Customer Journey Mapping: Stripe + Zendesk
What do customers do before they call or book? askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk together and answers it for your business, by text.
How does customer journey mapping with Stripe and Zendesk work for a small business?
askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk side by side so it can map the path customers take across your accounts. The whole path in one view, with every visit and decision point on it.
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The owner asks follow-up questions by text.
- From Stripe
- Payment transactions and revenue, Memberships and recurring plans, Customer payment profiles.
- From Zendesk
- Ticket volume and resolution, CSAT scores, Agent performance.
- Status
- Zendesk is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
- Not for
- Replacing Stripe or Zendesk. Both keep working exactly as they do now.
What do customers do before they call or book?
On paper the path is simple: someone sees an ad, visits the site and books. In real life they search twice, read reviews and come back days later on a different phone. Each tool sees only its own piece.
How askotter handles it
askotter reads Stripe and Zendesk side by side, so it can map the path customers take across your accounts.
A person checks the result before it reaches you. This is part of our Google Ads management work.
How Stripe and Zendesk records line up
Stripe 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.
Shared between the two: the customer email address.
What customer journey mapping uses from each
Customer journey mapping needs the order of events for one person.
From Stripe that means the first charge date and every charge after it. From Zendesk it means support contacts in the order they happened.
Zendesk is on the integration roadmap, so the matching described here starts when that connector ships.
What each tool sees on its ownShow less
Stripe on its own
Stripe knows the payment, the amount and the customer's email. It has no record of the ad, search or email that brought the customer in.
Timing. Stripe records each charge, refund and failed payment as it happens. Payouts land on a schedule days later, so charge date and payout date differ.
Access. A restricted, read-only Stripe API key, or Stripe Connect.
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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Questions about Stripe + Zendesk
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How is askotter's Customer Journey Mapping different from what Stripe shows on its own?
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