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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

Zendesk apps


Zendesk apps are a great way to add functionality to our environment. While we can choose from a range of different apps from Zendesk's own marketplace, most companies will choose to create their own custom apps to enable their agents.

In order to gain a better understanding of what Zendesk apps are capable of and how they can be utilized, let's look at a few commonly used apps developed by Zendesk. The best place to find those apps is the Zendesk Marketplace.

Zendesk Marketplace

In order to navigate to the Marketplace, follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Admin icon (gear symbol) located in Zendesk's sidebar.

  2. Click on Marketplace located under APPS within the admin menu:

Zendesk will open the following web link in your browser: https://www.zendesk.com/apps/

Once the page has loaded, we can either use the search bar (if we have an app or keyword in mind) or start by clicking through the categories located at the bottom of the page:

Not all categories are visible here. We can scroll...