Zendesk Contact Center Features

Records calls for future reference.

Generates an area code local to where the user is calling to increase likelihood of pick-up.

Allows users to perform calls from their preferred device, whether laptop, desktop, mobile or otherwise.

Gathers contacts from integrated tools, allowing users to call with one click.

Has auto-dialing or predictive dialing functionality.

Retains a log of extraneous contact information such as timezone and contact engagement.

Finds and opens saved contact information for reference at the time of a new call.

Allows users to denote which contacts they believe are prospective customers.

Allows users to take notes during or after the call for future reference.

Delivers users a daily summary of activity.

Sends automated voicemails to prospective clients who fail to answer.

Sends automated emails to increase engagement with prospective clients.

Organizes contacts based on probability of success.

Automatically transcribes and summarizes meeting discussions.

Mapped-out responses for conversations.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbot involvement.

Live human component of conversations.

Quality of interface for designing and customizing conversation maps.

Conversations enacted over social media.

Conversations enacted through embedding or pop-ups on websites.

Conversations enacted through text message (SMS).

Conversations enacted through voice assistants.

Conversations enacted through other channels.

Provides voice call functionality.

Provides an interface for one or more social media channels.

Includes or integrates with live chat initiaited from the company's web site.

Accepts contacts initiated through SMS or other mobile text functions.

Allows CSRs to receive and answer customer emails.

Overall quality of customer targeting based on needs or situations.

Creation and modification of customer profiles based on conversations.

Reporting based around specific and overall conversation results.

Capture and organization of leads from conversations.

Success rate of conversations leading to customer purchases.

Presents information about the individual being called before the call begins.

Gives agents a predetermined amount of time to view call information before automatically calling. Similar to Preview Dialing.

Uses machine learning to determine the best times to call and adjust dialing speed to connect agents with leads efficiently.

Allows a supervisor to listen to a call and train in real time.

Reschedules calls within the software itself, either through a prompt or by the agent themselves.

Records calls to access or evaluate at a later time to ensure quality standards are met, and pause recording of live calls if necessary.

Decides response type by determining if voice is a human response or an answering machine.

Uses touch-tone or voice input to interact with callers, gather information, and route them to the appropriate agent or department.

Removes phone numbers from an uploaded list that appear on the National Do Not Call Registry.

Administrators can access and organize data related to incidents, requests, and changes to produce reports or make data more navigable.

Operationalizes data delivery workflows to easily scale repeatable preparation needs

Provide workflows to create and escalate issues related to risks and requests

Integrates with live chat, chatbots, help desk, or other customer service software

Grant access to select data, features, objects, etc. based on the users, user role, groups, etc.

Software is consistently available (uptime) and allows users to complete tasks quickly because they are not waiting for the software to respond to an action they took

Automates some or all operation related tasks

Monitors call volume and quality to evaluate agent performance.

Has a centralized dashboard for users to interact with.

Forecasts scheduling needs based on historical data.

Tracks agent workloads throughout the day and helps supervisors allocate resources as needed.

Ability to control file/folder access by user or group, external sharing permissions, editing policies, device location restrictions, sharing by device, etc.

Ensures user access management, data lineage, and data encryption

Deliver standard reports for compliance standards and frameworks such as ISO, SOX, PCI, and HIPAA.

Perform ad-hoc or ongoing IT audits at different levels of the company.

Help companies comply with state and federal laws such as TCPA and DNC.

Updates compliance information based on the most recent changes to regulations.

Manage exemptions to reclaim phone numbers that are incorrectly classified.

Identify risk data attributes such as description, category, owner, or hierarchy.

Protects data with some form of encryption as it leaves your secure or local network.

Allows administrators to set user access privileges to permit approved parties to access sensitive data.

Requires a second level of authentication, such as sms messaging or customized tokens, to access data.

Provides tools for evaluating customer interactions

Offers features for maintaining fair and consistent scoring

Generates quality and performance reports

Tools for providing personalized feedback and coaching sessions

Provides a centralized dashboard for agents to view their scores and feedback

Tools for educating and training agents

Integrates with other customer service or CRM software

Helps ensure customer privacy and data protection

Route calls to the most appropriate agent according to a series of factors, including the time of day, customer priority, IVR outcomes, and skill-based routing (SBR). Voicemails can be routed to agents during quiet call periods.

Callers can be routed to a queue or placed on hold until an agent becomes available.

Place a large or unlimited volume of calls simultaneously without diminishing the call quality.

Provides some level of analytics based on keywords and vocal tones.

Has auto dialing or predictive dialing functions for outbound use.

Includes an interactive phone menu.

Populates CSR's screen with available customer data.

Maintains and shares information across channels and agents as the case progresses.

Provide agents with notes or context information about a call. These notes can include information such as caller disposition or contact history.

Manage call records and agent tasks through administrative features. Provide agents with guidance during live calls, and interrupt calls with call barging to ensure customer satisfaction, if necessary.

Report on historical or real-time call center performance metrics, and access data through highly visual dashboards.

Keeps records of agent-customer sessions for purposes of coaching, quality assurance, or regulatory purposes.

Provides workforce management functions such as scheduling and vacations, team assignments, and areas of expertise.

Allows supervisors/managers to record and review telephone conversations of agents.

Report on historical or real-time call center performance metrics, and access data through highly visual dashboards.

Provide integration with phone systems and auto-dialers.

Provide integration with marketing and CRM software.

Provide integration with other third-party applications that use phone numbers.

Provide or integrate with scrubbing services to validate dialing lists.

Deliver blocking features to ensure that employees cannot call restricted numbers.

Ability to create custom rules for each campaign to ensure compliance.

Validate phone numbers when gathering information on new customers.

Enables the creation of an internal repository of knowledge articles

Provides workflows for writing, editing, approving, and publishing knowledge article content

Helps users understand which knowledge articles are working and identifies areas of improvement

Offers a search function that auto-suggests the knowledge articles that best fit the agent’s query

Analyzes customer support tickets or conversations to suggest relevant knowledge articles

Allows for the creation of flowcharts or decision trees that guide agents step-by-step through resolving customer issues

Offers complete visibility into agent availability to efficiently create and manage schedules.

Organize, sort, and view employees based on skills and qualifications in order to make smarter workforce decisions.

Plan employee work shifts according to availability and provide notifications to employees when they are scheduled.

Allows agents to set their own preferences, request time off, and trade shifts.

Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.

Allow managers/supervisors to monitor calls for quality assurance purposes.

Allows managers/supervisors to evaluate the performance of agents.

Allows inflow of requests through various digital channels such as email, social media, etc.

Allows users to access the software using mobile devices.

Provides queue management in case of increase in case/call inflow.

Allows distribution of incoming calls to agents.

Allows users to request a call back.

Offers IVR (interactive voice response) for interaction between customers and a computer operated phone system.

Allows automatic distribution of incoming calls to the agents.

Simulates human-like speech from text inputs.

Simulates human-like speech from text inputs.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Helps in understanding different accents, dialects, and speech patterns.

Helps to generate human-like speech responses.

Provides customizable speech speed and intonation.

Provides multiple voice options like gender, tone and style.

Allows communications to be secure and authenticated.

Aids in syncing with multiple devices.

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Ability to break down and plan multi-step processes

Works across multiple software systems or databases

Improves performance based on feedback and experience

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Makes informed choices based on available data and objectives

Uses AI to prioritize and reorder call lists based on lead quality, past interactions and optimal call times.

Uses AI to ensure call compliance with regulations like TCPA or GDPR by detecting violations and triggering alerts or restrictions.

Uses AI to analyze call recordings for sentiment, tone and language to assess interaction quality and flag calls needing follow up or review.