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Customer service that helps you grow

Good customer service in financial institutions, such as wealth management, insurance, brokerage, credit unions, and mortgage firms, promotes customer trust and brand loyalty. Zoho Desk empowers your support teams through a unified and secured platform, fostering exceptional customer experiences and lasting relations.

Customer service software for banks

Here's how you can benefit:

Secure all interactions to protect client data

Offer multi-channel support ensuring no interaction is missed

Reduce customer churn through proactive and personalized support

Streamline processes for consistent and effective resolutions

Get a competitive edge in the market through loyal and satisfied customers

Analyze market trends and customer preferences with insightful analytics and metrics

  • Omnichannel
  • Security
  • Automation
  • Self-service
  • Analytics
  • AI
  • Integrations

How Zoho Desk supports
customer service in financial
service businesses

Provide support across channels

In the financial industry, your clients reach out through various channels, such as phone calls, email, live chat, social media, or web forms. The freedom to opt from the most convenient channel of their choice increases each customer's willingness to interact and do business with a brand.

Zoho Desk offers a contextual, omnichannel platform that brings customer tickets from every channel into a unified view that is easy to use and grow with. Your teams can manage tickets and track SLAs on their mobile device with Radar, a Zoho Desk mobile app. Managers can also track important stats instantly using the Radar app. This helps your support teams become more productive and keep customers happy with fast and efficient support.

Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk
Customer service software for banks
Zoho desk agent mobile app for android and iOS
Zoho desk Radar analytics - manager mobile app for android and iOS

Provide a safe and secure platform
for customer interactions

Financial data is highly confidential. Zoho Desk offers a strong set of security tools, like roles and profiles to define hierarchy in the organization, field-level security to control who can edit which fields, and an audit log to track agent activity. It is also GDPR compliant

Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk
Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk

Customize and automate your support

Financial institutions include multiple teams, such as audit, budgeting, and credit. All your teams need to be in sync to offer exceptional customer support. Zoho Desk enables businesses to scale by adding multiple departments and allowing organizations to use team feeds for collaborating on tickets without switching tabs.

Teams can automate routine tasks, such as ticket assignment (directly to agents or skill-based), set up blueprints and SLAs for consistent, streamlined resolutions. Ensuring that customers are satisfied with the assistance they receive will give your business an edge in the competitive financial services industry.

Role-based assignment rules offered by Zoho Desk
 Field-level security in Zoho Desk
Audit logs to track agent activity offered by Zoho Desk

Offer service 24/7

The recent rise of the fin-tech space has made a growing range of advanced technology solutions available to providers and customers alike. While traditional financial services continue to offer support primarily during regular business hours. Most customers prefer businesses that can offer support 24/7 or enable them to find answers on their own. People expect fast, responsive, and reliable assistance.

Businesses with large ticket volumes that need to deliver service around the clock can benefit from a help desk solution, like Zoho Desk, that offers strong self-service portals including a multilingual help center, low-code chatbots, and a community forum that can be easily embedded on your website. This way, your help desk lets your clients find answers faster, which reduces your ticket load and leads to faster resolutions.

Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk

Optimize support with insightful reports

Customer feedback is a key source of ideas for any business that aims for long-term growth. Zoho Desk offers your teams intelligent built-in or customizable reports to analyze your help center portals, customer satisfaction score(CSAT), and customer trends. These real-time reports from your help desk get delivered straight to your inbox, so you can make informed decisions on how to improve your business.

Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk

Unlock agent productivity and customer
retention with generative AI solutions

Customers expect fast and efficient customer service. According to a Microsoft survey, quality of customer service builds trust. For many financial service businesses, offering customer support can be complex due to heavy ticket flow, operational requirements, and regulatory compliance.

With Zia, Zoho Desk's generative AI, agents can instantly summarize tickets, analyze customers' moods, and get context-specific reply suggestions. This promotes agent productivity, effective resolutions, and improved customer satisfaction.

Omnichannel customer support by Zoho Desk

Powerful integrations

Financial firms work with multiple business tools. Customer support software that offers seamless integrations with these applications can prove beneficial. Zoho Desk offers impeccable integration with third-party as well as native Zoho apps to avoid the confusion of shuffling through tabs and apps. For example, your teams can offer personalized support by integrating CRM and help desk systems.

Zoho Desk integrates with your CRM (Zoho or third-party), which enables support teams to get detailed customer information, status, account owner, and more. Customers expect a personalized approach, like timely product recommendations and useful in-app dashboards. With readily available customer information, your support agents can deliver proactive and reliable support to make customers feel valued.

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The Zoho Desk advantage

15%

increase in first
contact resolution.

50%

faster response
time.

14%

increase in
CSAT score.

48%

reduction in customer
churn rate.

Implementing Zoho Desk in my team has saved us significant time. It's exceptional how Zoho Desk consistently delivers outstanding service.

Vinod Gowda
Automation Lead and Analyst,
CreditAccess Grameen

Zoho has given everything in a single platform. Zoho Desk has given the solution of self help portal. Initially, customers have to leave the app to research. What is happening now is customers are finding all the answers in the app with the help of Zoho. I am getting better productivity from my team as well.

Sandeep Patil
Customer service manager,
5paisa

ICICI Prudential’s DNA of "Customer First" has inspired us to continuously innovate in the delivery of products and solutions that keep customer interests at the forefront. In line with this, we have on boarded ‘Zoho desk’. Zoho EBS team has been outstanding in delivering critical features, providing innovative solutions and in making Zoho desk live in short time. Great efforts!

Anant Deshmukh
CTO and Head of IT

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Frequently asked questions

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What types of IT assistance for financial institutions does your help desk software provide?

With the digitization of banking services comes the need for cloud-based customer support that is secure and reliable. Zoho Desk is built to ensure interactions are seamless with multi-channel support and chatbots for remote assistance. It complies with GDPR, offers features such as automation capabilities, data backup, role-based data sharing for data protection, API alerts, and integrations that equip financial institutions with strong support management strategizes.

How can Zoho Desk help streamline financial services IT solutions for our organization?

Financial institutions must be prepared to serve a big number of customers every day. With growing competition and increasing demand for good support, a customer-centric approach helps businesses differentiate themselves and succeed. Adopting cloud-based support software ensures customer service is always easily accessible. Zoho Desk offers cloud-based support solutions with a rich help toolkit offering features such as omni-channel, automation capabilities, integrations, data protection, AI chatbots, self-service, security compliances, and more.

Can Zoho Desk integrate with other financial software we use?

Yes, Zoho Desk offers a robust integration platform that allows you to connect with a variety of financial software applications. This integration helps in improving agent productivity as data flows seamlessly and operations are smooth. Common integrations offered by Zoho Desk that are useful for financial institutions include CRM systems (Zoho CRM, Zendesk Sell), accounting tools (Zoho Books, QuickBooks), payment gateways (Stripe 360) and more.

How can AI in customer service improve the efficiency of IT operations in financial services?

Customers expect timely and reliable assistance. Zia, Zoho Desk's AI assistant, is a robust tool that empowers agents and improves customer satisfaction. From summarizing tickets to analyzing trends, identifying ticket anomalies, offering meaningful replies, and generating data-driven insights, AI can be helpful in improving agents' efficiency and boosting their morale. With the help of AI-powered chatbots (such as Guided conversations, a low-code chatbot by Zoho Desk), businesses can offer 24/7 support to customers. Learn more about how AI can help in customer service.

How does omnichannel customer support enhance the digital customer experience in financial services?

Financial institutions have multiple customer interactions in a day across various channels. Missing a touchpoint in any interaction can lead to serious consequences. Zoho Desk is an omni-channel customer support solution that ensures interactions from all your support channels are unified on a single platform. This helps ensure no conversations slip through the cracks. Our omnichannel platform improves agent efficiency across all activities, such as ticket management, automation capabilities, integrations, and self-service.