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Mastering Zendesk

By : Cedric F. Jacob
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Mastering Zendesk

By: Cedric F. Jacob

Overview of this book

Zendesk is a cloud-based customer service solution that is widely used because it is easy, efficienct, flexible, and low cost. It is highly scalable and is great for organizations of all sizes. If you’re a Zendesk administrator and are looking to explore advanced-level concepts, then this book is for you. It covers the core functionalities such as managing users, groups, and the organization, and creating and adding custom fields. You will learn how to add customized ticket channels to your account. Then, you will focus on customizing business rules and extending Zendesk with JIRA and Salesforce. Towards the end, the book emphasizes security and troubleshooting aspects as well as providing tips and tricks to create a more efficient support environment. By the end of this book, you will be able to turn a basic Zendesk setup into a highly customized working environment.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Zendesk
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

What are channels?


Channels enable customers to engage with your agents. They allow customers to create tickets as well as establish an ongoing string of communication. Let's start by listing all the channels provided by Zendesk:

  • Email

  • Help Center

  • Twitter

  • Facebook

  • Chat (Zopim)

  • Voice

  • Web Widget

  • Mobile SDK

  • API

While some channels are self-explanatory in their nature, understanding them properly goes a long way when it comes to the actual implementation. So let's look at them in detail.

Email channel

The email channel allows your customers to contact your support directly by writing to one or more designated e-mail addresses. As soon as an e-mail is received, it will be turned into a ticket within the Zendesk environment. Zendesk allows for an unlimited amount of e-mail addresses within your Zendesk domain.

An internal e-mail address created within your Zendesk domain would look something like this:

[email protected]

In our example, this would translate to the following:

support@examplecomp...