Why businesses are switching from Front
Main Features Comparison
The key features that are most important to helpdesk users
Deskie includes all channels on every plan, while Front offers multichannel support only on Professional and higher plans
✅ Multichannel Support on all plans.
✅ All channels available on any plan.
✅ No channel limits.
✅ Custom channel connection is available on all plans.
❌ Starter plan supports only a single channel type.
❌ No telephony, messengers, social channels on the Starter plan.
❌ Channel limits depend on your plan and license count.
❌ Custom channel connection is available on the Professional plan or above.
Deskie and Front have different rule structures, which determine their capabilities
✅ All functionality is available regardless of the selected plan.
✅ The rule structure allows adding up to 5 blocks (ALL /ANY) with AND/OR operators between them.
✅ Rules for existing cases run every 30 minutes.
✅ ❌ Rules for existing cases can run a certain time after a specific event but don’t allow setting an exact trigger time.
✅ Limits depend on the number of active agents and the plan — min 50.
❌ Automation capabilities depend on your pricing plan.
❌ Rule structure allows you to add multiple blocks with AND operators between them and OR operators within a block.
❌ Delayed rules on Professional and higher plans.
✅ Delayed rules allow you to set an exact time interval after which the rule should run.
❌ Modest fixed limits for plans: Starter – 10 rules, Professional – 20 rules.
Unlike Front, Deskie allows flexible agent access rights regardless of the selected plan
✅ Agent access can be configured flexibly, regardless of the chosen plan.
✅ Admins who only handle setup without tickets access are free.
✅ You can add a Light Agent (€10 each) without reply permissions.
❌ Creating custom roles is available only on Enterprise.
❌ You must pay for admin accounts even if they don’t need access to tickets.
✅ Unlimited conversation guests.
In Front, Guests have more limited functionality than Deskie's Light agents
✅ Ability to edit all case properties
✅ Light agent has their own account and can see all allowed access
✅ Ability to add private notes
✅ Ability to mention all agents
✅ Ability to forward tickets
✅ Ability to export correspondence, cases/users lists
❌ No permission to create cases/users from the agent account
✅ Ability to edit users properties
✅ Ability to create and edit companies
✅ Ability to edit knowledge base
✅ Ability to set individual access
❌ No ability to edit case properties
❌ The guest must be invited separately to each case
✅ Ability to add сomments
❌ Ability to mention only participants
❌ No ability to forward tickets
❌ No permission to export data
❌ No permission to create cases/users from the agent account
❌ No permission to edit users properties
❌ No permission to create and edit companies
❌ No permission to edit knowledge base
❌ No ability to set individual access
Deskie and Front allow managing your team's availability through agent statuses in real time, independently of working hours
✅ Ability to create custom statuses independently of pricing plan.
✅ Ability to restrict agent access to sync/async channels regardless of plan.
✅ Ability to pause new conversation assignments from rules.
✅ Ability to limit daily time spent in statuses.
❌ There is no option to change agent status based on shift.
❌ No ability to create custom agent statuses.
❌ No channel-specific restrictions based on statuses.
✅ Ability to pause new conversation assignments from rules.
❌ There is no option to set up time limits for statuses.
✅ Automatic agent status change based on shift.
Both Deskie (Focus Modes) and Front (load balancing) offer functionality to limit the number of cases assigned to agents
✅ Available on all plans.
✅ It's possible to redistribute unassigned cases every 2 minutes.
❌ Available only on the Professional plan or above.
✅ Automatic reassignment of unassigned tickets.
A Help Center is automatically provided when you register with Deskie and Front
✅ Help center customization is available on all pricing plans.
❌ One knowledge base per account.
✅ Three-level knowledge base structure.
✅ Ideas Channel in the Help Center.
✅ Custom domain available on all plans.
✅ Multi-language content is available on all plans.
✅ Help center customization is available on all pricing plans.
✅ Multiple knowledge bases for Professional plan or above.
❌ Category nesting levels depend on pricing plans.
❌ Ideas channel is not available.
❌ Custom domain available on the Professional plan or above.
❌ Multi-language content is available only on the Enterprise plan.
Deskie and Front give opportunity to set flexible work hours for your team
✅ Separate schedules for groups or individual agents on all plans.
❌ Cannot set separate time zones for each schedule.
❌ The ability to create separate schedules is available only on Professional+.
✅ Every business hours schedule can have its own time zone.
Deskie and Front implement artificial intelligence differently, but their overall capabilities are similar
✅ All features available on all plans.
✅ AI is available via integration. Deskie does not charge for it — you pay directly to the AI service provider.
❌ Training the assistant requires developer involvement.
❌ Some features require an add-on.
❌ Native AI features (mostly add-ons). Copilot: 10 free replies per seat/month on Starter and Professional (unlimited +$20/seat/month).
✅ No need to involve developers. Learns automatically.
Full Features Comparison
Deskie and Front have many features useful for helpdesk users. Let’s take a look at the differences.
Pricing Plan
Minimum 2 agents — Maximum 10 agents
Minimum 5 agents — No upper limit
Minimum 10 agents — No upper limit
✅ 14-day free trial period
✅ Automatic recalculation of the paid period
✅ Pay-as-you-go service — no cancellation fees
✅ All features included in all pricing plans
✅ Remove agents any time without losing money
✅ Unlimited Light agents — €10 each
❌ No refund for early cancellation
✅ 14-day free trial period
❌ No recalculation of the paid period
✅ Anytime cancellation — no cancellation fees
❌ Not all features are available on all plans
❌ No cost recalculation when removing agents mid-month
✅ Free guests are available on all plans
❌ No refund for early cancellation