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    Zoho Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZoho 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
    Zoho Desk
    Editions & Modules
    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
    Zoho Desk
    Free Trial
    Yes
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    Yes
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequired
    Additional DetailsA discount is offered for yearly billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Zoho Desk
    Considered Both Products
    Zoho
    Chose Zoho Desk
    We used HubSpot before, and it didn’t work very well for our needs. Zoho Desk is part of a much larger Zoho implementation. We’d like to have everything in one place, and Zoho provides that ability.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho provides more bells and whistles comparted to the other platforms I have tried. The setup was easier and the transition was smoother. The support was much better as well. Whenever we would get stuck on something, support was a chat away and we always got the solution we …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    I have used Asana and Zoho desk and decided to go with Zoho due to the ease of intergration into other applications and platforms, the more affordable costing, a faster mobile application and for the slightly better automation capabilities. Asana is nice but the cost and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho Desk is easily a winner for trouble ticket handling as Bitrix24 was not offering any dedicated trouble ticketing tool and we had no option but to use the Tasks section of Bitrix24 to handle our existing customers. Also Bitrix24 neither did have any dedicated mobile …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho Desk is always good at building different platforms for automation, so this one is also the best help desk platform available in the market. I can easily add the feedback with a report to easily convey the message accordingly. It can easily integrate with your existing …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho Desk has an interface that is extremely simple and practical to use, for even clients who are not skilled. Again, Zoho Desk has no lead time, when customers air their views or complaints. Finally, Zoho Desk works/integrates effectively with several other products for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Over the years I have used a few different support software applications. One being Remedy software. That was pretty nice, but they lacked an isp version. I am currently a user of Atlassian JIRA and am not a big fan at this point. It is very cumbersome to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    After trialing and using Zoho Desk, we decided to move onto another product. Zoho has many features that make it a great product, but ease and intuitiveness of use was lacking for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    The quality of support provided by Zoho Desk is brilliant. Ease of setup is a very easy process. Also it meets all the requirements that can be expected from such kind of software. Zoho Desk is a company that can be easy to do business with. It is really headed in the right …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho [Desk] has much more quality of the information we required for our business than Freshdesk.
    It was also easy to work with Zohos different modules albeit based on department specific products than it was when we used Freshdesk.
    The Project management module was a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    • In the acquisition of Zoho Desk I did not have the final decision but I have contributed as my analysis in the implementation. We decided to switch services since this tool is much more complete in terms of functionalities that help us to easily resolve and follow up on our …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Value for money simply beats the rest. Also, as part of the Zoho Suite, integrations are wonderful, for example to CRM or consolidating Reporting with other apps such as Zoho Projects. Integration to advanced Analytics is also very helpful. In terms of features, they are pretty …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Atera had a lot of features. You could install an agent to monitor updates, and you could deploy AV. Zoho Desk was easier to go through tickets and replies. It felt like Atera had more features, so it was slower. At times you would want to search for an old ticket in Atera, and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho Desk is easy to set up for small business needs, and its dashboard is well-suited for our organization's needs. We are on a social network, which also helps us to get users' and applicants' queries through the social platform.
    Another factor to start with it is its trial …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    We have selected Zoho Desk because we already using Zoho CRM.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Desk.com was too complicated and was cost prohibitive. We had switched from Desk by Salesforce to Zoho Desk
    Incentivized
    Chose Zoho Desk
    Zoho Desk comes at a better price, and it offers integration with other Zoho applications so you can keep your information in a single place. Their support is good and will guide you through many things. Also their API is similar to other Zoho platforms, so employees can …
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    93%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    14 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
    13 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    85%
    Implementation went as expected
    11 Answers
    Features
    Zoho Desk
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Zoho Desk
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets9.05 Ratings
    Expert directory7.14 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications7.14 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation10.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission8.95 Ratings
    Ticket response8.95 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Zoho Desk
    9.8
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    External knowledge base9.85 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base9.85 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Zoho Desk
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer portal8.04 Ratings
    Social integration6.83 Ratings
    Email support6.15 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration5.44 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Zoho Desk
    Small Businesses
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Zoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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.