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!
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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
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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.
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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 |
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(1-25 of 35)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
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.
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.
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.
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
Yikes, run from Zendesk
- nothing
- at
- all
- support is terrible
- price is high
- they hold data hostage
- Chat support and ticketing
- Phone support integration and ticketing.
- Help center with articles for self-service support.
- API is very powerful, but sometimes a bit difficult to utilize.
- Could use more flexibility around building forms for ticket use.
- More flexibility in copy down functionality to sandbox environment would be nice.
- Ticket tracking and logging.
- Customer Support.
- Documentation of tasks and incidents.
- SLA guidelines.
- Automated SLA's would be nice. We didn't have any automation outside of email notification.
- Customer's sometimes had issues with not being able to update ticket metadata themselves such as priority, etc.
- An approval method would have been nice. We would have to use comments from particular parties as 'approval' when moving enhancements and changes between environments. This worked but a more streamlined approach would be good.
- Zendesk makes it easy to see if a question/ticket has already been answered/updated (and to see who answered it).
- Zendesk makes it easy for users to indicate if they are available to respond or not.
- Zendesk also makes it easy to respond as you can respond within the software/system. A one-stop process!
- It took some of our customer service staff a bit of time to get familiar with how to forward incoming chats that needed [a] response.
- The cost can be a bit prohibitive as each individual account needs to be paid for.
Great solution for small customer service operations.
- User management
- Organization
- Custom alerts
- Allow each user to customize the look of their Dash, rather than being hemmed in by company selections
- Provide a way for Suspended tickets (created by emails from non-users) to be better managed
- Set a timer for tickets to reopen on a more individual ticket basis.
Where it could use some improvement is personalizing individual users' experiences a bit more. Company admins really shape what the individual can do.
Zendesk is a great fit for our organization, although we'd like a few more features for the cost
- Knowledge base.
- Customization options.
- Smart workflows.
- Basic features only in higher editions.
- Knowledge base themes are basic.
- Can be tricky to implement.
Zendesk is an easy to use helpdesk tool
- Able to solve customers' issues.
- Mostly user-friendly.
- Able to work collaboratively with your team.
- UI can be a bit more welcoming.
- Sometimes searching for specific tickets can be hard.
Nearly perfect customer management software
- Organizing and prioritizing emails.
- Merging customer data.
- Reporting trends.
- Integration with third-party phone providers.
- Intuitive reporting tools.
- Customer surveys.
- Ticketing works great
- Following chat and email
- Few glitches in the system and great customer service when and if there is a problem.
- Adding admins to the software can be a bit of a hassle when bringing someone else on or taking someone off, I would prefer an easier way.
- The help center can be designed a little better. Especially with the chat indicator.
One of the best support desk apps money can buy
- 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 our hub for knowing our customers and being customer driven in our business
- 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.
The Pros and Cons of Zendesk - A Manager's Perspective
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
- 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.
Zendesk is an everyday tool in our company
- Easy to use. It helps to save time when solving customer tickets.
- Great integration possibilities. There are lots of ways to expand Zendesk functionality with other tools or connecting with a CRM.
- Powerful analytics.
- Reporting part is a bit slow.
Why Zendesk will help your business grow!
- Zendesk is really user friendly! I can only compare it to Desk.com as I used this in a previous company and this is far superior.
- The ability to freely customise the help center has been hugely beneficial as we can then align it with our corporate website.
- The number of integrations with other pieces of software has helped in the day to day running of the business - e.g. integrating with Slack, Zopim and Zapier.
- An internal agent chant functionality would be really useful!
- The search function is a bit annoying as the results are sorted in an odd way. You expect it to show currently active tickets at the top and then list the rest in order from newest to oldest, when I search for a common issue I still get old tickets near the top!
- It would be nice to be able to bulk edit orders - i.e switch a lot of tickets to another agent.
Zendesk has proven itself to be extremely valuable
- Zendesk gives everyone involved simple, clear data to track and manage issues or projects. For me the greatest help has been this repository of tasks I can come to everyday without worrying about whether I've forgotten something or not.
- The basic bits of data have proven very valuable. Leveraging even the most basic data about response times, tickets all related to one specific issue, recurring areas of trouble has been and is continuing to be very encouraging.
- Being able to give our staff direction on how they can get support helps everyone feel better about how our time is being used. Going from nothing to Zendesk has taken a lot of stress off of my plate, even with the lowest package, Starter.
- The main functionality of Zendesk that has been apparently lacking to me is when a user creates a new ticket its not clear enough how they can follow along with that ticket specifically. I could see the default automated ticket creation response being focused more on allowing the creator to view that ticket online. A few users will send a new email, thus creating new tickets, before I get a chance to respond to their original ticket.
- The app feels more limited than the website. I'm not sure that it actually is, but because it seems more focused on viewing than taking action I don't use it as much. I do find that when I want to do something from the app it's usually possible, I just feel that it could be simplified in terms of common actions being forefront. More so than the standard tab bar iOS UX/UI mechanism.
- I'm not sure how you would implement this, but intercepting other support members chiming in on completed tickets or adding redundant comments.
Zendesk excels as internal helpdesk
- A full feature set and the right automation and integration features, enough to support support staff so that the system is used to capture everything. This is a key difference: a product that gains a positive feedback loop versus one that slowly fades out of proper usage.
- Automation and customization settings and user interface.
- Mobile app.
- Email integration - the feature to forward an email into Zendesk and have it pick up the requestor from the FWD is a key enabling feature when used as an internal helpdesk.
- A broad set of integrations.
- Reporting and tracking of metrics.
- The agent user interface is good, but still needs work: there are two versions of the UI - the older version is fairly static and has too many clicks often to get common tasks done. The new interface has "tabs" inside the interface instead of taking advantage of browser tabs, and the back button cannot be used in many situations.
- The knowledge base is good, but not great: the interface is a bit clunky, more so than the other areas of the interface. Also, when using it for an internal helpdesk on a Plus account only "agent" accounts can edit articles, so internal users cannot collaborate well on knowledge-base articles.
- Integration with third party applications - We love that ZenDesk integrates with so many other tools we use as an IT Support Team. This helps us readily access everything we need from one vantage point.
- Workflow. IT help desk lives and dies by how well you can manage the workflow of issues. Both the desktop app and mobile app are extremely easy to use....allowing our staff to access and respond to issues efficiently. ZenDesk also allows us to capture 'internal' comments between our staff without exposing those to the end-user. We love keeping all of our notes together in one place.
- Automation - ZenDesk has some incredible tools to automate workflow. Both their automations and triggers help us to route and escalate certain types of issues based on the contents of the emails coming in from end users.
- ZenDesk does offer a knowledge base tool, but it is very limited. It would be great if you could lock down the knowledge base site based on incoming IP address so it could be used as an internal knowledge base without requiring your staff to login. It would also be great if ZenDesk had lower cost user license just for the knowledge base so it could be used for other purposes beyond the ticketing system.
- At the 'Regular' account level, some reports are available, but they are awkward and very limited.
- It's a little pricey.
Best Online Ticketing System!
- Customers can easily sign up and open a ticket with our helpdesk.
- Reading, editing, updating tickets is super easy online and on phone client.
- Reporting features are a bit (just a little) limited. It would be nice to create Salesforce-style reporting where we could pick and choose more fields, criteria, etc.