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How Fin integrates with Zendesk

Get the best AI agent, and keep your team on Zendesk.

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Written by Beth-Ann Sher
Updated over a week ago

Fin AI Agent can resolve up to 86% of your support tickets, emails and messages on Zendesk. Fin delivers superior performance, answers more complex questions, and is easier to set up—creating a better experience for your team and your customers.


Quick and easy to set up

You can set up Fin on Zendesk in just four easy steps, and it will start answering questions immediately.

  1. Sync your knowledge base.

  2. Connect to the Zendesk API.

  3. Customize Fin’s tone of voice, behavior, and actions.

  4. Test Fin and go live.


Channels

Fin on Zendesk includes all of the latest Fin 2 features & capabilities, and works across the following channels:

  • Tickets (email, forms)

  • Live chat on Intercom Messenger

  • Zendesk Messaging:

    • Live chat

    • Facebook Messenger

    • WhatsApp

    • Instagram Direct Message

    • Android

    • iOS

    • And more


Features

Fin and Zendesk Tickets

Fin can resolve tickets on Zendesk while drawing on the conversation history for full context, and structuring every answer specifically to each channel. When a customer sends an email or submits a form, Fin can pick up the ticket based on your assignment rules in Zendesk, and apply Fin-specific tags on the ticket to help with routing and reporting. Learn more.

Fin and Zendesk Messaging

Fin works seamlessly across all your Zendesk messaging channels including web, iOS, Android, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram. Learn more.

Fin and the Intercom Messenger in Zendesk

Use Fin with the Intercom Messenger in Zendesk for the best conversational support experience. Install the Intercom Messenger on your site and have conversations opened as tickets in Zendesk to manage everything from the same place. Learn more.

Fin and Workflows automations

Easily create powerful drag-and-drop automations with Workflows, Intercom’s no-code visual builder.

  • Determine how Fin greets a customer

  • Route questions with AI by topic, sentiment, and more

  • Triage new cases

  • Collect customer information like email, name, etc.

  • Use Custom Answers for specific questions

  • Summarize the conversation with AI

  • Hand over to your team

  • And more

Fin performance insights

Since all tickets that Fin is involved in are captured on Zendesk, you can report on them using your reporting tools directly in Zendesk.

You can also track Fin’s quality and performance using a customizable report on Intercom that showcases key metrics and charts, including:

  • Involvement

  • Deflection rate

  • Answer rate

  • Resolution rate

  • Impact over time (answer rate, deflection rate, resolution rate)

  • Resolution state (confirmed resolution, assumed resolution, routed to the team)

  • AI answer resolution rate

  • Custom answer resolution rate

  • Abandoned rate

  • Routed to team rate

Fin for Zendesk is in an early access beta. Contact sales if you're interested in getting access.


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