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…
Zendesk Suite is a great starter ticket support option!
Zendesk - how the greatest can fall in the name of "improvement"
Zendesk Suite in a Couple of Hours
Zendesk - a powerful tool for teams hyper focused on stellar customer support
Has improved a lot on features - but needs to be consistent and be more client-focused.
Zendesk the easiest tool that helped us reach our goal in a blink of an eye!
Get help easier than your 2 minute noodles !!
Software Implementation Specialist
Zendesk: A User's Perspective
Centralise all of your support channels in one tool
Always a good decision with Zendesk!
Zendesk Suite, just the way we need it!
Zendesk makes work easy!
Zendesk is awesome
How Zendesk Suite Differs From Its Competitors
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Popular Features
- Ticket creation and submission (113)9.292%
- Ticket response (112)8.888%
- Email support (109)8.787%
- Organize and prioritize service tickets (112)8.585%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Support Team (Foundational Support Only)
$19
Suite Team
$55
Support Professional
$55
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $55 per month agent
Product Demos
Zendesk Demo: The Basics
Features
Incident and problem management
Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes
- 8.5Organize and prioritize service tickets(112) Ratings
Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first
- 7.2Expert directory(69) Ratings
Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts
- 7.4Subscription-based notifications(75) Ratings
Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates
- 8.1ITSM collaboration and documentation(71) Ratings
Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.
- 9.2Ticket creation and submission(113) Ratings
Users and agents can easily enter new support requests.
- 8.8Ticket response(112) Ratings
Agents can easily follow up with customers.
Self Help Community
Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.
- 8External knowledge base(96) Ratings
Customers can self-service by searching through help articles.
- 8.2Internal knowledge base(89) Ratings
Internal knowledge base helps agents answer customers' support questions.
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.
- 7.6Customer portal(85) Ratings
Customer portal allows customers to submit tickets themselves and/or access self help resources.
- 8.2IVR(36) Ratings
Includes an interactive voice response system for routing callers to the correct agent or information.
- 7.3Social integration(67) Ratings
Agents can communicate with customers via social networks like Facebook and Twitter; may also include brand activity monitoring/reporting capabilities.
- 8.7Email support(109) Ratings
Integrates with email so that agents can send and receive information related to support tickets via email; email communications are attached to support tickets.
- 8.6Help Desk CRM integration(79) Ratings
Integrates with CRM so that tickets and support communications are coordinated with customers' records.
Product Details
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What is Zendesk Suite?
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
Zendesk Suite Videos
Zendesk Suite Integrations
- Jira Software
- Trello
- Slack
- Shopify
- AppFollow
- Intercom
- Geckoboard
- Zight
- Mailchimp
- Nutshell CRM
- Talkdesk
- Zoom
- TeamViewer
- Zoho Assist
- Seismic Learning
- Zoho Books
- Trustpilot
- Pendo.io
- Dropbox
- LiveChat
- Hootsuite
- Box
- 8x8 Contact Center
- Giphy
- MaestroQA
- Qualtrics XM for Customer Frontlines
- RingEX
- HubSpot CRM
- Medallia Agent Connect
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Myndbend
- Google Play Reviews
Zendesk Suite Competitors
- Freshdesk
- HappyFox Help Desk
- HelpSpot
- Kayako
- Mojo Helpdesk
- Salesforce Service Cloud
- Zoho Desk
- UseResponse
- UserVoice
- KronoDesk
- ChangeGear Service Desk
- Kustomer
- Oracle Fusion Service
- ServiceNow IT Service Management
- eGain
- Ameyo by Exotel
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Gorgias
- Freshservice
- Gladly
- Intercom
- Talkdesk
- Twilio
- LiveChat
- SolarWinds Service Desk (SSD)
- Pega Customer Service
- Genesys Cloud CX
- HubSpot Service Hub
Zendesk Suite Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | 160+ |
Supported Languages | 60+ |
Security |
Zendesk Suite Downloadables
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(1-25 of 151)Highly Recommend ZenDesk
We primarily use inbound text and email. Customers really like being able to simply text in and get a response within minutes. My team loves the mobile app and being able to reply to messages quickly anywhere they are using th iOS App. I can easily monitor communications between our support reps and customers to ensure the best experience for everyone.
We have probably 10 different email addresses mostly for our backend support that ZenDesk Suite easily distributes into different "views" or I would call folders. This allows our processors to very easily track inbound messages and follow up accordingly.
ZenDesk Suites makes it simple to make outbound calls using our primary text number when customers request to speak to someone. One thing we can't do which I hope changes is being able to initiate these calls from the iOS App.
One other thing that after a long time asking is apparently coming later this year (Q3 2024) is being able to initiate a text conversation using our primary number. Right now we are only able to reply to inbound messages and when they close out we can no longer text the customer until they text back in and start a new conversation.
All in all it is a great product, I would recommend to anyone who wants to make their communication with clients/customers simple and scalable. I couldn't imagine my business without ZenDesk Suite.
- Inbound Text
- Inbound Email
- Outbound Phone Calls
- Being able to place a call from iOS App
- Initiating a text conversation with a customer
- Outbound Caller ID Name is limited
We use the talk feature with the phone very limited so Zen works fine for us, but if I was running an inbound or outbound call center I don't believe Zen has all the functions I would want as a manager.
For limited phone use and mostly email, text, and even web chat, ZenDesk works great. Having the iOS App is so great and flexibility with notifications allows my team to be "on call" anytime without unnecessary interruptions.
Zendesk Suite is a great starter ticket support option!
- Statuses for support tickets
- SLA's
- Reporting
- Easy to use interface
- tagging of tickets
- Allowing secondary emails to receive ticket status updates
- More status updates and report on them
- Native Integrations with more ecommerce platforms
- It allows multiple agents to access different tickets
- It allows different permissions to be set for both clients and agents
- There are configurable views of open tickets available
- There is a search function
- There is basic markdown support
- "Improvements" to Zendesk, especially the UI cause our entire company's productivity to drop for anything between a week and a month as we are yet to see anything that actually improves on what we had in 2017.
- The search function has a lot of room for improvement e.g. boolean functions, searching for phrases rather than individual words. Quotes help but only a little.
- Zendesk seems keen to focus on lightweight support e.g. the free online chat based support type in B2C websites. By focusing on that, B2B clients such as ourselves suffer as what may work well for B2C does not necessarily work well for B2B
- There are lots of "features" we have no use for but still have to pay for in our bill. Better billing options where we can remove unneeded services and get a discount would be a significant improvement.
Zendesk Suite in a Couple of Hours
- Ticketing system
- Communicating with customers
- Internal tickets
- Connection to Salesforce
- Cost
- Triggers - we're able to automate a significant amount of tasks and repetitive work by relying on Zendesk's flexible trigger options.
- Macros - The ability to create complex message templates with autofilled information is a significant time saver.
- Collaboration - since Zendesk implemented more transparent communication controls for CC contacts we're able to have more effective communication with customers and relevant stakeholders. This was a much appreciated improvement.
- Merging tickets - when merging tickets the default behavior is to make them a public comment. This comment creates confusion with the customer. To avoid this the agent must uncheck the public comment boxes during the merge process to avoid sending the customer a confusing and unnecessary notice.
- 2 way sync integrations - when it comes to integrating into services likes HubSpot, Zendesk only syncs one way. It would be ideal if there was more support for syncing fields both directions or having a choice of what data fields syncs and which direction that sync happens without requiring some sort of middleware like Zapier.
It would be less appropriate for companies and teams who require some sort of customer management solution. It's great for keeping up with customer requests, but it's not ideal for maintaining a database about customer details.
Has improved a lot on features - but needs to be consistent and be more client-focused.
- Channel integration: email, chat, social media
- Automations and triggers
- Asynchronous integrations between channels i.e when a customer leaves on chat they can continue on other channels like social media
- Analytics and reporting
- Zendesk FAQs - customizations wise on themes would need coders
- Additional metrics based on specific use cases, specifically real-time dashboards are hard-coded. Most of our metrics are customized hence is not not useful.
- Support can be average and as an enterprise customer, we need our vendor to be at par with the technology and support we provide to our end users.
- Very easy to use
- Be able to open more than page at a time
- Be able to work 2-3 cases at a time with no freeze
- I believe agents should not be able to take a ticket that has been already assigned to someone's else
- the look needs to be update it looked to old even though it works excellent
Get help easier than your 2 minute noodles !!
We have hosted our support portal for articles and videos for one of our customer relationship management tool. We are also using Zendesk as our help ticketing system integrated with our internal platform on a daily basis.
- Ticket Management
- Help Portal Hosting
- Chat / Messenger Feature
- Flexibility and customization in GIF Flows in Help Portal
- More themes or capability to upload our branding themes in portal
- Ability to Parse Email Parameters link Phone and Address from the raised ticket or other custom tracking event
Admin options should be more clear, internal menu navigation is complex and creates more confusion while arranging the sections and articles.
Channel Management is good but Forum management can be brought in with more flexibility. More Apps integration or flexibility in APIs so that a newbie can also integrate the application into the software.
A redundant software that brings in 360-degree communication of support/service concepts into practicality however if the option to compile texting with platforms like ringcentral, Twilio or Dialpad will be an awesome thing to share ticket updates with custom templates.
Software Implementation Specialist
- Really good find and search options, easy to search for a participants email
- I'm able to find a consolidated history of all the interactions each participant had in the past with us
- Able to save responses for the rest of the employees can use as a generic response to certain FAQ. For example if a participant wants to know how to exercise their options, we have a saved paragraph that goes through step by step of how to exercise options or to sell stocks they have and a guide on how to do this in a saved response.
- Not sure if this feature was blocked on purpose but our Zendesk emails does not have a forward function. When a participant claims they did not receive our emails, we don't have the option of forwarding that email to the participant.
- When a case gets closed on Zendesk I don't have the ability to reopen it. Instead I need to start a new case.
- Hard for me to pull the data that I need for reports. (I'm not sure If I have that access to do so or if the tier that we bought supports it)
I had cases of other employees closing cases when they should not have been closed and it's frustrating that we can't reopen a case.
Zendesk: A User's Perspective
- Real time support case management
- Instant support article creation and publishing
- Easy support metric dashboard creation
- Need alerts and reminders to follow up on open/pending support cases
- More user friendly UI
- Simpler ways to associate customers with accounts and organizations
Centralise all of your support channels in one tool
We have also implemented the Zendesk Widget within our app to allow customers access to the guides and to our support form without needing to leave our app.
- Integrates well with other tools
- Simple user interface
- Multi-channel
- Great API
- Automations can be complex to setup - even getting a notification to slack isn't straightforward
I think live chat scenarios - this doesn't suit Zendesk well, especially if you want to use the API to retrieve the messages. All of the chat messages appear as one entry in Zendesk which isn't helpful if you want to do analytics.
Always a good decision with Zendesk!
- Reporting and Analytics
- Ease of Agent Training and Use
- Able to add multiple brands with related custom reports and dashboards
- Adding a new brand and basic help center is easy to do without the need of an expert or web team
- Ability of agents and supervisors to see customer history across multiple channels
- Adding more training on Report building beyond the basics
- Add more flexibility to enhance the report look/format, set up as we have with Micosoft Excel
- Support to Clients is varied- some Zendesk staff are thorough and helpful while others just offer basic responses without resolving the actual issue
Zendesk Suite, just the way we need it!
- Being customizable to the needs of each business.
- Maintaining a detailed history of customer interaction to set everyone up for success.
- The ability to eliminate duplicate efforts (HUGE)
- I think the Graphical User Interface could use a facelift. It not the most aesthetically pleasing platform in my experience.
- Particular things like where the default is when you click on each and every dropdown menu.
- The macro integration could be a little more simplified.
Zendesk makes work easy!
- Organization
- Ease of use
- Call transferring
- Clean layout
- Time format
- Being able to customize layout and appearance
Zendesk is awesome
- Easily request help
- Transparent communication
- Streamline communication
- I can’t think of anything specific
Zendesk: Elevating Customer Support to New Heights
- Easy management of new users
- Calling
- General Support
- Improved ways of users calling to us without the need of creating a new ticket
- Worldwide calling
- Allow ticket updates to display in emails without the need of logging in
We love this software
- great visibility
- great updates
- ease of use
- onboarding
- end user support
- new feature requests
- price
Adequate for a small teams needs
- outbound communications
- Importing contacts/end users
- Automated actions (closing tickets, auto replies)
- Multi-channel support simultaneously
- More options for customization for phone trees
- Option to restart the loop through available agents if the call wasn’t answered by any available agents the first time it was served to them
- Improve clarity/info available on whether a message was actually sent to the end user or not
The ability to turn it into an all-in-one solution for all departments is lacking, which is unfortunate because it makes the support aspect less valuable as a result.
Zendesk- Best Decision We Made!
- Easy to set up Reports and Dashboard reports by brand.
- Easy to train agents and light users on how to use.
- Fast and helpful support to customers using Zendesk.
- Helpful to view a customer's multi-channel inquiries (tickets).
- Lots of API and 3rd party integration options.
- Over time, pricing is increasing as Zendesk breaks apart prior bundled features by license, and we would like to see better discounts for long-term customers.
- Chat Support is mixed- some agents supporting us as a Client don't fully review everything needed to resolve at 1st point of contact, while others do take that step.
- Offer more training (free) for reporting and multi-brand set up.
Reasons why we chose to work with Zendesk.
- Customer Satisfaction Statistics.
- Ticket Management.
- Shopify integration.
- Reduced downtime.
- Better automatic ticket distribution.
- Auto reply emails.
- Better spam filters.
Incredible Enablement for Support Agents
- mobile SDK
- web-app SDK
- ticket history
- stats on response times
- we've never really figured out how to get feedback workflows embedded into resolved tickets. nice to have not a priority
the fact that we can also search old tickets quickly to understand the user's history and their past tickets is quite nice for us.
The best tool to make the clients feel listened
- centralize all clients' requests
- perceive the level of satisfaction of the client with our product
- collect all the feature requests for the PM to categorize them
- keep track of the product issues
- the reporting tool is complicated to use
- sometimes the macros are not correcty triggered and it requires a deep troubleshooting to have them fixed
Why we chose Zendesk Support Suite over all the other apps out there
- email customer support
- chat customer support
- voice customer support
- macro usage
- zendesk reporting
- tag usage
- delays during chat where the last message sent does not reflect at once and needs a page refresh
- problems with reporting that does not show real-time data when pulled up
- creation of child tickets a bit buggy, does not reflect after adding one
Zendesk not perfect but I can't find better
this prioritisation is the the primary problem/biz case it addresses.
- Ticket updates internal and external (to clients)
- Reporting on workload for Customer care agents
- Reporting on productivity of customer care agents
- Canned responses
- Reporting interfaces are ugly and hard to navigate
- Ironically need to read a lot of help guides to get anywhere
- Customer Care agents do often complain at the number of clicks required to do anything
Great Software to Support Your Customers
- Allows us to categorise different calls and problems
- Helps us keep track of what needs to be resolved
- Assists in assigning tickets to particular team members for different customers
- Automatically close tickets for outbound calls
I think it will be less suitable if you were to use a different CRM since it gets tedious to use when you are tracking on both systems.