Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce
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Start relevant conversations with your customers, using WooCommerce and Help Scout.
Using Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce, connect your WooCommerce-powered online store to a Help Scout mailbox, helping your customers to request assistance with orders and to receive their answers as quickly as possible.
By using Help Scout with your WooCommerce store, you can expect to see the following:
- A significant increase in customer satisfaction – 73% of eCommerce customers prefer a chat option over traditional methods such as email, phones and social media.
- Increased revenue – As customers gain more trust in your store due to its awesome support, they are significantly more likely to place an order.
- Improved organisation of support queries and tickets – Thanks to Help Scout’s great performance and well-designed UI, managing customer queries is now easier than ever for store owners.
In addition to this plugin, you must subscribe to a Helpscout monthly plan. Please visit Helpscout.net.
Add a help scout form to any part of your WooCommerce website:
Adding Help Scout to your website is now easier than ever, thanks to the plugin’s shortcode support. Add a Help Scout form to any part of your website using the shortcode [wc_help_scout_form]. These forms are easily customizable using CSS and other tools.
Quickly start a new conversation related to an order:
When viewing an order within WooCommerce, you may need to quickly contact the customer. Help Scout for WooCommerce adds an intuitive form to each order description within WooCommerce. This form allows you to contact the customer directly through Help Scout.
Customers can view conversations from “My Account” page.
Let your customers keep track of their support tickets in one easy place. Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce adds a new field to the My Account page which lets customers view and reply to conversations.
Start a conversation from a blog comment.
Sometimes, a customer may have an issue or query and may not know how to contact your helpdesk. This may result in the customer commenting about their issue on a related (or unrelated) blog post. With Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce, you can easily reply to these comments and turn them into a ticket within Help Scout.
Manage all of your customer queries via Help Scout
After setting up Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce, you can view all of your tickets, queries and customer feedback in one place. Help Scout’s great UI and effective tools allow you to easily manage, reply to and update conversations. The end result is a smooth customer service experience for the customer and the store owner.
Note: As of August 2020, you can configure only one mailbox ID for Help Scout, and once set, you should not change it to another. Else, it will give an error as the other account won’t recognize the customers associated with the first account. We are currently working on this and will update you soon about it.
A full Help Scout solution
Help Scout has a singular purpose of helping you to manage relevant conversations with your customers. Help Scout Integration for WooCommerce integrates seamlessly with this ethos of Help Scout’s, helping you and your customers to easily start relevant conversations with one another and to ensure your customers are as happy as possible with each order they place through your online store.
Customer reviews
- dustinlangeJan 3, 2025FunctionalityIt's very helpful to easily access our customers' WooCommerce orders directly inside Help Scout. The integration works great now.
- achtungioJul 12, 2024FunctionalityIt's been ok when it's worked, but the developers seem slow to respond to changes within the WooCommerce space. As a recent example, Woo finally retired the legacy API in Oct 2023, although it had been dead for years prior to this. However, this plugin in July 2024 still relies on the legacy API to pull the WooCommerce order data into Help Scout. Sure the basic plugin functionality works, but it's not 100% functional unless you enable compatibility mode in HPOS. That's ok short term, but we've been waiting for an update on this, and it's now 4 months since the last one, and we're now at the point where we're just going to throw in the towel on Help Scout and move to another help desk. It's...Read more
- opmcsupportAug 19, 2024Hi, We released full support for HPOS in April 2023. We Legacy API support support was also removed March 2024. These were both before the removal of the Legacy API by WooCommerce in June 2024. Please feel free to email us on support@opmc.co if you have any concerns about this. Thanks for the comment.
- iankernSep 15, 2023Basic functionality is left broken for monthsThe support seems like they might be helpful, but features that are basic to the plugin are left broken for months without a fix. The button for starting a conversation from an order does not work and confuses customers.
- adeelweb105Sep 18, 2023Hi - Thanks for the review. We have thoroughly checked this and repeated the Quality Assurance, and found no issue. Are you able to provide more information about this? We would love to help out and investigate any issue reported.
- redsocialadminMar 10, 2023A great plugin with great support!The Woocommerce Help Scout plugin is a great tool for website owners who want to streamline their customer support process by integrating their HelpScout account with Woocommerce. The plugin allows you to manage all your customer support emails and tickets in one place, making it easier to stay on top of customer inquiries and respond promptly. One of the standout features of this plugin is the exceptional support provided by the team behind it. In particular, the support staff member Tim Lopez was incredibly helpful and patient when we encountered issues while integrating the plugin with our website. He responded promptly to our inquiries and took the time to walk us through the process step-by-step,...Read more
- wkevingMar 7, 2023Doesn't work as advertised and support is not greatThe promise of WooCommerce Help Scout is enticing but the actual fulfillment of that promise has yet to be made. There are some aspects that are working well, but for the most part, some of the key components have never worked as expected or at all and I'm on a second round of support requests with no answers after a week. The first request from some months back kind of fell out of my plate and maybe the developer's support team lost interest as well, but the primary issue still remains. No data from WooCommerce, such as order number and link and amount are syncing into Help Scout. So when our support agents are in there, they have no insight back into the WooCommerce side without just logging...Read more
- g.lagonikasAug 5, 2022Terrible plugin, littered with bugs, incompetent developersWe've been using this plugin for years on two large websites. The code is terrible and almost every release has bugs that we have to identify, fix, and then share the solution with the plugin developers. Bugs range from small notices/warnings littering our debug.log, all the way to ones that cause subscription renewals to fail or ones that display Json code on the front-end and break the page template. All those bugs are caused solely by the plugin and can be reproduced on a vanilla installation, so they are not in any way related to our other plugins or theme. Its features are ok, but we still had to extend it so we can get the helpscout tickets showing on the user profile on admin.
- Chris BryantSep 10, 2022Hi and thanks for your review. You have mentioned the plugin is terrible, littered with bugs and incompetent developers. Yet you have used it on two large websites for years, so the rating seems unjustified. We have recently addressed your specific concerns and made adjustments accordingly. You are welcome to continue submitting feedback and we are always glad to take on board ideas and suggestions. I suggest you reevaluate your rating.
- AnonymousFeb 9, 2022Integrates very well with helpscout v3.1This makes managing customer orders even easier when communicating with our customer service team and the customers directly. Support is also very good. An essential part of our business.
- Chris BryantFeb 10, 2022
Thankyou so much for the review!
- Chris BryantNov 30, 2020Customer was banned by us due to racially offensive and inappropriate communications with our team, as reported to Automattic in Slack. We do not condone this sort of behaviour, either professionally or personally. This review followed notice to customer of ban.
- kaspofOct 15, 2020Doesn't work, lacking functionality (not multi language, not able to disable what's not needed or a security threat) and support did not try to help (even after I gave them admin credentials). Don't buy it
- Chris BryantNov 30, 2020The plugin works fine. This review is based on the customer not immediately getting the features they requested. We consider all feature requests seriously, especially for future versions of the plugin.
- gregghoushOct 3, 2019The integration into my admin dashboard is great. Being able to open tickets with users from the woocommerce orders screen, but also the comment screen was a nice touch. Everything works as it should and the setup instructions are easy to follow. If you use Help Scout and WooCommerce you should be using this plugin.I haven’t seen any need for improvement. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, and does it well.