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- 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%
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$55
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$55
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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
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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 |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
| Supported Countries | 160+ |
| Supported Languages | 60+ |
| Security |
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Zendesk Suite starts at $55.
Reviewers rate Ticket creation and submission highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Zendesk Suite are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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We use Zendesk exclusively as a ticketing system for our support clients. It allows us to keep track of multiple tickets spread across multiple clients. We also use previously solved tickets as reference for new tickets. Rather than having to solve the same problem multiple times, it is much easier to locate the same problem in a previous ticket and use that solution for reference.
- 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.
April 12, 2024
Zendesk Suite in a Couple of Hours
I strongly think that Zendesk Suite is the best way to go if you are a small to mid-size organization that needs any kind of ticketing system, if this is talking about technical or even finance, you can create a ticketing system in one night. The UI is just the best I have seen, I really recommend using it, and it is a blast to use. It costs quite a lot, but you get what you pay for.
- Ticketing system
- Communicating with customers
- Internal tickets
- Connection to Salesforce
- Cost
January 05, 2024
Has improved a lot on features - but needs to be consistent and be more client-focused.
On a given regular basis, Zendesk is mainly used in our organization as our main communication tool for support agents and customers catering to the most integrated channels at the moment: email, chat, and social media. We wanted a tool that eliminates working in silo and consolidates all inquiries onto 1 platform hence Zendesk was selected.
- 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.
October 05, 2023
Zendesk: A User's Perspective
I use Zendesk Support Suite to track and review customer support cases, create customer support dashboards to track case metrics and create and publish knowledge base articles.
- 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
October 05, 2023
Centralise all of your support channels in one tool
Zendesk Support Suite is used as our main tool for handling customer support enquiries. We also utilise Zendesk Guide as our public-facing Knowledge Base to allow customers to self-help before contacting our team.
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.
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
September 26, 2023
Adequate for a small teams needs
We use Zendesk Support Suite as our platform for end user-facing support and servicing. That includes incoming and outgoing emails, phone calls, as well as a knowledge base. It was really important to be able to link various methods of communication to the specific end user, which Zendesk allows us to do without much of a hassle!
- 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
September 25, 2023
Incredible Enablement for Support Agents
Zendesk allows our customers to efficiently submit support requests both from our web-based cloud portal and our mobile app. Our support agents can quickly respond to inquiries and view ticket history to better understand the context of an issue. It has been critical that we are able to embed this into our apps as a support channel.
- 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
September 25, 2023
The best tool to make the clients feel listened
Zendesk is our tool to centralize all the requests coming from clients. These could be tickets about features not working, removed, added, request for help, or even feature requests. The tickets are essential also for the Customer Success team to figure out the level of client satisfaction, to be discussed during the QBRs.
- 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
September 25, 2023
Why we chose Zendesk Support Suite over all the other apps out there
We use it for several ways, to support real estate agents across the US by utilizing Zendesk via email, chat, and voice. We employ the usual ticketing system to answer and address issues submitted by real estate agents. It is also handy as a real-time chat application where they can easily send messages to us by using the CRM platform.
- 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
May 12, 2023
Disapointing experience
Score 3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We have been users of Zendesk for more than 7 years. We use it to chat with our customers (B to C), process tickets, and calls, as well as our Help Center base. Our Support serves up to 7 000 chats and 1000 emails daily in a variety of languages.
- Classic Chat widget
- Big, popular company with a variety of services and integrations
- Stable services with low amount of disconnections and unavailability
- Regardless of how much you pay, in my opinion your feedback will be ignored, even if it is widely supported by the community.
- in my experience, Zendesk forces you to transfer to their new system, “Agent Workspace,” which lacks major features that are present in the Classic Chat Widget. Despite any arguments, they took the position, “We will not update the old system, so transfer to the new.” When transferring to the new system, Zendesk lacks attention, understanding, and proper support. Agent workspace does not work as promised (later, more on that).
- In my opinion, it is horrible support. I cannot emphasize that enough, but every manager in my team constantly complains about the inattentiveness and lack of basic comprehension abilities of Zendesk managers. Unless you involve your personal manager (who does not answer support questions), your issues will be paid zero attention to. In my experience, they will not accept any feedback. Most importantly: if the question cannot be answered with a link or a shortcut, the support team forwards your issue to tickets. Moreover, in 30% of cases, support will resolve the tickets without giving your replies. As a support manager of many years, I cannot imagine the level of disregard for a paying customer who needed to close the requests without a reply.
- Agent Workspace: I believe it is very slow performance. The switching between chats is slow to the point it glitches.
- Agent Workspace: Automatic translation in chats does not work for mobile SDK. Agents had to switch from a fast service with translation, dynamic content, and other features to a system that has none of these and constantly glitches.
- Agent Workspace: Skill-based routing does not work correctly and is limited to the possibilities of the Classic Widget Chat triggers, which is ridiculous - in other words, they took the old platform that had its disadvantages and made a new one based on it, with new bugs and with all the disadvantages the previous one had. The system forces 1 agent to take up to the maximum amount of chats while other agents take 2 chats. The system doesn’t allow flexible routing; you have triggers with all OR any conditions without a combination of those.
- Agent Workspace: Some tickets which were automatically created after chats did not close automatically and constantly reopened.
- Agent Workspace: All tags will disappear if you renew the page (which has to be done frequently due to the lags). This will make your company unable to create and follow up on any request statistics.
October 25, 2021
Zendesk is probably the best ticket system out there
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I like the ability to integrate Zendesk support with our FAQ page, through the Knowledge base. The user support is also very nice. The live chat for admins was quick and responsive and the agent can point you in the right direction. The account managers are also very personable. I love how you have all the tools to have all the tools for you to not only integrate the available connections already done with other systems, but you can also make your own, keep expanding the arrange of information that enables you to give the best-personalized experience to your client because all the necessary information is at your agent's finger tips. And the great thing is that when you collect all data from the various interaction points on our customer's journey, you know where your focus should be, what to reinforce, and what to change, so really, the limit is as far as you are willing to take it.
- Very stable
- Easy to use for agents
- Setup is easy to administrators
- it could be more dynamic
- triggers should be more simple
- Automations needs work in Zendesk
Zendesk was used by our Support department to manage incoming email and tweet support requests. Our team would respond to users through Zendesk, and internally we used it to then pull metrics to better understand the number of requests, response time, survey responses, and common issues.
- Easy way to quickly triage email requests from our customers allowing others within the organization to see the history of their requests.
- Metric tracking: Zendesk allowed us to gain insight into a number of different metrics that we wanted to track for both effectiveness and user experience.
- Status holds: We could keep tickets open for users while hiding them internally as we waited to see if they had any follow-up questions.
- Categorizing: It wasn't easy for us to group requests by issue type within the product itself.
- Organization: There was no way to prioritize requests.
- At times, searching within a broad range was difficult to quickly get results.
Zendesk Support Suite has helped streamline our customer service by offering customer and sales support products which include chat, call center solutions, and knowledgebase modules which help agents track and prioritize support tickets, solve problems efficiently and centralize customer interactions. It has a built-in intelligent routine that ensures appropriate customer-to-agent fit and automates ticketing queues to reduce resolution time.
- Instant features and topic suggestions offer customers a self-service smart knowledge base.
- The custom fields and tags are used to classify tickets for easier tracking and archiving.
- Communication with people across the organization on support issues through private notes.
- There is no option to export data directly into a CSV file.
- Cost is determined per agent so an additional agent means additional cost.
May 01, 2021
Customer service made easier with Zendesk
Zendesk originated in my department as a solution for handling the increase in customer support requirements as we expanded our online sales. We needed not only a platform to ensure customer questions were answered in a consistent and timely manner, but also to track interactions over time. After demonstrating the effectiveness of the tools in our department, its footprint grew to include all customer service across the enterprise. Most recently, it has been identified as a preferred CRM solution in the business and we plan to grow usage as the team has matured.
- Provide a large number of methods to interact with customers
- Maintain logs of customer interactions
- Track time spent by agents across many segments, allowing us to see what brands, product categories, and other attributes take the most support effort
- Enterprise pricing includes a number of features we don't need, but we have to pay for in order to get a few key functions
- Text message support is there but limited
- Native chat widget for Vue Storefront is missing
April 24, 2021
ITSM in Medium CX business
It's used as a platform for managing remote customer support with development and engineering teams. It's used to support customers upon agreed SLA. The responsible department is IT & Service Edge teams.
- SLA
- Internalt/External Communications
- Knowledge Base
- Service Management
- N/A
April 20, 2021
A great helpdesk solution
This was mainly used for support tickets but was also used as a knowledge-base and alert system. It was used company-wide.
- Great organization of tickets.
- Great customization.
- Easy to use knowledge base and alerts.
- I was very satisfied coming from an end users standpoint.
- I have no complaints or suggestions for improvements, really.
March 17, 2021
Zendesk is a great fit for our organization, although we'd like a few more features for the cost
We use Zendesk to provide quality and efficient support to our B2B customers. It manages our end user tickets created via form or email as well as our knowledge base and customer support portal. Our team uses Zendesk to communicate with the end-users and with other team members on tickets.
- Knowledge base.
- Customization options.
- Smart workflows.
- Basic features only in higher editions.
- Knowledge base themes are basic.
- Can be tricky to implement.
January 22, 2021
A highly configurable, easy to use ticketing system
We are using Zendesk across a couple of main business units. I use it personally to handle IT support requests as well as administering it for our Customer Service team who use it to service our external customers. Previously, both teams were managing all requests out of inboxes using Outlook which was inefficient and lacked ownership of tasks.
- Ownership: Assigning tickets to agents and allowing them to follow through the entire process from end to end.
- Organization: Multiple teams can be in the same instance and tickets can be assigned between teams depending on which stage of the process it is up to.
- Ease: For both end users and agents. The end users can either just send an email to a designated email address or go in and use a preconfigured template in the landing page.
- Reporting: There are some additional purchases that can be made to increase reporting, however, I would like to see some more reporting out of the box.
- Statuses: It would be good if we could make our own Statuses as not everything fits into the preconfigured categories
- Add ons: There are plenty of add ons in the store but some of the more highly adopted should be rolled into the core build by default.
October 01, 2020
Not really for the smaller companies.
Zendesk is used for Service Support Desk functions as well as for Knowledge base. It was used broader in the company, but teams outside of Tech moved over to Wrike for more project functionality and integration with other tools.
- Automation works well for ticket distribution
- Knowledge base is clean and provides a good search feature
- Out of the box features are lacking
- Costs to add on other features to empower staff can get costly
- Support not always responsive
August 04, 2020
Stay away from Zendesk!
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zendesk Sell is being used by our sales team and Zendesk Support (Suite) is being used by our customer success team to manage issues that patients have accessing our platform. We have a small company so we only need a couple of accounts on each. We were trying to use Duet because we have practice customers and payer customers so we could double up on our client success team managing our practice pipeline and customer issues.
- Tagging system.
- Confusing UI. Tickets don’t make sense where they are.
- Lack of customization on the right hand nav.
- Terrible customer service.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zendesk is a terrible product. First, while they have many modules, managing them is disjointed. They literally call the same feature by something different across modules. Further, ironically, Zendesk might have the worst customer support of any product we use to run our business. Response times are slow and answers are quite commonly terrible -- they do not address the actual question nor are they coherent. If I were to start over I would not even remotely consider Zendesk and you should not either.
January 12, 2019
RR Zendesk Review
It is being used by our IT help desks to address customer issues and concerns. It is used by our department, as well as a couple of other departments on campus. It addresses our core mission of serving our customers and allows us to send satisfaction surveys to our customers once the service has been provided. It is easy to implement and use, and allows us to address whatever deficiencies we have in our customer service area.
- Management of requirements or requests.
- The tool is customizable and easy to implement and use.
- We can automate our responses to our customers.
- Great flexibility in purchase packages.
- Should add response time according to the type of requirements or requests.
- Develop graphs by type of incident
- Have notifications every time you are consuming the time of a ticket
- Have video calls.
October 30, 2018
An Honest, End-User Review of Zendesk
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.
October 10, 2018
One of the best support desk apps money can buy
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.
September 27, 2018
The art of Zendesk.
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.