Integrating a helpdesk system can significantly enhance the capabilities of your business systems, and, most importantly, improve customer support. In a previous blog post, we provided valuable information on the preferences of customers regarding their experience. Integrating a helpdesk system has the potential to improve the desired customer experience significantly. Read more about some of the systems that are commonly integrated with helpdesk systems.

Common Helpdesk System Integrations

  1. CRM systems: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are essential for managing customer data, interactions, and relationships. Integrating a helpdesk system with a CRM system, like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Microsoft Dynamics, can provide your helpdesk staff with a complete customer profile. This includes their history, recent communication activity (emails, phone calls, etc.), notes from your team, and other relevant data. In turn, you will be able to provide personalized support.
  2. Communication channels: You may have heard the term ‘omnichannel’. This refers to the combination of various communication channels, such as email, phone, chat, social media, and messaging apps you can use to engage prospects and customers. Having insight and having those channels tightly integrated with your helpdesk empowers support agents to provide feedback to customers through their preferred channels. This improves both response times and customer satisfaction.
  3. E-commerce platforms: Integrating helpdesk systems with e-commerce platforms, such as Shopify, WooCommerce, or Magento, can authorize support representatives to see important purchasing details. This allows your support agents to access order histories, transaction details, and other relevant data to provide better support to customers with issues related to their purchases. 
  4. Knowledge management systems: Integrating a helpdesk system with a knowledge management system allows agents to efficiently access articles, FAQs, and other resources to help them quickly resolve customer issues. We have also observed that Knowledgebase search has improved when integrated into ticket submission forms and tools, like Zendesk. Recently, Zendesk has introduced a feature that allows agents to easily convert information from a ticket into help articles. This functionality is extremely useful for producing documentation in an efficient manner.
  5. Reporting & Analytics tools: Integrating helpdesk systems with reporting and analytics tools like Popdock or Power BI enables organizations to gain insight into customer support trends, agent performance, and customer satisfaction levels. These tools allow you to make data-driven decisions to improve customer support and identify areas for improvement.
  6. Project management tools: Often, issues or scenarios identified within a support ticket need more attention from other parts of the team. For example, if there is a software bug identified in a ticket, we look to convert it into an item for our product team to focus on. This allows us to take the item through a specific process to address, test, and fix it. With this in mind, we often see helpdesk systems integrated with project management systems or tools. This allows agents to create and manage tasks, assign work to team members, and track progress on customer issues.

In addition to these integrations, there is another valuable integration that can enhance customer experience:

7.  Zendesk integration with Popdock: Zendesk is a widely used helpdesk system that offers various features for managing customer support tickets and interactions. Combined with Popdock’s powerful data integration and user-driven reporting platform, you can connect and consolidate data from multiple sources.

By integrating Zendesk with Popdock, businesses can unlock a range of benefits for their customer experience:

  • Streamlined Data Access: Integration allows companies to view relevant data from external systems and take action on data (update a status, initiate a process, drill down) right from within Zendesk. This eliminates the need for manual data entry and allows service agents access to customer information, support tickets, and more, all from a single interface. At the end of the day, you will spend less time researching and close tickets faster with the data you need.
  • Enhanced Reporting and Analytics: Popdock provides robust real-time reporting and analytics capabilities, allowing users to create custom reports and dashboards based on Zendesk data. Additionally, users can use charts, graphs, and customized views to gain deeper insights into customer support metrics, such as ticket volume, response times, resolution rates, and customer satisfaction scores. By analyzing these metrics, it is easier to identify trends, detect areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions to optimize your customer support operations.
  • Improved Collaboration: Integration allows for different teams within an organization to collaborate more effectively. For example, the customer support team can share relevant reports and view real-time insights from other apps and teams like sales, marketing, and product development. This collaboration helps align the entire organization toward delivering better customer experiences and enables better decision-making.
  • Personalized Customer Support: Having a comprehensive view of the customer allows helpdesk professionals to provide personalized support, understand customer preferences, and tailor their interactions accordingly. This level of personalization can significantly enhance the customer experience and build stronger relationships.
  • Automation and Workflow Optimization: The integration of Zendesk and Popdock enables businesses to provide configurable options for reduced repetitive data entry. When businesses embed external data using Popdock, they have the ability to create actions for users to run. For example, customers can set up automated notifications or triggers based on specific customer interactions or support ticket statuses. This automation reduces manual effort, improves response times, and ensures that customer inquiries are handled promptly and efficiently.

Overall, integrating a helpdesk system with other business systems can significantly improve your customer experience and help organizations provide seamless and personalized support to their customers. By integrating a helpdesk system like Zendesk using Popdock, users can enhance data accessibility, reporting capabilities, collaboration, and automation. This enables businesses to optimize their customer support operations. If you are experiencing any difficulties with Zendesk integration, we recommend checking out our blog post that addresses the most common challenges and provides helpful tips on how to overcome them.

Have additional questions about using Popdock with Zendesk? Reach out to the eOne team. You can reach us by email at sales@eonesolutions.com or by phone at +1 (888) 319-3663.