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Zoho Desk Spring 2025

Our latest improvements reflect the changing landscape of customer service and the evolving ways you're using intelligence in your business. But no matter what changes, we remain committed to offering you unmatched value and flexibility in the industry.

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Artificial intelligence

Intelligence,
naturally woven into your support experience

Zoho Desk Artifical Intelligence

We've sharpened Zoho Desk's AI, Zia, to understand you and your customers in greater depth, deliver more nuanced responses, and handle routine tasks with remarkable precision, while maintaining the conversational warmth your customers expect.

Bring AI-driven guidance
to conversations

Transform rigid chatbots into responsive, empathetic support systems that autonomously handle level 1 and 2 customer requests. Guided Conversations, your custom chat flow builder, now features Zia AI that contextually routes customers to suitable solutions, suggests and performs actions, and brings in human agents when needed.

Craft the perfect response

When AI and human insight unite, every customer interaction becomes a meaningful conversation. With Zia AI's intelligence and your agents' empathy, the team can craft responses that are both accurate and impactful, in a fraction of the time it usually takes.

Reply Assistant

Analyzes customer queries for context and sentiment to suggest relevant responses using knowledge base data.

Works with: Tickets and Instant Messaging

Content Generator

Crafts tailored responses using knowledge base and open-domain data, based on prompts from the human agent.

Works with: Tickets

Writing Assistant

Helps frame quality responses with intelligent linguistic recommendations for tone and communication style adjustments.

Works with: Tickets and Instant Messaging

Content Analyzer

Evaluates responses to identify grammatical errors and polish overall clarity.

Works with: Tickets

Works with: Tickets and Instant Messaging

Works with: Tickets

Works with: Tickets and Instant Messaging

Works with: Tickets

Messaging, made truly instant

Zia Answer Bot, now available on all instant messaging (IM) channels, keeps conversations flowing 24/7. It uses natural language and your business knowledge to answer common customer queries.

Smart insights for sharp replies

Zia reads between the lines of customer responses to identify sentiment and key topics, helping you make informed decisions.

Stay on top of every conversation

Zia creates one-click summaries of conversations, highlighting customer needs and support actions already taken.

Zoho Desk answer bot for instant messaging chats
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Communication experience

Guided Conversations reloaded

In addition to the AI-powered Zia block, Guided Conversations (GC) now equips deeper personalization and powerful integration. Discover the latest updates that make GC in Zoho Desk more efficient than ever.

Prebuilt templates

Deploy ready-to-use flows to quickly get started with support, sales, and other operational chat automation. New templates are added constantly—log in to Zoho Desk and share your ideas!

Pre-built guided conversation flows for sales and support teams

Redesigned builder UI

The new GC builder offers cleaner visuals for improved navigation, integrated flow metrics to measure block usage and drop-offs, and block previews for a smoother bot-building experience.

Zoho Desk guided conversations flow metrics

One-click integration blocks

Connect effortlessly with the Zoho ecosystem apps like CRM, Connect, Cliq, Projects, Mail, and Calendar using the new plug-and-play integration blocks—no coding required.

Zoho Desk guided conversation flow integrations

Advanced widget customization

Transform your chat widget into a brand experience. From branding elements like logos and theme colors to interactive call-out messages and launcher icons, personalize every detail.

Zoho Desk guided conversations customization

Adaptive conversation flow

Make your GC bot more dynamic with instant messaging data variables that auto-fill details like name, amount, or ticket info for a personalized chat experience. Use the Combine Block to merge user inputs throughout the chat, ensuring contextual continuity and precise actions based on current records.

Dynamic variables in guided conversations for instant messaging chats

Send bulk WhatsApp messages

Send essential WhatsApp utility messages to up to 2 million contacts at a time for proactive customer support.

Route Instant Messaging chats

Enable round-robin routing for selected IM channels to evenly distribute chats among online agents while optimizing workload efficiency.

Extended multilingual capabilities

Guided Conversations now supports 52 languages, enabling automated conversations across multiple channels without the need for separate language-specific bots. Additionally, you can now build WhatsApp templates and customer happiness ratings in multi-language variations. With automatic language detection, ensure the right experience for every customer every time.

Send bulk whatsapp messages via Zoho Desk
Customization

Bring external data into Zoho Desk

Track shipments on a live map, fetch order details from your e-commerce platform, or view invoices from your finance tool—all within Zoho Desk. Private extensions for custom modules bring external data into your workspace and trigger automated notifications for agents and customers.

Custom buttons in Zoho Desk

Create a button and make it do anything

Custom buttons in Zoho Desk let you access external tools or trigger custom functions with a single click. Whether it’s opening URLs, sending team alerts, or updating records, you define the action—turning your ticket interface into a powerful command center.

Agent productivity

The latest in analytics

  • KPI cards
  • Lifecycle report
  • Agent availability report
Zoho Desk key performance indicator dashboard

Monitor performance metrics, compare trends, and visualize targets in sleek, customizable, easy-to-read cards.

Intelligent data fields that do the math for you

Formula fields in Zoho Desk use values from other fields to update the new calculated value in real time. Without any manual calculations, you can now view cost estimations, sales commission, or available stock in inventory—all within the ticket details page.

Formula field in Zoho Desk tickets

Improved self-service accessibility

Accessible help centers ensure that your customers with diverse needs can navigate and find assistance more easily, making their interaction with your business pleasant.

help_portal_screenreader

Screen reader to translate the help center text into synthesized speech or Braille

Accessibility shortcuts to navigate the help center with a keyboard or assistive device

Voice-to-text for hands-free typing on the ASAP help center mobile widget