Likelihood to Recommend We have offices set around the world, and hiring new team members in certain countries makes it a bit difficult, especially now to fly out or fly in to help get them situated and fully trained. This really helps close the gaps in between the distance and training. Makes onboarding a heck of a lot easier.
Read full review 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
Read full review Pros Tracks progress for training. Easily determines a new hires competency in handling tasks on their own. Houses all of our documents and videos in one location versus several. Read full review 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. Read full review Cons The subject organization could use work! It's just jumbled and needs folders. It's very cumbersome to have to click back and forth to subjects when you are within a task. I wish there was a larger side bar that could show ALL subjects, topics, and tasks in one glance with drop-down menus. Read full review 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. Read full review Support Rating During the entire sales process, the Trainual team was great to work with. After the sale, their onboard process was top notch as well and was very quick to answer any questions and actually were open to customizing the platform to meet our specific needs. They have been great this entire time.
Read full review 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
Read full review Alternatives Considered This is our first time using anything like this! Previously we just wrote task items in shared Google documents. It was the best of what we could do at the time, but this is a whole different world, and we love it! Being able to integrate quizzes and photos and interactive video is excellent! Read full review 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.
Read full review Return on Investment Saves time for the team for training The fact that everything is in one location is really good! Allows us to edit and change and adjust as the business does Keeps us flexible and not cemented to a way of doing things Read full review 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. Read full review ScreenShots