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Zoho Desk

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What is Zoho Desk?

Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

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Free

$0

Cloud

Standard

$14

Cloud
per user

Professional

$23

Cloud
per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee required
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Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Brinde soporte Excepcional con Zoho Desk - Webinar 2020

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Product Details

What is Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk is a cloud-based context-aware customer service software boasting users among service teams in over 40,000 businesses such as Daimler, Essilor, and McAfee.

Zoho Desk helps service teams manage customer conversations across email, phone, live chat, and social media. It is designed to pack the automation and analytics necessary to scale to any volume of customers. It is presented as easy to implement, and tightly integrated with other software used by the team for context and continuity.

Zoho Desk aims to address real-time customer service challenges. It helps service teams with collaboration, productivity hacks, AI, and measures customer happiness.

Zoho Desk Features

Incident and problem management Features

  • Supported: Organize and prioritize service tickets
  • Supported: Expert directory
  • Supported: Subscription-based notifications
  • 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: Q and A
  • 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

Zoho Desk Screenshots

Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.

Zoho Desk Videos

Is it even possible to build a world-class product from a small, rural town? Sridhar Vembu, Zoho's CEO, and the team narrate how they built Zoho Desk and what problems it solves for businesses around the world.
What is Zoho Desk? - An Overview
Customer centricity lies at the heart of any organization. Every process & approach is built with a sole objective of providing a positive and amazing experience to the customer.
How Zoho Desk’s automation features can help remove manual, repeatable chores and instead focus on keeping customers happy.

Zoho Desk Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

Freshdesk, Zendesk Suite, and Kayako are common alternatives for Zoho Desk.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Zoho Desk are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Humayun Farooqi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have integrated Zoho Desk with our web application to be able to have our existing customers submit tickets with screenshots and description of the problem being faced or for any general query of any feature. It is being used by the customer success and development teams currently and through Zoho Desk, we have been able to track all requests/issues by the existing customers as well getting them resolved or answered in the shortest possible time.
  • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
  • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
  • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
  • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
  • There is no Desktop application for Zoho Desk which is a crucial missing feature.
  • The shortcut icon for Recent items could have been placed better, maybe in the top header menu instead of in the footer.
  • The footer menu needs bigger icons as some are unrecognizable on smaller size monitors.
The user friendly android and IOS applications are one of the best features of Zoho Desk although if you are expecting a Desktop application then you will be disappointed and will have to access it from your browser which can be slow sometimes, depending on your internet connection. The work flow of tickets submission either manually through the dashboard or mobile application, and tickets assignment to other agents along with tracking tickets and agents' performance is very easily executed with no issues being faced.
Sofia Martinez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho Desk is one of the best platforms available for creating customizable support experiences for customers in the marketplace. It has all the best features of prioritizing requests, managing the requests, and closing more increasing requests on a different platform linked to the business. I have been a user of Zoho Desk for a long time and am still using the platform for better managing customer support and improving the overall efficiency of the customer team effectively.
  • Report features give the all insights of the customer team and customer support which enables us to make changes according to it.
  • The best thing about Zoho Desk is that it has a very beautiful and fully designed dashboard.
  • I have been using this software for a very long time in my organization, it is very easy to use with having the interface created on a very advanced module.
  • It is completely a feature rich platform.
  • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
  • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
Zoho Desk is helping me a lot in managing the customer support along with the customer support team effectively. Clear and clean dashboard with robust UI helping me to be more productive at work. Support and ticketing need to be updated in the near future. Other than that, it is a great platform to have in the organization and I would recommend this to other businesses too.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho Desk is the program that clients use in our organization, to air their requests, and demands, and the support team offers them the answers that they require. Again, Zoho Desk creates a timely communication channel, where without delays, messages are spread effectively to the right people. Lastly, Zoho Desk is an organized helps solution, which has ticket management features for the customers.
  • Zoho Desk enhances or fosters the relationships we already have with clients as we easily communicate.
  • Again, questions and complaints are aired through Zoho Desk regarding our products.
  • Finally, Zoho Desk acts swiftly, through the concept of ticket management.
  • Zoho Desk sometimes loads or hangs, which lowers its efficiency and this should be improvised.
  • Also, Zoho Desk lacks compatibility on some Apple products, not ignoring the huge customer base which uses them.
  • Other operational challenges were effectively handled.
Zoho Desk is the right solution to recommend companies that have many clients, as it offers customer assistance immediately. Again, Zoho Desk is online, hence, far-reaching to those customers which are away from the company. Lastly, Zoho Desk ensures there is no wait time, as the ticketing concept is well maintained.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Currently, we utilize Zoho Desk for our IT department. Zoho [Desk] is used to keep track of issues either reported internally, or from our external customers through a support email address we assign within Zoho. There are many features including time tracking, workflows (automated), and customizations. There are also macro's that can be built for auto assignment based on many available fields within the generated ticket.
  • Macros - These are great ! You can auto assign based on many different criteria. Easy to build as well.
  • Customization - Easy to build customizations at your fingertips. It helps when you need just a little bit more information to perform the tasks at hand.
  • When utilizing as a ticketing system, it would be nice to have a better way to monitor when something is due. It's just a little cumbersome.
  • Search Functionality - The search functionality could use a tweak or two. Too many times I am unable to find tickets. This would also be very helpful for the "Recycle Bin" when you just need to find that ticket you accidentally deleted (we are all human!). :)
[Zoho Desk] is well suited for support as well as maintenance and new projects.
When utilized for support, the ticketing portion works well. It's not an "over achiever". You get what you want and can either keep the fluff, or remove it based on your needs. You can even customize what you see on the screen. With the workflow, you can view all work queues and easily tweak them.
Dave King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Zoho Desk as a Help Desk product in our Technology department. All company users can open a ticket by sending an email to the designated published email address.
  • Email notification
  • Searching
  • Resolutions
  • Adding graphics or video to the solutions of a ticket.
We are using the free version due to a limited budget . We have two IT staff that actively use it to track Help Desk issues in a small to midsize company. It is well suited as it is nothing you need to install, dedicate a server, or manage. It is 100% WEB based and for no cost is an excellent solution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is mostly being used by the customer support analysts in our company. It is a great customer relationship management tool that keeps us upto date with all the queries that are regularly raised by the customers. Problems and issues are tracked via tickets and also there is a live chat feature which makes work a lot easier.
  • Customer relationship management.
  • Ticket creation.
  • Ticket collaborations.
  • Live chat feature.
  • Live chats have limited customisation.
  • Workflow can be interrupted sometimes.
  • Settings can be confusing sometimes.
It is well suited for collaborative work environment where an organisation can directly collaborate with the customers. The customer feedback option is really great which helps us keep a track of how well we are doing or what is lacking. User interface is really very clean and intuitive. Multiple options are available for ticket submission.
Jack Mattheus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
• We currently use the Zoho Desk tool to provide customer support and help them develop stronger relationships with our services and products. And in this way improve the response rate towards problems or concerns that our clients may have within our platform.

• This customer service tool is currently implemented in two of our departments. In the Marketing and Human Resources sector.

• Communication has improved significantly. Facilitating our work to help and advise those who have problems or doubts about our services and products. We have also noticed an increase of at least 10% in new clients requesting our services, and it is all because we have improved the response time to their concerns.
  • One of the most useful features that this tool has. Is that it allows us to address the problems of users according to the type of problem they have and assign them a categorization. For example Urgent, normal, standard.
  • Another very useful feature that this tool has. Is that it allows us to visualize in a panel what are the unresolved activities or problems and thus any authorized active member can follow up and solve the problem.
  • It would be very useful to have the drag and drop functionality when we are running some problem tracking tool.
  • I would also like to see that the functionality of being able to receive and send voice memos has been implemented. This would be truly innovative.
• A suitable scenario to use this tool It would be to use it for the purpose of providing advice or assistance to someone who needs information and guidance on what to do to acquire a service or product.

• A bad example of how to use this tool. It would be to do it for personal and unprofessional purposes.
María Fernanda Cruz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Zoho Desk to manage queries for our existing customers, only for a particular department in our organization, managing multiple languages. Clients submit tickets to ask for changes in setup, new reporting needs, questions or issues with a particular service, ask for training, troubleshooting, etc. It its wonderful to consolidate several channels and keep track of time involved in the resolution of each item.
  • Timetrack
  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Automation setup
  • Advanced customization
  • Default reports aren't as good
It is great for managing general queries, or where all queries independent of the client are similar. If each client needs a specific layout, this might not be a right fit. It is best suited for customer service, maybe project management as well. It works well with different departments independent of each other as well.
Leonard Johnson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho Desk was used our ticketing system for many years. It helped us separate the client tickets from internal tickets. We were able to communicate back and forth with our clients. We used it as a way to track projects and manage workflow. It served as our primary service desk until we switched.
  • Easy to assign agents
  • Message updates were easy to follow
  • Not a whole lot of features
  • Tickets are bare bones at times
Zoho Desk is excellent if you have other software to support billing. It is terrific for internal work and harder if you have projects. If you’re looking for a basic ticketing system without diving deeper like other robust ticketing systems, then Zoho Desk is right for you. There isn’t a huge learning curve with Zoho Desk, either.
September 20, 2019

Good service for tickets

Miguel Useche | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It's being used to handle all support for customers and also as an internal communication tool between our organization's departments. It helps to give a quick answer to customers and suppliers, to avoid repetitive tasks from employees, and to organize works between departments and employees.

It also acts as a database for contacts, and allows us to have a history log of all our organization's communication, for later use or to improve workflows.
  • It offers everything you'll need to handle communication between your organization and external people.
  • Offers a great integration with other Zoho Services so you can increase the possibility of your data/workflows.
  • It has a good API to automate some things or feed any custom-made applications inside the organization.
  • It lets you organize support tasks and keep track of the organization and employees current status.
  • Their API is limited and there are many things you can't do.
  • Their search API is not on real time. If you wanna automate real time things, you can't.
Zoho Desk is a great tool to handle all your organization's public and internal communications. If you have more than a few employees this tool will help you organize the work by adding tasks, private messages, ticket organization, etc.

You can adapt or increase your work based on tickets assigned and task to do.

Also it works great as a contact information database; you can contact or search any information from any supplier/customer/employee inside your organization.
Khashi Rahmani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho Desk has been a great assist for the startup medical software company I work for. It provides a web portal to bring in our customer support inquiries and provides an easy-to-manage dashboard to view and respond to customer support inquiries. Through the use of our email server, clients send in questions and inquiries regarding our software, allowing our support team to assign these support tickets and respond to them through Zoho Desk. This replaced the need to respond to support directly through email. Zoho Desk provides email alerts when clients respond or when new tickets come in, making it easy to manage. Desk also allows reports to see outstanding tickets, customizing tickets to include priorities, departments, and even adding in JIRA tickets for software requests that ultimately need to be handled by our developers. We do wish their was better API capabilities to link our software directly to Zoho Desk to provide customers their own portal to see outstanding tickets. Another flaw is that tickets cannot be assigned to strictly Accounts, they need to be assigned to a Contact which is sub to an Account. It only links with the Contact email which is usually a specific person.
  • Managing support
  • Delegating tasks within a small, medium, or large support team
  • Accessibility via a web interface and not a local download
  • More Customization of fields inside the tickets created in Desk
  • Allowing Desk tickets to be assigned to Accounts and not required to be on a Contact within the account
  • Better API integrations
Great for startup companies from my experience. Cannot speak for large companies (50 support reps or up) however, it does a fantastic job of proving an easy-to-use interface. Great for software companies and also likely a good fit for brick-and-mortar retail store customer support for email and phone.
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