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Zendesk is the next-generation AI-powered support solution with built-in ticketing, conversational messaging, live chat, and more designed to help businesses of all sizes and industries deliver personalized service at scale. Zendesk uses AI to helps businesses handle more interactions, increase customer satisfaction with personalized support, and decrease costs to free up time for agents. Zendesk serves over 130K global brands across a multitude of industries in over 30 languages. Zendesk is headquartered in San Francisco, and operates offices worldwide. Learn more at www.zendesk.com.
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- Drive exceptional customer outcomes with Zendesk
- At Zendesk, our mission is to power exceptional service for every person on the planet. For more than 15 years, we've helped industry-leading companies transform their customer service. Zendesk offers a complete AI-powered service solution that is ready from day one and built to scale to any size. Zendesk AI is trained on the largest dataset tailored specifically for service, so you can resolve customer issues every time. Drive exceptional customer outcomes with Zendesk today.
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I tried to sign up for the 14 day free…
I tried to sign up for the 14 day free trial to test the product. They charged my card. I have now been on the "help" chat for 35 minutes and they cannot even complete a simple task of ensuring my credit card has not been charged. I have no desire any more to even trial a customer service product that has such poor customer service. Do better.
Very frustrating experience
Very frustrating experience. The system is far too complicated, and the support is either very slow or unresponsive. This is a company that sells software for customer support, and it is very disappointing that they do not provide support. I would consider looking elsewhere.
Zendesk has powerful features but the…
Zendesk has powerful features but the platform is overly complex and basic setup takes far more time than it should. Support is slow and hard to reach, which is frustrating for a tool that is supposed to help with customer service.
Zendesk significantly overpromised…
Zendesk significantly overpromised during the sales process and has failed to deliver on the level of support that was clearly discussed and agreed upon.
From the beginning, I was explicit: I have a large team and require hands-on, ongoing implementation support—not surface-level assistance. This was communicated before signing and reiterated multiple times after onboarding began. Zendesk repeatedly emphasized the size of their team and their ability to support businesses like mine.
In practice, getting meaningful help has been unnecessarily difficult. I emailed three separate Zendesk contacts/teams requesting assistance and received no response. The only reason I finally received a confirmation from someone was because I called again—after already attempting multiple written follow-ups.
When I did eventually get on a Zoom call, I was informed the time would be limited. The session focused on resolving small, isolated issues rather than providing actual setup guidance or walking through a proper implementation. This is not onboarding. This is not hands-on support.
For a platform positioned as enterprise-ready, the lack of ownership, continuity, and responsiveness is unacceptable. The disconnect between what was sold and what is being delivered is stark. Zendesk’s support structure feels reactive, fragmented, and unwilling to engage at the level required for a growing organization with real operational needs.
I chose Zendesk based on explicit assurances of support. Those assurances have not been honored. The experience has been frustrating, inefficient, and deeply disappointing.
A customer service platform with no customer service
A customer service platform with no customer service.
That’s honestly all you need to know before signing up. We’ve been with Zendesk for years, hoping things would improve, they haven’t.
It’s expensive, unintuitive, and unnecessarily difficult to use or develop. Support is effectively non-existent. No meaningful help, no communication, and no engagement from our so-called “account manager.”
They’re very quick to chase payments, but once you reply with an actual issue, you hear nothing back.
More fool us for sticking around as long as we did.
One of the worst platforms to be…
One of the worst platforms to be working with in 2026. Unintuitive and confuses more than it helps. The fact that this platform is operational is astounding
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very good tool for customer support
very good tool for customer support. Tool keeps on innovating.

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contacting customers
Reaching out to customers in regards to any issues they have with the product. They also listen to any ideas or tips that the customers might have in regards to potential improvements.

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Good Product, would love see more out of AI
Good product overall, and ease of use contributes to the rating here. Would like to see more out of the AI features, improvements in ease of implementation, and would like the Zendesk team to raise success metrics in regular syncs talking about its contributed value to our organization.

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Helt horribel upplevelse med 0 support…
Helt horribel upplevelse med 0 support från deras sida
this is the worst platform with…
this is the worst platform with horrible customer service, avoid it at all cost
Terrible customer support
Zendesk is absurdly expensive, unnecessarily complicated, and has potentially the worst customer support I've ever worked with, which is ironic since they are literally a customer support platform.
Our team has spent countless hours trying to fix the issues we have with this platform without success. We've had to hire "Zendesk specialists" because the actual support just doesn't respond. In the 3 years we've used Zendesk I have never been able to talk to someone about our issues on the phone. This combined with the exorbitant cost make Zendesk the worst ticketing platform around. There are plenty of alternatives that are literally 1/10th the price, with teams that will actually help.
Some examples of our technical issues include: Phone systems consistently not ringing, ticket creation delays (sometimes up to 48 hours after the client email/phone call), and the inability to access reporting and back end data.
As we transition to a better platform Zendesk support won't even respond to our requests to port phone numbers out. So at the end of this terrible experience we can't even take the phone numbers that we paid for with us.
If you are considering Zendesk, please save yourself the headache and choose another platform.

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Lazy, stupid and don't want to solve the problem
ExpressVPN started using it and support is just terrible. Answering slowly, pretending that the issue doesn't exist, asking the same information multiple times. After they don't have excuse their reply is always "looks like it's not supported and we cannot give you ETA". But it must be supported based on documentation and worked before. Support is just really, really bad

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We were not alerted in due time when…
We were not alerted in due time when your servers crashed/failed and we scrambled to find the source of the problem only to realize it was on your side 24-48 hours later. Need to have Senior manager cell phones on a dispatch list so they can be alerted in real time there is an outage.

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We sent in two tickets to request help…
We sent in two tickets to request help with issues on reports and missing emails. In the second ticket that we sent, we requested to be contacted as this was a RUSH. It has been almost 2 weeks on the second ticket and 3 weeks on the first with no response.

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amazing Quality of Sound
amazing Quality of Sound , meeting expectatitions x 10000

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Theraputic Mens shoes
I purchased these shoes after seeing a ad on Google search. There is NO mention in this ad THAT THESE SHOES ARE MADE IN CHINA AND IT WILL TAKE WEEKS TO RECEIVE THEM. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS SCAM! Customer servive is refusing to accept a return without a defect. They are very uncomfortable and lack any ankle support.
This shit sucks says the same shit over…
This shit sucks says the same shit over and over and over been trying to get a mobile phone setup for over two weeks now so I have lost two weeks of my service and I'm going on the third week now shut this non working pos of a site down
Designed to frustrate!
Over the last two weeks I have many encounters with zendesk replies from 3 different retailers and I am not impressed. It is hard to know if it is a human or a bot dealing with your query because the replies lack the intelligence to refer to previous queries and answers from the same person, or if they do, they ignore the infomation. This could be due to bots or untrained humans. On the positive side, it has almost cured me of using some retailers, so there will be just a few who still operate a phone line with intelligent capable human beings at the other end, who can sort your issues within a reasonable time, not in 2 days, if you are 'lucky'. So I suppose I will spend my money on a few, but caring, companies, who believe in good customer service.
Edit: If Zendesk wishes to check , please refer to my review of Debenhams for one of the very annoying experiences I had, that was followed shortly after by another retailer when I had to cancel an order due to lack of delivery information and the delay in replying caused further issues. As Zendesk has only just queried this review in January 2026, I think that demonstrates how poor they are in keeping track of what is going on!
Very good tool but complicated due to…
Very good tool but complicated due to the number of conflicting tools. Example is workflows, rules, and AI not a clear path on which tool to use. Also needs to support more IMDB options, including better change control features.

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