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Zendesk Description

Zendesk helps you create exceptional customer experiences. Zendesk, a leading provider of software and solutions to improve customer relationships, empowers businesses to become more reliable, flexible, scalable, and adaptable. Zendesk's products include Support, an integrated customer service solution; Chat, chat, and messaging tool; Talk and call center software; Explore to analyze and report; Inbox, shared team mailbox; Guide, a knowledgebase and self-service solution; and Connect + Outbound to support proactive campaigns.

Pricing

Pricing Starts At:
$5 per month per user
Free Trial:
Yes

Integrations

API:
Yes, Zendesk has an API

Reviews - 20 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Zendesk
Year Founded:
2007
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
iPhone
iPad
Android
Type of Training
Documentation
Webinars
Customer Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Zendesk Features and Options

Customer Service Software

Alerts / Escalation
Appointment Management
Call Center Management
Email Management
Knowledge Base
Live Chat
Performance Metrics
Queue Management
Self Service Portal
Social Media Integration
Surveys & Feedback
Virtual Assistant
Workflow Management

Help Desk Software

Alerts / Escalation
Automated Routing
Community Forums
Customizable Branding
Document Storage
Email Integration
IT Asset Management
Incident Management
Interaction Tracking
Knowledge Base
Known Issue Management
Live Chat
Multi-Channel Communication
Multiple Brands / Products
Network Monitoring
Real-time Chat
Self Service Portal
Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management
Ticket Management

Complaint Management Software

Case Management
Complaint Classification
Corrective Actions (CAPA)
Customer Complaint Tracking
Feedback Management
Forms Management
Issue Tracking
Quality Assurance Management
Routing
Self Service Portal
Social Media Monitoring
Survey Management

Customer Experience Software

Action Management
Analytics
Customer Segmentation
Dashboard
Feedback Management
Knowledge Management
Multi-Channel Collection
Sentiment Analysis
Survey Management
Text Analysis
Trend Analysis

ITSM Software

Asset Tracking
Availability Management
Change Management
Configuration Management
Contract/License Management
Dashboard
Incident Management
Problem Management
Project Management
Release & Deployment Management
Self Service Portal

Experience Management Software

Action Management
Analytics
Customer Segmentation
Dashboard
Feedback Management
Knowledge Management
Multi-Channel Collection
Sentiment Analysis
Survey Management
Text Analysis
Trend Analysis

Issue Tracking Software

Assignment Management
Dashboard
Escalation Management
Issue Auditing
Issue Scheduling
Knowledge Base
Project Management
Recurring Issues
Scheduling
Task Management

Knowledge Management Software

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Cataloging / Categorization
Collaboration
Content Management
Decision Tree
Discussion Boards
Full Text Search
Knowledge Base Management
Self Service Portal

Live Chat Software

Canned Responses
Customizable Branding
Geo Targeting
Offline Form
Proactive Chat
Screen Sharing
Third Party Integration
Transfers / Routing
Website Visitor Tracking

Call Center Software

Blended Call Center
Call Logging
Call Recording
Call Scripting
Campaign Management
Database
Escalation Management
IVR / Voice Recognition
Inbound Call Center
Manual Dialer
Outbound Call Center
Predictive Dialer
Progressive Dialer
Queue Management
Real-time Chat
Reporting/Analytics

Chatbot Software

Call to Action
Context and Coherence
Human Takeover
Inline Media / Videos
Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing
Payment Integration
Prediction
Ready-made Templates
Reporting / Analytics
Sentiment Analysis
Social Media Integration

Conversational AI Platform

Code-free Development
Contextual Guidance
For Developers
Intent Recognition
Multi-Languages
Omni-Channel
On-Screen Chats
Pre-configured Bot
Reusable Components
Sentiment Analysis
Speech Recognition
Speech Synthesis
Virtual Assistant

Zendesk Lists

  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    User-friendly platform for both end users

    Date: Nov 04 2022

    Summary: Zendesk makes the support process straightforward. It handles all our customer support channels (email, voice call, social media and chat) seamlessly. Overall I highly suggest Zendesk if you get a large number of support requests and want to handle every channel on one screen.

    Positive: Zendesk support page can be inserted on any website, application and business social media accounts. It also helps in generating feedback after issues are marked resolved. It can create tickets and share a prioritized list of queries to respond.

    Negative: I'm happy with Zendesk, it gives me a great experience. No negative.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Recruiting Coordinator
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Customizable and user-friendly

    Date: Mar 04 2022

    Summary: Love the features of Zendesk and are definitely satisfied with the program as a whole. Our feedback on the tool has been great as well!

    Positive: Zendesk has been super nice to swap over to. It is customizable and user friendly. I feel like we have not gotten into all of the features of this product yet. But we are definitely learning!

    Negative: Little to no cons with what we do with it. We are just trying to get it all fully implemented and learn our work arounds.

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  • Name: Gage A.
    Job Title: Customer Care Coordinator
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    AMAZING PRODUCT

    Date: Jun 18 2021

    Summary: This is seriously the best CSM/CRM software I have used in recent time! I highly recommend to other people to use this software.

    Positive: This is by far the best support I have ever had in a CSM/CRM. The Zendesk team is so amazing in response time and solution solving. I also love the ease-of-use for this software calls are easy to answer and respond to, the ticket system is so great as well.

    Negative: There is nothing I do not like about this software. It is beyond perfect in my eyes.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Senior Implementation Consultant
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Excellent support tool

    Date: Apr 13 2021

    Summary: We've been using Zendesk for years (previously used Kayako) and Zendesk has been great. The UI is very intuitive and case management is second to none. There's a reason why many support teams choose this tool.

    Positive: Zendesk offers a very intuitive interface, scripted replies, robust user management and case management, as well as tons of integrations with 3rd party software. You can also customize it to an extent people won't even know you're using Zendesk :)

    Negative: It's a bit expensive and the mobile app could use a refresh.

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  • Name: Jason C.
    Job Title: Product Design Lead
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Zendesk gives us multichannel advancements to communicate with our customers

    Date: Mar 29 2021

    Summary: Although it does not keep a record of information on requests nor does it offer a system for analyzing and reporting them, the program provides us with a good channeling tool between user-company for effective communication through different information exchange channels.

    Positive: To keep in touch with any doubt or problem that a customer may have, Zendesk offers us a home page that provides, through the creation of stickers, a record of all the information coming from those customers to attend their request. In addition, it has a multichannel section to communicate with users, among them are: email, Twitter, internal chat, phone calls, among others.

    Negative: Although the application channels all the requests from our customers through different means, it does not provide an option to analyze and report the requests, doubts, or most frequent problems that arise. Or more frequent problems that arise in our platforms, resulting in an alternative search for this type of services.

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  • Name: Ronald W.
    Job Title: Marketing Specialist
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Zendesk operates with the best support modes

    Date: Mar 22 2021

    Summary: The multi-channel communication system that Zendesk offers is one of the best and most extensive to choose from in the Call Center market, leaving us with more alternatives when we need to cover customer support sessions. We use Zendesk because it is the best way to ensure that our customers can contact us.

    Positive: The integration of Zendesk to so many means by which it is possible to communicate makes it one of the best alternatives to choose to perform administrative operations with technical support requests, which can be collected not only from the ticketing system of our site, but also from emails and other means.

    Negative: When creating routine reports about support operations that have been carried out in recent dates, we do not get the same level of organization of incident records within the report builder as with Zendesk tools that are outside this area, because the report builder does not have an organizer by date.

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  • Name: Max S.
    Job Title: Contact Center enigeer
    Length of product use: Free Trial
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Best Ticketing System/CRM

    Date: Feb 19 2021

    Summary: Overall I Think Zendesk is a great product if you are evaluating a ticketing system

    Positive: Zendesk has Flexible ticket management with automated workflows. Also they have very Robust reporting and advanced analytics tools.

    Negative: Reporting: There are some additional purchases that can be made to increase reporting; however, I would like to see some more reporting out of the box.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Technical architect
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Deployment
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Complete Helpdesk Solution

    Date: Oct 25 2020

    Summary: Zendesk is an impressive help desk platform. It streamlines our help desk and internal team. Best platform for the small and mid-enterprise to implement help desk solution. Intuitive user interface and easy to navigate for end users.

    Positive: Zendesk helps to deal with many of the helpdesk problems including live chat and self-service portal. It allows to implement a complete help desk solution from a single purchase. It brings collaboration in the team for an internal and customer knowledge base.

    Negative: We are using it for a very long time. No cons encountered recently.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Public Relations Coordinator
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Deployment
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Zendesk, the best, practical and effective support tool

    Edited: Oct 14 2020

    Summary: We are happy with Zendesk's performance. It helps our business to solve our customer's tickets quicker than before. It gives us the power to remotely manage our help desk. Its knowledge-based FAQ helps to reduce customer problems. I highly recommend Zendesk.

    Positive: You can live chat with customers. You can easily assign a ticket to their problems. Its FAQ and self-help feature helps clients to directly solve their problems. Its communication options are great. You can integrate this solution into your website and application.

    Negative: It becomes slow when trying to open multiple tickets.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: IT & Research Specialist
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Give Your Customer Best Support Experience

    Date: Aug 28 2020

    Summary: Zendesk helps us to deliver the best customer experience. Using this tool we are solving our manual efforts of support. It helps to reduce the high number of requests by using its knowledge-base search tool.

    Positive: You can easily implement Zendesk into your business support team. Its knowledge-based features help to reduce support requests. You can easily communicate using an intuitive chat interface. Gives you change to make the best customer experience.

    Negative: Zendesk is a good platform. I don't have any cons.

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  • Name: Shruti K.
    Job Title: SMM Manager
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Complete 'CS' tool

    Date: Jul 11 2020

    Summary: Powerful yet flexible software. Best tool for Customer service. Customisable interface. Can be used on mobile devices. Easily integrates with any software. Free trial available. Award winning software. Easy to use. Simple to learn

    Positive: Zendesk is a customer service software. Some of its products are chat, sell, talk, guide, support, explore, gather and connect. Also provide live training events, free webinar. User friendly interface. Customer support is very helpful.
    They believe in relationship are key to run the business.

    Negative: Best software for Customer service. No doubt it's an award winning software.

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  • Name: Kunal R.
    Job Title: Manager
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 26 - 99
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Productive Business Live chat support

    Edited: Jul 10 2020

    Summary: Zendesk is a very productive tool for every business to interact and support clients using live chat. I highly recommend and it's my personal favorite helpdesk and FaQ for my business.

    Positive: Zendesk is a very practical and intuitive tool for business. It offers effective live chat functionality to support and interact with clients. The client doesn't require to login or sign up to chat with the enterprise.

    Negative: It's a great tool for live chat supports system for clients.

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  • Name: Paola G.
    Job Title: CEO
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    I have been able to get efficient customer service within my company.

    Date: May 12 2023

    Summary: Zendesk Support Suite has been an important tool in helping me provide world-class customer service to our customers. The many benefits of the platform have allowed me and my team to streamline our support processes, increase efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction. With Zendesk Support I can create custom fields for different types of property inquiries, which helps me organize and prioritize incoming requests.

    Zendesk Support Suite has also been incredibly helpful in managing our knowledge center. We can easily create and manage a library of helpful articles and resources for our customers, helping them find the answers they need quickly and easily. This has helped us reduce the number of support requests we receive, as customers can often find the answers they need on their own.

    I have also found it useful in managing our email communications. The platform allows me to easily manage and prioritize incoming emails, which helps me stay on top of customer requests and inquiries. With the Zendesk Support Suite, I can also create templates and canned responses, which help me answer common questions quickly and efficiently.

    Positive: I am very impressed by the high level of customization and flexibility. With the ability to create custom fields, workflows, triggers, automations, views, and knowledge centers, we can tailor the platform to our specific needs and streamline our processes.

    Zendesk Support Suite has a large community and has a comprehensive knowledge base. Whether we're looking for answers to technical questions or best practices for handling certain customer situations, we can always find helpful resources and support within the community.

    Zendesk Support Suite's sleek and intuitive user interface is also a big plus. Even new team members can quickly navigate and use the platform, saving us time and improving our overall efficiency.

    One thing that sets Zendesk Support Suite apart from other customer support platforms is its constant product updates and new features. With regular updates, Zendesk Support Suite always adapts to industry best practices and customer needs, ensuring we have access to the latest tools and technologies.

    Also, the Zendesk Support Suite with many third-party apps and platforms is a huge plus for our team. We can seamlessly connect with other tools and systems we use every day, like Salesforce, Slack, Shopify, Google Workspace, and more.

    Negative: Zendesk Support Suite also has its degree of complexity. For large or multi-brand organizations, setting up and managing the platform can be challenging. It can take a lot of time and resources to get everything up and running, which can be frustrating for teams that need a solution that's easy to deploy and manage.

    I am not very convinced about the pricing structure of this platform. While the platform can be quite expensive, the pricing can also be opaque and confusing. Some features and functionality require additional costs or plans, which can make it difficult for teams to determine how much they will pay for the platform in the long run.

    Another downside to Zendesk Support Suite is that you may occasionally experience interruptions or delays that affect its performance and reliability. This can be particularly frustrating for teams that rely on the platform to support their customers, as it can disrupt their ability to provide timely and effective support.

    Zendesk customer support and account management can also be inconvenient. This platform has poorly responsive and sometimes slow customer support, which can make it difficult to get help when problems arise.

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  • Name: Juliana A.
    Job Title: Chief Executive Officer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Zendesk is a professional tool to handle all tickets

    Date: Dec 26 2022

    Summary: Zendesk is an amazing software that has helped us in many ways, it has made us built a strong presence for our customers whenever they need us and it has provided a centralized place where we can check all our customers messages without needing to switch platforms constantly, making our jobs easier and saving us so much time and money. It has provided constant tools that have helped us deal with customers on a daily basis and we have been able to work with so much more efficiency than before.

    Positive: Zendesk is a software that feels very versatile, it offers multiple solutions that can be adapted for every work area and type of business. When it comes to providing service features to our business, it works amazingly and it has a couple of tools that improve our service everyday and it strives to offer a better service every day. Some of the main tools that are helping our business improve the support service are the following:
    -Customers are able to reach out to us via their preferred site, it can be through email, live chat, message, and the conversation will always stay connected no matter if they decide to reply via other method, it is a great thing to have because we don’t have to constantly be checking on each site to see if someone is reaching out for support, but we have a single centralized site that combines all of these platforms and organizes all the customers reaching out.
    -The AI service works really great and is good at times when customers are reaching out about simple questions and the bot can answer those, saving us time for the most elaborate and more technical issues that another customer might have, it is also incredibly convenient because it works exactly as an agent and can be modified to cater to customers’ needs more accurately, providing a nice customer service for everyone and saving us a lot of money and energy that we can spend on other tasks.
    -Thanks to Zendesk’s great tools, we are able to organize all our data and simplify it by collecting the most critical and important parts of it for better management of all our tickets, this helps us be more conscious of our data and assign the best person to attend each case based on the individual ability of our team members.

    Negative: Even though Zendesk is a software that offers a great variety of options to improve customer service and facilitate the experience of an user when contacting a business and browsing a site, I feel like Zendesk itself is not a very user-friendly platform that feels light and intuitive. The dashboard sometimes feels too crowded and it does not leave much space for customization, as well as the fact that it was pretty difficult to get used to the platform and the features when we first started; Zendesk is a great tool but it still has a long way to go when it comes their platform being as user-friendly as possible.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Product
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Daily
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Zendesk Review

    Date: Dec 01 2022

    Summary: Zendesk is really good, and the scalability is a significant advantage of it.
    Can grow to be fairly expensive, but if you are an early stage startup, it's fairly easy to get credits so it doesn't become much of an issue.

    Positive: Zendesk has some pretty robust customizable options, it really allows you to match specific needs fairly easily, more than other customer software programs.
    Another advantages is the scalability, you can start as a one-person team and scale it to pretty much any level without any sort of issues.

    Negative: Not a big advantage, but you might need some time to get used to the software and all the features.

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