Simplesat vs. Jotform

The Jotform alternative for your support team's CSAT survey

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Jotform is useful when a form needs to become a support request. Simplesat starts at the other end: how did the conversation go?

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Jotform

is best for...

Teams that need forms to start work, with each submission sent straight to the person or tool that acts on it next.

Support requests, orders, and registrations
Forms with card data or health information
The company's forms, all in one place

Simplesat is best for...

Support teams that want feedback on work that's done: how each conversation went and how each agent is doing.

One-click surveys in Zendesk, Gladly, Gorgias, and 100+ tools
Set up in minutes, no consultants or training
Self-serve pricing that doesn't require procurement

Simplesat vs. Jotform

Jotform logo
Jotform
Best fit
Support feedback from rating to follow-up
Forms from intake to orders
First value
Connect a helpdesk and send a survey
Build a form and share its link
Pricing
Public pricing, no sales call
Free tier and published paid plans
Survey and metrics
CSAT, NPS, CES, and 5-star
Rating fields and general form questions
Helpdesk connection
Native helpdesk apps, 100+ integrations
Zendesk fields, groups, tags, attachments
Email ratings
Ratings in the emails you send
Share a form link by email
Conversation feedback
Adds a note to the original ticket
Zendesk integration creates a new ticket
Agent attribution
Native agent and team records
Context in prefilled form fields
Closing the loop
Alerts and follow-up tickets
Conditional emails by answer
Specialist depth
Your question, colors, and rating icons
Form building and integration breadth
Best fit
Simplesat
Support feedback from rating to follow-up
Jotform
Forms from intake to orders
First value
Simplesat
Connect a helpdesk and send a survey
Jotform
Build a form and share its link
Pricing
Simplesat
Public pricing, no sales call
Jotform
Free tier and published paid plans
Survey and metrics
Simplesat
CSAT, NPS, CES, and 5-star
Jotform
Rating fields and general form questions
Helpdesk connection
Simplesat
Native helpdesk apps, 100+ integrations
Jotform
Zendesk fields, groups, tags, attachments
Email ratings
Simplesat
Ratings in the emails you send
Jotform
Share a form link by email
Conversation feedback
Simplesat
Adds a note to the original ticket
Jotform
Zendesk integration creates a new ticket
Agent attribution
Simplesat
Native agent and team records
Jotform
Context in prefilled form fields
Closing the loop
Simplesat
Alerts and follow-up tickets
Jotform
Conditional emails by answer
Specialist depth
Simplesat
Your question, colors, and rating icons
Jotform
Form building and integration breadth
Why Simplesat over
Jotform

Why teams switch

From the reply back to the ticket

Customers pick a rating in the support email they already got. In Zendesk, it can go onto the original ticket. In Gladly, it shows in the conversation.

A low score gets a follow-up

A negative rating can open a follow-up ticket in Zendesk, Gorgias, Freshdesk, and more. Whoever needs to know can get an alert by email, Slack, or Teams.

Each agent's scores add up

Dashboards show each agent's results and the comments behind them, with no spreadsheet to build. Every plan covers as many agents as you have.

Where

Jotform

wins

Jotform's template library and integration directory go far beyond what a support survey needs, and for intake, its Zendesk integration is genuinely good. It also has a free plan, which Simplesat doesn't. Simplesat isn't a form builder, so moving support's survey leaves the rest of your Jotform account as it is.
Lives up to the name. Simple, intuitive, and does everything we need it to and then some.
Jamie Y.
VP, Customer Service, Simpletire
Plain and simply the most efficient, easy-to-use, and nice-to-look-at feedback system I've worked with in over ten years of business.
Richard F.
Jimdo
Seamless and effective for collecting customer feedback. The support team is highly receptive and responds quickly whenever I have questions.
Mark H.

Switch from

Jotform

in 3 steps

Step 1

Connect

Install from your helpdesk marketplace and authorize in one click.

Step 2

Configure

Pick your survey type, match your brand, and set trigger rules

Step 3

See results

Responses flow into Simplesat and your helpdesk from day one.

Fits right into your workflow

100+ integrations including Zendesk, Gladly, Salesforce and Gorgias — plus Slack, Teams, Power BI, and more. Set up in minutes.

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Named a preferred partner by Zendesk, Gladly, and Gorgias

See how your team is really performing

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About this alternative

What is

Jotform

Jotform is a general-purpose online form builder with a large template library and a deep integration directory. Jotform says more than 40 million users rely on its products.

It's built for forms that start work. A support survey points the other way, at a conversation that's over. Through Jotform's Zendesk integration, each rating arrives as a new ticket. The agent's name is a field your team has to pass in. In Simplesat, when your helpdesk is connected and survey links are configured, the rating comes back to the conversation it's about, with the agent attached.

Frequently asked questions

Isn't Jotform's Zendesk integration enough?

Not for ratings. Jotform pitches it for "support requests, orders, or customer feedback," and each submission becomes a new Zendesk ticket, which suits a request. A rating is about a ticket you already have. With your helpdesk connected and survey links configured, Simplesat can put it on that ticket as an internal note, with the rating and sentiment as tags.

Can customers rate the conversation right in the email?

With Simplesat, yes. The rating goes in the support emails your customers already get: they pick one in the email, then land on the survey to add detail. Jotform's own blog says it doesn't allow surveys to be embedded inside emails, for security reasons, and suggests a link or an embed on your website instead.

Can't we pass the agent's name into the Jotform survey?

You can. Jotform forms can be prefilled from URL parameters, so your team can carry the agent's name into the survey it builds. That gives each response a field with a name in it. In Simplesat, with your helpdesk connected and survey links configured, each response arrives with the agent attached, and every agent has their own results on dashboards, leaderboards, and reports.

How does Jotform handle CSAT and NPS?

Jotform documents its Star Rating field for customer satisfaction ratings, including after a support interaction, on a scale you choose. For NPS, its own guide has you count promoters and detractors and apply the formula yourself in Jotform Tables, or export to Excel or Google Sheets. Simplesat calculates CSAT, NPS, CES, and 5-star scores as responses arrive.

Does Simplesat work with our helpdesk?

Simplesat has native apps for Zendesk, Gladly, Gorgias, Kustomer, Intercom, Salesforce, and others, and more than 100 integrations in all. In Gladly, the survey can go out by email or SMS when a conversation closes.

Can we bring our past results?

Yes. Import past feedback from a CSV file and map it to a survey. With a date column, each response keeps its original date, so your scores over time pick up where Jotform left off.