TextExpander vs. Zendesk Guide

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
TextExpander
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$3.33
per month
Zendesk Guide
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk Guide is a smart knowledge base built to help support teams continuously improve content, keep it up to date, and serve it to customers.N/A
Pricing
TextExpanderZendesk Guide
Editions & Modules
Basic
$3.33
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
TextExpanderZendesk Guide
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
TextExpanderZendesk Guide
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(3 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
TextExpander
For users who live in a specific app that already allows for templates, TextExpander might not be the best fit. Even then though, you are generally limited to one template per message. TextExpander is great because it carries across all platforms I use. I can use it to drop into emails, browsers, Slack convos, etc seamlessly. Really anyone who is consistently using the same language, links, or info would be in the ICP for TextExpander.
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Zendesk
In our company, we host our benefit articles based on country on our Zendesk Guide. However, these articles should not be seen by employees that are outside their respective article country. For example, an employee that is based in Thailand shouldn't be seeing Malaysia benefits article as employees might compared benefits. With Zendesk Guide, the system allow us to set the configuration of the article so it is only visible Thailand-based employees, and for Malaysia article, only Malaysia-based employees
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Pros
TextExpander
  • Autocompletion of common words
  • Easy to create new snippets
  • Quickly input big regular chunks of text
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Zendesk
  • They give us ability to control the whole frontend of the Communities by giving us access to manipulate HTML (in HBS file), CSS and JS
  • They give handlebars templating engine in backend which helps us to show various listing rendered through server side without having need to implement client side rendering of the listing and features.
  • They provide us dynamic content fields, which can be useful for mapping categories or storing category and topic IDs so we don't need to hard code IDs in Sandbox and Production separately.
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Cons
TextExpander
  • Interface
  • Ai
  • Suggestions
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Zendesk
  • Formatting according to our brand guidelines can be tricky
  • Reporting metrics are lacking
  • The user interface can be confusing
  • Their support team takes a long time to respond
  • They have comments open on their KB articles, but almost noone responds, which is frustrating.
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Usability
TextExpander
I'm obsessed with this app. It was the only thing I asked my leadership team to add to the budget for me. I can't see myself working in the sales/remote/tech space without it these days. Huge fan, love how easy it us to use, low effort to set up, and grows as my needs and use cases do
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Zendesk
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Support Rating
TextExpander
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Zendesk
The support is good but can sometime be frustrating to get a quick answer. We end up being sent articles that don't answer the question and then we have to go back and try again
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Alternatives Considered
TextExpander
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Zendesk
It is an attribute of Zendesk that allows for easy over the phone communication between agents and customers. It is more personal and allows for better productivity. Phone support from anywhere with reliable internet connection which is essential to call center communication whether in the office or in the home of the agent.
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Return on Investment
TextExpander
  • According to my TextExpander weekly report it saves me on average 1.5 hours of writing that I can then focus on other needs
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Zendesk
  • We used it for multiple customer so we can say ROI of Zendesk Guide is very competitive.
  • Zendesk meet[s] most of the business objective[s], which suits [a]s best product among its competitor.
  • I highly recommend to use Zendesk for knowledge base and tickets and agents.
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