Who Uses Zoho Desk?
Zoho Desk is most beneficial to customer-focused companies with passionate service teams and a large volume of frequent customer interactions. It scales to any size and fits many verticals.
What Is Zoho Desk?
Zoho Desk is a web-based customer service application that helps your company build stronger relationships with customers. With Zoho Desk, agents become more productive, managers become more impactful, and customers become more empowered. It's customizable, convenient to use, and it doesn't cost you a fortune. Part of Zoho's 40+ strong suite of business software, Zoho Desk brings you the power to put customer service at the heart of your company.
Zoho Desk Details
Zoho
https://www.zoho.com/
Founded 1996
Zoho Desk pricing overview
See pricing plansZoho Desk has a free version and offers a free trial. Zoho Desk paid version starts at US$14.00/month.
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Zoho Desk Reviews
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Tacho T.
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- Reviewed on 1/9/2021
"Zoho desk allows me to track all incoming requests and to convert website visitors to real customers"
Comments: A good-looking dashboard and customizable reports make a significant difference from other products I used. I am a visual man and it is very important for me to have a great visualized report.
Pros: The most valuable feature for me is the ability to create different tickets for customer's requests. After delegates the ticket to the specific team I am sure the customer will be served in high quality... The custom dashboard gives me the all information I need to make better decisions and to take any action if there is any significant problem.
Cons: I would like to have an opportunity to make more customization to web forms in the same way as Zoho CRM.
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- Reviewed on 1/9/2021
Umang B.
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- Reviewed on 14/7/2020
"One of the best investments for our organization"
Comments: Great - and their customer service is great as well.
Pros:
We got this software after using another vendor for about two years. During that time we learned what our needs were and had Zoho Desk on our shortlist. The criteria that we used was:
+ Easily integrate into the Knowledge Base (KB)
+ KB easily integrates into tickets
+ Tickets can be handled by multiple departments and permissions can be restricted to those departments
+ Single Sign On (SSO) integration for customers
+ A robust API
+ ASAP(TM?) integration that we can dump onto our website, which allows us to point directly to a particular page in the KB
+ A good mobile app (I personally use it on the iPhone)
+ Customizable reporting
~ A semi-workaround to integrate with Github (via Zoho Project)
We're looking forward to Guided Conversations that's in development right now
We look forward to additional releases
Cons: It can sometimes get too bloated on your browser because it has a lot of data under the hood, and search can be finicky at times - but it's quite manageable. The above would not impact me choosing this platform again.
Alternatives Considered: Jira
Reasons for Choosing Zoho Desk: It was a barebones system that came with GoToAssist - and we knew that going in. We decided to use it for a period of time before figuring out what our needs were and what was missing before making the switch - so we could make an informed decision.
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Desk: We would have had to self-host and also get Confluence since we are a non-profit. Did not want to do our own management. Also - our audience may get confused with the navigation.
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- Reviewed on 14/7/2020
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- Reviewed on 24/8/2018
"Everything is in BETA, after you are sold into a purchase..."
Comments: I realized I need a product that will fully integrate with my Google contacts and calendar, be able to track time spent on site or on a remote support session and be able to do this without switching and spending 5 minutes trying to get all of the information together for an invoice from: contacts; reentering the same job in Invoices instead of it linking to Desk, and move on to the next client.
Pros: It was pretty easy to setup, they did have issues on their end with the custom domain pointing, but were willing to help out. HTTPS had to be requested and is not a part of the package unless you call up and request it.
Cons:
I purchased a package from Zoho – Desk and Invoicing – so I can bill clients for time spent on a service call. Calls can be a remote support session or onsite.
After trying out their product and setting everything up with just Desk, their sales pitch led me to believe that their Invoicing product would be needed to integrate with Desk in order to bill clients directly.
The company then sent me an invoice to pay for an annual subscription for Desk and Invoice. I was told multiple times that I could use it on my phone and on the web. It would led me open a timesheet and connect it to the Desk ticket. Nope. Not on the phone though I was told otherwise.
So far, everything does not work as advertised.
The support reps keep telling me that their integrations are in BETA.
BETA was never mentioned during any of the calls or email until it did NOT work as advertised. I even have screen shots of the word BETA on the screens.
I would not recommend this product and would put up an advisory on your website indicating that most of their “integrations” are in BETA.
I am further contacting my bank and the Attorney General for California.
I don’t pay for BETA software.
Is there another company that actually fulfills their sales pitches?
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- Reviewed on 24/8/2018
Juanito O.
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- Reviewed on 15/7/2021
"Un gran aliado para servicio al cliente"
Comments: Una grata experiencia hasta ahora, es muy accesible económicamente.
Pros: Me encanta lo sencillo que es para usarlo, ofrece una gran facilidad. Tiene una amplia integración con otros servicios.
Cons: Nos costó un poco la integración a nuestros sistemas, pero se solucionó con la ayuda del soporte de zoho.
Alternatives Considered: Zendesk
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Desk: Por las prestaciones que ofrecía, su tabla de precios escalable y relativamente accesible para pequeñas y medianas empresas. Y por el respaldo de buen servicio que ofrece Zoho, de la cual tengo otros servicios también.
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- Reviewed on 15/7/2021
Peter F.
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- Reviewed on 23/7/2019
"Great on its own, OUTSTANDING when synced with Zoho CRM"
Pros: The integration with Zoho CRM is game-changing. It's so simple to set up and gives our Sales + Customer Service teams complete transparency into what the other is doing. It's really intuitive — of all the Zoho apps, Desk is the best for ease-of-use and straightforward UI. I like it even more than Zendesk. Powerful automation features. Love the customer portal + knowledge base, we use it every day. Nice little features like snippets or copy-pasting knowledge base articles mean that ticket response is a breeze.
Cons: Sometimes some of the default email templates can be a little bit funky, but that was an easy fix.
Alternatives Considered: Freshdesk and Zendesk
Reasons for Switching to Zoho Desk: The Zoho CRM integration. Other tools require you to pay for an expensive Salesforce account, but Zoho Desk came as part of the Zoho One suite. I couldn't be happier with it.
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- Reviewed on 23/7/2019
