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Zoho Desk Reviews: 4.4/5 — Solid Choice

Zoho Desk Overview
What is Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk is a longstanding name in its category that offers feature rich automation tools that help make your agents job easier and more efficient. One of their most lauded features includes an AI assistant that can identity repeated keywords and opinions in customers’ text to analyze customer mood and sentiment. Such smart solutions are coupled with auto-tags for tickets. You can also send automated notifications concerning ticket progress, assign tickets to specific agents, and update records via the platform.

Company Zoho Corporation
Year founded 2000
Company size 10,001+ employees
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu
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Zoho Desk Product Details
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Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone
Support 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support
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Languages English
Zoho Desk Pros and Cons
Pros
  • There are plenty of reporting features that provide customer insights and agent performance data
  • A range of templates are available to help you respond to customers quickly and effectively
  • You get real-time insights into support operations
  • There’s a good free plan for new users
Cons
  • The wealth of features on offer can make it harder for beginners to pick up the software.
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Asset Management
Audit Logs
Automated Routing
Canned Responses
Change Management
Collaboration Tools
Customer Feedback
Custom Fields
Customizable Branding
Email Integration
Escalation Management
Incident Management
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5,205 Zoho Desk Reviews
4.4 out of 5
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
Apr 28, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
JP
Johnny P.
Staff Software Engineer
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"Great company, good product"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Honestly I like the company itself and the product is good enough to use. Zoho offers tons of free software (I believe some is open sources), and it generally operates without many bugs and without unnecessary bloat

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

I don't like the user experience, the default filtering makes it very easy for tickets to get lost, and additionally it's not really ITIL compliant.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

It current solves end user support. I would like it to be expanded internally for incident Management and change management.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Feb 09, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
PS
Pratibha S.
Pratibha Singh
Share
"An adjustable help desk support software"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Zoho desk is good and customise-able help desk support software based on ticket. A very good options for automation and integration developers/programmers.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

There is no support from zoho corporation for zoho desk. I have tried on their support email and also created support ticket But there is no response from zoho corp. There are very limited options given for free version of zoho desk.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

creating customer queries as tickets and responding back from zoho desk for support.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 23, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great help desk software"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Great ticketing software, easy to use and learn. Solid user interface A+

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

It doesn't seem to keep logs of everything.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

To increate productivity.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 04, 2018
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Soho review"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Ability to remotely control PCs without having to configure firewall

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Remote control of PCs via iOS is poorly supported

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Remote access to client PCs

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 24, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
KT
Kenneth T.
Mis
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"Zoho Deks"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Time tracking and the ability to search tickets.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

At times its a little hard to navigate the menu.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Billling and keeping track of tickets.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 17, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Sufficient"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

I like how it helps you to organize your relations with your customers. You can organize them as you like, add contacts (mails, phones, etc.), answer their questions, etc. Also you can add tasks to each client and do several other interesting things. The reports sections is good enough.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

I admit that this program can be certainly helpful, but it is really necessary? I think it’s not. All we used to do with it can be easily done with regular mail, Excel, etc.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Nothing special, it makes relations a little bit more efficient, but honestly it doesn’t pays de price.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 25, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Migrating from Groove to Zoho Desk"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

The Pricing is a key differential, especially when you have about 20 odd people across teams trying to answer tickets and emails as a unified organisation, Groove's cost was adding up. Also remembering thta Groove's customer support is all about their Founder only blogging, and never responding to customers and or taking ownership of an issue, Zoho's support team wins your heart over

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Personally, the Interface is so 1990's, it seems to have been stuck there and not a lot of things have been done to it. I wish they re-innovated on the interface.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Common MailBox for Team to answer as a Unified Team

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 21, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Lots of features"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Plenty of features to compete with Zendesk. Multiple portals, telephony, customizable agent views, etc. (for a price). Get started for free and integrate with Zoho CRM.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Setup and user interface take time to learn. Not the same look and feel as Zoho CRM.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a support portal and help system with knowledge base.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 21, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AR
Anthony R.
Sales And Marketing Director
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"Still in the review process"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

We already use Zoho CRM, I like how seamlessly it integrates with our customer database in the CRM App.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

There is no way to get the ticket number removed from the email subject line.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing client questions. We have not rolled it our publicly yet.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 22, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"So far, so good."
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

So far, this is the only help desk ticketing system that has integration with Amazon Connect.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Spotty notifications. Sometimes I go hours without realizing a ticket has been opened.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm a small, two-man, IT service provider and this gives me the ability to always be available to my customers. The integration with Amazon Connect couldn't have been simpler and this gives me the ability to scale up whenever I'm ready.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 06, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"This application is useful tool and very easy to learn and use but very different from Gmail. "
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

You can switch between email addresses and departments.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Tickets don't close automatically close by themselves. I have to manually close them which clutters my inbox when I forget.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are trying to benefit out customer outreach by using the "waiting on customer" ticket feature.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
May 24, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Easy to use but many limitations"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Desk is easy to use and met most of the requirements we had.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

There is so much limitations on this product. Customer Service never got back to me on many issues I had setting up Zoho.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Desk helped with giving people one place to go to to ask for help. It allowed us to provide better service to our customers/personnel. Zoho customer service needs to be more helpful. Whenever I called with an issue or had a question if zoho has the capability of doing something. I would always get the same answer there are webinars that you can watch. Most people/business that purchase this type of software don't have time to watch webinars. They just need answers that are easily accessible. I even asked if there was documentation so that I could know what fields are linked to Zoho CRM and they don't even have documentation.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 14, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Support lacking and help"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Nothing much is good about it , it's lacking help and fixing my issues

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Hard to understand them and hard to get anything resolved. I give up and just tell them sure it's fixed but in truth it's not .

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Customizing and setting up templates

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 17, 2016
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Great product, but has limitations"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Did not "wow" me as a ticketing/contact management tool. I did like that I was able to keep all related email together instead of having to search through inbox for responses. The best feature is being able to customize the application to meet your company's needs.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

When persons respond to an email (that was sent from a ticket) often times zoho would just create a new ticket rather than attach the response to the original email. It was always a pain to have to go in and merge the two tickets in order to keep everything together. There was no calendar function. I love calendars. All tickets were sent to all email accounts, whether they related to you or not. This could have very well been a customization feature.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Contact Management Software

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 16, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
Jake W. avatar
Jake W.
Vice President Of Programming
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"Good features"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

I reviewed Zoho Desk to replace our home-grown ticketing system. One of our most important requirements was an SLA notification system and Zoho is the only product I found that covers this fully.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

SMS notification requires a personal Twilio account. Not a huge issue since we already use Twilio, but I was hoping to not support any internal processes/products. APIs lean toward apps rather than data migration.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are replacing a home-grown ticketing system. We need a new customer portal and knowledge base. We also no longer want our specialized developers working on the ticketing system.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Nov 24, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Its just ok"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

the reporting aspect of zoho is probably the best

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

can be a little bit clunky and difficult to navigate, doesnt offer all the great functionality that zendesk does

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

capturing speed of response was something we wanted to record

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 20, 2020
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Nice user-facing layout, but confusing backend"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

The user-facing Knowledgebase and articles are clean and user-friendly.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

The backend is very confusing to navigate, settings aren't always where I would expect them to be. Customer service was very poor - responses tended to take 12+ hours, and sometimes the information given wasn't relevant to the original request.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed an easy-to-update searchable knowledgebase for our tech solution.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Nov 05, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Company-wide Collaboration"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk is a support desk platform that helps businesses deliver top quality customer support to their clients with tools that increase agent productivity and analytics and reports that enable managers to find key issues in agent performances so that they can improve their service as well make intelligent business decisions. Customers can also benefit from Zoho Desk as the software allows them to find timely and relevant support without having to go too far. With Zoho Desk, companies provide their support teams with the best tools, multiple support channels, and task automation so that they can deliver quick and responsive support to their clients. This help desk platform gathers together employees from other departments and empower them to give their customers a very unified customer service experience.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk offers three priced packages plus a free version packed with basic business support features. A 15-day trial with no credit card requirement is also available for businesses and individuals who want to take Zoho Desk for a spin.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Despite facing problems as a current user, I find this sofware to be completely worth it. Even I would encourage other companies to make their investment in this useful program. Thanks to Zoho Desk, we were able to curb mistakes. It also made us effective and productive at the same time.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 29, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Needed clarity, confusing customer support"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Nice potential for integrations and apps

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Not intuitive, required multiple attempts to set up and confusing exchanges with customer support

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Needed to field help desk / support requests

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Oct 22, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
Elihu V. avatar
Elihu V.
Director Fundador
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"Some bugs"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Time tracking and kanban style of tickets

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Bugs, not every comment converts into ticket

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Digital customer care

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jul 26, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
KT
Kenichi T.
マネージャー
Share
"翻訳が進めば・・・"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

連動できる機能が多く一元管理が可能になり、他の部署とスムーズなオペレーションが可能となる。

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

まだまだ英語の部分が多くすべての社員に勧められる状態ではない。日本語化のスピードが上がればと思う。

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

カスタマーによる自己解決

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jul 24, 2019
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
Hussein A. avatar
Hussein A.
Project Manager
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"need more time to discover"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

a lot of features already awesome but the best I like is chatbot

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

I think it is so hard to user to understand how it works in in few days

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

ticketing from customer to help desk is more powerful with itsm software like zoho desk

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 12, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Zoho Desk"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Its cheap, and free. Easy to setup and use

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Connectivity is poor, support is terrible

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help desk related

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 14, 2017
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
RC
Regis C.
Watch Collector
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"Limited and feels restricted."
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

-Easy to manage different types of tickets. -Dashboard feels neat and tidy. -Report system is quite detailed

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

-Can't close more than 3 tickets at once -Can't merge any type of tickets together simultaneously -The multiple ticket selections are sloppy and slow -Some emails are not received and being bounced out -Merging emails causes previous attachments to be discarded hence will need to reupload all the files into the email again

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Allows smoother tracking of tickets and resolving them easily.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Aug 23, 2015
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Its an ok Support System "
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

I started using Zoho mostly for a CRM... then I tried out there support... It works nicely and is very simple to use, just like all the other Zoho Services

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Its not a comprehensive as the other support solutions on the market. I feel like it a bit like a "me 2" type of a service.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

After using this for a bit I found our I needed something a bit more powerful and to work with a support system that is dedicated to support only.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 06, 2014
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
JD
John D.
Co Owner
Share
"Needs tons of polish"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

The price is ok, but compared to competitors, it is a second choice. I did like it was a full suite of products that incorporated support tickets as well as CRM. We also used the mailer module. But that could get to be expensive if you have a large list.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

clunkiness and lack of flow, While all the features are there, it is not intuitive and does not make sense to non technical folks.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were using the CRM and mailing piece, but got to be expensive

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Oct 08, 2013
 Source
Overall Rating:
2.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Pretty but flawed"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

I like the ability to organize by account, the ability to search using very flexible filters, the layout and friendly look of the Solutions area.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

I absolutely despise the amount of effort required to do a basic filter; the fact that it is super easy to create a new user when an existing user already matches on email (simply by doing things out of order); that you have to click twice to search solutions, contacts, or accounts; that you can't search all fields simultaneously (preferably by default); that filtering is uber-glitchy - about 15% of the time, I get error messages saying 'unable to process this request'; that I can't manually set up logins for clients - a lot of them aren't computer literate and can't figure out the quite simple process of setting up an account; that the tabs at the top of the browser say our company name instead of something relevant, even if it's just the request ID; that the reports are hard to figure out and the default reports are pretty much useless to our workflow; that you can't automatically get notified when someone edits, comments, or changes your tickets - our old, relatively out-of-date system did this FLAWLESSLY, with an email to the assigned agent sent when any of these changes were made, and this email included the changes themselves - this has been a gigantic timesuck of monumental proportions, having to email or IM people to advise them of what's going on with their tickets....I could go on.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Not provided

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Aug 09, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Poor customer service and difficult to navigate"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk was easy to setup and integrated well with many systems.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Zoho Desk has poor customer service. People are difficult to get ahold of and don't offer much guidance. The system in general is difficult to navigate.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zoho Desk was a cheap option for managing our customers.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 29, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"Useful product and not so useful customer service"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

The tool is easy to implement, and of course is a good ticketing service.

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

The customer service- or lack there of. I was supposed to receive callbacks and never got one.

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy to organise incoming queries.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jun 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
1.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
Share
"BEST OF A FRUSTRATING LOT FOR US......"
What do you like best about Zoho Desk?

It is a helpdesk solution of sorts. Fonts are big. Colour is nice. Menu icons are cool. Did I mention the font is nice and big?

What do you dislike about Zoho Desk?

Forms are limited in screen layout. Field options for self creating are limited. Cannot hide a number of default system wide fields. Uploading bulk information into fields is really clunky

What problems is Zoho Desk solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are moving from a spreadsheet to a helpdesk solution so that is a big plus. Improving information sharing so we can see what the staff are doing.