At Zendesk, we value the feedback of our customers and consider it an important part of the our process. That's why we offer early access for some features in development, so that you can try out the feature in advance and give us feedback or report issues.
In addition to participating in betas, you might want to join our Experience Research Panel to learn about UX research opportunities where you can help shape our products.
These are our current and upcoming betas:
- Guide Theming API
- Zendesk Agent Workspace
- New Salesforce Integration - built on Zendesk
- New mobile Chat SDK
- Side conversations API
- Side conversations rich text editor
- Statuspage integration for Support and Chat
- Community alias in Help Center
- Help Center unified search results page
- New email spam filter for Support
- Omnichannel dashboard app beta
- Answer Bot APIs
- User Events API
- Zendesk Support Discord integration
- Web Widget performance
- Talk additional numbers now available
- IVR group routing for Zendesk Talk
- Call recording opt-out for Zendesk Talk
Guide Theming API
The Guide Theming API enables theme developers to integrate any theme development workflow with Guide by letting you import, delete and set themes live through a REST API. This sets developers free to use any tools or services they prefer while seamlessly working with Guide.
Learn more about the Guide Theming API EAP
Zendesk Agent Workspace
The agent workspace enables agents to work seamlessly across Zendesk channels, all within a single interface. Agents can use the appropriate channels to address issues, without being restricted to the channel in which the customer originally made contact.
Agents can manage Support, Chat, and Talk conversations within the same ticket. They don’t have to switch between dashboards to view and track customers issues. They have a full, customer-centric view of their work, enabling them to provide faster, better, and more-personalized service.
Learn more about the Agent workspace early access program
New Salesforce Integration - built on Zendesk
We are pleased to announce this Early Access Program (EAP) for the new Salesforce Integration - Salesforce Integration built on Zendesk. As part of our platform vision, we're exploring ways to make Zendesk built integrations more open, flexible and consistent.
The vision behind this new integration is to provide our customers with a superior experience with integrating Support and Salesforce by building on Zendesk's infrastructure using Salesforce public APIs.
Learn more about the New Salesforce integration early access program
New mobile Chat SDK
The current version of the Chat SDK has been around for a couple of years. Based on your feedback, we've completely re-written the Chat SDK for Android and iOS to improve reliability, stability, and performance. The new Chat SDK is built on top of our new Unified Messaging Interface, which allows for the interoperability of the Chat SDK with other Zendesk SDKs.
Side conversations API
Side conversations were introduced in June of 2018, and customers have been using them to start conversations with vendors, partners, and other departments directly from their tickets. The API for side conversations enables these conversations to be created programmatically.
The API provides most of the functionality available in the UI and also introduces an incremental export endpoint that provides all of your side conversation data for archiving or analysis.
Learn more about the side conversations API
Side conversations rich text editor
With this new editor, your agents will be able to introduce formatted text to their side conversation messages, This can be helpful for getting ideas across or making information more readable and understandable. This EAP is available to all Collaboration Add-on customers.
Learn more about the side conversations rich text editor
Statuspage integration for Support and Chat
The Statuspage integration enables agents to view Statuspage incidents through an app in Support and Chat, so they can keep up-to-date on any service incidents or degradation, and can quickly provide customer support.
When your agents are viewing tickets in Support or responding to customers in Chat, they can see when new incidents occur or maintenance is underway. They can also obtain more details of incidents, making them more aware of any service disruptions that may impact your customers.
Learn more about the Statuspage integration early access program
Help Center Community alias
The Alias feature enables users in the Help Center Community to have an alias that sits on top of their full name and displays everywhere in the Help Center.
Learn more about the Community alias early access program
Help Center unified search results page
The current Help Center search results user interface presents search results in two columns when both Knowledge base and Community are enabled. Users can then use pagination controls to view more results.
Rather than having users try to navigate two results sets at once, we'd like to present the most relevant content from your entire Help Center to your users. We also want to improve the ability for users to navigate a result set by being able to filter based on result type, topic and section. Our goal is to improve the ability of users to quickly and easily find the most relevant content from a Help Center while giving them context into where they're searching.
Learn more about the Help Center unified search results page early access program
New email spam filter for Support
Zendesk uses a combination of our own internal spam prevention rules, and an outside vendor. We are now exploring a new open source tool for spam prevention that will give us new options for fighting spam. We are building our own instance of a tool called Rspamd. Rspamd uses a number of factors to determine the legitimacy of email, but most importantly, because this is our own separate instance, we can tweak the results ourselves.
Sign up for the spam filter early access program
Omnichannel dashboard app beta
We are conducting customer research for Zendesk to get a better understanding of the data needs for real-time monitoring across multiple channels. This beta app is an early prototype of an omnichannel dashboard that provides real-time insight into channel performance across Zendesk Support, Chat, and Talk.
Sign up for the omnichannel dashboard app beta
Answer Bot APIs
The Answer Bot APIs enable you to build and integrate Answer Bot wherever you want it. The APIs are sent in an enquiry (such as the ticket subject or description) and Answer Bot returns the most relevant, related articles.
Learn more about Answer Bot APIs early access program
User Events API
The User Events API is a new platform feature that enables you to keep track of time series data related to a particular User. An individual Event is an immutable (unchanging) record of something that happened at a particular time which is related to a particular user. The API allows you to specify a "source" and a "type" for each event.
Learn more about the User Events API early access program
Zendesk Support Discord integration
Zendesk is releasing an integration with Discord. This integration allows you to install a "Support Bot" into your Discord server that allows gamers to request help directly via any Discord channel in your server. This creates a ticket in Zendesk, so your agents can easily respond.
Learn more about the Discord Integration early access program and request access
Web Widget performance
The Web Widget performance beta provides early access to performance optimizations that will be released in stages. The first phase of this beta includes a re-architecture to the way we serve the Web Widget.
This beta is great for anyone interested in staying informed about Web Widget performance improvements, getting early access to enhancements, and providing feedback as we roll them out.
Learn more about the Web Widget performance beta
Talk additional numbers now available
We are happy to announce that Zendesk Talk can now offer additional number coverage for the countries listed in the form. Note: These numbers are still in beta and not yet generally available as we want to see how they preform.
IVR group routing for Zendesk Talk
IVR Group Routing enables you to configure multiple overflow groups when routing a call via IVR.
By using this functionality, your customers will minimize missed calls and increase the probability of callers reaching an agent when using IVR.
If you are a Zendesk Talk Professional or Enterprise customer and want to be a part of the Early Access program, signup here.
Call recording opt-out for Zendesk Talk
Using this new functionality, you can configure any Talk enabled phone number to let the caller opt-out from call recording by dialing 3. This functionality works for both group routing and IVR routing.
In addition to providing the ability to opt-out of call recording, we've also improved the administrator experience by creating a single place to configure per number call recording controls.
If you are a Zendesk Talk Professional or Enterprise customer and want to be a part of the Early Access program, sign up here.
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Just added: Voice Prepay beta!
Voice prepay
We're changing how you pay for Voice credits towards a prepay model. This feature is currently in beta. With Voice prepay, you add calling credits to your account at an amount that works for your business. If you enable auto-recharge, we automatically re-credit your account when your credit runs low, saving your time and hassle. We can also deliver discounts to you on some bundle sizes. We're initially looking for credit card Voice customers for this beta.
A new beta for Insights users (Plus and Enterprise)!
Analytical Designer for Insights
A new and intuitive way to create reports in Insights, easily and quickly. No more 'What' and 'How', the Analytical Designer is a new environment for flexible data discovery and visualization design that empowers analysts to be more self-sufficient and productive when they create data visualizations.
Sign up for the analytical designer beta
https://docs.google.com/a/zendesk.com/forms/d/1wZ4tv1dXwXTorRqBkroEhBdM2l7a0wKlO9ijwA9X7FI/viewform
A new beta! Knowledge Management
The Knowledge Management beta is a new application in your ticketing interface that enables you to better manage your Help Center articles. You can build basic workflows around your content to make maintaining content easier. You can also build and save dynamic lists of articles, using search, filters, sorting, and language, to support personal workflows. More functionality will be added during the beta.
Learn more about the Knowledge Management beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/204877318
A new beta!
Gmail connector improvements
Currently, the Gmail connector set up on your account only receives email. We are testing a feature that would send email through Gmail as well, skipping Zendesk's servers and keeping everything in your Gmail or Google Apps account.
Learn more about the Gmail connector improvements beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/211150428
A new beta just added!
Embeddable NPS
The Embeddable NPS beta enables you to serve a Net Promoter Score survey to your customers directly on your website. Currently, NPS surveys are only offered via email.
Learn more about the Embeddable NPS beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206587607
New-ish betas to check out!
HTML email processing
Until now, Zendesk has only brought plain text email into new tickets and comments. Now we will take inbound email and read the full HTML version with all text formatting, images, and layout.
Learn more about the HTML email processing beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206085158
Play only agents
Sometimes agents cherry-pick tickets, which can mean that customers who need help might not get that help in a reasonable time frame. In this beta, you'll be able to designate certain agents as play-only agents.
Learn more about the Play Only Agents beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200470998
Macros management
Macros are an integral part of any support team using Zendesk. As support organizations grow, however, managing, maintaining, and deprecating macros can be challenging. This project aims to overhaul the entire macros management experience, including the macros list and edit pages.
Learn more about the macros management beta
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/206934187
Hosted SSL
Introducing Hosted SSL option for Team/Regular plans along with several improvements to the provisioning experience for Hosted SSL.
Sign up for the Hosted SSL beta
https://zendesk.wufoo.com/forms/hosted-ssl-improvements-beta/
New beta you might be interested in if you're using multibrand!
Branded Ticket Forms
Those using both Multibrand and Ticket Forms have been restricted thus far in that all of their forms are available to all of their brands. This new feature set allows you to fix that problem, and restrict access to forms by brand.
Learn more about the branded ticket forms beta
New-ish beta!
Contextual Help
Contextual Help is a feature we're testing with the Web Widget that uses the web page your visitor is currently on and your Help Center content to attempt to show 3 'Top suggestions' (Help Center articles) when the widget is opened.
Learn more about the contextual help beta
A new feature for Help Center search
We are introducing a new search feature in Help Center, which offers a list of Help Center article suggestions while users typing in a search box. Users are able to skip the search result page and go directly to the article from there. This is our continuous improvements in Help Center search experience.
Sign up for the Help Center Instant beta
New beta for Voice!
Tickets for Abandoned Calls
Another beta just added!
System Status page
The beta includes an upgraded System Status web page targeted at providing incident status and updates for a customer's specific Zendesk subdomain, as well as proactive email alerts when incidents occur (coming soon). The goal is to ensure our customers know the real-time status of their Zendesk at all times.
Sign up for the System Status page beta
New beta for web widget users!
Restricted Help Center content in Web Widget beta
Until now, the Web Widget only displayed publicly-available Help Center articles. This beta lets customers use the Web Widget to embed restricted Help Center articles as well.
Learn more about the Restricted Help Center content in Web Widget beta
A new beta for you! Check it out:
Updated font and ticket properties
A new beta for Help Center! Check it out:
Improved article editing page
The current Help Center edit article page is in need of an update. As we have seen customers interact with the page, we’ve learned how the experience could be improved. The main purpose of this beta is to implement those learnings, giving agents a better writing experience.
Learn more about the Improved Article Editing Page beta
A new beta for you! Check it out:
WYSIWYG V2
New beta!
Enhanced Pathfinder app
New beta!
Zendesk-provisioned SSL
New beta for our Facebook integration.
Non-standard Wall posts
Another new beta--this one's for API users.
API dashboard
New beta for you!
System status email notifications
New beta for web widget users.
Web widget ticket attachments
New beta for Voice customers!
Voice - Indonesian Phone numbers
A new beta you'll definitely want if you're a web widget user!
Web widget customizations
New beta for our mobile app users!
Updated mobile apps
The new Zendesk mobile app for Android and iPhone provides a more valuable user interface, streamlines key mobile actions, and enables agents and admins to be more productive when handling tickets on their mobile device.
Learn more about the Zendesk mobile beta
Exciting new beta for Help Center!
Archive and restore articles in Help Center
You don't want to lose valuable content. We hear you. With this beta we are now introducing a way for you to archive and restore articles without permanently deleting them.
Learn more about the Archive and restore articles beta
New beta for Web Widget and Support SDK users!
Ticket forms in the Web Widget and Support SDK
Ticket forms are one of Zendesk Support's most powerful features, allowing you to collect all of the necessary information from your customers when they get in touch. We will be adding ticket forms to our Embeddable products -- both the Web Widget and Support SDK (Android& iOS) -- and we are now accepting registrations for each beta.
Sign up for the Web Widget ticket forms beta
Sign up for the Support SDK ticket forms beta
Very exciting and long anticipated beta!
Private ticket creation
Many times actions are taken on behalf of customers which either don't need to be shared with them, or must be kept internal. Zendesk currently doesn't allow agents to create a hidden ticket. The first comment is always public, and end-users are generally notified of the creation of a ticket.
With this beta, you will be able to truly create a ticket which is never seen by a customer, or you can create a ticket which will eventually be shared, but keeping the history private.
Learn more about the Private Ticket beta
New beta!
Rich content macros
This beta aims to improve the capability of composing beautiful, rich content comments within macros. Specifically, the following two enhancements have been introduced:
Learn more about the Rich content macros beta
New beta for Talk customers!
Multiple phone numbers
At the moment Zendesk Support only allows for one number to be added for a user. This number can be either a 'direct line' (meaning it's unique to that user across your Zendesk) or a shared number (meaning that the same number is added for several users). If you're a Talk customer, only numbers that are set as direct lines will be associated to an incoming call from that user.
With multiple phone numbers, you will be able to store all phone numbers you have for a user and also to set those numbers as direct lines (if they are unique and in a valid format).
Sign up for the Multiple phone numbers beta
An early access opportunity for you!
Automatic Answers
Automatic Answers adds artificial intelligence to self-service. Powered by machine learning, questions from customers are interpreted and relevant knowledge base articles are suggested.
Sign up for the Automatic Answers early access program
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