Zendesk

Zendesk for Service

Composite Score

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

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2024

1 Top Rated Capabilities

0 Top Rated Features

2023

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0 Top Rated Features

2022

Zendesk for Service Ratings

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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.

84 Likeliness to Recommend

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Since last award

92 Plan to Renew

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?

2% Negative

10% Neutral

88% Positive

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Performance Enhancing
Efficient Service

Feature Ratings

Average 79

Customer Self Service Capabilities

Contact Center Integration

Agent Collaboration

Customer Service Knowledge Management

Intelligent Search

Agent Scripting

Customer Service Workflow Management

Analytics and Reporting

Mobile Customer Care

Customer Community Management

Multi Channel Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 78

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

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

Alicia P.

Role: Operations
Industry: Biotechnology
Involvement: Business Leader or Manager

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Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

Wonderful product, large learning curve

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

Zendesk for Service distinguishes itself from other customer service and support platforms through its emphasis on simplicity and scalability. At its core, Zendesk offers an intuitive user interface that simplifies complex processes, making it accessible for businesses of all sizes. It also allows businesses to dip their toes into things like chatbots, AI, etc without doing away with other methods entirely.

What do you dislike most about this product?

One major drawback is the difficulty in sending bulk messages, a feature that could significantly streamline communications. Additionally, the wait times for customer support via chat can be lengthy, which can be frustrating when immediate assistance is needed. These areas, if improved, could greatly enhance the user experience.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Zendesk is a great tool and you can use some of its features easily. However, if you really want to get the bang for your buck (and it can be a lot of bucks) it will take you some searching and practice. I have been using it for around 3 years and I'm still finding new features all the time + the ones they continue to come out with.

Pros

Reliable
Respectful
Acts with Integrity
Helps Innovate

Brad T.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Media
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Mar 2024

I am really enjoying this support platform

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

As a user, I find the support platform quite satisfactory and the activation mechanism seems fantastically adaptable and dynamic. The fact that form fields can now be searched is fantastic. For future improvements, the market is ideal. When it comes to standardizing user responses, macros are fantastic.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Both the Zendesk dashboard and support views have potential. It would be great if the online support portal could be improved to better accommodate internal requesters, who are occasionally agents, and restricted so that not just anyone could use it.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Most of our work involves helping customers with various requests, questions and technical difficulties. Agent productivity improves with easy-to-use views.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For all of our support queries, we use the ticket dashboard. Sending an email to the support address automatically creates a new ticket in HubSpot and notifies the appropriate parties.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Reliable
Effective Service
Saves Time

Sai R.

Role: Sales Marketing
Industry: Consulting
Involvement: End User of Application

Validated Review

Verified Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2023

Enhances productivity and easy to use!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Zendesk for Service from other similar products?

Zendesk has a suite of products from ticket management to knowledge resource management that helps with increasing productivity and delivering better client outcomes

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Ticket management system is very easy to use and effective to manage and resolve requests. Also facilities for collaboration across different stakeholders

What do you dislike most about this product?

Search functionality could be improved for increased efficiency

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Consider the ease of use, the use cases that you have, and your current support function

Pros

Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy
Efficient Service

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

92 Plan to Renew

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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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IT Service Management - Midmarket

Zendesk for Service Reviews

Alicia P.

Wonderful product, large learning curve

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Brad T.

I am really enjoying this support platform

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Sai R.

Enhances productivity and easy to use!

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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Feature Ratings

Customer Self Service Capabilities

Contact Center Integration

Agent Collaboration

Customer Service Knowledge Management

Intelligent Search

Agent Scripting

Customer Service Workflow Management

Analytics and Reporting

Mobile Customer Care

Customer Community Management

Multi Channel Support

Vendor Capability Ratings

Ease of IT Administration

Ease of Data Integration

Ease of Implementation

Business Value Created

Quality of Features

Usability and Intuitiveness

Breadth of Features

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Ease of Customization

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Availability and Quality of Training