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Zoho Desk

Multichannel help desk with a free plan, from Zoho

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Zoho Desk is a help desk covering 10+ channels from one interface, with ticket merging, SLAs, workflow automation and blueprints. It includes a knowledge base, happiness ratings, telephony and social channels, and Zia AI features.

  • Ticket management (not listed)
  • Omnichannel inbox
  • Ticket routing (not listed)
  • SLA management
  • Macros and canned replies (not listed)
  • Support analytics

Also includes

  • Knowledge base
  • Live chat
  • Customer satisfaction surveys
  • Ticket merging
  • Automations and triggers
  • Multi-brand
  • Multilingual support
  • AI suggested replies
  • Phone integration
  • Social media tickets
  • Mobile app

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