Overview
What is Zendesk Suite?
The Zendesk Support suite is a cloud-based customer support software built for better customer relationships. Designed to improve customer satisfaction and to support customers on any channel: text SMS, web, mobile app, phone, email, social media. The vendor states more…
Zendesk Suite is a great starter ticket support option!
Zendesk - how the greatest can fall in the name of "improvement"
Zendesk Suite in a Couple of Hours
Zendesk - a powerful tool for teams hyper focused on stellar customer support
Has improved a lot on features - but needs to be consistent and be more client-focused.
Zendesk the easiest tool that helped us reach our goal in a blink of an eye!
Get help easier than your 2 minute noodles !!
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Zendesk: A User's Perspective
Centralise all of your support channels in one tool
Always a good decision with Zendesk!
Zendesk Suite, just the way we need it!
Zendesk makes work easy!
Zendesk is awesome
How Zendesk Suite Differs From Its Competitors
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Popular Features
- Ticket creation and submission (113)9.292%
- Ticket response (112)8.888%
- Email support (109)8.787%
- Organize and prioritize service tickets (112)8.585%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Support Team (Foundational Support Only)
$19
Suite Team
$55
Support Professional
$55
Entry-level set up fee?
- Setup fee optional
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $55 per month agent
Product Demos
Zendesk Demo: The Basics
Features
Incident and problem management
Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes
- 8.5Organize and prioritize service tickets(112) Ratings
Prioritize tickets to ensure most urgent are tackled first
- 7.2Expert directory(69) Ratings
Directory of IT and businesses services available to customers to help route tickets to appropriate subject matter experts
- 7.5Subscription-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.
- 8.1External knowledge base(96) Ratings
Customers can self-service by searching through help articles.
- 8.2Internal knowledge base(89) Ratings
Internal knowledge base helps agents answer customers' support questions.
Multi-Channel Help
Features related to providing customer service and support via different communication channels. Communications are organized by ticket/customer/channel for the convenience of agents.
- 7.6Customer portal(85) Ratings
Customer portal allows customers to submit tickets themselves and/or access self help resources.
- 8.2IVR(36) Ratings
Includes an interactive voice response system for routing callers to the correct agent or information.
- 7.3Social integration(67) Ratings
Agents can communicate with customers via social networks like Facebook and Twitter; may also include brand activity monitoring/reporting capabilities.
- 8.7Email support(109) Ratings
Integrates with email so that agents can send and receive information related to support tickets via email; email communications are attached to support tickets.
- 8.6Help Desk CRM integration(79) Ratings
Integrates with CRM so that tickets and support communications are coordinated with customers' records.
Product Details
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What is Zendesk Suite?
Zendesk Suite Features
Incident and problem management Features
- Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
- Supported: Expert directory
- Supported: Subscription-based notifications
- Supported: ITSM collaboration and documentation
- Supported: Ticket creation and submission
- Supported: Ticket response
- Supported: Automated responses
- Supported: Attachments/Screencasts
- Supported: SLA management
Self Help Community Features
- Supported: Forums
- Supported: External knowledge base
- Supported: Internal knowledge base
- Supported: Surveys/polls
Multi-Channel Help Features
- Supported: Customer portal
- Supported: Live help chat
- Supported: Phone support
- Supported: IVR
- Supported: Call scripting
- Supported: Social integration
- Supported: Email support
- Supported: Help Desk CRM integration
Zendesk Suite Screenshots
Zendesk Suite Videos
Zendesk Suite Integrations
- Jira Software
- Trello
- Slack
- Shopify
- AppFollow
- Intercom
- Geckoboard
- Zight
- Mailchimp
- Nutshell CRM
- Talkdesk
- Zoom Workplace
- TeamViewer
- Zoho Assist
- Seismic Learning
- Zoho Books
- Trustpilot
- Pendo.io
- Dropbox
- LiveChat
- Hootsuite
- Box
- 8x8 Contact Center
- Giphy
- MaestroQA
- Qualtrics XM for Customer Frontlines
- RingEX
- HubSpot CRM
- Medallia Agent Connect
- Salesforce Sales Cloud
- Myndbend
- Google Play Reviews
Zendesk Suite Competitors
- Freshdesk
- HappyFox Help Desk
- HelpSpot
- Kayako
- Mojo Helpdesk
- Salesforce Service Cloud
- Zoho Desk
- UseResponse
- UserVoice
- KronoDesk
- ChangeGear Service Desk
- Kustomer
- Oracle Fusion Service
- ServiceNow IT Service Management
- eGain
- Ameyo by Exotel
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Gorgias
- Freshservice
- Gladly
- Intercom
- Talkdesk
- Twilio
- LiveChat
- SolarWinds Service Desk (SSD)
- Pega Customer Service
- Genesys Cloud CX
- HubSpot Service Hub
Zendesk Suite Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Supported Countries | 160+ |
Supported Languages | 60+ |
Security |
Zendesk Suite Downloadables
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(925)Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-25 of 51)Highly Recommend ZenDesk
We primarily use inbound text and email. Customers really like being able to simply text in and get a response within minutes. My team loves the mobile app and being able to reply to messages quickly anywhere they are using th iOS App. I can easily monitor communications between our support reps and customers to ensure the best experience for everyone.
We have probably 10 different email addresses mostly for our backend support that ZenDesk Suite easily distributes into different "views" or I would call folders. This allows our processors to very easily track inbound messages and follow up accordingly.
ZenDesk Suites makes it simple to make outbound calls using our primary text number when customers request to speak to someone. One thing we can't do which I hope changes is being able to initiate these calls from the iOS App.
One other thing that after a long time asking is apparently coming later this year (Q3 2024) is being able to initiate a text conversation using our primary number. Right now we are only able to reply to inbound messages and when they close out we can no longer text the customer until they text back in and start a new conversation.
All in all it is a great product, I would recommend to anyone who wants to make their communication with clients/customers simple and scalable. I couldn't imagine my business without ZenDesk Suite.
- Inbound Text
- Inbound Email
- Outbound Phone Calls
- Being able to place a call from iOS App
- Initiating a text conversation with a customer
- Outbound Caller ID Name is limited
We use the talk feature with the phone very limited so Zen works fine for us, but if I was running an inbound or outbound call center I don't believe Zen has all the functions I would want as a manager.
For limited phone use and mostly email, text, and even web chat, ZenDesk works great. Having the iOS App is so great and flexibility with notifications allows my team to be "on call" anytime without unnecessary interruptions.
- It allows multiple agents to access different tickets
- It allows different permissions to be set for both clients and agents
- There are configurable views of open tickets available
- There is a search function
- There is basic markdown support
- "Improvements" to Zendesk, especially the UI cause our entire company's productivity to drop for anything between a week and a month as we are yet to see anything that actually improves on what we had in 2017.
- The search function has a lot of room for improvement e.g. boolean functions, searching for phrases rather than individual words. Quotes help but only a little.
- Zendesk seems keen to focus on lightweight support e.g. the free online chat based support type in B2C websites. By focusing on that, B2B clients such as ourselves suffer as what may work well for B2C does not necessarily work well for B2B
- There are lots of "features" we have no use for but still have to pay for in our bill. Better billing options where we can remove unneeded services and get a discount would be a significant improvement.
Zendesk makes work easy!
- Organization
- Ease of use
- Call transferring
- Clean layout
- Time format
- Being able to customize layout and appearance
Adequate for a small teams needs
- outbound communications
- Importing contacts/end users
- Automated actions (closing tickets, auto replies)
- Multi-channel support simultaneously
- More options for customization for phone trees
- Option to restart the loop through available agents if the call wasn’t answered by any available agents the first time it was served to them
- Improve clarity/info available on whether a message was actually sent to the end user or not
The ability to turn it into an all-in-one solution for all departments is lacking, which is unfortunate because it makes the support aspect less valuable as a result.
Reasons why we chose to work with Zendesk.
- Customer Satisfaction Statistics.
- Ticket Management.
- Shopify integration.
- Reduced downtime.
- Better automatic ticket distribution.
- Auto reply emails.
- Better spam filters.
Incredible Enablement for Support Agents
- mobile SDK
- web-app SDK
- ticket history
- stats on response times
- we've never really figured out how to get feedback workflows embedded into resolved tickets. nice to have not a priority
the fact that we can also search old tickets quickly to understand the user's history and their past tickets is quite nice for us.
Yikes, run from Zendesk
- nothing
- at
- all
- support is terrible
- price is high
- they hold data hostage
- Nothing
- Nothing
- Nothing
- LACK OF COMPETENT SUPPORT!
- NO SUPPORT WORTH A DAMN!
- PROCUCT WOULD WORK BETTER WITH ANY KIND OF DECENT SUPPORT!
- Stealing your money in my opinion
- Scamming you in my experience
- Misrepresentation on product pages I feel
- Not stealing money
- Not lying about free trials
- Not charging customers $500 for 3 hours of use
- For now, sadly, nothing. We are helpless.
- The customer support. In order to purchase the tool, commercials are present but not for customer support.
Zendesk is good value for your money
- Sends personal alerts to your email if a ticket is about to breach SLA
- The GUI is user friendly, clean and organized
- Allows you to filter tickets in different status and create different tabs for each
- Zendesk should have a warning message displayed when a user cannot add new users to the account. It should tell you why you can't, so you aren't left assuming why you are not able to.
- Zendesk is on the higher end of pricing in relation to other CRM solutions
- Integrate with other platforms
- Easily follow on a conversation and see who has responded what
- Allow internal notes from the team that customers can't see
- Setting it up is really confusing at first
- The suspended filter is not very good at predicting what is spam and what is not
- Sometimes people can't find attached files on our responses
I would not recommend it if you just have one or two team members total, as it might complicate things too much for something that can be done over e-mail, but once your team grows, this is a good option.
Unacceptable customer support
- Sales
- I do not know anything else yet:(
- Tracking and reporting
Zendesk -Good CRM Starting Point
- 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.
Sleek and Intiutive Customer Support Package
- App Integration with Jira
- Label/Tab customization
- Reporting and Metrics
- Visual representation of issues
- Attachments
- Macros
- Search
- It's very fast - it's very easy to jump between items.
- Integration with apps from the ZenDesk Marketplace.
- The ability to have triggers happen on specific incoming events makes it easy to track, auto-close, or assign tickets automatically.
- Trigger logic is slightly flawed, but if you figure it out you can use it to your advantage.
- For some reason there is a maximum number of "Views" on the sidebar, which limits how much ticket breakdown can happen.
- There are WAY too many options - making the settings page a little overwhelming.
If your source of data is smaller and can be handled by a group email - then ZenDesk may not be a fit for you, but consider it as your company grows.
Great for small companies
- Very easy to start using - small startup friendly.
- Multiple channel support.
- Extremely customizable.
- Robust reporting.
- Macros and triggers require more effort to set up.
- Zendesk customer support take too long to get back to you.
- Formatting tools for creating articles only allow for simple text.
- On the pricier side, pricing isn't competitive.
Zendesk is great for communicating to users
- Submitting Tickets
- User Communication
- Ticket History
- Cleaner UI inside the ticket
- Customizable views when looking at the master ticket screen
Zendesk the best business ally
- Technical support
- Integration with other applications
- Wide catalog of business solutions
- Improve support interface
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.
Inflexible and Difficult to Use
- It integrated with Facebook.
- It integrated with Twitter.
- The workflow was fixed, so if your ticket flow didn't fit with how ZenDesk thought it should it was difficult to manage. For example, I like to separate tickets where we are waiting for something from the customer from tickets where I'm waiting for an employee to deliver something. This was impossible, and when I gave that feedback I was told that wasn't a valid way of looking at support. This meant I had to inspect each and every "Pending" ticket every day to separate them to generate a list of tasks.
- Their ticket UI is weird and difficult to understand.
- As a manager, I wanted to see what tickets my customer service agents submitted over the past week, but their "View" feature doesn't include OR logic making it impossible to create a proper search. Even just getting a list of all of the tickets that were completed in the past week was impossible without a lot of massaging of the data, and tech. support refused to even answer the question. I had to do two searches, one for "solved" tickets and one for "closed" tickets, and you couldn't change the state workflow since their crazy system doesn't allow it.
They promised integration with Shopify and that never worked. The ticket workflow system couldn't be modified. The online solution database was useless and we couldn't use it. Typically you'd create a database of responses to quickly answer common questions, but the idiotic feature to insert the responses was so difficult to use we ended up having to use a separate window and then copying and pasting everything. It took twice as long as the system we switched to.
Stay away from Zendesk!
- Tagging system.
- Confusing UI. Tickets don’t make sense where they are.
- Lack of customization on the right hand nav.
- Terrible customer service.
Read the fineprint before purchasing.
- Good for managing issues and allocating problems across a diversified team.
- Cancellation policy - we cancelled our domain (no longer using it) and they still billed another year even though they knew we didn't need it.
A great tool for small to medium-sized companies who want a robust tool to offer multi-channel support
- 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.