also the functionality it provides such as mass emails that we can add HTML codes to make it look personalized or targeted, and also the option that let us see if a client or candidate already opened the email we sent.

Our Academy, BD, and Recruiting department drove great revenue because of this, and SalesForce did a great job in helping us drive sales, and place candidates to our clients in a short span of time.

Cons

What I least like about SalesForce is its downtimes. The only drawback I experience from SalesForce is the time to time down time it causes, but that was just minimal and not often so no harm really made.

Krishna
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

It's fantastic that it's adaptable and customizable

Reviewed on 18/05/2022

Use this in my store to run my firm, and it provides a lot of amazing options and friendly customer...

Use this in my store to run my firm, and it provides a lot of amazing options and friendly customer support as well as an excellent program. Although the pricing structure can be a bit of a challenge to stomach at times, the customization and integration options are practically limitless, so that alleviates my concerns.

Pros

The most appealing aspect of Salesforce Service Cloud to me is how simple it is to use. You don't need any support managing Your Salesforce environment after only a few minutes of training and a few tips. If You don't have the time or inclination to learn how to write difficult code, this tool will allow You to accomplish Your aim in a few of mouse clicks.

Cons

Sales and Service cloud might be expensive, but buying them both at once can save you some money. Unless a former colleague serves as a mentor, it is difficult to learn the ropes.

Justine
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  • Industry: Financial Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Good at first

Reviewed on 10/11/2021

We chose to move to a competitor after being a client for 7 years. Our reasons were based on poor...

We chose to move to a competitor after being a client for 7 years. Our reasons were based on poor communication and delivery in our region South Africa). The emphasis being on a really poor communication and implementation service experience over the period.

Pros

At first it represented a really good customisable solution.

Cons

Since its launch many more competitors have arrived. These competitors are offerring tailored solutions and proactive communication at far better prices. My feeling is Salesforce has fallen behind as a service and its pricing is no longer competitive. This is particularily noticable when you need to communicate with salesforce post implementation and you simply have a web interface rather than direct communication.

Jeyson
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great

Reviewed on 09/08/2023

Pros

The easy access and navigation , being able to use different tabs to navigate different accounts or info need it .

Cons

Some of the tabs or functions need a bit of more work .

Ami
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Salesforce can work for you as a tech support executive

Reviewed on 15/12/2021

Really enjoy working with the service. It's easy to manage and integrations are great

Really enjoy working with the service. It's easy to manage and integrations are great

Pros

Integrates well into existing Salesforce CRM
Very customizable
Great reporting tools
good email-to-case and web-to-case capabilities

Cons

requires a salesforce administrator since nothing comes out of the box

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Service Management and ServiceNow

Reasons for Choosing Salesforce Service Cloud

searched for a better solution that also integrates well with existing info in Salesforce

Switched From

Zendesk Suite

Reasons for Switching to Salesforce Service Cloud

already have info in Salesforce so it's a crucial aspect
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Salesforce Service Cloud FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Salesforce Service Cloud.

Salesforce Service Cloud offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from:
  • Pricing model: Subscription
  • Free Trial: Available

Lightning Essentials: $25 / user / month Lightning Professional: $75 / user/ month Lightning Enterprise: $150 / user/ month Lightning Performance: $300 / user/ month All plans are billed annually.

Salesforce Service Cloud has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Salesforce Service Cloud supports the following languages:

Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese

Salesforce Service Cloud supports the following devices:

Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

Salesforce Service Cloud integrates with the following applications:

CRM Analytics, ChannelInsight, Desk.com, Elastic Enterprise Search, Five9, Gainsight CS, Helpshift, InGenius, LiveOps, Moxie Concierge Email Management, NICE CXone, Natterbox, Quip, Salesforce Essentials, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Salesforce Platform, Salesforce Sales Cloud, SalesforceIQ, Talkdesk, Transera, Vonage Contact Center, Workforce Optimization (WFO)

Salesforce Service Cloud offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat

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