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About Zoho Desk
Zoho Desk is a hosted help desk and ticketing service from Zoho. It brings customer conversations from different channels into a single workspace, routes tickets to the right agents, and lets a team publish a branded help center with a knowledge base, community discussions and ticket tracking for customers.
Dashboards and reports track performance and customer satisfaction. Zoho's Zia AI can draft replies, surface insights and handle routine requests before handing off to a person. It suits support and service teams of any size.
Strengths
- Multichannel inbox for support conversations
- Built-in help center with knowledge base and community
- Real-time dashboards and satisfaction reports
- Integrates with the wider Zoho suite
Limitations
- Hosted only, no self-hosted edition
- AI features lean toward customer service rather than internal IT
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree signup is available, with paid plans offered through a free trial.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Zoho
- Platforms
- Web
- How it runs
- Hosted service
- Account
- Required
- Works offline
- No
- Best suited for
- Support teams that want a hosted ticketing system with a customer help center
- Categories
- Office tools, IT administration
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Zoho Desk
Compare allSoftware that can replace Zoho Desk for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Zendesk
A hosted customer and employee service platform for handling support tickets across channels.
Zendesk is a paid hosted platform handling tickets from many channels for both customer and employee service, with a large integration marketplace instead of Zoho suite ties.
Freshdesk
A cloud customer service help desk with omnichannel ticketing, automated workflows and AI agents.
Freshdesk is a hosted omnichannel help desk with a free plan, automated workflows and AI agents that resolve common email requests, on Freshworks servers.
Help Scout
A hosted shared inbox and help desk service for customer support teams.
Help Scout is a hosted shared inbox for small and mid-sized support teams, positioned as lower cost than larger platforms, with a freemium model.
Chatwoot
An open-source customer support desk for live chat, email, WhatsApp and social conversations.
Chatwoot is open source and can be self-hosted, covering live chat, email, WhatsApp and social channels in one inbox with a built-in knowledge base.
FreeScout
A self-hosted open source help desk and shared inbox, modelled on Help Scout and Zendesk.
FreeScout is a free open source help desk you self-host on PHP and MySQL, with unlimited agents and mailboxes, though extra channels come as modules.
Zammad
A web-based open source help desk and ticketing system you install on your own server.
Zammad is an open source help desk installed on your own Linux server, keeping ticket data in house instead of in a hosted service.
osTicket
A long-established open source support ticketing system that you host on your own server.
osTicket is a mature open source ticketing system you host yourself, so you handle installation, updates and security rather than relying on a vendor.
Libredesk
An open-source, self-hosted customer support desk that ships as a single binary.
Libredesk is an open source help desk shipped as a single binary with Docker Compose setup, keeping support data on your own server, though it is a younger project.
Zoho Desk as an alternative
Listings that name Zoho Desk as an alternative.
Jitbit Helpdesk
An email-first help desk ticketing system available as a hosted service or a self-hosted install.
Zoho Desk is a hosted multichannel help desk with a free tier and a customer help center, without an on-premises option.
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Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Jira Service Management
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Freshservice
A cloud IT service management platform for help desk tickets, IT operations and asset management.
Spiceworks Cloud Help Desk
A hosted IT help desk for tracking, prioritizing and managing user support requests.
Zoho Assist
Cloud-based remote support and unattended access software for IT teams, help desks and MSPs.
