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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

Chapter 2. Agent Roles, Groups, Organizations, and User Tags

When it comes to working with an environment such as Zendesk, which was built to communicate with millions of customers, it is absolutely crucial to understand how we can manage our user accounts and their tickets without losing track of our processes. However, even when working with a smaller customer base, keeping scalability in mind, we should apply the same diligence when it comes to planning our agent roles, groups, organizations, and user tags.

Not only do we allow more efficient workflows to be planned and added in the future, but a carefully planned setup of your agent roles, groups, organizations, and user tags will also enable us to create more detailed and meaningful performance reports.

That is why, in this chapter, we will examine each of the options provided by Zendesk and dissect their individual capabilities. We will review where these options fit in our overall setup and how we can implement our desired workflows...