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WhatsApp Zendesk integration: Simply connect

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☝️ The most important facts in brief

  • Customer service without interrupting your workflow through the unique integration of Chatarmin, which combines WhatsApp CRM functions with your Zendesk support infrastructure.
  • Support and marketing activities are simplified if you already use Zendesk in your company and consolidate it with the WhatsApp integration.
  • Native solutions for Zendesk and WhatsApp are available to you through the choice of Chatarmin for effective solutions for interaction in your support and marketing channels.
  • The integration of Zendesk and WhatsApp ensures that your company's communication strategy is standardized.
  • Seamless omnichannel customer support increases customer satisfaction and makes your support team's job easier by automating responses to recurring questions. It's a win-win situation for you and your customers.

WhatsApp messages in customer support and WhatsApp advertising become especially interesting for you when you already use Zendesk for customer retention. The most popular messenger in cooperation with Zendesk opens up new possibilities to improve communication with your customers across multiple channels.

What is Zendesk in general?

Zendesk helps your company equip your customer service employees with the right tools to improve the customer journey and transform it into measurably higher ratings for your channel.

Users from your social media accounts, such as Facebook, Instagram, or directly from your website, are consolidated in this support tool with their inquiries.

This allows you not only to evaluate the most frequently asked customer questions but also to provide automated responses, for example via chatbots, if you want to relieve your agents directly in the live chat.

The idea behind Zendesk?

Zendesk helps you bring order. To queue customers and offer service exactly when it is most urgently needed by your users.

Zendesk is represented in 160 countries with nearly 5,500 employees and serves over 100,000 satisfied companies. A platform like Zendesk is hard to resist if you are aiming for professionalism.

What can the Zendesk WhatsApp integration do?

Using the most popular messaging app, WhatsApp, for support inquiries is, alongside the use of social media, a pressing question that many companies are currently asking.

We at Chatarmin have the right answers to these questions through our in-house software platform connected to all your communication channels.

The Zendesk workspace in connection with WhatsApp lies in communication with your customers. What this function can do is summarized briefly here:

  • Your Zendesk account collects all inquiries from social media and other channels through which your customers can contact you.
  • The new integration of Zendesk and WhatsApp Business can respond to support inquiries automatically via chatbots.
  • This intelligent solution of WhatsApp and Zendesk across multiple channels can also be managed with dynamic AI.
  • Manual responses and information can be sent by your employees in the service department.
  • Direct chat with your client via WhatsApp is still possible and can always keep a communication channel open to optimize ordering processes.

Is Zendesk in support useful without WhatsApp integration?

If you do not have a WhatsApp Business API, you can still use Zendesk profitably as a communication tool for your channels.

Zendesk not only offers cooperation with your WhatsApp Business API but also its own ticketing system to support your customers across every area of work.

As a customer engagement platform, Zendesk offers you the ability to create analyses and reports entirely according to your needs. Each of your departments finds its opportunity to use the collected data and evaluations.

To get started, WhatsApp is not strictly necessary to send automated responses to prospects. However, if you plan to expand your website functions in the future, Zendesk is one of the best options to seamlessly integrate messaging and WhatsApp.

The advantages of Chatarmin's Zendesk WhatsApp integration

With your WhatsApp Business API, you make your Zendesk account even more effective as a tool in the omnichannel support of customer inquiries.

Functions from different channels are consolidated, and in the future, you manage everything from a single platform—regardless of which app your user asks for information through or which account they use.

  • Advertising and sales no longer have to work through a separate WhatsApp account with its own number, which may have previously confused your customers.
  • Using one number, one account for all contacts and information to your customers and channels also provides better possibilities for evaluating different functions.
  • Messaging is not the ultimate solution. Zendesk can integrate the delivery of your messages via email. This way, potential or returning visitors can choose their preferred channel to receive information from you.
  • In addition to WhatsApp and email, your prospect can also resolve their ticket via chat, Facebook, Twitter, or another social media channel to receive their desired information.

Who is the Zendesk WhatsApp integration best suited for?

Using Zendesk and WhatsApp messages in combination is interesting for companies that already use Zendesk for customer support and want to unify this support across various messaging systems. WhatsApp Business is ideal for this.

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging tool and is useful for collecting phone numbers for new leads, as well as encouraging customers to share messages about their favorite products with friends.

Marketing campaigns, lead generation efforts, and customer support are all gathered in one tool. This way, as an entrepreneur, you maintain an overview of the origin of your contacts and can divide your advertising accordingly in the future.

What activities does Zendesk support you with?

Using Zendesk allows you to automate the processing of customer inquiries and to develop your customers’ phone into by far the most important communication channel.

As customer service software, Zendesk is no longer a secret tip. Through the number of people collected in your database, you generate new leads. These enable your team to send targeted messages to prospects for specific products or campaigns.

Video: Tutorial for Zendesk WhatsApp integration with Chatarmin

Here you can find a video tutorial, in case you prefer that:

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Step-by-step guide: Connect Chatarmin with Zendesk

Step 1: Download the app

  • Download the Chatarmin Zendesk app.
  • Fill in all the required input fields.
  • You can find the necessary values in the settings of your Chatarmin account.

Step 2: Connect Zendesk

  • Navigate to the Zendesk Connect page on Chatarmin.
  • Enter your Zendesk subdomain (e.g., chatarmin.zendesk.com).
  • Click on “Connect now” and wait for a response.

Step 3: Set up WhatsApp channel in Zendesk

  • Go to Zendesk Admin Center → Apps and Integrations → Channel Apps.
  • Find Chatarmin and click the gear icon.
  • Select Accounts → Add Account.
  • Enter your WhatsApp number (including country code).

Once these steps are completed, Chatarmin is successfully integrated with Zendesk!

Use cases after successful integration of Zendesk and WhatsApp

One of Zendesk's most popular features is the use of a knowledge base as a channel for frequently asked questions. The self-service feature allows users to find answers whenever they have time to address their concerns.

Create Zendesk tickets via Chatarmin

You can now create a flow in Chatarmin and should now be able to see Zendesk → Create Zendesk Ticket as a flow action. This forwards WhatsApp messages to Zendesk so you can reply to these WhatsApp tickets directly from Zendesk.

The flow might look like this, for example:

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Trigger WhatsApp flow on ticket status changes

You can trigger an automated process when you close/resolve a Zendesk ticket. This way, you automatically send an opt-in request to support leads and subsequently convert them into marketing leads.

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Zendesk, your omnichannel tool

Since Zendesk's features work across the board, you can also receive analytics and reports across multiple channels for your future planning. Otherwise, you would have to develop separate strategies for each app or laboriously create tables to consolidate the findings.

The data from Zendesk results from its multifunctionality when it comes to managing customer messaging. Facebook Messenger, as well as WhatsApp Business and other support options, are included in your analyses.

Zendesk with WhatsApp for greater customer satisfaction

Zendesk allows you to operate with a single phone number for your business app, preventing confusion among your buyers caused by messaging and notifications from a different company number.

The flexibility for customers to choose their preferred channel to contact you increases the number of satisfied and returning buyers by itself.

The location of your service agents is not tied to your company's address, as Zendesk offers a selection of mobile apps. You not only support the convenience of your buyers and new leads but also ensure the necessary work-life balance for your employees—with Zendesk, WhatsApp Business, and Chatarmin as the centerpiece of your strategy for a better customer journey.

Zendesk with WhatsApp for your marketing

Comprehensive knowledge about customer expectations and their first point of contact with your shop also ensures proper segmentation of your campaigns later on.

Zendesk and WhatsApp Business bring all necessary data together in one channel on the Chatarmin interface and make it available to exactly the teams that need it to further increase revenue and improve your service ratings.

Zendesk and WhatsApp for sales and distribution

As an all-in-one solution, Zendesk in combination with WhatsApp Business is suitable as a communication and marketing channel for startups as well as for small or medium-sized enterprises.

As customer service software, Zendesk stores all relevant data needed for evaluating target groups, segments, or special campaigns. Today, success in large online companies is driven not only by helpfulness and answering questions but especially by knowing customer behavior, preferences, and habits.

Advantages of Chatarmin as a partner for Zendesk and WhatsApp integration

  • Straightforward integration
    Chatarmin enables a quick and easy connection between WhatsApp and Zendesk without complicated setups or third-party tools.

  • Automation & efficiency
    Through automated WhatsApp messages and workflows, Chatarmin optimizes customer communication and relieves your support team.

  • GDPR-compliant & secure
    Chatarmin ensures legally compliant data processing and protects communication with end-to-end encryption.

  • Real-time synchronization
    All customer data, chats, and inquiries are stored in Zendesk and synchronized in real time to enable quick responses.

  • Flexible customization options
    Chatarmin offers individually customizable WhatsApp flows, automations, and CRM integrations that are perfectly tailored to your needs.

  • Experienced partner with strong support
    With years of experience in WhatsApp CRM integration and a dedicated support team, Chatarmin is the best choice for companies of all sizes.

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