Akia vs. Zoho Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Akia
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$43
per month
Zoho Desk
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.
$9
per month per user
Pricing
AkiaZoho Desk
Editions & Modules
Basic
$43
per month
Free
$0
Express
$9
per month per user
Standard
$20
per month per user
Professional
$35
per month per user
Enterprise
$50
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AkiaZoho Desk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsA discount is offered for yearly billing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
AkiaZoho Desk
Features
AkiaZoho Desk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Akia
-
Ratings
Zoho Desk
8.5
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Expert directory00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings7.24 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Ticket response00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Akia
-
Ratings
Zoho Desk
9.6
5 Ratings
18% above category average
External knowledge base00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Internal knowledge base00 Ratings9.65 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Akia
-
Ratings
Zoho Desk
6.7
5 Ratings
18% below category average
Customer portal00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Social integration00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
Email support00 Ratings6.25 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings5.94 Ratings
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User Ratings
AkiaZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.5
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(12 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(11 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AkiaZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
Akia
You can customise it to do what you want to do. Put in the work to learn the back and end and build your own guest journey. You are not limited like other competitors to how the guest flow goes, you build your own. Support are great in helping with this and always attentive
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Zoho
Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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Pros
Akia
  • Fully Customisable
  • Great Support
  • There always seems to be a way to get what ytou want done
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Zoho
  • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
  • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
  • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
  • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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Cons
Akia
  • Intergrate with PMS payment methods, not only offer their own
  • Look at how it can be used better to manage the daily operation
  • Communicate between staff members in a SLACK like manner
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Zoho
  • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
  • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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Likelihood to Renew
Akia
As great as AKAI is, its only issue is we cant take payments through our PMS - AKIA is reluctant to work with PMS payments as it wants to take payment itself. If this cant be navigated and other opportunities within our PMS appear that can do what AKAI does, it will force us to move in this direction
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Usability
Akia
Once you get past the blanc canvas and begin to build, you learn its capability and become ingrossed. Easy, user friendly once you get your head around the set up
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Zoho
I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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Support Rating
Akia
Exceptional support. Hopefully they grow enough to have world wide support. Can be problematic being in oposite time zones
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Zoho
As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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Implementation Rating
Akia
Initially its a blanc canvas, once we got our head around that your good. It does take a fair few onboarding sessions to really learn. With the blanc canvas approached AKAI need to remember new buyers will be overwhelmed by this possibly
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Akia
Much more customisable, does more, team far more ingaging and know what their product can do to build the product to you
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Zoho
We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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Return on Investment
Akia
  • Huge saving in labour costs
  • As we are not so orientated to physical tasks to get the guest in, our team are more guest focused delivering better service and multi skill
  • Allows the guerst to check themselfs in, submit ID with face recognition and pay bond via all methods making it super efficinet for guest and the team
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Zoho
  • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
  • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
  • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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ScreenShots

Zoho Desk Screenshots

Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.