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Zendesk is a cloud-based software solution that offers help desk ticketing, issue tracking, and customer service support. It integrates with dozens of content management systems, customer relationship management tools, and web apps. Features include hosted support email-ticket integration, online forums, RSS and widgets.
Pricing starts at $1 per agent, monthly, featuring email ticketing and a knowledge base. The $25 Regular edition includes communities and surveys, and a custom domain. The recommended $59 per agent, per month Plus edition includes time tracking, custom reporting and dashboards, and an additional internal knowledge base; this edition's features represent the free trial configuration. Beyond this, the $125 Enterprise and $195 Enterprise Elite (per agent, per month) feature support and training, multibrand support, and other perks.
Zendesk, Inc in San Francisco was bootstrapped from its founding in 2007 to June, 2008, when it received its first round of funding. In May 2014 Zendesk went public. The company now employs over 800 people and supports over 51,000 customer accounts.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/uP/79/M1ENTDBQMJ5X.PNGZendeskZendesk promotes an optimal and efficient relationship with our customers2019-08-13T15:39:37.797ZZendesk is being used in our Sales department. This platform has allowed us to maintain quality service with our clients. Integrates all communication channels used by the company. It has functioned efficiently as an e-commerce tool, determining its customer support through email, telephone line, social networks, and real-time chat. Everything is provided fast, simple and personalized communication with each and every customer in the company.,It has an extremely nice interface, it can be customized, which allows it to be easy to use and allows you to have all the information we need from the client.
Zendesk keeps a record on the ticket of all interactions that occur with the customer.
It has an effective self-help customer service tool to make them self-sufficient.
It allows to efficiently manage the platform from mobile devices thanks to the fact that it has mobile applications for iOS and Android.
It provides a function that allows determining the performance of the attention we offer to customers through surveys.,It is unpleasant to have duplicate messages when the ticket system is open and not assigned.
Zendesk prices can be expensive.,9,Zendesk offers multiple advantages for the company, such as increasing productivity and customer satisfaction rates.
It is an effective comprehensive strategy tool that solves the support service when it comes to attracting and maintaining customers.
Optimize and organize our customer service process, which makes it an essential tool to attract our customers.,8,9,Jira Service Desk,Dropbox Business, Adobe Campaign, Google Data StudioEmely FosterA highly configurable, easy to use ticketing system2019-03-30T12:22:52.429ZWe 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.,8,Tasks are all being handled by the same agent which gives us ownership right the way through
All interactions of the tasks are kept together in one place
Tasks can be easily reassigned to another more suitable agent, escalated or progressed once one part of the task has been completed.,JIRA Software,LastPass, Genesys PureCloud, Sophos Endpoint ProtectionSam OthmanZendesk is an easy one-stop platform for your electronic communication needs!2019-06-19T20:54:46.207ZZendesk is a tool we use primarily for inbound emails. It allows us to separate our inboxes for different departments, as well as assign which agents have access to each box. It also integrates with our chat software (SnapEngage), so that incoming chats become tickets and can be saved and researched easily when necessary. It allows an easy interface for all electronic interaction with our clients, as well as providing an easy platform for quality assurance review.,Allows multiple inboxes with easy assignment of inboxes to specific agents.
Integrates well with other software we use such as SnapEngage.
Organizes tickets for emails, chats and calls for easy access and research.,No real cons...easy to use, with a great interface!,8,Zendesk has allowed a more fluid approach to answering emails; organizing them and allowing agents to assign themselves work (or the manager to assign).
Zendesk allows our online chats to be ticketed for easy access, research, and quality assurance purposes.
For my team, Zendesk integration allows us to use just one platform to access all we need.,SnapEngage, Genesys PureCloud, PlayVoxMichael JacobsonZendesk the most complete customer support tool that exists2019-02-27T15:48:00.342ZZendesk is being used throughout the company. It works as a support ticket solution aimed at the client, allowing users to send tickets for service requests. It allows integrating all communication channels used by companies to communicate with their customers. It can integrate without interruptions for a large number of communication channels in one place. It supports integrating self-help tools in your customer service platform. With Zendesk the company has managed to reduce the hard work of customer service, making it much simpler, easier and more proactive.,The integration with multiple platforms for communication makes this a complete and effective tool.
It has an excellent interface with tabs to view several tickets at once, with a design that is quite intuitive and works well in almost any browser.
Provide real-time support to your clients and proactively initiate talks with visitors to your website.
It has effective built-in telephone support for communication with customers.,Price plans for Zendesk are expensive.
Your analysis tool can be a bit complicated to use.
You do not have the possibility to change the code that delivers the support.,9,Zendesk, with its efficiency and quality, has allowed us to increase the productivity of the company.
Communication with customers is much more efficient.,Asana, Adobe Acrobat DC, Oracle DatabaseJames Michael WoodA great helpdesk solution2019-03-12T13:12:14.810ZThis 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.,10,It has helped our helpdesk efficiency a ton. We saw results nearly immediately after switching.
It has made our job easier.,ServiceNow,Litmos, Help Scout, Microsoft 365 BusinessAlan GadboisA great tool for small to medium-sized companies who want a robust tool to offer multi-channel support2018-12-21T20:13:23.184ZWe use Zendesk at our small ecommerce company to support our customers via email, in-app submissions, Facebook, and Twitter. Zendesk was the right choice for us because it's relatively easy to implement, allows us to quickly create and update our help center/FAQ, has multiple integrations for the other tools that we use (i.e. Shopify), and it scales appropriately with our small setup. I've set up and used Zendesk at three separate companies and I highly recommend it for those expecting fewer than 1500 tickets/week. The robust tools they offer will allow you to create a CRM from scratch, customize it to your liking, and offer great support right off the bat.,Instead of using a developer's time to create a landing page for your FAQs, you can quickly and easily implement and update your FAQ/help center through Zendesk's Guide tool.
Quickly and easily customize your customer's experience when interacting with your organization's support team. For example, you can update the automated response received upon ticket creation and the design of that email sent to customers from Zendesk's portal.
Out of the box analytics for key KPIs. If you don't have much experience with this Zendesk's pre-built analytics will help you get an idea of how your support team is performing. If you want more robust reporting you can build it out with Zendesk's free Goddata analytics tool.,The pricing is a tad high. Considering that they're a larger company I wish they'd offer the same account levels at lower prices.
Their analytics infrastructure is good for basic reporting but I wish they had more robust options for advanced users, looking for more insight into their customers' inquiries.,9,Zendesk has allowed us to create a support infrastructure for a relatively low cost, allowing us to spend our money on hiring great agents who work with the tool.
Integrating other tools into Zendesk is easy and allows our agents to work more efficiently, reducing the touches they perform and the costs associated with that.,Freshdesk and Intercom,Talkdesk, Shopify, IntercomVerified UserZendesk adds Zen to our team!2019-06-20T15:54:18.583ZWe use Zendesk for customer support. Our members send us a request and we respond via Zendesk.,Macros.
Call features.
Triage buckets for email requests.,Site freezing.
It would be nice to unsend an email.,9,We are able to categorize our workloads to give a better picture of the volume and data.,,IntercomVerified UserNearly perfect customer management software2019-03-01T20:50:31.763ZAll customer emails come through Zendesk. It provides an easy line of communication between our policyholders and us.,Organizing and prioritizing emails.
Merging customer data.
Reporting trends.,Integration with third-party phone providers.
Intuitive reporting tools.
Customer surveys.,9,Improved customer relations.
Saves time.
Great software, no complaints.,Talkdesk,TalkdeskVerified UserAn Honest, End-User Review of Zendesk2018-10-30T20:37:26.028ZZendesk 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.,7,The ability to track progress on customer support requests in one ticket reduces time spent with back and forth communications.
Unfortunately the lack of historical insight increase handle time, which negatively impacts overall service time.Carmen JohnsonOne of the best support desk apps money can buy2018-10-10T20:41:02.372ZWe 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.,7,Overall, I would say Zendesk has had a very positive impact on ROI. If we tried to use free tools to manage support tickets, we would lose visibility of tickets, lack prioritisation, double handle tickets, misplace attachments/details and miss out on ticket reporting.,Freshdesk and Intercom,Xero, Chargify, Zoom, SlackNikhil GeorgeIs Zendesk What You're Looking For? Try a Demo and see is what I say.2019-01-15T18:23:25.881ZI have worked in multiple fields and have held two jobs at a time, therefore, I have had the opportunity to work with various software. Zendesk is good for smaller companies. It's a good way to keep in contact with customers, they have great chat options and really help to create a seamless communication between your company and the customer. The ticketing software is great it provides detailed information regarding the tickets and a sort of history which is important because you can follow what has been handled, what needs to be handled and what had already transpired, which speaks for itself.,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.,8,Overall Zendesk is a relatively positive software and is easy to use CRM
It had again created that communication bridge between customer and agent which is pertinent in running a well-oiled ship.,Salesforce Commerce CloudKenyata GarnerRR Zendesk Review2019-01-12T02:33:43.795ZIt 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.,9,Improved customer service ratings for our department since the implementation
Faster responsiveness to customers
greater survey data on customer satisfaction,Jira Service Desk,Skype, Dropbox, MailChimpRon RothstainZendesk is incredible for small teams managing many customers.2019-01-11T15:07:46.515ZWe 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,10,Positive: Customer satisfaction has never been higher
Positive: Our team can exert less effort to solve incoming tickets
Positive: Our resources are enabling users to help themselves before escalating to support,Intercom, Microsoft Office 365, Google DriveAndrew MurphyZendesk is our hub for knowing our customers and being customer driven in our business2018-08-28T21:38:25.459ZWe 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.,10,Zendesk allows us to manage a large influx of customer created tickets, auto generated tickets, customer success and technical service tickets with a very small core group of support agents. (able to ramp our tools instead of our headcount)
In our case 40% of our support can be solved in one transaction with the user because we have been able to integrate a number of tools to allow the user to submit screenshots and markup with detailed descriptions, extract their local system data and be able to send them on their way with a solution fast. (Quality submissions reduce the number of back and forth with the customer)
Zendesk is one of the special ingredients to our very high rated support response time. (Fast through put),,CloudApp, JIRA Software, Slack, FreshBooks, Gusto,100,1,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.
API for automating Zendesk.,Custom integration built on top of their current JIRA integration allows us to keep both Zendesk and JIRA up to date and know how many customer tickets are attached to a JIRA issue. This continuous sync allows us to close the loop with users when bits are live on our service.
Our forum is also integrated into Zendesk so we can pull tickets from our forum into Zendesk and provide technical assistance when we need to take something off line.
Integration of our public voting site, which allows us to track users that are voting for improvements without having to submit tickets on their own.,It could expand to other groups as we grown to manage their business segment of tickets.
Having the API there is always new things we do to automate either ticket creation, update or communication to our users that are started from other tools in our organization
The sky is the limit.,10Lou GalloZendesk is a great ticketing system!2018-11-05T21:52:29.954ZWe 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.,9,Working with Zendesk provides fast responses to clients and request resolution that helps to provide timely service for our clients.,JIRA Service Desk and Freshdesk,Freshdesk, Trello, HubSpot CRM, Zoho CRM, Zoom, Podio,9Kris LambertZendesk2018-09-12T18:33:56.034ZWe 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.,10,N/A I do not have this information to add, but I do know it has helped us in figuring out different issues and we are able to go back and look at items!,GitHub,Zoom, GitHub, SlackBridgette ReynoldsCSM Review of Zen Desk2019-02-07T17:29:25.614ZWe use Zendesk as our support portal. This is the central place for our customers to open a support ticket either by logging in or sending an email to our support address. It is used by all of Support and Customer Success.,Keeping Track of Users in the system
Keeping track of all of the tickets a customer has opened, sent in, or have been opened by a CSM for them
Keeps a complete history of information regarding the tickets (which is extremely helpful when we have to research a ticket for a customer),The search function needs some help. It brings back too many returns,10,Obviously, we couldn't do the work we do without utilizing Zendesk
While I don't have the actual numbers- we handled over thousands of tickets in 2018 and were able to keep the Customer updated as we tended to their tickets in a timely manner.,Gainsight, Salesforce App CloudVerified UserThe art of Zendesk.2018-09-27T21:11:22.045ZMany 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.,9,Saves an enormous amount of time by centralizing communication based on issue, rather than having to lean on users to pay close attention to email AND phone AND chat services that your company may use. It feels like a one-stop shop for help, rather than sending a request into the abyss and waiting to see if someone hears you.
Provides multiple options for connecting with users through chat, phone, or screen share (with app plugins like TeamViewer). This keeps tickets focused and helps users contextualize the troubleshooting, which generally makes for quicker resolution time and quicker response time.
Simple to understand leaderboards and metrics allow higher levels of analysis for team efficiency, individual contributions, and trending issues. This helps teams create documentation on common problems to store in the end-user knowledge base and identify pain points across the user base.,SysAid,Slack, TeamViewer, Code42 (formerly CrashPlan)Verified UserZendesk -Good CRM Starting Point2019-01-10T23:22:57.338ZZendesk is used by several departments at my company: customer service, IT improvements and international inquiries. It helps us manage globally and stay on top of different projects and improvements. It also helped us set up a good workflow on processing warranty claims for our company globally. In general, we wanted to manage our customer issues in a better fashion and also stay on track with needed website improvements,It helps several users go in and see progress on different customer issues.
It helps us tag and track issues to report back on different problems.
It integrates well with our Google form warranty claim and allows us to process and solve our cases in an efficient manner.,There isn't a good way to pass long Zendesk emails outside to non-Zendesk users.
The tagging and sorting isn't the best - we need to do it by country and there's not a super easy way to do this.
When we integrated Facebook chat, every time we would respond in Zendesk, Facebook wouldn't acknowledge it, making our response times suffer. We ended up disconnecting and continuing to respond directly.,6,Since we are a global company, it has helped secure sales when we are not available, as we get people answers to purchase in an organized fashion.
It helps one person deal with CX and warranty issues globally and remotely in our company.
It has helped us better fix site issues to increase sales.
It was a low-cost CRM solution for us.,Salesforce.com,Stitch Labs, 3PL Warehouse Manager, Google DriveVerified UserZendesk manages varied requests2018-12-06T17:17:04.763ZOur 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.,7,Helps us respond faster to customers
Resolutions have increased
Helps us save time to prevent sorting and triaging manually,Salesforce for Higher Ed, Google Drive, ExpensifyVerified UserZendesk is great at tracking and managing requests2019-01-31T18:58:49.908ZZendesk is used as a request and intake point for tasks, projects, and bugs. This helps us track volume of incoming requests and we can assign priority.,Easy to manage requests
Easy to assign tasks
Easy to manage communication,Needs a smoother transition between admin view and submitting a ticket
A way to view what a non-admin user is seeing
Show preview of attachments if possible,7,Save on time
Help with prioritization
Track request metricsVerified UserThe Pros and Cons of Zendesk - A Manager's Perspective2018-08-22T20:45:58.801ZWe 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.,9,Using Zendesk has given our managers a more holistic view of the support desk process. Prior to this, most managers did not have any way of tracking or reviewing support desk resolutions.
Zendesk has improved our ability to handle customer queries. We are now more organized and aware of what channels our customers use to communicate with us and can handle more queries more effectively.
Our cost per support staff vs profit per supported user has been reduced. Previously we paid 30% more for subscription fees but with Zendesk, our cost has been cut and productivity has been increased across teams.,HelpSpot,Canva, Zoho BooksNathan SichilongoZendesk is the best.2018-08-01T21:48:48.999ZZendesk 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,10,Zendesk is the central place for us to have all of our support data - it's one source of truth.
Anyone can step right in and use it- no training necessary.,JIRA Software, ClientSuccess, SlackJesse Brightmangood ticket management option; pricey and somewhat cluttered2018-07-16T19:30:37.056ZWe 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.,7,it allows for professional customer communication management
it helps the perception of good customer success team, which customers love and rely on,JIRA Service Desk,Atlassian ConfluenceYaron LaviBest scalable support solution2018-07-13T18:47:51.060ZIt 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,10,I like the rollup each month on how our response rate is going
It pushes us to keep response time low
We like to clear the ticket queue out each day,Desk.com,SendGrid Marketing Email, Pivotal TrackerChris Barretto
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Zendesk
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