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Zendesk Suite

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…

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Zendesk is awesome

9 out of 10
October 05, 2023
Incentivized
We use zendesk as a way to communicate any internal issues we are having with our IT, HR, etc. it’s really a centralized way for us to …
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Popular Features

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  • Ticket creation and submission (113)
    9.2
    92%
  • Ticket response (112)
    8.8
    88%
  • Email support (109)
    8.7
    87%
  • Organize and prioritize service tickets (112)
    8.5
    85%

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Pricing

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Support Team (Foundational Support Only)

$19

Cloud
per month agent

Suite Team

$55

Cloud
per month agent

Support Professional

$55

Cloud
per month agent

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.zendesk.com/product/pricing…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $55 per month agent
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Product Demos

Zendesk Demo: The Basics

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Features

Incident and problem management

Streamlining ticketing and service restoration processes

8.2
Avg 7.9

Self Help Community

Features that allow customers to self-service for support issues.

8.1
Avg 7.7

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.

8.1
Avg 7.6
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Product Details

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

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations

Zendesk Suite Videos

Zendesk Videos
This software unboxing dives into Zendesk, a platform for support, sales, customer relationship management, and more. As we demo the product, we rate Zendesk on its usability, interface, installation, customer support, and more. While not a full tutorial, if you're considering...
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Zendesk Suite Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported Countries160+
Supported Languages60+
Security

Frequently Asked Questions

Zendesk Suite starts at $55.

Freshdesk, HappyFox Help Desk, and HelpSpot are common alternatives for Zendesk Suite.

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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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I've been using ZenDesk Suite for over 7 years now. It makes my communication with my customers and potential customers very simple and scaleable.

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
Inbound messaging it is top notch, it does it well and couldn't imagine anyone's program doing it better. Like I said before been using ZenDesk for over 7 years and absolutely love it.

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.
Nicholas Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Zendesk used to be potentially the world's greatest ticketing system in my opinion. It's still not a bad ticketing system but there seems to be an increasing amount of scope creep to add more functions. Now it seems to try to get a much wider range of users with a much fluffier idea of what it is trying to be. For a multi-client, multi-agent setup, it does the job reasonably well. This is ideal for B2C usage and used to be very good for B2B users. If you are looking for something in house Zendesk is overkill in my experience. Go find something off the shelf with a one time purchase license instead and your CFO will thank you.
October 05, 2023

Zendesk makes work easy!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
ZSS allows my team and I to effectively connect with clients, while keeping all correspondence for that person in an easy-to-access file. We use call, SMS, and email for all of our clients so it's super important that we have a reliable system to do that from. It also addresses the ability to effectively store and organize correspondence.
  • Organization
  • Ease of use
  • Call transferring
  • Clean layout
  • Time format
  • Being able to customize layout and appearance
There's no times where I think ZSS would be inappropriate. I really like the system and how it so easily allows my team and I to share ideas and solutions on internal notes, the many different options for compartmentalizing tickets that are no longer being worked on or ones that you need to remember to follow-up with, how it creates a log for each contact, and shows in chronological order all of the tickets you've done for the day.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Zendesk has adequate features for most small to midsize businesses and does have a lot of room for customization and using workarounds to make it work for what you need.
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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Zendesk primarily to receive, work and follow up with customer's tickets. Zendesk helped our organization manage customer inquiries very efficiently in a fast-paced environment. Customer Satisfaction Surveys were a big plus because they allowed us to see where our team needed to improve. Lots of configuration was required to get it running perfectly, but in the end, it was worth it.
  • Customer Satisfaction Statistics.
  • Ticket Management.
  • Shopify integration.
  • Reduced downtime.
  • Better automatic ticket distribution.
  • Auto reply emails.
  • Better spam filters.
It is great for small startup companies and even big companies. Zendesk support sometimes lacks speed but they seemed to solve issues quickly once they get a grip on it. Might not be on everyone's budget, especially with small start-ups. Overall, I was happy to work with Zendesk and it was very easy to use and learn.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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
Well suited for any SaaS where you have end-users who need support. We have also implemented automated macro processes to bump bump solve tickets that sit dormant for too long.
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.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Terrible. Runaway as fast as you can. This company is a scam. They provide terrible support, charge an outrageous prices, and hold your data hostage when trying to leave. Even generating a CSV requires talking to support, for which they will give you instructions on how to do it that don't work. Such a joke, worst experience ever. There are many many better solutions out there. Sad. I bet this company will be in the news soon as fraudsters.
  • nothing
  • at
  • all
  • support is terrible
  • price is high
  • they hold data hostage
Would not recommend to worst enemy.
Richard Sheldon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We don't. In order to use it, we would need to correctly set it up. However, the parade of incompetency from Zendesk support people has kept us from using it. Their support is terrible!
  • Nothing
  • Nothing
  • Nothing
  • LACK OF COMPETENT SUPPORT!
  • NO SUPPORT WORTH A DAMN!
  • PROCUCT WOULD WORK BETTER WITH ANY KIND OF DECENT SUPPORT!
DOES NOT WORK! NO SUPPORT
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
This company is an absolute scam in my opinion. I recommend that you stay as far away as possible. I signed up for a 14 day free trial on February 12th. I had to enter my credit card information, but it became quickly apparent that the software was not going to work for my business. I contacted their support and told them to cancel my account. They told me that my credit card had already been charged in "full" for the entire month, that there are no refunds, and that there was no possible way to get my money back. In my perspective, this is clearly an outright misrepresentation and theft and I will be pursuing legal action if my money is not returned. Reprehensible behavior and I feel an absolute scam. Stay as far away as you possibly can in my opinion.
  • 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
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I am very disappointed. We purchased Zendesk in order to gain productivity but we can't use it properly. We are having issues with the setup and it's impossible to have contact with customer support. Ironic for a service that helps companies to chat with their clients. Now, we paid for it for the year and we can't use it and nobody is responding.
  • For now, sadly, nothing. We are helpless.
  • The customer support. In order to purchase the tool, commercials are present but not for customer support.
I supposed that the tool is great when you can use it, but unfortunately, we can't.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zendesk to manage all of our requests, question, and issues. Zendesk also allows us to have an organized view of all incoming and old tickets. It's more efficient to track issues in this application than it would be through regular email and helps make the process of communicating with clients more professional and structured.
  • 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
Zendesk will be useful for companies that are in need of an easy-to-use CRM application. It's very user-friendly and allows users to easily adapt to the workflows within the platform. The integrations with other 3rd party applications are seamless and configurable to the company's needs.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our main use is customer support. Our entire team is on Zendesk though, as we also use it to communicate with our suppliers, and to send notes in between members regarding a specific ticket. This is our main CRM software, and we integrate it with Tidio, Facebook, Instagram and other software to have one platform that allows us to respond to any incoming messages from our customers regardless of where they come from.
  • 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
It is a perfectly good software for a small company that wants a fairly simple solution for CRM that does not require hours of training.

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.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Zendesk support has been incredibly bad [in my experience] or let's call it impossible. I have tried to contact them around 20 times and 10 out of them have been voice mail to leave a message and they would call back that, of course, does not happen. Around 10 times I have reached them they have promised to find out and call back and never did, they have also hung up and never called back and the funny thing is they also never sent any emails as promised. The only time they were helpful is for sales to sign us up😀 but unfortunately we are unable to use the service useful for the business. That does not seem to interest them a lot:) very ironic is that they sell customer support software, aren’t they using it themselves? How can things like that happen then? They should have tons of unsolved tickets, this is just unbelievable.
  • Sales
  • I do not know anything else yet:(
  • Tracking and reporting
It could be well suited for companies with 24h customer support. We need tracking for first respond and solving tickets during working hours and Zendesk has not been able to solve this very basic thing in the past 3 months. Otherwise, the tracking does not offer us any value at all.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk 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.
Zendesk is great for small businesses looking to start a CRM system. It's easy to learn and manage with a small team. It works well internationally and most of the integrations work well. If you are a larger company, you may want to look into a more robust platform as the integrations and larger team management features are limited.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We currently use Zendesk within our Customer Success and Support Teams, and we utilize the app integration with Jira to track all requests as well. Zendesk solves our Customer Support and tracking needs and helps us keep metrics of pressing issues and concerns. We also use the Knowledgebase integration to help reduce the amount of questions requiring an agent answer.
  • App Integration with Jira
  • Label/Tab customization
  • Reporting and Metrics
  • Visual representation of issues
  • Attachments
  • Macros
  • Search
Any company that needs to track customer complaints, concerns, or requests would benefit from Zendesk. They ease of use and simplicity it offers is great for any size company. For larger companies, you can track metrics and run reports to see how your Team is doing and what issues/requests are most prevelant. However, if you're looking to track work across multiple departments within the organization or if you're looking to facilitate collaboration within your organization, Zendesk isn't really what you're looking for.
Justin Esgar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using ZenDesk Support for our incoming ticket queue. All clients email our support email which ends up in ZenDesk Support. This allows anyone on our team to be able to reply to incoming tickets and help our clients. It allows us to keep the flow of information in one location. The additional integration of apps, such as FreshBooks Time Tracker+ and Watchman Monitoring allows us to handle a bigger suite of issues for clients.
  • 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.
ZenDesk is great if you have a large source of incoming data. For us, we managed over 500 endpoints with a lot of users who have something to ask/request/complain about. So we need a system that will take all that data in.

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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk is being used across the whole organization. It allows us to answer our customer's questions and follow up with them easily. Their ticketing system is also flexible and customizable which allows for a frictionless start.
  • 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.
It is well suited for a startup with a few agents, but for more users it isn't too suitable.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk Support Suite is being used by our organization as a ticketing system with one of our clients. We use it to follow a workflow when tickets are assigned to us and communicate to users with anything we need. It allows our customers to input tickets in multiple ways, including texting from their mobile device.
  • Submitting Tickets
  • User Communication
  • Ticket History
  • Cleaner UI inside the ticket
  • Customizable views when looking at the master ticket screen
Zendesk Support Suite is well suited for larger organizations that require a lot of information to be stored in one single place. The way we utilize it, we are able to have all of the user's contact information, as well as what Time Zone they are in. It is very customizable in that we can attach a certain subject line to emails that go out that will link to other ticketing systems.
Jorge Guevara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zendesk has helped our organization to achieve healthy indicators in customer service, which is the area where it is currently used, for real-time customer service as well as follow-up through tickets to customer problems and all customer service. customers who communicate outside of business hours.

Zendesk is the best tool we could find to be our business ally, currently user satisfaction is 95% in customer service.
  • Technical support
  • Integration with other applications
  • Wide catalog of business solutions
  • Improve support interface
Zendesk is a great fit for front-to-back customer service, as well as great on-boarding for sales and lead tracking.

Zendesk has to be the first tool you have in your organization, it is very complete and as your business develops, Zendesk will be able to satisfy your organizational needs, it has world-wide experience in customer support.
Taylor Chapman | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Zendesk excels at workflow management for tickets and customization options needed in more complex organizations. It lacks a bit in providing a full suite for smaller customers with simple features like customer satisfaction surveys only available in pricier editions. Its knowledge base is full-featured, but the default themes are a bit basic.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used Zendesk to handle customer questions from our website contact form and social media. It allowed multiple people to be able to do customer support from day-to-day.
  • 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.
If you have a very simple need to just log emails or phone calls without a workflow then it worked fine as long as your requirements are dead simple.

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.
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.
Just don’t use Zendesk. Find another service. They will force you to pay thousands upon thousands if you decide to cancel service. It’s just not worth the hassle. The irony that a customer service company is bad at customer service is an incredible reason to shy away from using Zendesk.
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.
Zendesk is great if you like to fight an uphill battle with customer support from your customer support tool. Zendesk is great if you want to have countless windows and tabs open to offer support. Zendesk is great if you wish to see an example of a terrible user interface for a web-based product.
Sam Mitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We used it to manage customer phone calls/interactions and tickets.
  • 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.
After the way they treated us when we were no longer using the product I wouldn't recommend anyone use them.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We 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.
Zendesk is great for small- to medium-sized companies that expect fewer than 1500 tickets/inquiries per week. It's especially great for small startups looking to create an out-of-the-box solution to offer customer support at an affordable price. Zendesk doesn't do very well when you have over 1500 tickets/inquiries a week. But once you get to that many inquiries, your company will be larger and ready to evaluate other solutions.
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