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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Trello

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATrello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.

    $6

    per month per user

    Zendesk Suite

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.

    $69

    per month per agent

    Pricing
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $6
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12.50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $17.50
    per month per user
    Free
    Forever Free
    Suite Team
    $69
    per month per agent
    Suite Growth
    $115
    per month per agent
    Suite Professional
    $149
    per month per agent
    Suite Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.20% discount available with annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Trello
    I found Wrike difficult to use at first. Also, the entry barrier was higher since I needed to put an email to receive a trial. I didn't like pricing etc. I just wanted to register and start using the application as fast as I could.

    Incentivized
    Chose Trello
    Trello has a convenient pricing structure that allows teams of different sizes to find a plan that will work for their needs. Podio has phone and chat support, which makes it easier to get answers quickly, especially when the issue/question is outside the norm. I think Trello …
    Incentivized
    Zendesk
    Chose Zendesk Suite
    Just better - cleaner, more versatile, simpler to setup.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zendesk Suite
    Zendesk has a more simple and modern look and feel while ServiceNow seems less intuitive and more antiquated. Zendesk has a better UI and sleeker design. Zendesk fits our company's needs, serving both the external and internal customer.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zendesk Suite
    Zendesk is currently on par with both of these services in that they are great ticketing software programs but are light in Contact/Sales management. The autoresponder with Zendesk is much easier to implement and customize compared to the other options. The option of the mobile …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    104 Answers
    87%
    Would buy again
    123 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    94 Answers
    85%
    Delivers good value for the price
    108 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
    106 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    131 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    63 Answers
    85%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    82 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    83 Answers
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Trello and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Trello
    8.4
    223 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management9.5223 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management9.2186 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling8.8169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation8.1143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.8219 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.9148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.8116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management8.2160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.4147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access9.2193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking8.989 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.6103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Trello and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Trello
    6.6
    73 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Zendesk Suite
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates7.250 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing6.643 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting6.859 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software5.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Trello and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.6
    187 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings9.1186 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings7.9127 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings8.4130 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings7.8131 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings9.3186 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings9.0185 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Trello and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.5
    169 Ratings
    6% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings8.5163 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings8.5156 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Trello and Zendesk Suite
    Feature
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Suite
    8.4
    182 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings9.1150 Ratings
    IVR00 Ratings8.076 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings7.4119 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings9.2178 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings8.4138 Ratings
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    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
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    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (223 ratings)
    8.7
    (225 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    10.0
    (43 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (61 ratings)
    8.6
    (98 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (14 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (81 ratings)
    5.5
    (31 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (10 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (19 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    TrelloZendesk Suite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist. For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest monday.com
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is good for small teams where work is not passed along to internal teams or situations where escalations lead to further customer interactions and no further oversight is needed. It is weak as a product for larger and medium-sized companies, where processes are in place that are not aligned with its workflow, as it is a very rigid tool.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
    • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
    • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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    Zendesk
    • Merging of the tickets with similar issues, it is easy to avoid confusion
    • Al global team somehow gets connected with different ways like Slack, with the Zendesk Suite which is so easier to highlight & the issue quickly
    • The best thing is that this tool gives you to send the message via chat-, email, call through the one single platform
    • Now AI has been added so it works good
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
    • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
    • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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    Zendesk
    • Is there a way for AEs and CSMs to be informed in a weekly summary of all their accounts and any tickets? Example: Disney submitted a ticket on XYZ. Google has an urgent issue on X still unresolved.
    • Is there a way for CSMs or AEs to have a Dashboard that's specific to their accounts instead of seeing all the tickets in the queue that are not relevant to them?
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    Trello is incredibly intuitive, both on desktop and mobile right away. It is also full of helpful features that make it even easier to use, and is flexible enough to suit almost any organizational need. Onboarding for the software is thorough, but concise, and the service is frequently updated with even more QOL improvements.
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    Zendesk
    Pros: The agent interface is sleek, contemporary, and relatively easy to learn compared to many other enterprise tools. For common tasks, admins are given point-and-click options- adding fields, modifying workflows, constructing macros. The knowledge base (Guide) editor is easy to use for non-developers. Drawbacks: Once you move past the initial things - complex automations, reporting/analytics in Explore, and/or customizations integrating the API, it requires much more advanced training to use successfully. Navigating between the different modules (Support, Explore, Chat, Guide) can feel very disconnected; often you are reminded that it really is a "suite" of products brought together -not really one unified platform. If you're using multiple brands managing simultaneous support tickets, or heavily customizing workflows to meet your brand, you may run into a bit of struggle with usability. So: it's a lot more user friendly than the palaces (Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow), but is not used as quickly or with as much streamlined flow as a product made for a small shop. So if you are looking for a great balance, this is a good option if you are a net new organization or an organization on their way to scaling from 15 - 50 employee. Expect some elbow grease from the admin team once learning, adapting, and working efficiently once you move past the basics with your support tickets and initial customizations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    yes always support available when I need it!
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    Zendesk
    In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    Never experienced issues with the above!
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    Zendesk
    There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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    Zendesk
    We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    Zendesk
    Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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    Zendesk
    I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

    The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    Trello is more simple and not as "robust" as the other tools, but it's easier to use and manage and understand and ACTUALLY get stuff done with. It's simplicity is part of the beauty of using it. You don't need a million options that nobody uses, you just need to get stuff done.
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    Zendesk
    At the time of evaluation, Dynamics had extremely limited knowledge and support capabilities. The UI is clunky, and reporting requires a deep understanding of the underlying data structure. Ongoing maintenance was costly and didn't provide a positive ROI in any sense of the term.
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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    Zendesk
    WHY we will use Zendesk in HR and PD internally
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    Professional Services
    Atlassian
    Not sure if we use those
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
    • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
    • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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    Zendesk
    • More than anything, provided a boost to our perceived professionalism. The portal is a massive improvement on email only support.
    • Workflow optimization via macros and automations has enhanced response times and raise our 'first call resolution' metric.
    • Speaking of metrics; having them at all! Before Zendesk Suite we were email only so had no insight into agent and vendor performance.
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