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Zendesk Chat
Formerly Zopim

Overview

What is Zendesk Chat?

Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim) is a live chat tool developed by the Singaporean company also called Zopim, acquired by Zendesk in April 2014.

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Recent Reviews

Zendesk Chat Review

7 out of 10
September 28, 2021
Currently, our Customer Support team is the only team using Zendesk Chat. The chat widget displays on our website, allowing customers and …
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Chat for SaaS

10 out of 10
April 24, 2021
Incentivized
Both our Client Success and Sales team use Zendesk's chat functionality. The Client Success team uses Zendesk Chat as the first line of …
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Zendesk Chat

6 out of 10
March 24, 2020
Incentivized
When we first started using Zendesk Chat, we incorporated it to our main website to provide prospects who land on our page the option to …
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Pricing

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Lite

$0

Cloud
per user

Basic

$14

Cloud
per user

Advanced

$25

Cloud
per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
    Optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://www.zopim.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $11.20 per month
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Product Details

What is Zendesk Chat?

Zopim Live Chat allows users to talk to visitors online in real-time. Zopim shows up as a chat bar docked at the bottom of a website. Visitors chat simply by clicking on the widget.

According to the vendor, key differentiators/benefits of Zopim include:
  • A real customer-centric live chat tool that is used by businesses around the world.
  • Plenty of useful features : fully customizable chat widget, customized greetings, ability to set up operating hours, smart offline mode, chat transcripts, canned response, file transfer, etc.
  • Full-fledged dashboard: real time visitor information, automatic translation and conversation search.
  • Powerful triggers to initiate chats with a targeted group of visitors
  • Ability to organize a team of customer support representatives into departments
  • 24/5 technical support from Zopim
  • Chat widget available in more than 54 languages.

Zendesk Chat Features

  • Supported: Customizable chat windows to suit your branding
  • Supported: Analytics of visitors such as countries, page they are on
  • Supported: Use smart triggers to initiate chats with visitors
  • Supported: Create shortcuts for repetitive response to visitors
  • Supported: Create different groups to organize customer support agents
  • Supported: Set up operating hours of chats
  • Supported: Hide chat window on website when offline
  • Supported: Advanced analytics of agent performance and chats
  • Supported: Export chat transcript for references or training purposes
  • Supported: File transfer during chat
  • Supported: Integration with CRM (Zendesk, Salesforce, ZohoCRM)
  • Supported: Available in Android, iOS apps

Zendesk Chat Screenshots

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Zendesk Chat Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesAll Countries except for countries in Prohibited Jurisdiction
Supported LanguagesArabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian

Frequently Asked Questions

Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim) is a live chat tool developed by the Singaporean company also called Zopim, acquired by Zendesk in April 2014.

Zendesk Chat starts at $11.2.

LiveChat and Olark are common alternatives for Zendesk Chat.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 8.4.

The most common users of Zendesk Chat are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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September 28, 2021

Zendesk Chat Review

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
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Currently, our Customer Support team is the only team using Zendesk Chat. The chat widget displays on our website, allowing customers and potential customers to contact us with any questions they have while exploring our site and/or during any part of our quote and purchase flow. The intent for enabling and offering this channel is to allow visitors to ask quick questions without picking up their phones. We recently expanded our Customer Support team from three to five agents. All of these agents have access to Zendesk Chat. Therefore, they have the capability to chat with customers while they are visiting our website both proactively and reactively. Although, we don't proactively reach out to visitors. Instead, we focus on servicing those customers and potential customers who reach out to us to ask questions while visiting our website.
  • Automatic ticket creation that contains the chat's transcript
  • Automatic replies when the wait time reaches certain limits
  • Ability to transfer the chat to another user
  • 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
It is well suited in the following scenarios - to create a Zendesk ticket that automatically saves a copy of the chat's transcript in the Zendesk ticket, to track timestamps associated with the chat, for agents to understand what page the customer is on when they initiate their chat, and for agents to proactively reach out to customers who have been visiting a certain webpage for an extended period of time. It is less appropriate in the following scenarios - to truly capture the chatters' identity, especially when the chatter enters a different email address than what we have on file for their existing Zendesk profile, and for agents to be available on both chat and phone, but in a way that they are not taking a new phone call while they are on a chat and vice versa. I'd also like the ability to pull a report that summarizes from which webpage chats are being initiated overall. This way we could understand where we may need to improve our messaging, etc.
  • Ability to set status
  • Ability to understand chat and agent history
  • Ability to save transcript within user's profile
  • Decrease in incoming emails
  • Increase in offline messages
  • Multiple tickets are created when a visitor reaches out multiple times with the same question (in a short period of time)
  • Does not simply re-open existing/prior chat for the same topic/person
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Three of the users make up our Customer Support team and are part of our frontline staff. As members of our frontline staff, these agents work directly with any of our customers and/or prospective customers to answer questions about our products, coverage, questionnaire, opportunities to self-service, etc. The additional user manages the Customer Support team. While there may be times this user will also work directly to answer any incoming questions, they primarily use Zendesk Chat to oversee and understand staffing needs based on the number of incoming chats, scheduling, whether or not we have the capacity to handle incoming chats to meet service level expectations, QA, and chat statistics at both the team and agent level.
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These are licensed insurance agents who are able to not only answer questions regarding our products and the coverage provided by our products but also sell Property and Casualty Insurance in all 50 states. They are skilled agents prepared to answer tough questions with thoughtful and often complex responses. Given how complicated and complex some of these topics can be they are trained to recognize when the chatter may benefit by speaking to us via another channel, oftentimes by offering to call out to the chatter.
  • Ability to answer quick questions visitors ask on the fly
  • Ability to apply macros/templates to reduce wait time between replies
  • Getting the chatter to a live person who understands their complicated questions and is able to provide thoughtful responses
  • Ability to understand what page on our website the chat is initiated from
  • Use AI to direct questions that come in outside of our regular business hours
  • Integrate chat with our FAQs so based on keywords found within their question we're able to quickly reply with a helpful article and offer the ability to proceed to speak with a live agent if the article does not answer their question
  • Would appreciate more insight into our chat history by having more reporting options available
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.
Not Sure
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Ease of use and maintenance was one of the single most important factors in our decision. We wanted a nimble product that is easy to set up, maintain, and use. It was important that it worked well with our support ticketing system as well, which in this case is Zendesk Support, so this need was easily met.
I would ask for a deep dive into setting options and operationally how to set this feature up, as well as maintain it. Not being the person who initially set Zendesk Chat up for our team, I find more often than not when I'm trying to figure out how to change something I struggle to understand what each option is meant to do.
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