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Zendesk

Zendesk for Service

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8.5 /10

CX Score

8.7 /10

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What is Zendesk for Service?

Zendesk streamlines your support with time-saving tools like ticket views, triggers, and automations. This helps you get straight to what matters most – better customer service and more meaningful conversations. Zendesk helps companies empower their customer service agents and sales teams with the tools they need to get the job done right.

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Awards & Recognition

Zendesk for Service won the following awards in the Customer Service - Enterprise category

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Latest Award, 2025

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2024

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2023

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

2022

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2022

Zendesk for Service Ratings

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84 Likeliness to Recommend

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93 Plan to Renew

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79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Zendesk for Service?

1% Negative

11% Neutral

88% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Security Protects

Feature Ratings

Average 80

Customer Self Service Capabilities

Customer Service Knowledge Management

Agent Scripting

Agent Collaboration

Contact Center Integration

Intelligent Search

Analytics and Reporting

Customer Service Workflow Management

Mobile Customer Care

Multi Channel Support

Customer Community Management

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Business Value Created

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

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Score 8.2

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Score 8.1

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Zendesk for Service Reviews

Amrutha V.

Role: Public Sector
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: Initial Implementation

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

Zendesk: Reliable and Scalable Support Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

Zendesk is known for its clean interface, intuitive design, and low learning curve, allowing teams to get up and running quickly without heavy IT involvement. It offers seamless integration across email, chat, social media, phone, and help centers—all in one unified workspace. Many competitors require add-ons or complex setup for true omnichannel capabilities. Zendesk Guide allows you to build a branded knowledge base, community forum, and AI-powered help center, helping customers resolve issues on their own.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Zendesk’s ability to bring together multiple channels—like email, chat, phone, and social media—into one clean, centralized interface is a game-changer. It helps agents stay organized, reduces context switching, and ensures faster, more personalized responses.

What do you dislike most about this product?

While Zendesk is user-friendly, deeper customization of workflows, ticket fields, or the help center often requires coding knowledge or developer involvement. For non-technical teams, this can slow down setup and limit flexibility.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Clearly define your support workflows before implementation. Zendesk is highly configurable, but it works best when you tailor it to fit your existing processes. Start small, then scale. Begin with core features (like ticketing and basic automations), and gradually roll out advanced tools like AI, self-service, and reporting. Evaluate pricing tiers carefully. Some key features (like advanced reporting or custom roles) are only available in higher-tier plans.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Performance Enhancing
Trustworthy

Joy U.

Role: Industry Specific Role
Industry: Banking
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted May 2025

Very user friendly and flexible scalable pricing.

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

It has unified workspace, which can be very useful

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Easy to use, compared to other similar products

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing comes to mind right now.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It's easy to onboard. And it's quite scalable, so you can use as a startup and grow with.

Pros

Efficient Service
Effective Service
Inspires Innovation
Saves Time

Ifeoma A.

Role: Information Technology
Industry: Technology
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2025

Powerful Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

Zendesk's ticketing system is highly regarded for its efficiency and effectiveness in managing customer support requests. It provides agents with the tools they need to track, prioritise, and resolve issues quickly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The ticketing system's flexibility and efficiency are crucial for managing large volumes of support requests

What do you dislike most about this product?

The software is good

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Before implementing Zendesk, thoroughly assess your current support processes and identify your specific needs. This will help you choose the right Zendesk plan and configure the platform effectively.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Zendesk for Service

What is Zendesk for Service?

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Awards & Recognition

Zendesk for Service Ratings

84 Likeliness to Recommend

1 Since last award

93 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

79 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

1 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+86 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Zendesk for Service?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Customer Self Service Capabilities Central product portals, customer-facing resolution wizards and guidance, customer community forums.

Customer Service Knowledge Management Customer and/or agent-facing knowledgebase and search capabilities. Ability to create KBs, FAQs, wikis, and capture effectiveness ratings from customers.

Agent Scripting Recommend resolution steps to agents based on machine learning or AI.

Agent Collaboration Supports live collaboration between agent and customers, among customers e.g. forums, and service professionals e.g. team-based customer service.

Contact Center Integration Agent desktop, CTI integration. Call scripting, call queuing, prioritization by different support channels.

Intelligent Search Knowledgebase search with content indexing, and search of external content repositories. Proactive search and auto-suggestions. Natural language processing.

Analytics and Reporting Includes historical & real-time dashboard visualizations, detailed & summary reporting and easy data extraction for data analysis.

Customer Service Workflow Management Ticketing and case management capabilities. Automated assignment and escalation, decision trees, guided resolution wizards (ideally GUI drag-and-drop).

Mobile Customer Care Can create custom-branded service applications for customers on a mobile device (preferably native application rather than a responsive design site).

Multi Channel Support Integration with email, telephone, and live chat, and with self-service and social media.

Customer Community Management Creation and management of branded and focussed user communities.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

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Knowledge Management

IT Service Management - Midmarket

Zendesk for Service Reviews

Amrutha V.

Zendesk: Reliable and Scalable Support Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Joy U.

Very user friendly and flexible scalable pricing.

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Ifeoma A.

Powerful Platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

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Customer Service Workflow Management

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