Zendesk Suite vs. Zoho Desk

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Zendesk Suite
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Zendesk is a customer support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, and live chat, designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk's AI agents are trained in CX to help Service teams resolve customer issues faster and more accurately while still providing a human-centered experience. Zendesk ultimately aims to help businesses improve time to value, reduce effort per ticket, and keep costs low.
$69
per month per agent
Zoho Desk
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.
$0
Pricing
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Editions & Modules
Suite Team
$69
per month per agent
Suite Growth
$115
per month per agent
Suite Professional
$149
per month per agent
Suite Enterprise
Contact Sales
Free
$0
Standard
$14
per user
Professional
$23
per user
Enterprise
$40
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalRequired
Additional Details20% discount available with annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Considered Both Products
Zendesk Suite
Chose Zendesk Suite
Although Zendesk Suites has a higher value when it comes to it's pricing, Zendesk offers more features and functionality also Zendesk Suites has already established it's name and is trusted by many businesses and organizations. Other similar products maybe cheaper and simple …
Chose Zendesk Suite
We used Zendesk Suite initially to bring live support to our customers and it was a success, however we have since migrated away from Zendesk Suite in favour of Genesys Cloud CX. Our IT team had previous experience with this platform for our phone system and it offers many …
Chose Zendesk Suite
It prioritizes tickets from the urgent to the least urgent, and the best feature on Zendesk is that it illustrates when the other person is currently interacting with the ticket you are working on.
Chose Zendesk Suite
In my own personal business, I have used Zoho Desk over Zendesk since it is a part of their Zoho One suite of products and it has a tight integration with their CRM. But for larger businesses that can throw some support towards the integrations and want an industry-leading …
Zoho Desk
Chose Zoho Desk
The quality of support provided by Zoho Desk is brilliant. Ease of setup is a very easy process. Also it meets all the requirements that can be expected from such kind of software. Zoho Desk is a company that can be easy to do business with. It is really headed in the right …
Chose Zoho Desk
• In the acquisition of Zoho Desk I did not have the final decision but I have contributed as my analysis in the implementation. We decided to switch services since this tool is much more complete in terms of functionalities that help us to easily resolve and follow up on our …
Chose Zoho Desk
Value for money simply beats the rest. Also, as part of the Zoho Suite, integrations are wonderful, for example to CRM or consolidating Reporting with other apps such as Zoho Projects. Integration to advanced Analytics is also very helpful. In terms of features, they are pretty …
Chose Zoho Desk
Zoho Desk comes at a better price, and it offers integration with other Zoho applications so you can keep your information in a single place. Their support is good and will guide you through many things. Also their API is similar to other Zoho platforms, so employees can …
Chose Zoho Desk
Zoho Desk is easy to set up for small business needs, and its dashboard is well-suited for our organization's needs. We are on a social network, which also helps us to get users' and applicants' queries through the social platform.
Another factor to start with it is its trial …
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Suite
8.7
160 Ratings
8% above category average
Zoho Desk
8.4
5 Ratings
4% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets9.1159 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Expert directory8.0108 Ratings7.44 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications8.3111 Ratings7.44 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation8.4110 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission9.3159 Ratings8.55 Ratings
Ticket response9.2158 Ratings8.55 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Suite
8.5
145 Ratings
8% above category average
Zoho Desk
8.9
5 Ratings
12% above category average
External knowledge base8.4139 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Internal knowledge base8.5132 Ratings8.95 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
Zendesk Suite
8.6
155 Ratings
9% above category average
Zoho Desk
7.1
5 Ratings
10% below category average
Customer portal8.8126 Ratings8.04 Ratings
IVR8.562 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration7.9102 Ratings6.33 Ratings
Email support9.2152 Ratings6.75 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration8.8117 Ratings7.24 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
8.9
(198 ratings)
8.1
(24 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(43 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(71 ratings)
8.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
8.6
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
6.2
(31 ratings)
8.7
(12 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.9
(9 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(18 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
9.3
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Zendesk SuiteZoho Desk
Likelihood to Recommend
Zendesk
One specific thing I love about Zendesk Suite lately is the ability to use AI "Enhance writing" it allows me to freehand a response and then have it help me sound more formal or friendly, this is very useful, not only for those free handed ones, but also when you need to repeat the same information to a customer, it can help you make it sound slightly different. I don't like that when a ticket comes, even if you have the shortcut to toggle between chat and email, it doesn't actually toggle.
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Zoho
Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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Pros
Zendesk
  • UI/UX; mature macros and automations, slick and well thought out UI.
  • Reporting, reporting, reporting. With user, org, and ticket level tags, we can track every aspect of our ticket flow.
  • Extensibility; the app marketplace is a great resource for expanding functionality from the baseline offering.
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Zoho
  • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
  • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
  • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
  • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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Cons
Zendesk
  • The development of messaging out of the earlier Chat module is clunky and still has limitations for multi language flows.
  • When creating queries in Explore, you can't search for 'or' conditions, only 'And', meaning you have to build multiple queries and manually add them.
  • You can't download the charts in the reports, they come down as tables and then you have to make your own charts.
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Zoho
  • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
  • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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Likelihood to Renew
Zendesk
Zendesk is an amazing tool for communicating with your customers easily. The communication tickets from sellers to us or from us to sellers are stored, and there are statuses used to make communication easy. We have internal conversations between departments, linked with useful software such as Zingtree, Talkdesk, and Webs.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Usability
Zendesk
Zendesk Suite is a straightforward solution that provides agents with everything they need on the same screen. Allowing an agent to navigate one tab, one screen and switch between features, pin favorite features while viewing the customer profile and details in 360degrees. A view like this empowers agents to support customers better and in a more composed state.
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Zoho
I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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Reliability and Availability
Zendesk
In the past year, I'd say I have only noticed maybe two hours total of downtime in my own usage. Very minimal.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Performance
Zendesk
There has been minor performance degradation on a very few days out of the two years I have been using the product.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Zendesk
We rarely need to contact their support team, but when we do they are responsive. However there have been notable times when communication between myself and the support rep was challenging despite me providing clear explanation of the issue, screenshots, and a thorough explanation of the goal we hope to achieve. It took several back and forth attempt, on a few occasions, to get resolution on an otherwise simple request
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Zoho
As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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Online Training
Zendesk
Zendesk has tons of available material for training - videos, webinars, articles, etc. The only reason this is not a 10 is because it can be hard to figure out how to navigate to these things and find what you are looking for.
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Zendesk
I was very satisfied. They have a free trial for 30 days and I recommend you do that and use it. It is very easy to get started with the basics and the build on over time.

The only thing technically complex was single sign-on and integration to Salesforce.com required some tweaks – otherwise setting up system was very easy
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Zoho
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Zendesk
Zendesk Suite is exceptionally user friendly and highly customisable. Free training for all levels and roles of users which is easy to follow and engaging for users is particularly helpful along with the added support behind the scenes from Zendesk support and the Zendesk community is second to none.
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Zoho
We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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Return on Investment
Zendesk
  • We have been able to deliver IT accurately and onetime
  • Our customers have been able to provide feedback on a given ticket and helped us build a better support structure
  • Zendesk Suite has allowed us to be more efficient in our every day operations
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Zoho
  • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
  • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
  • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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ScreenShots

Zendesk Suite Screenshots

Screenshot of the Zendesk Agent WorkspaceScreenshot of Omnichannel MessagingScreenshot of Zendesk TicketingScreenshot of Bots powered by Zendesk AIScreenshot of Tone shift with Zendesk AIScreenshot of Zendesk ticketing side conversations

Zoho Desk Screenshots

Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.