Zendesk Chat vs Google Chat

Updated: I was having some serious issues with getting notifications on android, I raised a ticket, Jeffrey was amazing, he liaised with his team & sorted this issue out, this is fully functional now, works brilliantly. Great support from Jeffrey kept me in the loop all the way through. Really helps with sales etc this app, a must have

- Jagz

Macros don't work (they populate with the literal variable names e.g. {{agent_name}}, you get randomly invisibly logged out in the background with no indication, despite still receiving notifications and having persistent toast saying you're logged in, and notifications for messages only work if you also have notifications for every single user arrival. Considering the importance of this app's use, I can firmly say this has been one of my most frustrating and disappointing user experiences.

- Ryan Heath

App is very flawed. Too many missing features. One of the feature is that Facebook and whatsapp chats disappear from the app and goes to missing tab. It diesnt have to. We can actually reply to those messages. Why they let us reply to those Facebook, WhatsApp messages on Zendesk browser version and not on App? I can understand it if it goes to misding when customer leaves a website zendesk chat. But its flawed that same happens for other chats

- Ahmed Nazeeh

This replacement for Hangout and Allo is sub par at best. I can't manually delete messages like I can with any other app. I also have to manually open each image one at a time to both send and view instead of selecting multiple to upload or swiping between images that were sent. This feels like a junior ancillary project from Google instead of a well fleshed out and developed app. It's predecessors we're superior. That being said, I do like the ability to multi emoji react to a message.

- Alex

Nice update for Google Hangouts which is going away at any time. Hangout's used to be nearly an all in one for communication, but Google stripped a lot of the functionality for no particular other than they were introducing other apps that ended up dying on the vine. This is the replacement. Fairly basic, functional and the UI is slightly better than Hangout's. I hope Google continues to work with it instead of letting it go after 6-12 months. Right now I like it.

- Rob W

Again, updates have fixed nothing about this terrible app. Stay away from this if you have any other alternatives. Very buggy and dropped notifications. Unable to go direct video call in app, requires a separate app. Too much friction. Unable to open URLs in a separate browser, links open up in the app, which is a dumb idea.

- Hoanglong Nguyen