This topic contains resources for setting up and using Zendesk Talk, including documentation, videos, and community tips.
Tip: If you want to learn more about communicating with your customers by phone and text message, check out the Zendesk Talk for Agents training course.
Documentation
Getting started
- Getting started with Zendesk Talk
- Getting Started with Zendesk Talk: Best practices for phone support eBook
Setup and overview
- Enabling Zendesk Talk and configuring general settings
- Adding Zendesk Talk numbers
- Managing Zendesk Talk numbers
- Managing individual number settings
- Managing outgoing greetings
- Zendesk Talk usage credit discount
- Configuring voicemail options
- Setting up your browser or phone for calls
- Allowing customers to request a callback
Team, Professional and Enterprise Talk
- Analyzing Zendesk Talk data with Insights (Professional and Enterprise)
- Automatically deleting recordings
- Routing incoming calls with IVR
- Using multiple schedules for Zendesk Talk (Enterprise)
- Transferring a call
- Adding a failover number
- Configuring agent wrap-up for each number
- Analyzing call activity with the Talk Professional dashboard
- Analyzing call activity with the Team Talk dashboard
- Understanding the calls dataset in Insights
- About the Talk Enterprise monthly diagnostics check
- Determining which agents can use Zendesk Talk (Team, Professional, and Enterprise Talk)
- Routing incoming calls to groups of agents (Team, Professional, and Enterprise Talk)
- Managing overflow calls and after-hours routing with Talk
Zendesk Text
Comments
6 comments
Hi, if I mark a voice ticket as solved once I finish a call, with no written comment to the customer, is the call being answered treated as the first response for reporting purposes?
Thanks!
Hi Emma,
Whether or not the ticket is solved right away or left open, the first reply time will show the number of minutes the call took. This is because the First Reply Time is determined by the first public response by the agent after the ticket was created. In the case of voice tickets, the ticket is created when the call comes . The first public reply by the agent will be the call details that are added to the ticket once the call is complete. So the first reply time is satisfied when the call ends and the details are added. So for reporting purposes the first reply time will be the amount of time the call took. I hope that helps! Let us know if you have any further questions.
Thanks Christopher! How about voicemail tickets? If I mark a voicemail ticket as solved with no response, does this count against my first reply time? I assume a phone call back on the ticket is counted as a response...
Thank you!
Hello Emma,
No problem at all! Voicemail tickets do not have a first reply time if solved out. You are correct, should you call the customer back or make a public comment, that would satisfy the requirements for first reply time. But solving a voicemail straight away would result in a "null" value for reporting purposes.
Hi there,
I haven't been able to find anything on the Zendesk site about how a specific problem:
When working on an email with Zendesk when you answer a call (we have it on Callbar) - how do you avoid Zendesk automatically switching to the call (interrupting your email writing)?
Thanks,
Michael @ Bulb
Hey Michael!
The Zendesk Talk system was designed to open up a new ticket for the incoming call, so at this time there isn't really a way to prevent that action from happening. This is in place both to show you what ticket is going to be used for that call, as well as give you a place to take notes about the call or fill out necessary ticket field information. When you are directed to the new ticket for the call the tab for the original ticket you were working on stays up and no information is removed from it, so you'll just need to click back into that tab if you want to resume working.
Apologies that we don't have a way to get you the functionality you're looking for within the Talk system at this time, but feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions.
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