Customer Self-Service Software Resources
Glossary Terms, Discussions, and Reports to expand your knowledge on Customer Self-Service Software
Resource pages are designed to give you a cross-section of information we have on specific categories. You'll find feature definitions, discussions from users like you, and reports from industry data.
Customer Self-Service Software Glossary Terms
Customer Self-Service Software Discussions
What is Zendesk Support Suite?
From a manager's lens, this is really about the workload math: every question the customer resolves themselves is one an agent doesn't touch. Researching the customer self-service space, these are the tools built to move that number:
- Fin resolves a meaningful share of common inquiries automatically and escalates the rest, directly reducing what lands in the agent queue. Best for AI-led deflection at volume.
- Zendesk for Customer Service combines a help center, automation, and AI to deflect and route before a human is needed. Best for deflection across many channels.
- Help Scout reduces incoming volume by surfacing answers in its widget before a customer writes in. Best for lighter teams cutting inbound.
- Freshdesk pairs a self-service portal with AI assistance to shave repetitive tickets. Best for budget-friendly deflection.
- KnowledgeOwl underpins all of it by giving customers findable answers that never become tickets. Best for the content that powers deflection.
The manager's honest caveat is to measure deflection properly, since a "resolved" bot chat that quietly frustrated the customer isn't a real win. How are you planning to measure whether deflection actually helped, not just reduced ticket count?
The metric that actually catches fake deflection is re-contact within 48-72 hours on the same topic, not the bot's own "resolved" flag; Fin and Zendesk both self-report resolution rates, but neither counts the customer who gave up and emailed in through a different channel instead.
I think upper question is understandable, so no other description.
Hello Roman,
2024-03-04
For our use-cases these "sorting in filtering view" methods work well.
Using Table View (Standard Method)
- Switch to Table View in the Tickets Module
- Go to Filter Mode, by clicking on the Filter Icon
- Select the required filter criteria from the list of predefined ticket fields
- On the results page, click on the column header from the table view to sort the results based on the columns in the table view
As there is no "multi-layered" filter (at time of writing) maybe this "workaround" will help you.
Using Custom View (Workaround Method)
- Create a Custom Ticket view
- Choose the required criteria to filter the ticket list (This acts as a filter to achieve a specific result), for sorting
- Switch to Table view and click on column headers as mentioned in the Standard Method
- This method allows you to choose any field in the ticket layout for a much more unique result
Note: both "methods" are taken from (can be found in) the Zoho Desk knowledge-base.
Best, Mark


