Overview
You may be wondering why the Kayako support team now uses Zendesk to support its customers and not Kayako.
This article provides some talking points regarding the above query.
Information
Kayako’s customer support function was migrated from the Think3 team to the centralized support team. This move was made to give Kayako customers an enhanced support experience that allows:
- 24x7 coverage for all customers
- Phone support for Platinum customers
- Increased responsiveness due to the number of agents supporting the product
- Updated knowledge base
The centralized support team has used Zendesk as their customer support platform for several years. Therefore, as part of this change, Kayako customers will also be using Zendesk to create support tickets.
We believe that Kayako is the best customer support platform on the market, a belief so strong that we acquired the company. That belief has not changed. The decision to transition Kayako Customer Support to our central customer support team was made to provide a more scalable, responsive support team for Kayako customers. Transitioning customer support to the centralized team of Kayako’s parent organization will also allow Kayako’s operational resources to stay focused on product innovation. It’s important to know that our central team’s use of a competing support platform predates our acquisition of Kayako.
While we will still use Kayako internally for other purposes, our first-hand experience using a competing platform will inevitably help us make Kayako even better.