Zendesk offers a complete customer service solution that’s trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers. Recognized as one of the best help desk platforms, it’s a completely scalable solution that lets users manage and respond to queries from several channels using a unified dashboard, including social, text, voice, email, live chat, etc. Zendesk also offers comprehensive analytics and reporting, a reliable knowledge base and forum, as well as over 1000 integrations pre-built into the platform.
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Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
Training | Documentation |
Languages | English |
It's very organized, you can easily navigate and find tasks whenever you need to, it's also very helpful when communicating with clients and providers. Highly recommend
none so far, my experience with Zendesk has been nothing but great
When it comes to tasks, ZD can organize the tickets according to their urgency, productivity also increases when using ZD.
The simplicity and ease of use of the product. Setting up Zendesk was very simple, and managing it is a breeze. I rarely have to contact support, and it is usually.
It is hard to think of a downside.. Once you start using it, you're not likely to switch away, so I could see that being a problem for some organizations. It may be difficult to switch to an alternative product after experiencing the greatness of Zendesk.
Organization, big time. I can't imagine my life without a ticketing system, my email and Teams are a mess even now. I do not work on anything without it going through the ticketing system - it would be impossible to do my job at the current level of efficiency without it.
The help pages are great, but you do end up down a rabbit hole. I spent a few hours trying to workout why my emails were not forwarding, and then jumpped to Live Chat.
Nothing they were very quick to respond. This was what I needed.
Bringing all our media channels into one place.
Most of the configuration is easy to start using out of the box.
The different product offerings can be a bit confusing to navigate.
Zendesk has the distinct ability to be extended and customized very well. As long as you are willing to learn how Zendesk works, they provide the tools you need to develop the product.
How easy it is to organize and manage incoming tickets from all channels and the ability to set intelligent triggers that will quickly identify the type of ticket, whether its an issue , quire ...etc
The fact is that when an update hits, they sometimes change the way how a particular function gets executed, so we need to get used to the new method.
Organization, before zendesk, we used to rely on multiple apps to meet our demands like a dedicated ticketing system and a dedicated live chat system, but with zendesk you get all of that and more in one place
Everything is gathered in the same interface, its easy to understand once you've gotten into it.
The learning curve, it takes a while to get into it
We can gather all types of customer interactions in the same interface despite which department we are in.
It's enabled our team to better handle support requests received ieved as well as paint a much clearer picture of who is requesting this support - and ultimately how to be more proactive (rather than reactive) with support.
The difficulty to learn about the product without using the Knowledge Base.
Effectively and efficiently supporting our users.
Quick package of all basic solutions for a great ticket management system.
Guided mode and real-time monitoring should be included below Suite Enterprise.
Centralizing all customer interactions and valuable customer data. Operations can quickly be on-boarded for an easy-to-use ticket platform.
Zendesk has many great features, from macros to reporting and particular triggers. If leveraged correctly, Zendesk will make your support team as efficient as it can be. There is a lot to explore from within the suite, so I recommend taking that extra time to get familiar with most of its features. We are still discovering features daily!
My only comment here is that some of the features are not as intuitive as you would think, in addition to some basic customization you would think is possible, but either requires coding or is just not possible to do.
Zendesk is giving our team the chance to provide a fantastic support experience to our clients by centralizing tickets, creating workflows and enabling us to get reports to keep track of all interaction, CSAT scores, SLAs and so much more.
Zendesk offers customizations to help you in your specific job duties.
Reporting is a little cumbersome with a high learning curve.
Zendesk is allowing us to take calls and customize fields which allows us to report on the important metrics we have.
I like that Zendesk always helps me and my team solving our doubts and questions with good explanation of everything. The platform is quite complete and their support team is good.
Sometimes, it takes too long to find the issue and to solve the problem, which ends up causing some problems on our end. But I suppose it takes too long because the platform is very complete and has a lot of features.
It benefits me because I'm a Zendesk user and whenever I have a problem regarding tickets, the platform itself or other apps that are connected to our Zendesk account, the Support team always helps us out.
I have found the support pretty helpful. I also think that I am getting quite a bit of functionality for a fairly low price.
At times I have found it a bit difficult to use and not intuitive. The integrations don't always work as they should. For example, I would appreciate it if I could reply back to Slack from within Zendesk. I have also had trouble with with the Zoom integration.
We are doing our best to manage ticket response times and get analytics around support requests. We would also like to make support feel more reliable but not impersonal. We are also using Zendesk to build a knowledge base integrated with the platform where responses are submitted. We are early in the process and it is yet to be seen what benefit we will realize.
The assigned agent was very precise with their replies and was able to share the exact article that resolved the issue at hand. This helps a lot in saving our time by looking for ways and avenues to solve the current issue at hand.
The only thing that I disliked about the support experience was that it wasn't instantaneous. The agent was taking a lot of time to reach back which kept the whole process of getting a resolution paused at times.
Daily day-to-day operations are made very easy wherever and whenever we are stuck at any given point. Along with the article recommendations, the articles themselves are written in a way that there is not too much effort required in terms of understanding the same.
During the integration, there are more than one suitable method you can use for almost anything. In any of the other tools, you would HAVE TO integrate in the way that the tools want it to be. During the connections with other tools, it is always intuitive and you know that you will be able to do anything in any way you want.
I'd want the tickets to be replied through a slack integration too. Apart from this, I'd want a react-native SDK to be used with the application. Right now, you need to fork out some unofficial ones.
We are an up-and-coming startup that is looking forward to getting some customer feedback and solving their issues, for these purposes it will be serving excellently for us. On the plus side, they are also offering a startup solution almost unconditionally which is one of the best things happening for a small company.
The usability day-to-day is pretty good. Easy tool to work out of. It's not very hard to train people in this tool to get them up and running and being able to take tickets.
Some of the usability in the admin center could be better. When making changes to customization, it is commonly tedious and requires loads of clicks to make the changes (adjusting fields and forms, updating triggers/macros, etc). Additionally, creating help center articles should be easier. An import tool would be a big help here. Our team will create articles in a tool like google docs so that we can quickly collaborate and get the articles created. Then, the builder that is used in the Zendesk help center is tedious to recreate these articles in the help center. An import mechanism would be great. Also, there's a feature request with a lot of people in agreement that in the new agent workspace, Zendesk NEEDS to go back to having the ticket title on the tab for that ticket instead of the title of the requester.
Zendesk allows us to have multiple, configurable channels for receiving questions/feedback/messages/bug reports from our customers. As our business evolves, we can update the channels that are being used to better serve our customers and be more available to them. It's also allowing us to track trends based on custom fields we have on our tickets. This then allows us to report on those fields and have actionable takeaways from our Support tickets.
The platform is very helpful and their support.
At the moment nothing, there is no option to hate.
They need to enhance the chatbot creation tools.
User friendly and easy to create shortcut responses.
it does not automatically highlight if there are multiple tickets created by same user
Customer queries and it has been very useful for our organization
Zendesk finds the balance between pushing me toward industry CX best practices, and permitting custom configuration and policy control. I like how the different levels allowed us to get started and grow our configuration with our business needs. Stability and dependability have been fantastic, with industry-leading incident status monitoring and notifications. Talk phone solution is very stable with fantastic reporting insights when there is an issue. 10x better than other solutions I have used in the past. Apps are a good way to extend extra features to people so thanks for doing that.
Explore dashboard configuration and filters are vexing. Sometimes there are design limitations or features that are zombies with no future. Asking support or product about them doesn't yield much in the way of results as you get pushed to a blackhole product forum. Oh well, I suppose that's the nature of product management to some extent. Proactive tickets, linking tickets, JIRA application limitations are some that come to mind.
We needed a way to ensure inbound tickets were assignable and actionable, with SLA and topic reporting data. Zendesk achieves this for us in spades along with all of the organization and customer CRM needed to deliver great customer experiences. I like that the suite gives us an all in one integrated platform where we can use what's there or build on top of as we go. For example, we use the default CSAT and support page with few customizations and that's fine, but in other areas, like triggers and custom fields, we have done lots to make it ours.
I do really like the Support platform from a user perspective, and the trigger system is wonderfully dynamic and flexible. I like that form fields and are searchable now (terrific improvement). The marketplace is great for additional enhancements. Macro's are great for standardizing user responses.
There are a few things that I'm critical of - like the disjointed admin experience at the moment. I find I have to bounce between Support and Admin to adjust users (moving them from staff to end user or vice versa), but I'm hopeful a more unified experience is on the way. Would like to see an improvement in the Support web portal so that it can more easily be adapted to support internal requesters (who sometimes are also agents), and lock it down so it's not available to just anyone.
Zendesk originally was deployed to provide Tech Support to the internal staff, which it does fairly well (though if you're an agent, it often treats those users tickets differently, putting comments are internal notes). We then deployed to our call centre and customer relations teams. We deployed large forms for this purpose, and while they work well, I'm hopeful we can pare these down and refine them soon. We are now looking at onboarding our Sales team to Sell.
Zendesk Support Suite allows us to take our customer support/success to the next level. I love the ease of setting up ticket forms and fields so we can capture the necessary information we need to satisfy different requests. In our previous support tool we didn't have the option of doing this - it also didn't give us a Ticket Number that we could pass to the customer so they could easily reference an issue when they contact us (or when we are doing support internally) - we were having to use the customer name and conversation title which wasn't the best experience.
We are interested in using Zendesk Talk so we can use an Analytics product to analyse our call recordings. However, Zendesk talk doesn't support recordings in Stereo format - only in Mono.
We have totally revamped our customer support offering since using Zendesk. We have 1000 times more flexibility and reporting features when it comes to ticket forms and capturing additional data on tickets (Our previous provider used to charge to tag conversations!). Our support team has greater visibility into what tickets are at specific stages of the process. This allows us to ensure tickets don't slip through the net and don't get answers.