ServiceNow Customer Service Management vs. Zoho Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Built on the Now Platform, ServiceNow offers their Customer Service Management solution through the Standard and Professional Customer Service Management bundles. Both include agent workspace, knowledge management, survey and assessment module, and the community module, oriented in this edition to support customers rather than internal employees. The Professional bundle also includes performance analytics, predictive intelligence, and related tools to support customer support agents improvement…N/A
Zoho Desk
Score 8.0 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
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Editions & Modules
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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
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsA discount is offered for yearly billing.
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Community Pulse
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Considered Both Products
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Chose ServiceNow Customer Service Management
Atlassian Jira was not a cost effective solution for us, and it lacks couple of feaures as well.

Zoho Desk however was fulfilling our requirements but Zoho's support systems were not up to our expectations. The support team's response was delayed and resolutions were not …
Zoho Desk

No answer on this topic

Features
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
8.6
8 Ratings
4% above category average
Zoho Desk
8.5
5 Ratings
3% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.08 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Expert directory8.06 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.57 Ratings7.44 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.57 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.58 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Ticket response9.08 Ratings8.65 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
9.0
7 Ratings
12% above category average
Zoho Desk
9.0
5 Ratings
12% above category average
External knowledge base9.06 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Internal knowledge base9.07 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
ServiceNow Customer Service Management
8.8
8 Ratings
10% above category average
Zoho Desk
7.0
5 Ratings
13% below category average
Customer portal8.06 Ratings8.04 Ratings
IVR9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.06 Ratings6.43 Ratings
Email support9.57 Ratings6.65 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.57 Ratings7.14 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(8 ratings)
8.1
(24 ratings)
Usability
7.5
(3 ratings)
8.0
(13 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
User Testimonials
ServiceNow Customer Service ManagementZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
ServiceNow
It is well suited for medium to large companies that manage different teams and need to communicate constantly and track progress in a timely manner. It is less suited for small enterprises as it will overwhelm users with the features and functionalities embedded.
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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
ServiceNow
  • Allows for clear communication between help desk and end users.
  • Provides a clean inventory option for both hardware items and software licenses.
  • Navigation is very intuitive and user friendly.
  • Many reporting features for all levels of the company.
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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
ServiceNow
  • Adding in additional chat features would be nice
  • Viewing where you stand in priority
  • Having a way to automate more of the processes
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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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Usability
ServiceNow
ServiceNow Customer Service Management has been in our organization for quiet a while now. We tried other solutions as well. But they were not as effective as as ServiceNow Customer Service Management, either they're not cost effective or they lack the features. ServiceNow Customer Service Management however, is a complete package it's soft effective and it comes with the features that suffice our business need. In a nutshell ServiceNow Customer Service Management is what we need!
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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
ServiceNow
Support has been very good. Any time there has been a real issue, the team has responded very quickly and identified the issue without a lot of repetitive questions that I've seen from other services. There is a great external community and internal knowledge base that covers pretty much anything you need.
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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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Alternatives Considered
ServiceNow
ServiceNow Customer Service Management is much more configurable and "Enterprise-Ready", but doesn't work as well out of the box and doesn't guide you into deploying a service ready workflow.
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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
ServiceNow
  • The negative impact for my team is the delay in team completing tickets but not a system issue.
  • A positive impact for my team is we can easily view the status of tickets and the follow-up emails are beneficial to maintain records of tickets.
  • Negative impact is that there is no user job aid or helpful tools for new users.
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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.