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Most reviewers were unhappy with their experience overall. Customers express dissatisfaction with the customer service provided. People report that the service is poor and contacting the company is difficult. Consumers also mention issues with the website. Reviewers are also unhappy about the service they received. Some consumers feel that the staff is not helpful, while others report that they are incompetent. A few reviewers also feel that the company is a scam.

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Invited

The search engine has lots of room for improvement. Changing columns and searching for specific artifacts separate from the search bar should be implemented. Open ticket tabs should be moveable with... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Invited

I'm quite disappointed in the support we are getting from Zendesk. Sure, there's growth and change, but the Zendesk product support is quick to dismiss all of our issues as either user error or that... See more

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Verified

Not a well rounded or well thought-out product offering. Lots of customisation needed to get close to what you need in a modern support environment.

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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The base plans seem good for what they are, but add-ons can make it very expensive. I'm glad the marketplace offers alternatives, but it's still a little disappointing that I can't get what I need (at... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

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 repl... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Verified

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... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Verified

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 t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

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! Custome... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Any Company that uses the interference of Zendesk instead of dealing with their customers directly are the epitome of much that's going wrong with this countrys digressively falling backwards.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

My company started using their live chat feature about two years ago. From the non admin user side it’s a terrible experience. The notifications are completely unreliable and their support has been to... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Verified

Most horrible software, and most horrible, greediest, non-support company I've ever worked with. If I could go into negative stars, it'd be a clear -5. Funny that they sent me this invite for a rev... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Beware of rip-offs: Please stay away from Zendesk. Everything this company does is a rip-off. Promises are not kept. The software's features and add-ons are touted, but then they don't exist. You c... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

!!!Beware of Auto Subscriptions!!! We cancelled our subscription 3 years ago and have recently had £250 taken from us three years later direct from our bank account. They say we didn't cancel!... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Zendesk overcharged my organization and I asked for a partial refund which they declined. I therefore filed a report with my credit card company who later contacted Zendesk for more information. Next,... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have been a customer of zendesk for years - I recently realized, 5 days into the year that I had 10 seats my company was not using. I asked them to kindly requote me for a reduced number of seats. S... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

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... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We signed up to Zendesk based on promises of phone and SMS functionality that turned out not to exist in the way they were sold. We even requested a trial of the phone feature before committing,... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

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... See more

Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Invited

Still getting used to the system. I find that I have to use many add-ons and workarounds to do basic tasks, and there's too much clicking involved. I guess some of this stuff is useful for a big te... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I reached out well before the renewal date for my subscription to cancel. They say it needs to be 30 days before the renewal date, so they can't cancel and I have to pay another year. This is comple... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Invited

All tickets do not always come to me so I have to look through the "unassigned" which takes so long, very easy to miss something because of that. Harder to keep up if someone responded to something th... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Support is terrible, not helpful at all, they have no idea what they are doing. Once trial ends, they cancel the account, losing data and no option to subscribe anymore. Need to call support who is ab... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The most horrible experience with Zendesk - the company is plain out thief. They connected a new feature "AI Agents" which is the bot that you as a client sets up. We, the client write articles for th... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

So they sent me an email asking was i satisfied with their customer service. I replied no i’m not satisfied with their customer service so this is an update to my previous post, I would give now a min... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No reply from Zendesk financial team for a week and a half - they said a week and a half ago that they are checking on our invoice and then disappeared. We have sent 5 email replies since then with no... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I had accumulated points many many points but since they had a bug in THEIR System I was texted after the purge i would lose all points. What a waste of time and effort NEVER USE THEIR POGO app BEWARE... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Zendesk, the AI only support company charging real human prices. If you need assistance with Zendesk and AI is not able to resolve your issue or answer the question, no one with any element of human i... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer support is completely useless. We have multiple tickets open and it takes them forever to contact us. When they do contact you the solutions they offer are not helpful or relevant.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We’ve been using Zendesk for motnhs, and while the platform is technically still supported and updated, it honestly feels like something developed 15 or 20 years ago. The interface is outdated,... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

No customer support as the online form does not contact anyone or they do not help. i have had no assistance. Very frustrating.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company is working with RICHIE GAMES....they send a message after you request a payout from the game ...2-3 days for your payout......Feb 27th...still no payout...contact them they BOT the same... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Totally shit service, sorry my French. You can't find anything on their dashboard. It is a maze of buttons and redirects. If you want to turn off a certain feature, you have to fill in a Google form a... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was on a support page for some website, asking for help. No matter what question i asked, the bot continuously asked me to rephrase my question. Genuinely not a single time, EVER, was the bot ab... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Poor customer service. I can't reach the company that subscribes to them, nor Zendesk either. Apparently, nothing works.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Every single time I have to contact Zendesk support I am flabbergasted by the incompetence. The latest example: if a bug in their system prevents me from assigning a new agent to an open seat on... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Dreadful organisation! No refund policy and endless pointless emails which get you nowhere. Don’t touch with a barge pole. Absolutely dreadful!

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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Verified

The money grab by Zendesk with its customers is real. The pricing model of a fixed license cost plus the AI fixed cost plus the Resolution cost is too much. Only providing fifteen resolution credi... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Their own customer support is beyond frustrating. And this is a company that is selling customer support as a service! Avoid at all cost - especially now that there is ample alternatives in the market... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Never again, and it's could be that it's just BCS of one bad agent, Danielius K., who drags the whole sales department down?! So far, first ex year we had no issue, product ok, could be better yet de... See more

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I am having the same problems as Katie Yoder. I can't assign a role to a new agent as system says we have used all available seats. It says we only have 5 seats, but we pay for 6!! No one is respond... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Their process is slower than molasses in the artic. I swear the average IQ of their "Agents" must be 75. takes 2 plus days to get a reply to anything. Takes at least 6 replies to resolve anything.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Anyone who thinks that Zendesk is a "customer service solution" needs to have a careful think. I've got the misfortune of dealing with two companies using Zendesk, both awful. On one - Inboxpound... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

It is ironic that Zendesk, a "customer service" company has some of the worst customer service i have ever experienced. The are a poorly run business with unethical business practices. I will never... See more

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

In the company I worked at we are using Zendesk and Klaus (now Zendesk QA). While the experience for Zendesk itself is fine, the one for Zendesk QA is aweful!!! First of all their system i... See more

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  2. Business to Business Service
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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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1.8

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TrustScore 2 out of 5

671 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

BEWARE OF RIP-OFFS

Beware of rip-offs:

Please stay away from Zendesk. Everything this company does is a rip-off. Promises are not kept. The software's features and add-ons are touted, but then they don't exist. You can easily increase your licence, but never reduce it. Despite timely cancellation, they still try to take your money. It's better to look for another solution.

19 August 2025
Unprompted review
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Reply from Zendesk

We're sorry to hear about your experience, Gerome. The issues you've raised—from promises not being kept to difficulties with licensing and cancellation—are serious and completely unacceptable. This is not the experience we want for any of our customers, and we want to apologize for the frustration and lack of trust this has caused.

We are taking your feedback very seriously. We will be investigating these specific points to understand what went wrong and to ensure that our processes and communication are improved.

In the meantime, we would appreciate the opportunity to discuss your specific situation and see what we can do to resolve it. If you are open to it, please provide us with your account details at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Verified

Amazing experience :)

The agent was very responsive and the issue was solved really quickly.

18 August 2025
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Reply from Zendesk

Thank you so much for this feedback! We're glad to hear that the agent was responsive and solved your issue so quickly. We'll be sure to pass this on to the team—they'll be so happy to hear that their efforts are making a difference.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars
Verified

Slow response time

Zendesk support, sales team and CS response times have declined drastically.

14 August 2025
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Reply from Zendesk

Thank you for this honest feedback. We're sorry to hear that you've experienced a decline in the response times from our support, sales, and CS teams. This is absolutely not the level of service we aim to provide, and we take your feedback very seriously.

If you are open to it, please provide us with more details about your account. Send us an email at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This is a scamming brand

This is a scamming brand. Ignore the Zendesk. Don't waste your time here.

thanks

14 August 2025
Unprompted review
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Reply from Zendesk

We apologize for any experience you may have had that led you to believe Zendesk is a "scamming brand." We aim to be a transparent and reliable partner for businesses worldwide, and your feedback suggests we have failed to meet those standards for you. We would appreciate the opportunity to understand what specific issue led to this strong reaction. Please share any details—such as a ticket number, your Zendesk subdomain, or the nature of the transaction/service you found misleading—so we can investigate and address this matter immediately. Please send us an email at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Verified

Most horrible software

Most horrible software, and most horrible, greediest, non-support company I've ever worked with.
If I could go into negative stars, it'd be a clear -5.
Funny that they sent me this invite for a review, clearly not based on previous reviews I gave them in their own review system.

11 August 2025
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Reply from Zendesk

We're sorry to hear about your experience, Peter. The feedback you've shared is serious and paints a picture of a company that is not living up to its values. This is not the standard we hold ourselves to, and we want to apologize for the frustration and lack of support you've received.

Our team wants to understand what went wrong and make this right. We know you may feel it's not worth your time, but we would truly appreciate the opportunity to have a member of our team connect with you directly to discuss your specific issues and find a way to resolve them. Please send us an email at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Verified

The money grab by Zendesk with its…

The money grab by Zendesk with its customers is real. The pricing model of a fixed license cost plus the AI fixed cost plus the Resolution cost is too much. Only providing fifteen resolution credits per license per month is nothing. Salespeople are trying to convince me that a $1 per resolution is a great deal and why I should pay $10K upfront to get a discount, but it still does not remove my agents from having to get involved.

Zendesk is still a great omnichannel platform, but they are going through a lot of change and acquisitions that are not fully integrated into the platform, and less tenured employees who are not familiar with the platform on a deep level, except for the buzzwords of selling. The internal pressure to sell more products is very clear, as their goal is.

Since we are using more 3rd party vendors to get better service and solve problems more cost-effectively than Zendesk, we may consider other competitors for ticketing in the future, including one we lightly use now in Freshdesk.

2 August 2025
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Reply from Zendesk

Thank you for this direct feedback, Bobby. We hear your concerns about our pricing model. We understand that the combination of fixed license costs, AI, and resolution costs can feel like a lot, especially when you are using other vendors.

We'd appreciate the opportunity to discuss your specific account and usage. Our goal is to provide a cost-effective solution that scales with your business, and we'd like to show you how our platform can provide value that goes beyond what you can get with a patchwork of different tools. We believe that the long-term benefits of a unified platform outweigh the costs of managing multiple vendors. You can send us an email at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

To be honest,,faithfully,to know the…

To be honest,,faithfully,to know the link concerned company, read the instrument and company guide ask help on rules and regulation, must do that it ask, full personal activity, A good bonding relation ship to community,I need functional email, followed, I paid every thing they ask when my business on hand that is help as a bigger.

4 August 2025
Unprompted review
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Reply from Zendesk

Thank you for reaching out. We're sorry, but your feedback is currently very fragmented, making it impossible to identify the specific company or core issue you are describing. To help us address the problems you mentioned—especially concerning payment, business activity, and your need for a functional email—could you please clarify these three details:

Which Company or Service are you referencing?
What exactly did you pay for?
What specific resolution are you seeking now?

Send us an email at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Verified

A solid platform

Zendesk has proven to be a solid platform for our customer support needs. The system is straightforward to use and has helped to streamline our support channels into a single workspace. The automation features are effective. Zendesk is a standard for our operations.

1 August 2025
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Reply from Zendesk

Thank you for this feedback, Willem! We're thrilled to hear that you find Zendesk to be a solid platform that helps you streamline your support channels. It's great to know that our focus on ease of use and automation is making a real difference in your day-to-day operations.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding response time

The support responded so fast helping our company out with Stylo and immediately solved our issue.

I'm amazed!

29 July 2025
Unprompted review
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Reply from Zendesk

That is fantastic to hear! We're thrilled our team was able to respond so fast and immediately resolve your issue with Stylo. We appreciate you sharing this positive feedback!

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

A customer service app that provides no customer service!

UPDATE 30 Sept 2025
After months of being passed from one agent to another this was finally resolved. It could have been resolved so much more quickly and so much more easily than it was. Which is why although I've updated the number of stars. It still remains only at three because I had a very stressful 3.5 months

The company I work for have been using Zendesk for over 6 years. Whilst it's not perfect we have adapted it to function well alongside our own administrative plug-in.

However, a short time ago, we were informed that we would be "upgraded" to Agent Workspace. The problem with this is that it is not an upgrade at all. It will remove our own plug-in. It will insist on a format and on functions that are completely useless to us and will, in summary cause huge disruption, disorganisation and resultant serious deterioration in the service that we provide to our customers.

As soon as we were notified of this forthcoming change, I reached out to Zendesk to explain that we did not want to change. I have been met with nothing but a brick wall. Agents from Zendesk repeatedly tell me that this will be "much better" without actually investigating what my concerns are. Then seven days ago, I was told that somebody would get back to me and show me how our system could work on the new agent workspace system. This has not happened and now the email that I was told I could write to is no longer functioning. They say I have to use the new "messaging" system, but that is not available to me because I have not upgraded to the new agent workspace.

I foresee that in a weeks time we will have a huge mess on our hands, invariably lose customers and of course, we are now seriously looking for alternatives to Zendesk.

29 July 2025
Unprompted review
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Reply from Zendesk

We apologize for the immense stress and service failure you have endured over the last 3.5 months, especially the initial, unacceptable delay in resolving your issue. While we appreciate the rating update, we fully acknowledge that this level of frustration is not what we're aiming for our customers., We apologize for the ongoing and damaging situation regarding the mandatory Agent Workspace upgrade. We'll need to stop this impending operational concern and the potential loss of your customers. To immediately assess an exception or deferral for this migration and connect you with senior support to protect your six-year operation, please email us with your Zendesk Subdomain, email address, and the most recent ticket number concerning the Agent Workspace issue at trustpilotreviews@zendesk.com

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Totally shit service

Totally shit service, sorry my French. You can't find anything on their dashboard. It is a maze of buttons and redirects. If you want to turn off a certain feature, you have to fill in a Google form and wait for a response from them... and this a unicorn company... a Google form... really?!? I tried canceling the subscription... and guess what... you have to play hide and seek with the unsubscribe button. Honestly, I haven't used a worse software service than Zendesk... just purely bad experience.

18 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

THE INTERFERENCE COMPANY

Any Company that uses the interference of Zendesk instead of dealing with their customers directly are the epitome of much that's going wrong with this countrys digressively falling backwards.

This is the very epic description of "I don't care enough of or about my customers, let someone else deal with those headaches and I'll just pay them".

They're company name Zendesk,
It is the Trumpspurian art of the spin on truth.
NOTHING CLOSE TO ZEN HERE. 🎯

17 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Avoid at all costs

We’ve been using Zendesk for motnhs, and while the platform is technically still supported and updated, it honestly feels like something developed 15 or 20 years ago. The interface is outdated, unintuitive, and many features are either broken or barely usable.

Considering the high price tag, what Zendesk offers feels extremely underwhelming. It lacks flexibility, modern UX standards, and the overall user experience is frustrating.

What’s most disappointing, though, is the customer support. We’ve had several interactions, and each time we were met with vague, unhelpful answers that clearly reflected a deep lack of product knowledge. It’s hard to describe just how poor the support has been — it has made us avoid reaching out unless absolutely necessary.

In short, we do not recommend Zendesk. There are better, more modern alternatives out there that cost less and deliver much more.

12 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Good - But could be better

The base plans seem good for what they are, but add-ons can make it very expensive. I'm glad the marketplace offers alternatives, but it's still a little disappointing that I can't get what I need (at a reasonable price) from Zendesk themselves.

3 July 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Anyone who thinks that Zendesk is a…

Anyone who thinks that Zendesk is a "customer service solution" needs to have a careful think. I've got the misfortune of dealing with two companies using Zendesk, both awful.
On one - Inboxpounds.co.uk - they have given misleading, oy lying some might say, responses that initially change when challenged, but when the second clearly misleading response is challenged it gets quite aggressive - "that's the way it is and if you don't like it, go somewhere else".
The other - Lifepoints.co.uk - is just about stalling and hoping you'll go away. It's a carousel of asking the same questions time and time again, without remembering what's already been said.
In both cases, there's an extreme reluctance to escalate up to the company that pays them, like they're so scared of not closing the query satisfactaily that they'd rather lie through their teeth.
Beware, any company that uses Zendesk - this reflects really badly on you too.

25 June 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Their process is slower than molasses…

Their process is slower than molasses in the artic. I swear the average IQ of their "Agents" must be 75. takes 2 plus days to get a reply to anything. Takes at least 6 replies to resolve anything. EVERY SINGLE TIME I DEAL WITH THEM does not matter the company the service is NO SERVICE. Flat out customer abuse, marginally better than ignoring customers for a few weeks. Seriously outsourcing to India, Pakistan or the Philippines is better. IQ of those folks is higher than the people Zendesk hires in San Francisco as I get the vibe that most if not all are hired under "The Work Opportunity Tax Credit" (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to employers for hiring and employing individuals from certain targeted groups who have faced significant barriers to employment. That is probably the only group available for under $40/hr in the bay area!

22 May 2025
Unprompted review

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