Zoho Desk Features

Allows software to be easily used on multiple mobile devices include phone and tablet devices.

Allows users to customize chat colors, text, logos, and branding.

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

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Provides analytics tools that reveal important business metrics and track progress

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Access software remotely via mobile devices

User Experience of creating and submitting a ticket

User Experience of responding and receiving a response

Route tickets based on values of fields, changes to ticket status and time based conditions

Respond to common requests with standard reply

Set and monitor service level agreements to ensure timely response and resolution

Documents and files can be attached to the ticket to communicate with customer issues/resolutions

Share and collaborate on tickets with multiple customer service representatives

Central repository for account and contact information

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Manage a repository of information that includes articles, FAQs, or tutorials used for self-service support

Track, manage, or resolve user requests and IT incidents/issues

Manage all call center activities including call monitoring, call recording, call answering, call transfer, etc.

Monitor wait time and abandonment for incoming requests that have not been routed

Organize, prioritize, and manage incoming communications

Allow customers/users to submit support queries and service requests

Manage, store and organize emails within the system or via third-party apps

Allows fully customizable portal for customer to enter tickets, provide feedback and communicate with service agents

Ability for customer service agents to communicate via email and email conversations are automatically tracked in ticket

Ability for customer service agents to communicate with customers via live chat to solve problems live

Integration to social networks such as Twitter and Facebook to allow customers and agents to communicate via social networks

Make and receive calls directly in the application. Track and record calls for analysis.

Chat with your counterparts over the video in real time

Provides a repository of information that can be used by those seeking support.

Makes articles in the knowledge base searchable on the web.

Enables users to engage with other users to solve common issues.

Optimizes the customer self-service experience on mobile devices

Gives the user targeted, personalized results based on their activity or preferences

Allows users to add custom branding (logos, brand colors, etc.) to self-service portals, chatbots, etc.

Automates some or all operation related tasks

Utilizes artificial intelligence to improve workflows or customer experiences

Allows easy integrations with applications, such as messenger applications, APIs, and customer support tools

Enables a popup chat window on company websites to encourage interaction between website visitors and designated company representatives.

Delivers notifications to both sides of the conversation.

Sends automated emails to further engage clients and potential clients.

Allows for live chat to be enabled within the app for customer help.

Allows agents to join a customer's browser session and navigate through the website with them.

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Engage in direct, instant messaging with consumers

Allows users to customize chat colors, text, logos, and branding.

Enables employees to denote potential customers.

Establishes a knowledge base for employee reference during conversations.

Provides a central location for help requests, helping employees respond sooner.

Allows for the creation of profiles for contacts and customers.

Scours various channels for brand mentions to proactively seek reparative communications.

Creates and assigns support tickets, scheduling them in a timely manner.

Allows administrators to create templated responses to frequently asked questions.

Ability to connect agents with customers through Live Chat.

Connects employees with customers through a social media solution.

Ability to connect agents with customers through email.

Connects employees with customers through a calling solution.

Ability to connect agents with customers through text message solution.

Software incorporates multiple digital communications channels.

Allows incorporation of inbound contacts from non-marketing channels.

Provides opportunity for customers to give feedback through a survey.

Enables administrators to create customized reports reflecting customer satisfaction.

Allows administrators to track visitor activity to understand the research that was done before turning to customer service.

Provides a knowledge base or other support channel for disparate team members to work together and provide cohesive solutions.

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

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.

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.

Protect sensitive data for digital privacy

Allows planning and deployment of an overall communications strategy.

Includes or integrates with content creation apps.

Outbound communications are segmented and personalized.

Inbound contacts are identified and handled based on history.

Software verifies compliance with GDPR, CAN-SPAM, and other legal requirements.

Send messages, notifications, or documents to an entire customer base at the same time

Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.

Generate personalized communications upon request to meet customer needs

Allow the audience to interact or engage with the content

Permits use by job roles outside of service department

Allows linking of useful information such as screen shots

Provides direct contact between CSRs and customers outside of milestones

Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.

Informs stakeholders of activity on escalated or high-value cases

Evaluates frequency of types of complaints

Includes a dashboard or other means of performance monitoring

Track activity on sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

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

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

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.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Use AI to generate content in the form of text, images, videos, etc.

Allows users to generate text based on a text prompt.

Condenses long documents or text into a brief summary.

Allows users to automate responses to customer inquiries across various channels.

Provides users the ability to automate the collection and analysis of feedback from customers, employees, or other stakeholders.

Allows users to automate the handling, processing, and management of documents.

Allows the AI agent to learn from interactions and adapt its responses accordingly.

Allows the AI agent to learn from interactions and adapt its responses accordingly.

Provides the AI agent the ability to execute tasks without requiring constant user input.

Allows the AI agent to identify and resolve issues without user intervention.

Allows the AI agent to autonomously resolve customer queries without human intervention.

Enables the AI agent to provide accurate answers based on the context of customer inquiries.

Allows the AI agent to analyze customer sentiment and adjust responses accordingly.

Enables the AI agent to retrieve information from a knowledge base to assist with query resolution.

Provides users the ability to interact with the AI agent in multiple languages for global support.

Enables the AI agent to initiate interactions, such as reminders or follow-ups, with customers.

Provides users the ability to automate gathering and analyzing customer feedback after interactions.

Allows the AI agent to identify when issues require human intervention and escalate them appropriately.

Enables the AI agent to streamline repetitive customer service tasks, improving efficiency and response times.

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

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

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

Capability to perform complex tasks without constant human input

Engages in human-like conversation for task delegation

Anticipates needs and offers suggestions without prompting

Analyze and gain insights into data in real-time

Manage, store and organize emails within the system or via third-party apps

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Allow users to access multiple services after entering their login credentials once

Search and filter data across systems to locate required information by entering keywords or certain criteria

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Shortcuts for inputting frequently used messages

Gauge satisfaction and receive information for improvement and success

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Transfer queries and organize messages between agents

Geographic location of visitors determines behavior of the software

Track interaction history by documenting conversations for contacts

Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system

View messages sent by both parties during the chat conversation

Store and organize documents in a centralized system

Digitally share screen view with others

Manage, organize, and store contact information

Create and automatically send premade copy in response to customer messages

Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.

Access software remotely via mobile devices

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Form to collect visitor contact information when live chat isn't available

Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks

Allow customers/users to submit support queries and service requests

Public or private sharing of digital files such as documents, audio/video, images, and more

Tickets are automatically assigned to specific agents based on predefined rules

AI-based platform which conducts a conversation via auditory or textual methods

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Create and automatically send premade copy in response to customer messages

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Active monitoring of systems, applications, or networks

Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system

Games or game-like elements to track progress and reward accomplishments

Recording, transcription, and analysis of sales calls for the purpose of training and generating insights

Customize data fields to support various needs and use cases

Gauge satisfaction and receive information for improvement and success

Quantifiable metrics to track objectives, gauge milestones, and evaluate the success of a particular activity

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Allows communication with customers or users via multiple channels such as phone, email, live chat, etc.

Recognize/detect varying frequencies in a person's voice to identify/verify "who" is speaking

Ability to chat online in real time

Automatically handle routine, repetitive tasks and processes without the need for manual intervention

Read and accept a combination of touch tone keypad selections and voice inputs and provide the appropriate prerecorded voice response

Identify different languages

Allows users to manage data from a number of sources

Predict future data based on historical data sets

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

System alerts about the need to escalate an issue or request

Protect sensitive data for digital privacy

Track interaction history by documenting conversations for contacts

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Securely stores data to prevent data loss or breaches

Templated responses for responding quickly to recurring support requests

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Allow users to access multiple services after entering their login credentials once

Access the system via a mobile application

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Pre-made examples and templates for emails

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Automatic reply functionality for incoming messages

Import and export data to and from software applications

Adjust communications based on previous interactions or personal preferences

Streamlining repetitive tasks and activities through automated and predefined workflows

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Create and administer polls and surveys

Ability to chat online in real time

Active reporting of data and metrics

Track the status of support tickets/escalations as they move through the service queue

Manage a repository of information that includes articles, FAQs, or tutorials used for self-service support

Track customer complaints from initiation through resolution

Notifications that are delivered to users as soon as an event occurs

Work on a set of tasks related to a particular charge, patient, legal issue or any other complex entity or process

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Pre-designed layouts that can be customized to match preferences and requirements

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Import and export data to and from software applications

Track interaction history by documenting conversations for contacts

Set and monitor service level agreements to ensure timely response and resolution

A record of all activities within the system, including user access, changes made, etc.

Identify and respond to unexpected problems or failures (ie. "negative events")

Receive system updates as soon as any changes are made

Investigate and take action at root cause or error in processes to prevent recurring issues

Define levels of authorization for access to specific files or systems

Online portal through which end users can access the system, manage tasks, or obtain information

Manage inventory, communication, marketing, orders & more across warehouses, stores and online channels

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Shortcuts for inputting frequently used messages

Manage, store and organize emails within the system or via third-party apps

Customize contracts and forms to collect specific information

Gauge satisfaction and receive information for improvement and success

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

Arrange tasks based on the level of priority or urgency

Plan daily routes to optimize employee scheduling and provide directions

Allow customers/users to submit support queries and service requests

An extended application or connector that enables users to perform additional services with their current set of tools

Communicate using direct chat or messages within the system

System alerts about the need to escalate an issue or request

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Security protocol that ensures secure, encrypted communication over the internet, safeguarding sensitive data from unauthorized access

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Systematic evaluation of various aspects of a project or service to prevent defects or issues

Collecting, analyzing, and utilizing feedback from users or customers to improve a product or service

Record and follow the progress of every issue

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Attach digital tags to documents and assets for identification, search, or monitoring purposes

Assign issues and tasks based on availability or required skills

Pre-made examples and templates for emails

Alter the layout and content of reports

View and track pertinent metrics to find patterns and gain insights from data

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Store, manage and track all forms in a centralized location

Communicate using direct chat or messages within the system

A collection of customer information such as contact details, demographics, previous interactions, etc.

Add customized logos and colors to align with company branding

Record the audio of phone conversations for quality assurance purposes

Create and automatically send premade copy in response to customer messages

Read and accept a combination of touch tone keypad selections and voice inputs and provide the appropriate prerecorded voice response

Manage, store and organize emails within the system or via third-party apps

Create, save, and re-purpose templates for emails, forms, etc.

Send messages via SMS

Gauge satisfaction and receive information for improvement and success

Handles digital content throughout its lifecycle, from creation and storage to distribution and archiving

Manage a repository of information that includes articles, FAQs, or tutorials used for self-service support

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Manage and support multiple languages

Track interaction history by documenting conversations for contacts

Set up connections to third-party platforms to improve business processes

Integrate with social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.

Create, design and manage workflows for repetitive tasks

Access previous interactions or concerns to maintain customer relationships

Dashboard to view the status of ongoing processes, identify current incidents and track past activities

A virtual assistant that uses AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users

Supports various video file formats

Built-in customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities or integration with a third-party CRM system

Organize, prioritize, and manage incoming communications

Application programming interface that allows for integration with other systems/databases

Alerts or notifications of various types such as pop-up messages, sounds, banners, or badges

Collecting, analyzing, and utilizing feedback from users or customers to improve a product or service

Collection, analysis, and representation of numerical data and generation of reports to understand various patterns

Provides a channel for team members to share media files, communicate, and work together

Track and document all activities across devices, networks, and other systems

Assembly of graphs and charts for visualizing and tracking statistics/metrics

Train your system to interpret and transcribe voice messages

Track and manage adherence to policies for any service, product, process, or supplier

Completes tasks independently without constant human intervention

Categorize emotions expressed and identify if they are positive, negative or neutral

Addition of necessary external data, applications, tools, or features

Agents pause for human input at key steps and hand off tasks when beyond their confidence or authority.

Autonomously executes tasks such as scheduling, refunds, and renewals by integrating with external systems and APIs.

Process and analyze human language in text or audio form

Utilize NLP or speech recognition to understand conversational requests and provide accurate, context-aware responses

A set of indicators that tracks the performance of networks, applications, systems, teams, etc.

Track interaction history by documenting conversations for contacts

Manage a repository of information that includes articles, FAQs, or tutorials used for self-service support

Integration with third-party CRM systems

Allows the AI agent to route inbound inquiries to the appropriate team or individual based on context.

Interprets what a user is doing based on context and helps guide them through the process.

Record and track all relevant internal and external communications

Copy on the page or chat window encouraging the user to engage with the chat option

Track, manage, or resolve user requests and IT incidents/issues