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Zoho Desk

Overview

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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Pricing

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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
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.zoho.com/desk/pricing.html

Offerings

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

Managing Departments in Zoho Desk

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Managing Agents in Zoho Desk

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Servicio a Cliente Multicanal con Zoho Desk 2020

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Brinde soporte Excepcional con Zoho Desk - Webinar 2020

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Forwarding Support Mails to Zoho Desk

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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 Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho desk is well suited for anyone wishing to use it as their primary support platform in association with a company website if there is dedicated support personnel within the company. I would say that Zoho desk would be less appropriate for retail based customers as a platform to write reviews on products received.
Kevin Almond | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a SaaS offering it delivers on the cross-platform accessibility front quite well. Any Cloud service means it can be consumed from anywhere, giving a business the agility it needs to employ staff from no set geographic location, as well as allowing work-from-anywhere scenarios. The interface is okay to use but could be better, but in terms of basic functionality that you'd expect a service desk to deliver it does that quite well.
Humayun Farooqi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 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 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
[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.
David Yates | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If you need a general-purpose help desk platform that isn't sharing a lot of information with other systems, it's hard to beat Zoho Desk. Their product is fast, and does what you ask it to do. Good reporting abilities and if you're in one of the upper pay tiers good integration with social media for monitoring and remediating support issues.
Dave King | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you need a free ticketing system for customer service, this is a great option. It's also great for communication, as you can have private conversations about the issue with your team. And one of the best features is the warning that another teammate is working on the same ticket as you.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Zoho [Desk] is well suited by certain services which are aimed at certain departments.
I would think that each department uses one Zoho module based on what they do.
As someone who is Admin on Zoho I have access and overview of all Zoho modules, but even I would not use most.

It does not combine all these services into one "complete" solution for all departments.
It might be helpful to have all services netted together to create one complete solution that all departments use and can all pull the relevant info as required.
If this is already the intended purpose then perhaps more instruction needs to be given when onboarding clients as I am not sure how clear it is currently.
Jack Mattheus | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
• 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.
David Cook | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As an educator in technology, many of my customers are not tech-savvy and they need a simple form they can fill in to start a support session and to have simple questions answered. Zoho Desk provides a system where the support person can record the issue and provide the solution by responding directly with the customer via a ticketing system. Once the problem is solved a resolution can be written and saved as an article for future reference as an education tool or self-support resource for subscribed customers.
María Fernanda Cruz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 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
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you don't have any platform to help resolve your customers' questions, then Zoho is the best option to start using as a small CRM. It works well as a tool where you can receive customer's queries through various platforms, like email and a support page. However, we did not find it suitable to create a big knowledge-base or FAQ's, because it doesn't have a lot of features for those purposes.
Julien Bras | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I think that Zoho Desk is a good product for small to medium-sized company. But when you want to support your customer at a high level like we want to do, it is really difficult to rely on Zoho Desk. The exchanges we have are not very constructive and we are not having the level of support we expect from a Support Service company.
Khashi Rahmani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Alexis Correa | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
[It's well suited to] Give support to your customers. It is excellent. The clients learn to make requests, they are organized to be taken care of and they are always satisfied and very surprised. They do not expect you to have such a powerful tool. I have been recommended many times for the quality and organization of the answers given.
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