Who Uses Hiver?
Anyone using Gmail/Google Apps for customer service
What Is Hiver?
Hiver is the worlds first helpdesk built for Google Workspace. We help teams deliver fast and empathetic customer service, right from the tool they are already familiar with - Gmail. This means they can assign, track, and collaborate on customer emails, as well as run the most advanced analytics and automations from the Gmail interface, without sacrificing any time on learning new software.
Hiver is used by 1500 companies including Flexport, Pluralsight, Harvard University, and Appsflyer.
Hiver Details
Hiver
http://hiverhq.com
Founded 2011
Hiver pricing overview
See pricing plansHiver does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. Hiver paid version starts at US$27.00/month.
Starting Price
US$27.00/month See pricing details
Pricing Details
Growth Plan: $22/user/month when billed annually. $27/user/month when billed monthly. Pro Plan: $37/user/month when billed annually. $47/user/month when billed monthly. Elite Plan: $57/user/month when billed annually. $69/user/month when billed monthly.
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Hiver deployment and support
Support
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base
- Phone Support
- 24/7 (Live rep)
- Chat
Deployment
- Cloud, SaaS, Web-based
- Android (Mobile)
- iPhone (Mobile)
Training
- Live Online
- Webinars
- Documentation
- Videos
Hiver Features
Collaboration Software
- @mentions
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Assignment Management
- Brainstorming
- Calendar Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting / Notes
- Communication Management
- Contact Management
- Content Management
- Customisable Branding
- Discussions / Forums
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- Email Management
- File Management
- File Sharing
- File Transfer
- Live Chat
- Mobile Access
- Prioritisation
- Progress Tracking
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Projections
- Real Time Editing
- Real Time Notifications
- Real-time Updates
- Reporting & Statistics
- SSL Security
- Screen Sharing
- Secure Data Storage
- Single Sign On
- Status Tracking
- Tagging
- Task Management
- Task Planning
- Task Progress Tracking
- Task Scheduling
- Third Party Integrations
- To-Do List
- Version Control
- Video Conferencing
- Workflow Management
Customer Service Software
- API
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts / Escalation
- Appointment Management
- Auto-Responders
- Calendar Management
- Call Centre Management
- Call Routing
- Communication Management
- Contact Database
- Contact Management
- Customer Database
- Customer History
- Customer Segmentation
- Customer Service Analytics
- Customisable Forms
- Customisable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Drag & Drop
- Email Management
- Employee Management
- Engagement Analytics
- Event Triggered Actions
- Inbox Management
- Knowledge Base Management
- Live Chat
- Multi-Channel Communication
- Multiple User Accounts
- Performance Management
- Performance Metrics
- Queue Management
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Monitoring
- Real Time Notifications
- Real Time Reporting
- Real-time Updates
- Reporting & Statistics
- Rules-Based Workflow
- SMS Messaging
- Self Service Portal
- Single Sign On
- Social Media Integration
- Support Ticket Management
- Support Ticket Tracking
- Surveys & Feedback
- Template Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Virtual Assistant
- Voice Mail
- Workflow Management
Email Management Software
- A/B Testing
- API
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Archiving & Retention
- Auto-Responders
- CRM
- Campaign Analytics
- Campaign Management
- Campaign Segmentation
- Canned Responses
- Chat/Messaging
- Click Tracking
- Contact Database
- Contact Management
- Customer Segmentation
- Customisable Branding
- Customisable Forms
- Customisable Templates
- Customizable Fields
- Data Recovery
- Drag & Drop
- Drip Campaigns
- Email Distribution
- Email Management
- Email Marketing
- Email Monitoring
- Email Templates
- Email Tracking
- Inbox Management
- Monitoring
- Queue Management
- Real Time Analytics
- Real Time Monitoring
- Real Time Reporting
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Response Management
- Routing
- Search/Filter
- Shared Inboxes
- Signature Management
- Social Media Integration
- Spam Blocker
- Subscription Management
- Template Management
- Third Party Integrations
- Whitelisting/Blacklisting
- Workflow Management
Help Desk Software
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts / Escalation
- Alerts/Notifications
- Automated Routing
- CRM
- Call Centre Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Client Portal
- Customer Database
- Customer History
- Customisable Branding
- Customisable Forms
- Customisable Reports
- Customisable Templates
- Customizable Fields
- Data Import/Export
- Document Storage
- Email Management
- Email Templates
- Feedback Management
- Help Desk Management
- IT Asset Management
- Interaction Tracking
- Interaction Tracking
- Knowledge Base Management
- Live Chat
- Macros/Templated Responses
- Monitoring
- Multi-Channel Communication
- Network Monitoring
- Performance Metrics
- Prioritisation
- Real Time Notifications
- Real-Time Chat
- Remote Access/Control
- Reporting & Statistics
- Reporting/Analytics
- Self Service Portal
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
- Social Media Integration
- Support Ticket Management
- Support Ticket Tracking
- Surveys & Feedback
- Third Party Integrations
- Ticket Management
- Workflow Configuration
- Workflow Management
Remote Work Software
- @mentions
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Assignment Management
- Calendar Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Collaboration Tools
- Commenting / Notes
- Communication Management
- Customisable Branding
- Customisable Templates
- Data Import/Export
- Document Management
- Document Storage
- Drag & Drop
- Electronic Signature
- Email Management
- Employee Activity Monitoring
- File Management
- File Transfer
- Live Chat
- Meeting Management
- Monitoring
- Prioritisation
- Progress Tracking
- Project Time Tracking
- Projections
- Real Time Data
- Real Time Monitoring
- Real Time Notifications
- Real-time Updates
- Remote Access/Control
- Remote Support Software
- Reporting & Statistics
- SSL Security
- Single Sign On
- Softphone Software
- Tagging
- Task Management
- Task Progress Tracking
- Task Scheduling
- Third Party Integrations
- Time Zone Tracking
- Two-Way Audio & Video
- Video Chat
- Video Conferencing
- Workflow Management
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Hiver Reviews
Read all reviewsOverall rating
Average score
Brian del terzo C.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 25/6/2020
"We are so pleased to have found Hiver!"
Comments: It is easy to administrate, very user friendly, and the support is phenomenal. I don't think I've ever waited more than a few seconds for a response from a member of their friendly and extremely competent support team.
Pros: The collaboration between Hiver and G-Suite to create a cohesive team environment has allowed us to better collaborate together to improve the customer experience. We can assign emails internally, share inboxes and disposition emails as open, pending, or closed - chat about 'tickets' in the Hiver side bar, and step in to assist on existing email chains without having to forward emails to different departments or members across the team.
Cons: I'd love to be able to create a 'ticket' within Hiver on behalf of a customer. Currently tickets can only be created based on an email interaction between a customer and our company.
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- Reviewed on 25/6/2020
Nick J.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 29/6/2020
"Hiver is the absolutely best Shared Inbox service and helped us optimizing our workflows by 50%."
Comments: We tried several providers of Shared Inboxes and we ended up staying with Hiver for the solely reason that they choose to focus on the core aspects of mail management and not various other features, that businesses at our size usually use other Sales or Project services for. We have used Hiver for more than a year now and it has so far saved us from hundreds of hours by providing us with a great overview and management of all incoming mails/task to be taken care of. The service is not the cheapest on the market, but it's absolutely worth every penny. Hiver has given us the opportunity to work more effective, close deals faster, collaborate better resulting in overall higher turnover since we started using the tool. It integrates smoothly with G Suite and we would highly recommend this tool for any business.
Pros: The mail management part is alfa omega. Its the core of this service, that makes it stand out from competitors. This tool allows you to manage hundreds of mails weekly without losing the overview. It integrates smoothly with G Suite, so are you already comfortable with Gmail, then you cannot miss Hiver!
Cons: Setting rules for the automations could be optimized to handle more criteria and it would be great to be allowed to bulk add email adresses instead of manually adding one by one. It works though and its great.
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- Reviewed on 29/6/2020
Andrea G.
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Overall Rating1 /5
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Ease of Use3 /5
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Features & Functionality3 /5
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Customer Support1 /5
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Value for Money1 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 4/3/2018
"Awful experience!!! After integrating this tool, my clients stopped receiving my emails."
Comments: None. Hiver completely derailed our operations at a period of peak media coverage.
Pros: Hiver features initially seemed great. I was eager to make use of their promised benefits. Unfortunately, Hiver completely halted our operations for over a week and lost us a great deal of business. Throughout it all, their team was unapologetic and dismissive of the role that Hiver had in derailing our email communications with clients. Rather than seeing this as an opportunity to resolve and repair clear technical defects, they blatanly blew off our repeated requests for support.
Cons: I tested out many collaborative email tools before deciding to go with Hiver. I was impressed by the intuitive design, canned response functionality and mobile app. Unfortunately, several days after installing the tool, we began to suspect that our clients were not receiving our emails consistently. I reached out to Hiver several times over the course of a few days and received no response. This lapse in email functionality coincided with some significant and favorable press coverage - our site traffic was nearly double what it normally was - and yet we went for 10 entire days without a single new client at a time when we would normally have 10-15 new clients typically. I tried for an entire week to engage help from the Hiver team. They insisted - and continue to insist- that their tool does not impact email sending functionality. I would beg to differ. As soon as I uninstalled Hiver, my communications with clients returned to normal. On a final note, to top this off, my team and I are 3 women. When we called Hiver's India-based support team, they were loudy making obvious, derogotary remarks about our being female and unable to understand their tool - calling us 'Dumb Blondes'. Highly inept and unprofessional team. Also worst nightmare for a growing startup!
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 4/3/2018
Verified Reviewer
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Overall Rating4 /5
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Ease of Use4 /5
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Features & Functionality5 /5
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Customer Support4 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 11/12/2020
"Extremely useful, a little finicky"
Comments: The usefulness just can't be beat, despite some challenges, it remains worthewhile
Pros: Hiver has a tremendous amount of useful functionality, specifically for a collective inbox setup. It integrates easily and intuitively with gmail and is easy to operate from the admin pannel
Cons: Customer support is responsive and friendly, but I've found challenges successfully communicating issues and solutions with them. Some of the automated trigger functions, which highly useful, can be a little too finicky to be fully reliable
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 11/12/2020
Bryn S.
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Overall Rating5 /5
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Ease of Use5 /5
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Features & Functionality4 /5
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Customer Support5 /5
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Value for Money5 /5
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Likelihood to Recommend
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 10/9/2019
"Hiver has been a game changer our account management team!"
Pros: Hiver has made it so much easier for our client-facing teams to collaborate with each other and better serve all of our clients' needs. Everybody can see all the emails coming in, leave internal notes for each other, mark emails as pending/closed, use templates...the list goes on. It's been a huge game changer!
Cons: I wish we could use Hiver for even more. Everything about it is great, including amazing customer service, and so now I want to get rid of our other software/integration app providers and just use Hiver exclusively.
- Reviewer Source
- Reviewed on 10/9/2019
