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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Zendesk Chat

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Chat (formerly Zopim) is a live chat tool developed by the Singaporean company also called Zopim, acquired by Zendesk in April 2014.

    $11.20

    per month

    Zendesk Explore

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZendesk offers Explore, a business intelligence and customer analytics tool which integrates with the Zendesk suite featuring ticket analytics, custom fields, dashboards, and other features. Zendesk is migrating customers of the BIME analytics product, which is approaching end of support, to Zendesk Explore in 2019.N/A
    Pricing
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Editions & Modules
    Lite
    $0
    per user
    Basic
    $14
    per user
    Advanced
    $25
    per user
    Premium
    $55
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsThe pricing above is price per user per month. You will get a discount when you opt for annual payment.—
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    Community Pulse
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Considered Both Products
    Zendesk
    No answer on this topic
    Zendesk
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    15 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    15 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    15 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    12 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    93%
    Implementation went as expected
    13 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    8.4
    5 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Zendesk Explore
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting8.65 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics8.54 Ratings00 Ratings
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings9.97 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    6.7
    10 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings4.85 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings7.110 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Publish to Web00 Ratings6.96 Ratings
    Publish to PDF00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report Versioning00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings8.97 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.1
    7 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings6.66 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings7.16 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics00 Ratings5.55 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings9.43 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.3
    10 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings6.08 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings8.64 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings6.18 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    7.8
    7 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings8.32 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Zendesk Chat and Zendesk Explore
    Feature
    Zendesk Chat
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Explore
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    45% below category average
    REST API00 Ratings3.15 Ratings
    Javascript API00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    iFrames00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Java API00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings3.13 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (23 ratings)
    10.0
    (10 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.4
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Data Sources
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Zendesk ChatZendesk Explore
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Zendesk
    Zendesk Chat is suited for all the support teams that provide real-time assistance. Like if someone wants to block the debit/credit card, it is a high-priority case that needs real-time assistance. Whereas issues like close my account, and invoice request doesn't need real-time assistance, where Zendesk tickets support will be perfect.
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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Explore is well suited for tracking ticket flow, agent performance, and customer satisfaction providing valuable insights into response and resolution time, workload and support quality. Particularly useful for monitoring ticket handling for different teams. Helps ensure accountability by tracking how long tickets remain assigned before being reassigned to another group. Drill down capability helps identify support bottlenecks. However, it is less appropriate for real time monitoring as it lacks real time data updates making it unsuitable for instant decision making.
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    Pros
    Zendesk
    • Extremely fluid chat interface allows for easy communication.
    • It can be used directly on a website page or as a widget.
    • Allows the end user to translate the chat into their own native language.
    • Notifies you with pending chats via on-screen notifications and sound effects.
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    Zendesk
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to use.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom metrics.
    • Zendesk Explore allows users to create custom attributes.
    • Zendesk Explore is easy to learn.
    • Compared to other analytics function of other Ticket Management System, Zendesk Explore is probably the best as of now.
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    Cons
    Zendesk
    • Linking with a telephone, so the agent is only working on 1 channel at a time
    • More simplified way to create and use templates
    • Link users who may have provided us a new/different email from what we have on file for them
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    Zendesk
    • Some aspects of Zendesk, in general, are not super intuitive. The same goes for Zendesk Explore. And, while you can google answers and hope you find something helpful, there isn't a great way to learn to get the full potential out of the product unless you want to pay for someone from your team to take a class (which costs several hundred dollars).
    • To piggyback off the last point, if you would prefer to get help from a Zendesk expert, you'll find that there is almost no customer support available to you. For a company that aims to help other companies help their customers, this has always struck me as odd. Again, Google is your friend and beyond that, you're mostly out of luck.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Zendesk
    Due to staffing issues, we have temporarily stopped offering chat as an available channel. We're also interested in the best ways to integrate chat with our FAQs and AI to provide quick responses, either during off-hours or prior to speaking with a live agent. I've also found that reporting is rather limited where some of the interesting and useful data made available and visible during the chat cannot be pulled post-chat; it would be great to pull a high-level report so we can analyze this data.
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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Zendesk
    As mentioned previously, it's a clunky product that lacks user-friendliness. It feels old and behind the times compared to other products we have used. The inability to have a wrap-up time before a new chat comes in is also a big issue for our team.
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    Zendesk
    I rate Zendesk Explore 8 out of 10 for it's overall usability because it offers powerful reporting and analytics with an easy to navigate interface and intuitive dashboards. It helps improve customer satisfaction by providing valuable insights into ticket handling, agent performance and customer satisfaction. Though the complex query builder can be challenging for non technical users.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Zendesk
    Getting assistance and/or troubleshooting anything with Zendesk can be quite frustrating. In my years of experience with Zednesk, I have almost never found the answer to my question without going through multiple articles, ultimately getting frustrated and reaching out to our contact for more assistance. So for a consumer, the support is not as relieving as Zendesk Chat is to our customers in getting the questions answered by us.
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    Zendesk
    Support for all of Zendesk has exceeding my expectations. This company will always get a 10 out of 10 in my book. Any question you have they make sure you have the answer plus a step-by-step guide on how to do each step so you are set up for success!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Zendesk
    Zendesk Chat is far more user friendly than some of the other competitors on the market. It has a very all the features that you require to ensure your customers are contacted in 'real time'. Its main tools include a live chat interface for quick communication, customisable chat widgets to fit your brand, mobile responsiveness for all devices, and canned responses for common questions. The platform can also start chats based on visitor actions, like time on a page or exit intent. A real must for any leading company
    Incentivized
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    Zendesk
    I selected Zendesk Explore only to provide an easy and quick access for my managers and supervisors regading metrics and volume trends. Is not the most flexible nor complete data visualization tool, but works well for day-to-day follow ups. You need to use another tool if you want to see long-term patterns (e.g. month over month volume trends) and you need another platform if you want your interaction metrics to interact with other important factors of the business
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    Return on Investment
    Zendesk
    • Positive impact - Compared to our old system, this newly updated system provides features and functionality that has increased our agent productivity and provided customer insight like we've never had before. This has resulted in fewer hold times and higher customer satisfaction.
    • Negative impact - Our reporting team still struggles with obtaining the right information from time to time with the chats. This leads to loss of productivity and more resources dedicated to reporting.
    • Positive impact - Due to Zopim's embed, we are able to more successfully place them on the appropriate self-service portals and pages, reaching a larger audience, and being more readily available to answer our client's questions. This has resulted in an increase in our self-service portal usage, driving down the phone and email support channels, which in turn reduces support costs.
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    Zendesk
    • Money saved due to proper staffing.
    • Happier Staff- proper staffing ensures no one is overworked.
    • Ability to quickly pinpoint where issues are and why.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Zendesk Chat Screenshots

    Screenshot of How Zopim Chat Widget looks on the website.Screenshot of This is how the chat window looks like to your visitorsScreenshot of This is a screenshot of the visitor list.Product screenshot