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CommentWorkflow best practices and recipes

I've added those images again, Ewa, thanks for letting us know :)

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Can I access Zendesk in mainland China?

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From time to time, customers within mainland China have experienced issues with the ability to reach Zendesk services and other services outside of China for various reasons.

Zendesk doesn't have any data centers, cloud infrastructure, or service endpoints within mainland China. However, Zendesk does not have any unique restrictions on the use of our services in China differentiated from other providers.

While Zendesk does not prohibit access to its products from mainland China, it is not possible to guarantee the quality or reliability of service there as Chinese ISPs dynamically change what they block and permit access to. As one example, customers are generally able to interact with end users through the Chat widget, but customers are not able to use the Android mobile app or the SDK with push notifications because Google Play services are blocked in China.

Occasionally, there have also been some issues relating to local firewalls blocking network traffic in and out of China. In general, it means that Zendesk will most likely work in China, but we cannot guarantee the quality or uptime of our services from locations within China. In addition, we have no visibility into network blocking in China to provide insights to customers who encounter these issues.

For related information, see the article: Are there limitations for calling Chinese numbers in Zendesk Talk?

Edited Aug 02, 2024 · Jillana Kelly

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Community commentDiscussion - Zendesk on Suite best practices

Hi Pam! You can think of our REST APIs, Apps Framework, and Embeddables as one big family sharing the same DNA while having unique characteristics :)

Some customers use all three in tandem so don't feel limited to one or the other! Check out more details on all three platforms here: https://developer.zendesk.com/  

 

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We hear you, Logan, and do plan to allow attachments through the Web Widget in the future. For now, users could include a link to an image if they upload it to Drive, Screencast, etc. but we hope to build this in soon!

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Great to hear, Andrea! Thanks for sharing :)

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Please feel free to share how you use Embeddables or ask any questions below!

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This Fine Tuning session is about Embeddables, including:

  • Why Contextual Support Matters
  • Implementing the Web Widget and Mobile SDKs
  • Embeddables In Action

Jillana Peterson is Sr. Customer Success Consultant who has been with Zendesk since February 2013, with a background in large-scale IT, Help Desk, and Human Resources systems management.

To find more Fine Tuning articles, see Fine tuning resources.

Part 1: Why Contextual Support Matters

 

Your customers expect a quick and painless process when seeking help or reaching out to you for assistance, but searching for a number to call or a Knowledge Base article is not always as easy as we might hope. Zendesk strives to make omnichannel support simple, including a customizable Help Center platform for your self-service content, but what if your customers never had to leave your site, shopping cart, or mobile app to access this content or get in touch?

Zendesk Embeddables bring all the Zendesk goodness out of your account to where your customers already are. Take the next step beyond customer support to truly engage your customer base by embedding self-service, chat, and ticket submission into your site or mobile app using the Mobile SDK or Web Widget.

We've always encouraged our customers to create the unique agent and customer experience desired using the API, and Zendesk now offers Embeddables to users with all degrees of development know-how. Configure a Web Widget in minutes to place on your external site, or provide documentation right in your mobile app using the SDK to drastically change your user experience.

Chris Tabasa, Director of Consumer Operations at GREE International, Inc, sums it up perfectly:

“Engaging with players in-game is one of the key components for great customer service. Gamers don’t want to leave the game to submit a service request or look up the answer to a question.”

The same could likely be said of your customers shopping online, or browsing your software subscription offerings. It makes a lot of sense to bring support to your customers rather than making them seek it out, but the benefits don’t stop there. Embeddables enable you to get proactive, access more user data and system info initially, and ask for feedback to boot! Deflecting tickets by surfacing relevant articles or having a quick chat to answer a question will reduce overall ticket volume, allowing your agents to focus on the more complex issues. We’ve seen support teams reduce initial response and full resolution times, meaning Embeddables are a win-win for both you and your customers.

Now let's explore how to best implement the Web Widget and Mobile SDK on your site or app.

Part 2: Implementing the Web Widget and Mobile SDKs

 

The CEB states in their publication The Effortless Experience that, “...a whopping 84 percent of customers simply want their issue resolved as quickly and easily as possible.” So how do you get from where you’re at today to a truly effortless customer experience?

Start by mapping out your current customer experience, perhaps literally on a whiteboard, or by thinking through how your customers handle specific support issues. Put yourself in your customer’s shoes and walk through each scenario, noting areas for improvement on self-serve options and process for different types of requests. Once you’ve identified any shortcomings, create a list and prioritize by urgency or the simplicity of the task, keeping an eye out for any impactful, quick wins.

Perhaps you’ve found that you should better explain a few topics in self-service articles, add a directory, or combine several different landing pages into one for ease of navigation. Whatever the outcome, having a firm handle on the current customer experience is necessary before making any big changes. Combine what you've learned from the mapping exercise with direct feedback from your customers and any analytics you have on their behavior when visiting your sites or using your apps. Now that you know where your customers go for help, you can focus on bringing your support offerings to them.

Web Widget

For the impact the Web Widget can make, it’s extremely easy to configure and roll out in stages that make the most sense for your customers. Start with a basic contact form, adding one or two custom fields to collect specific info, to embed ticket submission in your homepage, FAQ, or pricing page:

To get even more out of the Web Widget, enable Help Center to allow your customers to search your Knowledge Base from wherever you’ve placed the Widget. If they cannot find an answer to their question, they can submit a ticket, which will include the URL for the page they were on when the ticket was sent in. You can use the URL in a trigger to add custom tags, route, or set fields on these tickets depending on where they were submitted from. Agents will know more about the situation as soon as they get a ticket, making them more efficient as they aid your customers.

If you use Chat, you can also enable this channel through the Web Widget to chat with customers if they have a question or cannot find a relevant self-service article:

To get full functionality of the Web Widget, you can use the JavaScript API to further customize it to hide the widget selectively, set a single language for it to appear in rather than having it respond to the user’s browser, and pre-populate the contact or chat form with user data if it is already available.

Mobile SDK

Bringing your support environment to your website is great, but what if your customers rely on their mobile device to use your app, service, or product? Our research shows that more than half of Zendesk’s customers provide support to their clients using mobile devices so it makes sense to embed support in the mobile realm as well.


With Zendesk’s SDKs, you get all the functionality listed above with the Web Widget, plus customers can rate your app, view, and comment on their open tickets. You have more flexibility to create the exact support experience you want embedded in your app, branding everything for consistency. 

Any ticket submitted through the Mobile SDK will also include your customers’ mobile system information and location in the Events Log:


Pick and choose between Help Center search, Chat, or ticket submission components for your mobile app or game, and decide if you’d like to use Rate My App to engage your users. You can ask them to rate your app to drive your store ratings, and reach out proactively to respond to the feedback provided:


Zendesk has an active developer community where you can get support from your peers and our API Evangelists, who created our Remember the Date app (pictured above and available on the Play Store and iTunes ) to demo the functionality of the Android and iOS Mobile SDKs. Download it to better evaluate the functionality or check out our documentation to get started.

I can shout about Embeddables from the rooftops, but customers speak louder than my words. Let’s take a look at three real world examples with unique industry-specific use cases.

Part 3: Embeddables In Action

 

GREE

Social gamers around the globe know GREE International, Inc. for their mobile games like Modern War, Crime City and War of Nations. What they may not know is how they've enhanced the customer and agent experience using Embeddables and the Zendesk API! When customers run into issues in a game, they are able to get support without ever leaving the mobile game thanks to the Mobile SDK. Chris Tabasa continued his statement above to say, “ Zendesk’s mobile SDK helps us keep our gamers gaming, which is good for GREE and for our customers.

Within Zendesk, they’ve created custom apps to surface essential customer information to their agents using the Core API. Carlos Flores, Player Experience Manager in San Francisco, says, “[...] ultimately the Zendesk API is very straightforward when working on backend tools. Just about every endpoint is documented with a CURL command, so you can just reuse and rewrap that with your API keys. That is the anchor that has bound everything together.

Read more from Carlos about scaling at GREE here: https://developer.zendesk.com/blog/building-for-scale-at-gree

Le Tote

In the retail sector, Le Tote uses Zendesk’s Mobile SDK, Web Widget, and the Zendesk API, to offer customers the ability to engage with the Le Tote support team directly from the app they are using. Whether they are shopping from a mobile device or browsing on a PC, customers can search for answers while continuing to shop. As a result, chat requests have dropped by 60 percent.

Aubrie Rice, who leads the customer service team at Le Tote, said she initially expected chat requests to skyrocket after the Embeddables functionality was rolled out. But Zendesk allowed Le Tote to guide customers to its Knowledge Base first, before offering them the choice of live chat or email. Instead of going up, chat requests declined. Two weeks after rolling out the Web Widget, chat requests had fallen by more than 60 percent. The chats that did come through involved issues that were more complex, and provided opportunities for building stronger customer relationships.

Read more about Le Tote's story here: https://www.zendesk.com/customer/le-tote/

SwiftKey

Finally, in the software space, we have SwiftKey, the insanely popular predictive keyboard app. Josh Greenwald, community support lead at Swiftkey, says he knew it was time to step up their support game when joined in 2014. He says:

Our apps exist on smartphones. We need to work intelligently on the devices where our customers are coming from. [...] If you come to our Help Center, it detects what mobile device you’re using. If you’re on Android, it will show you the Android product category. And if you’re on iOS, it will you show you the iOS category.

SwiftKey focused on anticipating their users’ needs and providing support through the SwiftKey Help Center, which receives 90% of all traffic from users on an iOS or Android device. By embedding the Zendesk Mobile SDK in the SwiftKey app, customers can answer their questions without ever leaving the app by accessing Help Center documentation. Greenwald says, “ The flexibility of the Mobile SDK was a big impetus when it came to moving to Zendesk. We can more intelligently serve our users because of the Mobile SDK.”

A key benefit of the Mobile SDK for SwiftKey is the device and app level data that is brought into a new Zendesk ticket. “ It provides the extra context we need to understand our user’s issue. ” SwiftKey has seen faster resolution times since having all device information on-hand initially as they no longer have to wait for the customer to provide it. In the long run, they will be able to track usage trends and make further improvements to the user experience based on their reports and data.

To date, SwiftKey has an impressive self-service ratio of 70:1 , meaning only 1 ticket is created for every 70 views on their Help Center. Everyone wins when customers are able to find answers immediately, without having to get in contact for help and wait on a response.

“The Zendesk SDK has allowed us to provide quick answers through our Help Center. Also, we have more context about the users that request 1:1 support. It saves us a lot of time ,” said Greenwald.

Read more about SwiftKey's journey here: https://www.zendesk.com/customer/swiftkey/

I chose these examples because they highlight the benefits of stepping outside traditional support boundaries, to interact with customers wherever they are. Zendesk Embeddables are here to help you do just that!

Posted Sep 14, 2015 · Jillana Kelly

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