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Help Scout is a customer support platform that unifies email, chat, social, and voice conversations in a shared inbox.
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- Help Scout is a customer support platform that unifies email, chat, social, and voice conversations in a shared inbox.
More detail
- It adds AI-powered replies, drafting, and conversation analytics, and is sold as a seat-based subscription with optional per-resolution AI pricing.
- Best for
- Small to mid-market customer support and CX teams that want a shared inbox with AI assistance and are willing to pay per seat plus per AI resolution.
- Pricing
- Seat-based subscription: Free $0 (5 users, 1 Inbox, 1 Docs site)
More detail
- Standard $25/user/mo
- Plus $45/user/mo
- Pro $75/user/mo with SSO/SAML, HIPAA, up to 50 light users, and onboarding.
- AI Answers (Envoy) is billed separately at $0.75 per resolution with a 3-month free trial and optional monthly spendin
- Main limitation
- Very small teams that need more than five users on a free plan, or high-volume AI-only deflection on a tight budget, since AI resolutions cost extra per resolution.
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About
- Help Scout is a customer support platform that unifies email, chat, social, and voice conversations in a shared inbox.
- It adds AI-powered replies, drafting, and conversation analytics, and is sold as a seat-based subscription with optional per-resolution AI pricing.
What it helps with
- Support conversations scattered across email, chat, social, and voice, with unclear ownership
- Manual reply load and repetitive questions consuming agent time
- Reactive support that misses emerging issues until they escalate
- Teams outgrowing Gmail or Outlook shared mailboxes
- Context lost during handoffs and escalations
- Limited visibility into conversation trends and customer friction
Capabilities
A practical view of what is available and where limitations apply.
| Offering | Available | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Shared Inbox | Yes | Merges email, SMS, chat, social, and voice into one inbox with automatic assignments and workflows. |
| AI Agent (Scout via Envoy) | Yes | AI Answers with human escalation; Help Scout reports an average 73% resolution rate on its own site. |
| Copilot AI Assistant | Yes | Generates drafts, triage suggestions, and knowledge lookup for agents; AI Inbox assistant is a Standard plan feature. |
| Signal Insights | Yes | Proactive monitoring of conversation patterns to surface emerging issues. |
| Live Chat and Beacon | Yes | Live chat widget and in-app messages, plus a customer portal, per product docs. |
| Knowledge Base (Docs) | Yes | Docs site for help content; Free plan includes one Docs site. |
| Integrations | Yes | 100+ apps; Salesforce, Jira, and HubSpot on the Plus plan. |
| Developer API and Webhooks | Yes | Inbox, Chat, and Docs APIs plus webhooks, per developer.helpscout.com. |
| HIPAA and SOC 2 Type II Compliance | Yes | Stated on the homepage; HIPAA is listed at the Pro tier. |
| Independent Review Data | Unknown | No independent review themes were captured in the evidence pack. |
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