Zendesk CRM Integration
CRM integration that suits your needs: Leafworks helps you smoothly connect cloud or on-premise CRM solutions.
Why integrate Zendesk Support with CRM?
Even though most businesses use CRM to manage customer interactions as well as marketing and sales processes, not all businesses have the customer data from CRM visible on the desktops of customer service agents.
The automation of important customer transactions and interactions, the improvement of your customer support services, the effective management of marketing efforts, and the provision of quality reporting across all departments are all common areas of integration. These are just a few of the many advantages that can be obtained as a result of integration.
360° View
Show CRM data directly in Zendesk. Discover if they are a potential or existing customer, which products they purchased and more.
Time Saving
Save on clicks and human error by displaying data directly in Zendesk. Better-resourced agents leads to more quality time with customers.
Customer Experience (CX)
Surprise your customers with real-time information on what concerns them. Happy customers are those that aren't kept waiting.
Cloud Zendesk CRM Integration
If you are using a cloud CRM solution or a solution that can communicate via REST API. Good news! The data from the CRM can be accessed directly from a Zendesk app.
Zendesk provides an app that is able to display the required information about the customer. The app communicates with the CRM system via API calls. The returned data is displayed in the app. If, for example, no data record is found in the CRM based on the telephone number/email address, an attachment of the data record in the CRM can also be mapped.
The CRM used should be able to communicate with other systems via REST-API. As a rule, these are almost all cloud CRM systems, but on-premise CRM systems often also have an API available.
OnPremise Zendesk CRM Integration
If you use an on-premise CRM solution or an independent solution for maintaining your customer relationship, then a connection variant looks like this.
Zendesk provides an app in the on-premise setup that can display your individual CRM data.
The app either displays data from Zendesk fields, which are filled using a small middleware (PUSH), or directly via REST API access from the middleware (PULL). Together we will find out what exactly makes sense for you.
As long as the existing system uses a relational database such as MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc., data can be provided for Zendesk using middleware. If direct data access is difficult to implement, pragmatic approaches can also be implemented, e.g. by providing CSV files.
Case Study - Zendesk Enhanced Integration
Globetrotter Ausrüstung GmbH
Using Zendesk and enhanced integrations, Globetrotter was able to reduce the response time by 50% in only 3 months.
Ways to enhance a Zendesk CRM Integration
A good customer relationship management (CRM) programme should not only help in the process of acquiring new customers, but it should also ensure that each interaction with existing customers is personalised and meaningful, and it should continue to keep this at a high level as the customer relationship develops. A good CRM programme should also help in the process of acquiring new customers, but it should also ensure that each interaction with existing customers is meaningful.
The following are some of the ways in which Zendesk Support can invigorate customer service with an integrated CRM programme: implementing a Chatbot; syncing and prioritising Zendesk tickets; creating workflows; and more.
A Zendesk chatbot is an easy way to provide proactive support to your customers without increasing the workload of your support agents.
With Zendesk’s APIs, you can automate common issues like password reset requests and advising customers of anticipated wait times by enabling users to submit tickets for common problems.
Create a Custom Chatbot for Zendesk
If your customers need complex assistance with a problem or simply need to be directed to pertinent information in a help or FAQ centre, you can give them better and more personalised experiences with an AI-powered chatbot from Leafworks. View an example of a Zendesk RASA Chatbot Integration.
Your AI solution must distinguish between clients who want a speedy transfer to a human agent and those who prefer to self-manage their issue via Helpdesk FAQs as intelligent customer service becomes the new standard.
Powered with Artificial Intelligence (AI), you can build amazing conversational experiences with a customised chatbot for Zendesk. Customisation of a Zendesk chatbot allows for greater flexibility, here are some examples:
- Transfer based on keywords or choices to a customer service agent
- Additional input channels, such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger
- Content-dip to the Zendesk Guide as an idea for related articles
- Creating a ticket without an agent’s involvement, such as when there isn’t one available: requesting a callback or archiving it as a bot.
This is great for things like logging call logs, updating records in your CRM, or linking a customer’s order history to the ticket they submitted in Zendesk.
You can automate this process by integrating with Zendesk’s APIs and re-assigning urgent reports or pushing them into the CRM software queues.
The Zendesk Help Desk is a major source of customer satisfaction, so it makes sense to connect it with other areas of your business.
Ticket integrations are a great way to do this, by updating your CRM automatically when certain types of tickets are submitted in Zendesk, or organizing third party information into one clear and easy to handle ticket thread with the Leafworks Side-Tickets App.
For example, you can automatically create a case in Salesforce Service Cloud, MS Dynamics, SAP or Hubspot based on your customer’s support history or forward emails to a queue for your team to prioritize.
Ensuring the right people are invited to events is important for customer satisfaction, so it makes sense to automate it in Zendesk.
You can do this by giving users the ability to click a link that automatically creates an email invitation with their name added to it.
Your CRM data visible within Zendesk
We’re here to help!
Many customer support team issues are resolved via integration & automation, allowing more time to spend on customer relationship management rather than focusing on managing software.
Zendesk Support enhancements are a great way for businesses to provide the best customer experience through automation. Leafworks is one of the leading experts in Zendesk, having built integrations that automate things like updating tickets with CRM software such as Salesforce Service Cloud and reducing redundant data entry.
We’ve built Zendesk solutions for companies both big and small, so we know what businesses are looking for when they choose to enhance their systems. If you’d like to talk about anything at all to do with Zendesk, contact us and we’ll be happy to help.
Robert Cwicinski
Zendesk Integrations Expert
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