Connect Salesforce and Zendesk for your business
Salesforce and Zendesk each hold numbers the other never sees. askotter reads both and tells you, by text, what they mean together.
What do you get by connecting Salesforce and Zendesk?
askotter reads Salesforce and Zendesk side by side and puts both in one report for the business. The owner sees how activity in one leads to results in the other, gets an alert when a number moves and can ask questions by text.
- From Salesforce
- Leads and opportunities, Account and contact data, Pipeline stages and velocity.
- From Zendesk
- Ticket volume and resolution, CSAT scores, Agent performance.
- Status
- Salesforce and Zendesk are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Salesforce or Zendesk. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
Why connect Salesforce and Zendesk
Salesforce will sit beside your ad accounts, GA4 and payments, so marketing spend lines up with closed revenue. It fits into our PPC management work.
How Salesforce and Zendesk records line up
Salesforce and Zendesk both store the customer's email address. askotter lowercases and trims it on both sides before matching, so the same person shows up as one customer across the two tools.
Both tools can hold a phone number. Numbers are normalised to one international format before matching, which catches customers who never gave an email.
Shared between the two: the customer email address, the phone number and the company or account.
Salesforce and Zendesk are on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Salesforce on its own
Salesforce sees leads, accounts and opportunities. It knows which campaign produced a lead only when someone records it there.
Timing. Salesforce opportunity stages move when someone updates them, so pipeline data is as current as the team's CRM habits.
Access. A connected app with read-only access to Lead, Contact, Account and Opportunity.
Zendesk on its own
Zendesk sees the complaint and how it was handled. It cannot see what the customer is worth or whether they bought again.
Timing. Zendesk timestamps every ticket, reply and status change.
Access. The Zendesk Support API with a read-only token.
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