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Mastering Zendesk

You're reading from   Mastering Zendesk Master the art of providing effective IT services to your customers by leveraging Zendesk

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786461049
Length 412 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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What are channels?

Channels enable customers to engage with your agents. They allow customers to create tickets as well as establish an ongoing string of communication. Let's start by listing all the channels provided by Zendesk:

  • Email
  • Help Center
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Chat (Zopim)
  • Voice
  • Web Widget
  • Mobile SDK
  • API

While some channels are self-explanatory in their nature, understanding them properly goes a long way when it comes to the actual implementation. So let's look at them in detail.

Email channel

The email channel allows your customers to contact your support directly by writing to one or more designated e-mail addresses. As soon as an e-mail is received, it will be turned into a ticket within the Zendesk environment. Zendesk allows for an unlimited amount of e-mail addresses within your Zendesk domain.

An internal e-mail address created within your Zendesk domain would look something like this:

support@mydomain.zendesk.com

In our example, this would translate to the following:

support...

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