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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 Support 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 Support Suite Videos
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Responding to feedback from users (ticket handling)
Integration into our bug tracking software to keep both the user and our development team on issues that are pending. This also allows us to close ticket once we push updates that address these issue on our service. Closing the loop from submission to closure is key.
Integration into other systems we already use like JIRA, Salesforce and other utilities like Slack and CloudApp.
Extensibility with Add on apps and the Apps Framework for adding in and building custom tools inside of Zendesk, mostly for agents.
We use Zendesk to manage our inbound customer service inquiries. We have 80 markets and a national market. Often times, due to user error, tickets are sent to the wrong market. With Zendesk, we can quickly assign the ticket to the right market or simply handle it with a Macro.
Online product support – submission and resolution of support requests via online tickets. We use it in lieu of Salesforce.com cases (our CRM) which is used as the product support system by the other product group at our company.
Client self-service via forums, community. We use it in lieu of Lithium, which again is used by the other product group at our company.
Client submitted feature requests. We use it in lieu of Salesforce.com Ideas, which is used by the other product group at our company.
With the combination of easy communication from end-users and self-service (help center) I have cut our response time to <24hrs, and first reply time to <5hrs.
Zendesk allows companies to manage the flow of customer service and support inquires and makes sure that incidents get attention until resolution.
The Forums feature allows companies to build a knowledge base of content that is forward facing and searchable, allowing customers to proactively answer their questions on their own. This feature can also be used to help train employees and co-workers on support/customer service related chalenges and procedures.
Automations & Triggers can be used to manage workflow of tickets and send relevant auto responses to customers who've asked questions.
The main goal is customer service – to maximize customer satisfaction to the greatest extent possible. After any intervention with customers, by phone, email or via a ticket, we send out a short survey asking if they are satisfied with the response they received. Before we started using Zendesk, our metrics were terrible. Zendesk allowed us to tweak our processes and focus on the right things so that now the customer satisfaction metric is around 90%