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Zendesk Suite

Overview

What is Zendesk Suite?

The Zendesk Support suite is a cloud-based customer support software built for better customer relationships. Designed to improve customer satisfaction and to support customers on any channel: text SMS, web, mobile app, phone, email, social media. The vendor states more…

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Zendesk is awesome

9 out of 10
October 05, 2023
Incentivized
We use zendesk as a way to communicate any internal issues we are having with our IT, HR, etc. it’s really a centralized way for us to …
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Popular Features

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  • Ticket creation and submission (109)
    9.1
    91%
  • Ticket response (108)
    8.8
    88%
  • Email support (105)
    8.5
    85%
  • Organize and prioritize service tickets (108)
    8.4
    84%

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Pricing

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Support Team (Foundational Support Only)

$19

Cloud
per month agent

Suite Team

$55

Cloud
per month agent

Support Professional

$55

Cloud
per month agent

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.zendesk.com/product/pricing…

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $55 per month agent
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Product Demos

Zendesk Demo: The Basics

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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.1
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

7.9
Avg 7.7

Multi-Channel Help

Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.

7.9
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Zendesk Suite?

The Zendesk Support suite is a cloud-based customer support software built for better customer relationships. Designed to improve customer satisfaction and to support customers on any channel: text SMS, web, mobile app, phone, email, social media. The vendor states more than 200,000 companies such as Uber, Groupon, Box, Airbnb, and Slack are using Zendesk to lower their support costs, raise productivity, and increase customer satisfaction. Zendesk offers a full suite of products to meet customer needs ranging from help desk software to live chat to knowledge base management.

Zendesk Suite Features

Incident and problem management Features

  • Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
  • Supported: Expert directory
  • Supported: Subscription-based notifications
  • Supported: ITSM collaboration and documentation
  • Supported: Ticket creation and submission
  • Supported: Ticket response
  • Supported: Automated responses
  • Supported: Attachments/Screencasts
  • Supported: SLA management

Self Help Community Features

  • Supported: Forums
  • Supported: External knowledge base
  • Supported: Internal knowledge base
  • Supported: Surveys/polls

Multi-Channel Help Features

  • Supported: Customer portal
  • Supported: Live help chat
  • Supported: Phone support
  • Supported: IVR
  • Supported: Call scripting
  • Supported: Social integration
  • Supported: Email support
  • Supported: Help Desk CRM integration

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations

Zendesk Suite Videos

Zendesk Videos
This software unboxing dives into Zendesk, a platform for support, sales, customer relationship management, and more. As we demo the product, we rate Zendesk on its usability, interface, installation, customer support, and more. While not a full tutorial, if you're considering...
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Zendesk Suite Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported Countries160+
Supported Languages60+
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Zendesk Suite starts at $55.

Freshdesk, HappyFox Help Desk, and HelpSpot are common alternatives for Zendesk Suite.

Reviewers rate Ticket creation and submission highest, with a score of 9.1.

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

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Andrew Murphy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk as our customer support Hub. It is used by our customer support team and it helps us address customer needs in a timely manner. We can engage with our customer from any point in the buyer journey as well as with post-purchase support needs. We love Zendesk!
  • Support ticketing
  • Pre-sales communication
  • Post-sales
  • Installation support
  • Internal UI
  • CRM integrations
  • Pricing structure
Zendesk works really well for eCommerce. When talking with potential customers or actual customers, Zendesk lets us address their needs quickly and effectively. I have also used it for hardware products and it is amazing for creating installation guides and resources for use-case examples etc. for customers.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Our internal tools team uses Zendesk to manage IT and Salesforce requests. This addresses the need for an organized request system, instead of internal colleagues walking up to each others' desks to ask questions. A customer-facing team also uses it to solve help tickets submitted about our product, and the right processes to take to solve their needs. This allows us to organize requests by client and topic.
  • Organize by topic you care about
  • Triage tickets to different team members
  • Determine time and number of touches to resolution
  • If a customer responds to the ticket, Zendesk reopens it. Ideally Zendesk could bucket responses that only say "thank you," and similar non-urgent replies
  • The UI could be more joyful and fun to use. I'd like to see a gamification option.
Well suited for high volume requests on a range of topics. For example, our internal tools teams use it for over a dozen tools we use, where the requests need to be routed to different groups within the company. It it less appropriate for 1-1 communication between the same party on the same topics.
Kris Lambert | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We create internal API's with our SaaS products to integrate with Zendesks ticketing action. The ticket allows us to track communications during a task/issues lifecycle. Tags help us to determine patterns with tickets. The Autoresponse feature is great because it serves as the first level of response to your client that you have received and are working on their request.
  • Autoresponse provides immediate confirmation to clients that you have received the request.
  • Lifecycle tracking for requests.
  • Easy to integrate with other software products.
  • Login can get hung at times.
  • More options with contacts.
  • The ability to see in-use API keys instead of needing to create a new one.
This is a great ticketing system for support. This software needs more focus on contacts and sales flows to be a full fledge CRM.
Carmen Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zendesk is used by 3 teams in our organization: Customer Success, Support and Product. It acts as a customer-facing support ticketing solution, enabling customers to submit tickets for specific service requests. Customer Success often leverages it as a tool to both engage with customers regarding support requests, and as a way to submit internal support requests or to report product bugs to the Product team. The Support team uses Zendesk to interact with customers regarding their support requests, and the Product team primarily uses Zendesk to manage bug or other product requests submitted by the CS team.
  • It is a great support ticket management system, and is fairly easy to use via direct ticket submission via the platform, and the ability to forward customer emails directly to the support queue is extremely helpful.
  • The ability to track ticket progress (last touch, etc) and communicate both internally with other departments and externally with the ticket requester within the same interface makes it easy to keep all relevant information in one place.
  • Zendesk's JIRA integration makes the bug management process very seamless for our organization.
  • One of the biggest issues we have with Zendesk is the lack of insight into customer history within their ticket profile. We often have difficulty getting context about the tickets that are submitted and unfortunately that increase handle time as we often have to dig through the customer's ticket history to get the full story.
  • It would be great to have a better feel for overall customer sentiment based on their support history and other account factors (e.g. product usage, etc), but without a "customer profile" within the platform, it's nearly impossible to get the 360 view that would really empower us to proactively solve their issues.
  • The ability to automate certain workflows (specifically those regarding internal tasks) would be fabulous, but without access to many actionable integrations, it makes this even harder.
Zendesk is a really good ticketing platform, but if one of your primary goals with a support solution is to better understand and connect with our customers, Zendesk may not be the best solution. The difficulty with getting historical context about the tickets that are submitted, and the lack of a customer profile to really provide real-time insight into how customers feel about their support experience or just overall sentiment about the organization, are a few of the reasons you may want to consider a more robust solution.
Nikhil George | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk is our customer support desk. Customers can raised support tickets within our application or via email which is sent to Zendesk. Our support team respond to queries from Zendesk. Other departments such as finance, sales and product can view support tickets and post internal comments to resolve queries. Zendesk helps us manage customer queries in a timely manner while ensuring no queries get lost.
  • Customisable ticketing engine - you can specify what fields should be filled on each ticket, if they are mandatory and customise what type of data needs to be entered. This ensures the right data is captured to assist resolve the query. It also means reports can be run from these fields.
  • Reporting and analytics - you can run reports based on the ticket data. This helps you understand what product features need to be improved or added, what new help content needs to be created, if particular macros need to be setup, efficiency of support team and more.
  • Integrations - Zendesk integrates with billing, CRM and other platforms so customer data is available in-app. This information assists the support team give the right information to the customer.
  • Make reporting easier - the reporting engine in Zendesk is very powerful, but at the same time, complicated to use. Would be good if they made creating reports easier.
  • Pricing - the pricing plans for Zendesk are quite expensive. There are a range of other systems which provide base level features that match Zendesk.
Zendesk is great for large organisations. It has all the large and enterprise features that might be required such as SSO, white-labelling and data management. It's a great product what will scale with a business and very reliable. Downtimes are very rare. Smaller businesses could likely get by using other support desk tools which are much cheaper.
September 27, 2018

The art of Zendesk.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Many departments across my company use this product, including IT, IS, and HR. We use it to track ongoing projects and who has spent how much time on them, new-hire onboards, desktop support tickets, and much more. Using it cuts way down on email and IM usage, which can be a nuisance while trying to concentrate and easy to de-prioritize once the alert from a new message has been cleared.
  • Tracks tickets, time, and organizational leaderboards so you know how time is being spent.
  • They provide a pretty phenomenal mobile app that makes it easy to keep track of assigned issues even if you've stepped away from your computer.
  • Built-in chat and phone calling make it simple to connect with others without needing to switch apps.
  • There are a couple items in the UI that are a little confusing, namely the "Play" button. From what I can infer after attempting to use it a few times, it appears to take you through your active tickets one by one and allows you to read or update them in some order (maybe last touched?). Hard to say if that is useful or not.
  • It could be easier to get into the administration area. As of now, if you are an admin in Zendesk, there are additional controls and menu that appear across the page, rather than in one central menu. Without context, you have to go through each icon and determine which of them are for end-users and which are for admins.
  • I have not figured out how the system decides what ticket to display when you hit the next (>) button. To me, it seems like my next active and assigned ticket should appear--if there are none, then that arrow should go away. What ends up happening is that I enter a view, look at the list, click the top ticket, and click the arrow. Sometimes I end up on the next ticket in my view, but more often I end up in some other view or queue. Tool tips would alleviate this issue altogether.
Great for time tracking and work distribution. Project management would be a little tougher, being that I am more used to listing milestones and progress in a variety of graphical ways that I am unaware exist in Zendesk. Aside from that, it allows for a high level of collaboration by providing options for CCing others, showing who has worked on a ticket through an audit trail, and even showing who is actively working a ticket in real time.
September 12, 2018

Zendesk

Bridgette Reynolds | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are a software company so our users email us all the time through our platform into Zendesk. Without Zendesk our email inboxes would be extremely full and messy!
  • Being able to assign different tickets to different users on Zendesk
  • Being able to write private messages before making them public to the person requesting
  • Being able to cc users on tickets
  • Seeing the cc'd ticket in your queue
  • Better mobile functions - while I love having the app on my phone, I feel there could be additional features that are on the desktop version added to the mobile version, but I am aware that's a huge task!
  • Load time is sometimes long for tickets - could be my browser but i've noticed lately it's a little slower.
Zendesk has been a lifesaver! When I first started my job I wasn't sure what we would use to speak to clients and this has been awesome.
Lou Gallo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk to manage our inbound technical support, account support, technical services and requests from our contact page for communicating with users. We gather how to, bug reports and improvement requests from our users and are able to solve issues and track requests through a variety of systems we have integrated with. It is the central hub of how we interact with our customers when they reach out. In addition to traditional ticketing, we use to to tag users for early visibility testing in various areas of our product as well as a portal to our entire company to view and see tickets related to issues we may be solving in other areas of our business. Management, Development, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, Quality Assurance, and even with our trusted partners, Zendesk is how we measure and organize all of our communications from our free, paid and educational users.
  • Integration is amazing due to the number of partner add ins they offer with pre-built integrations to common tools like, JIRA, Slack, Salesforce, Hubspot, ChurnZero.
  • Extensibility into so many other areas of our business. Allowing us to build targets to accept triggered responses in a number of data formats from custom recipes allows us to make Zendesk update and notify other systems on demand in realtime avoiding costly polling automation scripts.
  • API and App frameworks are also very well implemented and provide a framework to build custom applications to call our Zendesk account to perform automation and updates as well as build specific tools right inside the product while our agents are working. This can be very helpful since they have a marketplace that allows many other services to also integrate here.
  • They tend to move slowly to integrate new options to the API but overall are pretty responsive.. Understanding the API is a far less used part of their platform as a whole.
  • We were grandfathered into the unlimited light agents.. but I think that access has been limited as of today.
From the small to large business, there is very little I have found that is not possible with Zendesk. If there are tools you need to integrate with, they have it and what they might not (which is rare) you can build it either right inside of the Zendesk platform or use the API to extend it into every corner of the business. The biggest part of integrating a support tool is making sure that it does the basics very well and allows you to expand into where you are going. From supporting one single use case to multiple business segments and keeping it all tied together so integration to other platforms that are in use is all there. I also like the fact they have a nice low end package that allows for ticket sharing which can be a great way to get your partners to have an option to share tickets with them when you have shared customers.
Nathan Sichilongo | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We needed an all in one support desk tool that would allow us to handle communication with clients from different platforms. We use Zendesk across the organization to maintain all communication with all our clients, both potential and existing.

Zendesk solved 3 big problems for us

1) System-wide accountability - being able to know who was working on a support ticket at any time and who it was assigned to. Previously, we had to rely on manual communication for this.
2) All in one communication - we are now able to have all our communication channels in one place, whether it be a website, email or social communication.
3) Customer resolutions - with Zendesk, the amount of time it took to resolve and address customer queries has been cut in half, we are now more efficient and able to handle queries better.
  • With Zendesk we are able to have a holistic view of which customers have been attended to. Zendesk's easy to use Inbox feature makes this easy for anyone to join the team and start working in support.
  • The integration with multiple platforms for communication makes this the goto Support Desk tool. We are able to have all our website, social media and email communication come into one location for all support staff to handle and see
  • Zendesk apps and plugins increase usefulness. Being able to add apps to our Zendesk makes it easier for us to do things like measure productivity, conduct surveys and share customer communication on channels like Slack
  • The ability to build your own Knowledgebase and have it on hand when answering customer queries is a life send. This alone is worth the monthly fees. As you can build up a Knowledgebase overtime and link to it on a website or through different communication channels.
  • Social media functionality is limited for example with Facebook, you cannot upload images (whether this a Facebook API limitation or Zendesk it leaves much to be desired. Also syncing between social media messages and Zendesk takes a bit of time.
  • Duplicate messages are frustrating when the ticket system is open and not assigned. While Zendesk does show all messages in an inbox, you have to constantly refresh the inbox to get the most up to date inbox messages. If there was a way to show when someone is selecting a message (in an open ticket setup), it would make Zendesk 10x better.
Zendesk is a great support tool for handling support tickets for small to medium size service-oriented organizations. It is more suited towards email and web with limited functionality for social media. If you run a small support team (say 3-15 people) Zendesk is worth the money. There are some features that may work for larger organizations but the need for customization and apps make it difficult to justify unless your profit per supported user is higher than the cost.
August 07, 2018

Zendesk Review

James Mcbride | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Zendesk to help us manage our tickets for our customers. It has helped being able to have a streamlined interface to be able to use. This helps us when we are helping customers because all the access is right there and we can get any data we need to help the customer now.
  • Tickets
  • Email Integration
  • Ticket Complete
  • Tickets
  • Sometimes can be cumbersome when entering in data
  • Initial Data Sync
It is well suited for a company with a customer base that will frequently call/email in. It helps organize the tickets and great place to find the information you might need. It is great to be able to pull up a customer and see their past complaints, who worked them, and if are they resolved or not.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk was implemented for our our sales support staff that also handles customer issues. Originally, we were using emails as a means of ticket correspondence. It was inefficient, to say the least. Issues were getting lost in the shuffle of everyday email, tracking for resolutions was at an all time low, and putting metrics on customer success was impossible. Zendesk solved that for us.
  • Metrics. The analytics that come with the dashboard are really helpful for managing your team.
  • Reminders and timelines.
  • Tags. They help you stay hyper-organized.
  • Convoluted dashboard. It isn't the most intuitive dash. It takes many clicks to try to find what you're looking for.
  • When you attach someone to a ticket, but later take them off the correspondence, they are automatically added back on.
Zendesk is well suited if email is the main way your customers communicate with you - it allows you to organize and assign them to appropriate people. However, we mainly work internally with third-parties to resolve conflicts when our customers come to us. Our customers often go to the sales reps, the sales rep pass the issue to the sales support staff, and the sales support staff inputs the ticket manually, attaches the appropriate party and resolves it from there. For tracking how we solve internally, it wasn't the greatest.
August 01, 2018

Zendesk is the best.

Jesse Brightman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is the central source of issue reporting for our enterprise customers. We use this for helpdesk ticket responses, which also allows us to report on customer health and time to resolution.
  • Simple and easy to use
  • Good reporting metrics which allow us to track all sorts of operational metrics
  • Integrations with JIRA, among many other integrations
  • There are currently two data dashboards, sometimes they do not match up
Zendesk is the industry standard in helpdesk/bug/ticketing resolution for customer service and experience. It is easy to implement, and even easier to use. There is a strong emphasis on data for my team, and Zendesk allows us the reporting functionality to look at our current metrics and how we can improve.
Yaron Lavi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk as customer success framework. Communication with customers starts, and usually ends, there. Customers open tickets, describe their issues, and so on. Than a customer success rep. takes it from there - he either helps them or routes the issue to an R&D member for further classification or observation.
  • Nice GUI
  • Easy filtering
  • Easy to see how a certain issue was handled and communicated to the customer
  • I'd like to immediately see "my issues" on top
  • i'd like it to auto-remember where I left it
  • GUI still little clustered.
Zendesk is a good at collecting issues from customers, and handling them as conversations.
it's less good in helping you focus on new items, or only "your" cases.
July 13, 2018

Zendesk

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is our primary mode of communication with our customers. We use it mostly for email but have a few other uses for it as well. We plan to eventually use it for phone and/or chat support.
  • It's a great tool for ticketing and tracking customer interactions.
  • It has a huge amount of customizability. Almost too much in some cases.
  • Because every business needs to use Zendesk in their own context, the tool isn't immediately understandable. It's quite complicated in many ways.
  • The biggest area for improvement would be analytics. The current Zendesk analytics platform is quite bad.
I'm a fan but have a few reservations. I would like to try something like Intercom in the future to see if that works better for our company needs.
Jamin McBain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it as an order management system for a retail clothing brand. We also used it to keep up with requests from customers.
  • It worked seamlessly with my email account.
  • I was able to mark whether or not an order was fulfilled or pending.
  • I was previously only handling requests via email, Zendesk helped put things in order for me.
  • Notification feature to your email when something hasn’t been addressed that you may have missed.
  • The support ticketing can sometimes get confusing at first glance if you are new to a this kind of program.
  • I do not enjoy when others in the organization were able to interrupt or answer a customer. I think roles should be able to be assigned and only designated to the person who is helping accisplercumless otherwise said.
As far as setup, Zendesk is very user friendly. If this is the first program to use as an administrator I do not forsee you running into much trouble roc set your team up with an account & teaching them best practices.
Chris Barretto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It is used as the primary form of support for our publishing platform. It appears on all of our pages and we get a wide range of questions from publishing to overall use of the site. It is also used to uncover bugs found by our internal team.
  • Ease of use
  • Ease of integration
  • Ticketing system
  • Navigation in the web view is a little tricky
  • Customization of FAQ section
  • Feature for auto-replies based on keyword search of question
I think this fits for any small or large company. It fulfills the need for support without much development on the application. It scales well with the size of the business and is easy to add/remove agents.
Daniel Coburn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[Zendesk is being used] In order to support 3 million active users of a classified system. Originally all support was done through email or phone calls and things would get lost and not followed up on. It was also impossible to have any type of SLA. Using Zendesk gave the group the ability to track all customer inquiries, added accountability and gave our customers a more reliable way to see where their requests were and what was happening. It also gave us the ability to grow our team and meet the of ever-growing demands of our customers.
  • Organize help tickets
  • Keep customer up-to-date
  • Allow experts in different fields to handle certain clients
  • Integration into SFDC could be better
  • While you could have canned responses the ability to easily share was not clear at the beginning in order to share best practices if they were personal responses vs. public.
Larger support organizations can benefit from Zendesk. But for many something like Zoho One with their help desk solution would suffice. If you are a larger business and want a dedicated help desk solution Zendesk is a must look at option for you. If you are a smaller startup or just getting started with CRM etc., look at Zoho One as well.
May 11, 2018

Zendesk helps!

Farah Noor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to do service requests such as updating data sheets, gathering data, technology issues, and changes needed to Salesforce etc. The whole organization uses it and it is something that is becoming the way we can get things fixed through our HQ. Since we work at regional sites--it's hard to get answers right away from HQ. Zendesk helps with the requests that HQ can help with.
  • Clear platform
  • Sends a direct email when you create one
  • Has drop down menus
  • Mobile device
  • The emails with replies can be hard to understand
  • Amount of emails
It is well suited when you are working at an organization that has sites across America. It helps because our HQ houses the main data technology people and so when we have requests it can streamline the way we get our requests answered. I feel like it would not be suited for an organization that does not have many people or where it's so small that you can just talk to the person who can help you.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is used by our organization strictly on the sales side of things as well as with our customer services team. The great thing about using Zendesk internally is that it allows our company to keep all information about our customers in one place that we can constantly review and update accordingly.
  • It is very flexible and customizable. Very fast and easy to use.
  • The support levels are fantastic. Easy to submit support tickets and get help when needed.
  • User experience is clean and intuitive. Does not require a lot of prior knowledge in order to set up and run effectively. The platform is very smart and dynamic.
  • The mobile experience is not great. Would love to see a revamped experience that is more mobile friendly and responsive
  • It is a pretty expensive solution. While it is worth the cost it doesn't come at a cheap price tag
Zendesk is a must-have solution for any organization that has a sales team of a customer service team that will be supporting their current clients. It is great for tracking, submitting tickets and overall management of clients and customer population. Less appropriate for companies who do not sell a product that other people buy.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk to raise internal tickets for the tech team as well as give access to our customers to raise support tickets on their own. It is used by the service and tech support teams. It is a very convenient tool to track incoming support requests and manage them until they're resolved.
  • Incoming request tracking and assignment via multiple channels
  • Ticket processing and communication, macros, workflows
  • Categorization and reporting
  • User management
  • Lots of integrations + API
  • Slow UI
  • Not easy or intuitive to learn, requires significant training time
  • Mobile apps contain some bugs
Zendesk is really great and I've been using it for a few years now. It helps us communicate with clients and internally to solve technical requests and it works with multiple channels. It's easy to brand with your company's styles and it has mobile apps to resolve tickets on the go. It may not be the best to handle project management tasks but it was not built to do that.
Greg Larsen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At Lingotek, we use Zendesk to handle all of our customer support tickets across the company. Our customer support department is the main department that uses it, but we have some of our product team and sales support team using it as well. The biggest problems that Zendesk is solving compared to our previous provider is to be able to have all of our ticket information stored within Salesforce so that the sales side of our company can see what is going on with their accounts.
  • Ease of use for end users
  • Help/Self-Service support page is a lifesaver for our support team and clients
  • Integrations into Salesforce, JIRA, and other software is a breeze
  • The integration with the Knowledge Base and Confluence was a little tricky
  • More customer support through the onboarding process
Zendesk is well suited for companies that are looking for an intuitive way to handle customer support and ticketing requests with their external customers as well as internal tickets within their organization. It is able to be adapted, configured, and customized with both the look and feel as well as the functionality of the software. We have found more and more use cases for Zendesk as we have continued to use it.
Adam Hanneman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is on the front line for our company. It helps us to manage our customer's tickets and chats with the company. It gives us visibility into the types of issues that our customers are running into and it allows our support team to organize themselves. We use the platform on our support team and across all customer-facing departments including sales and customer success.
  • Zendesk allows us to see the life cycle of a specific customer and all of the issues they have run into.
  • It enables us to quantify the issues that our customers are running into so that we can create better training materials going forward.
  • The live chat option inside of Zendesk makes it easy for us to manage the conversations with our paying customers.
  • The customer facing chat application is not very "pretty". I think that it could be improved upon immensely.
  • Zendesk's integration with Salesforce is not very straightforward and requires a solid amount of work to set up.
  • It would be great to be able to tie inquires into the company that aren't necessarily support related. For example a sales conversation request.
Zendesk is very well suited for organizations that are going to encounter a large number of support requests. If your product is somewhat straightforward and it is important to track the issues that they are having, it will help you organize all of this data well. If you have an "app" or something that is easier to use then Zendesk may not make sense for you. It also may not make sense if you need to track marketing data.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is currently being used by multiple departments across the business, customer support being the heaviest user. We use Zendesk as our primary ticketing system for customers as well as internal requests.
  • Automated rules and routing to ensure the right people get the right information at the right time.
  • Analytics offering allows us to track data over time and gives us extremely customizable data points to tie in with different areas of the business.
  • Zendesk has multiple integrations that allow us to plug into different areas of our tech stack.
  • Zendesk support hasn't always been the timeliest in follow up, or finding a resolution.
  • The Community offering is extremely limited and lacks the level of customization that is present in other areas of the platform.
  • The analytics might be too flexible. Can be tricky to pin point what it is exactly that you're trying to report on.
Zendesk is great as a customer support ticketing system. It has a ton of integrations that allow you to seamlessly plug into different platforms that the business is using. A high level of customization and flexibility are present; this allows you to set up multiple rules and routing so that no matter your hours of operation/business model, you can easily and seamlessly get to all of your customers.

Zendesk can also be used for multiple internal request scenarios. That being said if you need to go beyond a request and resolution system you may need to work elsewhere as the collaboration efforts may not suit your need.
Debbie Marshall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk to deliver support to our customers who use our product. The customer support team use the software to answer questions or respond to issues that our customers have with our product.
  • Allows us to create separate access for all the different organisations we have as customers
  • Provides a place for us to display FAQs and tutorials videos which can be locked down to be client specific
  • Allows us to set SLA response times per client that we can easily monitor
  • Standard reports as well as allowing you to build you on reports
  • Out or hours set up, allows us to plug in our working hours
  • Having a customer friendly app, currently, only agents can use the app
  • More levels of admin access can be quite restraining
  • CMS could be easier to use
  • When updates are made some cause issues with macros that are set up to respond to tickets
Ideally suited for a company that has a lot of customers. Can be locked down to organisation and product specific. Agents can be locked down to specific customers.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk in multiple departments at this company. We use it as a customer relationship management tool mainly for its chat and email to ticket capabilities to enhance our customer support processes. We also utilize its Communities and Help Center.
  • Ease of system administration and set up. It's easy for administrators to set up and support Zendesk to meet the majority of business needs.
  • Customer support. Zendesk provides easy accessibility and quick support when we need them the most.
  • Enhancements - Zendesk is continually improving their system which gives you hope for new functionality to help and enhance your current support processes.
  • Limited functionality - Compared to some of the competitors out there, Zendesk has a long way to go, offering limited functionality such as advanced trigger logic, the limited use of the CC field, and the lack of integration between their chat and ticket reporting.
  • Analytics - Reporting is only based off of ticket fields and hardly anything else. This makes it hard to really track agent productivity and more importantly, it is hard to integrate into your business intelligent systems.
  • Roles and Permissions - Creating roles and permissions is very limited. I would like to have more control over what users can and cannot see within the user interface as well as access to functionality.
Zendesk is well suited for smaller support groups or companies. They can definitely leverage the efficiency gained by the business automations, macros, and custom integrations that Zendesk is great at providing.

Due to the customizing limitations of permissions/roles, and the lesser flexibility of this system compared to some of the major players such as Salesforce, it's harder to implement for a larger organization that needs very specific configuration and individualization for their use-case/department.

Lastly, analytics isn't a strong point, and this is crucial to the success of your business when looking at ROI for utilizing this system.
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