Zoho Desk has many use cases. It captures customer contacts, can pull information from emails and create tickets, and also manages inbound customer inquiries. We are customers of Zoho and I'm a company director.
Because we've been able to capture so many things in one place and split them into different categories, we've gained a significant increase in efficiencies. It's been very successful.
Zoho has the ability to capture all contacts across all channels with a customer. It also enables social media functionality so that if a customer mentions your brand on Twitter, it creates a ticket for that. Customer contacts are in a single location and can then also be used to reach back out to customers if required.
Zoho has good integrations with telephonic solutions like AWS Connect and other plug-ins. It can pull information from emails allowing communication with full traceability regarding conflicts and how they're resolved.
Zoho is pretty good at capturing online inquiries and adding a ticket. It has portal functionality and is very good at managing inbound customer inquiries. We can share information with the customers through a knowledge hub. You can also create scripts and a knowledge bank so that if a customer returns with a query you can see what was said before and provide consistent responses.
It's quite configurable and a powerful tool with extensive use cases.
I think keeping track of social media platforms is one area that could use more attention. It would also be useful to see slightly better integration between additional functionalities in the Zoho desk. Nine out of ten times the integration works well, but then you get a case where it doesn't.
I've been using this solution for around four years.
We haven't encountered any stability issues.
Zoho is pretty scalable because of the security model they have which enables information access to anything from one person to 100 without any effect on performance.
The initial setup is quite straightforward and implementation doesn't take more than a week.
When implementing, it's important to think about how it will work with CRM because CRM systems typically have a light version of help desk functionality built into them, and the Zoho desk is a little bit more powerful. It requires some thought in terms of integration if you're implementing it with another application; the data you want to capture, and how much information you want to see within your CRM.
I rate this solution nine out of 10.