Zendesk Reviews

As I am a big fan of assigning tasks to people who are most skilled at doing them in a timely fashion, I found the auto-tagging function to be most valuable. This way we were able to divide the incoming tickets into several different categories which were then assigned to team members who had the best expertise and skills to resolve them as quickly as possible.

During the downtime of one of our business partners we were experiencing several payment related issues and as such there was a huge amount of tickets relating to this problem which were being automatically assigned to the relevant team.

Ticket forwarding and the ability to add subscribers to tickets as some back and forth correspondence needs to be brought to attention of several team members, sometimes across different departments. While the first one would be beneficial in cases when issue was resolved and needs only to be brought to attention the latter would be good when a specific issue would be dependent on several team members.

I've using the post-2012 version for about 20 months.

There were no issues with the deployment.

We had no issues with the performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

10/10 as they are prompt, courteous, and is available 24/7 via a wide array of channels. Zendesk's team was really great and when there were any issues or questions they were more than willing to assist. When there were issues with the stability and connectivity these were promptly resolved and we were updated on any of these.

We didn't have a ticketing solution in place before, and it was done mainly via emails.

It's straightforward to implement, and the documentation is extensive. Zendesk is willing to assist if you have issues.

We used an in-house team with assistance from the vendor. Should you have any questions you should ask Zendesk, they are there to help.

The most important feature that I was able to utilize the most was the ability to create the different groups in which our support emails came in. Since we had different departments (e.g. Pre-orders, Order Management, Technical Issues, Billing, etc.), It was important to identify these types of cases by having them arrive in the appropriate group.

This feature allowed our team orgranize and assign certain members to a particular group. Without this feature, we would manually comb through our cases which could take forever.

This has positively impacted our customer service experience by allowing us to respond to users in a timely manner. Quickly reply back to our users with a listed of saved responses.

A timely and accurate response is all the user can see on their end. When executed perfectly, it can create a an amazing user experience that QA teams dream about!

For smaller environments, some type of tutorial or walk through would be helpful for first time users. Hands on training will speed up productivity and will get agents to hit the ground running with a minimal learning curve.

I'm not sure if there is a way to "train the trainer" process so that our internal trainers can seamlessly train a team quickly on how to use Zendesk, but that would be very helpful and would help when teams scale. Bringing awareness to the features that could easily be missed using a variety of forms will be helpful (e.g. digital newsletters, social media, email updates, etc.) would be helpful.

There were no issues deploying it for us.

We've experienced no issues with performance.

It's been able to scale for our needs.

It had already been in place for a year when I joined the company

I seegreat potential I see in Zendesk and how effective we were in supporting our users with this product. I'm sure my rating will continue to get higher as the company continues to evolve and add on more features.

• Web GUI
• Ease of use

It’s simple enough for my helpdesk level one guys to use, so they actually use it. I can’t relay on end users to submit tickets, so I need to mandate ticket logging by my techs. I’ve worked in environments that used ticket systems that were just to cluttered and complex, so the techs simple didn’t use the system. Zendesk keeps it simple.

For end users who do submit tickets, they would often just respond to a thread from a previous email exchange and the email topic would get recycled even though they were contacting us about an entirely new topic, so tickets would be misleading. They need to fix the email thread response problem

I've been using it for five years.

There have been no deployment issues.

We've had no issues with its stability.

It has been able to scale well for our needs.

It's stellar.

It was straightforward.

We did it in-house.

Just buy it. It's worth it, and you’ll be happy.

Triggers and Automations greatly help with our workflow.

It pretty much keep people responsible and accountable in various stages of our workflow.

The built-in Satisfaction system is pretty basic: "Good" or "Bad" and optional "Why". This could be expanded a bit more.

The company has been using this since 2009. I joined in 2012.

We've had no issues with the deployment.

Recently they have been under some stability issues, but they do have @ZendeskOps to keep us posted on Twitter when they have issues.

There have been no issues scaling it.

Pretty fast, the first-tier agents will sort your tickets within one to two hours.

Initial setup was simple. It grew over time.

In-house. Just do it. It's quite customizable, so it will take some tinkering to get into a groove with it.

The overhead per agent gets rather expensive once you grow your team.

We checked out Freshdesk and HelpScout -- upcoming with better pricing! Migrating from Zendesk will be a major move though, so we are sticking with Zendesk for now.

Do evaluate it well. Though if you are using email to manage your support tasks, get a helpdesk now.

Since I'm the main user for the retail site I haven't had to deal with any multi-user issues so can't comment on that. The 'mark as spam' and setting up tickets with certain titles to be automatically solved/deleted is probably the most important feature for me. Weeding out spam and tickets that don't warrant any attention is extremely valuable when it comes to time-saving.

Zendesk allows you to manage Twitter messages, Olark chats and phone messages all in one place. It's a great hub for all of your customer service issues and not sure how tough it would be to manage all incoming inquiries in a timely manner without it.

Right now, Zendesk does what we need it to do for us. I've had a few issues setting it up to receive incoming facebook messages. Not sure if this needs attention on the backend or if I just need a rep to help with the setup, but like I mentioned earlier, if they reached out to us from time to time to discuss how we could improve the use of their program to help us function more efficiently that would be great.

I think there's always room for improvement, but right now it fits our needs just fine.

I've been using it for little more than a year and we had it for another year or two before I signed on with the company. I'm the main user for the retail site and I'm usually on it roughly six days a week.

The setup was fairly easy.

There have been non issues with the stability.

The scalability isn't an issue for us right now.

Good. I really wish they had a chat feature - like Olark for example. But I guess it makes sense. Olark is chat program and Zendesk is a support ticket program. That said, chat would be useful. No reason they shouldn't have this deployed at this stage of the game. People want / need answers immediately. They don't want to send in a support ticket and wait for a response.

Zendesk has been with us from the beginning.

Zendesk was implemented before I came on board with the company, but I've had several discussions with the zendesk support team to improve / setup certain features. Advice - Do your research. Read their content. Talk to their support team. And put a proper amount of time into setting it up so that you know all the ins and outs of the program. There could be features you're missing out on so explore and connect with the zendesk team to make sure you're accessing everything you need to be successful and efficient going forward.

Zendesk is an invaluable tool. It's tough to put a price tag on it, but it's definitely worth the investment.

This is pretty much the only customer service solution I've used for this purpose so can't compare it to anything else. It gets the job done and there's not much to complain about in terms of functionality and results. It'd be nice to have them check in from time (or once a month), examine our usage and relay any information that they think might be useful for us.

In a nutshell, it's a great tool that allows you to manage all your customer service issues in one location. Not sure where we would be without it, but response time is a crucial element when it comes to customer satisfaction, and zendesk helps us manage all of it at a high level.

The ability to use macro’s and customize them, it saves time by having preset responses to frequently asked questions or requested instructions.

The ability to track the number of requests helps our organizations ability to monitor and manage incoming requests and prioritize urgent requests to fulfil our obligation to our customers.

There is an option, I would like to see, the ability to group my requests into different states. It helps me manage my requests better and organize the requests into easily managed groups or problem types.

I've used it for one year nine months, and the company I work for has had it for longer.

Our Zendesk is not hosted locally.

We have had no issues with the stability.

We gradually include new users to Zendesk without any issues.

We have had excellent response time from Zendesk and issues are usually fixed quickly.

I am not sure about that, Zendesk was already in place when I started working here but I have had experience with other products.

I was not involved when Zendesk was initially set up.

We have an in-house employee that manages Zendesk so I am not involved with implementation.

I am not entirely sure. I am not involved in purchases.

Zendesk is a great product for managing and maintaining requests from users. It is simple to use and quite effective in tracking progress on all requests, re-assigning issues to higher level support agents, prioritizing and reporting progress on requests.

A very useful feature in Zendesk is the Ticket Sharing option, because it eases the communication between the Customer Service team and the other departments and it keeps all information in one place.

Another important feature is the Satisfaction Rating. As we try our best to provide our customers with professional support, it’s extremely helpful that they have the option to rate our service and give an overall feedback on how they perceived the entire support process.

I would also give a thumbs-up for the various channels you can connect Zendesk to, making it very easy for the user to manage all incoming and outgoing requests with one tool.

And I like that we can separate the public comments from the private ones without having to use different communication tools.

Zendesk is a smart tool, helping us to become very well organized and, if necessary, to rethink our business strategies.  ,We have a real-time overview on all requests coming from different channels, we can set service level agreements to meet our customer’s expectations and we can also monitor and evaluate our agents’ activity, managing to adapt and establish their tasks according to the work flow.

As Zendesk is an international business and has customers world-wide, it would be nice if it would provide 24/ 7 support. Due to the fact that it is used by a large number of countries, being on different time zones, sometimes it can take up to 2-3 days for the Zendesk support team to fully solve an issue or a request. 

We have had no deployment issues.

There have been no issues with the stability.

We have had no problems scaling it for our needs.

The first reason I would recommend Zendesk is that this is a user-friendly and easy to customize tool. Due to the various options and applications that Zendesk offers we were able to personalize this tool to match our most important business requirements. And it can be accessed from almost all types of devices.

Also, a very important fact is that you can integrate more than one business in the same tool. This is crucial for a company that hosts several different businesses. All companies with high standards should use Zendesk because it's a reliable tool, constantly improving the old features and also bringing new ones on the market, in accordance to the their customers’ needs.

As a conclusion, I would advise Zendesk users to carefully read all documentation that this tool comes with. I consider this to be one of Zendesk’s strengths, because the documentation is very detailed and contains complete guides for any change you will want to bring to your new tool.

The most valuable aspects would be its relative ease of use and its ability to integrate with many other popular SaaS products. The integrations are especially useful if your company already uses one or more of the products.

When first implemented, this product help give accountability to internal service requests, recording who worked on which issue and when it was resolved. As we move forward, the metrics also help give insights into what areas create the most problems. These metrics allow us to be more proactive identifying and preventing potential issues.

It is easy to use, however, it is not quite as powerful as many other ticketing systems out there. If you want it to record certain data or attributes, it can be done, but must be done manually. In this respect, some other ticketing systems are more complete and allow you to collect more data.

I have used it for over a year, and my current company doesn't currently use it.

Deployment in a new environment is very simple. I cannot comment on trying to migrate any existing ticketing system to Zendesk though.

We had no issues with the stability.

It is easily scalable for departments, however, if different departments need to use it, then each may need their own customizations. If there are many departments with specific customizations, scaling the central management of Zendesk becomes more difficult.

Their support group is very kind and responsive. It is one of the better technical teams I’ve had the pleasure of working with.

There was no other solution in place at this environment.

I was not part of the initial deployment team.

The implementation was done in-house with the assistance of a team from Zendesk’s team.

You may be able to save by using less agents, depending on how you structure your ticketing workflow.

Other solutions that were considered include ConnectWise, LanDesk, Spiceworks, among others. Zendesk was chosen because it is the most user friendly.

There is a simple to use free trial for companies considering Zendesk.