Source: https://joinfinn.com/integrations/zendesk

# Zendesk

## Zendesk + Finn.

Zendesk integration with Finn. Zendesk manages customer support tickets, conversations, and help center knowledge.

Business function: Customer service.

## What you can do with Zendesk.

Zendesk manages customer support tickets, conversations, and help center knowledge.

### Resolve an order problem from first message to closure

Finn handles the customer conversation, checks the order, and completes the permitted remedy while keeping the Zendesk ticket current throughout the case.

**Typically handled by:** Ecommerce customer support team

**Starts when:** A customer reports a missing, late, or incorrect order in Zendesk.

#### What Finn handles

1. Match the authenticated customer and ticket to the order in connected Shopify.
2. Check fulfillment and tracking records, then explain the delivery situation.
3. Apply the policy-approved replacement or order correction in Shopify, obtaining approval for exceptions.
4. Send the customer the result and solve the Zendesk ticket once the issue is settled.

**The result:** The customer receives a completed remedy, and the ticket contains the order references and resolution.

### Handle billing questions and permitted refunds

Finn follows the payment trail behind a support request, explains the charge, and completes an authorized refund through the connected billing system rather than leaving another internal note.

**Typically handled by:** Billing support team

**Starts when:** A customer disputes a charge or requests a refund through Zendesk.

#### What Finn handles

1. Verify the requester through the approved account process and identify the Stripe payment.
2. Compare the payment, invoice, subscription, and refund policy to establish the permitted response.
3. Execute the approved Stripe refund or provide the documented explanation when the charge is correct.
4. Return the payment reference and outcome to the customer, updating and resolving the Zendesk case.

**The result:** The billing action and customer explanation are recorded together, with exceptions preserved for the authorized approver.

### Restore routine account access

Finn takes an account-access case through the organization's verification and recovery process, then confirms that the customer can use the service before closing their ticket.

**Typically handled by:** Customer account support desk

**Starts when:** A verified customer reports being locked out of the connected application.

#### What Finn handles

1. Collect the minimum account details and complete the organization's approved identity-verification flow.
2. Identify whether the problem is an expired invitation, locked account, or required recovery action.
3. Use the connected application's recovery process without bypassing its authentication controls.
4. Confirm the recovery result with the customer and record the completed steps in Zendesk.

**The result:** The account-recovery journey is completed and documented, or the exact verification exception remains with its owner.

### Resolve repeated product questions with the right answer

Finn combines the customer's context with approved help-center content, guides them through the procedure, and records whether it actually solves the problem.

**Typically handled by:** Frontline customer support team

**Starts when:** A customer asks how to complete a task or reports a familiar product problem.

#### What Finn handles

1. Read the Zendesk conversation and identify the customer's product, situation, and missing information.
2. Retrieve the applicable published help-center article and explain the steps in the customer's language.
3. Ask for the result, adjusting the guidance using the documented procedure when necessary.
4. Record the working answer, article reference, and customer confirmation before solving the ticket.

**The result:** The customer completes the task, and the support record preserves the answer that resolved it.

### Run coordinated communication during a service outage

Finn manages the customer-facing workload around an incident, connecting related tickets to the engineering response and delivering accurate updates until the service is restored.

**Typically handled by:** Support incident manager and communications team

**Starts when:** Several Zendesk conversations describe the same service interruption.

#### What Finn handles

1. Group related cases and connect them to the incident tracked in PagerDuty or Jira.
2. Use the incident owner's confirmed facts to send affected customers an initial explanation.
3. Post subsequent approved status updates across the linked tickets as the incident changes.
4. Confirm the recorded recovery, notify affected customers, and close cases whose issues are resolved.

**The result:** Customers receive consistent incident updates, and their cases retain a complete communication history.

### Carry a product defect through the engineering fix

Finn turns a customer bug report into a reproducible engineering issue, keeps the customer informed, and reconnects the delivered fix to the original support case.

**Typically handled by:** Technical support and engineering liaison team

**Starts when:** A Zendesk ticket identifies a product defect that requires a code change.

#### What Finn handles

1. Collect reproduction steps, environment details, and the customer's observed impact in the support ticket.
2. Create or link the corresponding Jira issue with the evidence engineering needs.
3. Follow the linked issue's progress and send meaningful customer updates when its state changes.
4. After the fix is released, guide the customer through verification and record the result in Zendesk.

**The result:** The customer case closes against a delivered and verified fix rather than an unexplained engineering handoff.

### Recover a poor support experience

Finn treats a low satisfaction response as a new service-recovery job, reviews what went wrong, and completes the remaining customer action within the team's authority.

**Typically handled by:** Customer experience recovery team

**Starts when:** A customer gives negative feedback or reopens a supposedly resolved Zendesk ticket.

#### What Finn handles

1. Review the original conversation, attempted solution, satisfaction response, and unresolved customer need.
2. Contact the customer with a specific acknowledgment and collect only the missing information.
3. Complete the permitted correction in the connected service, requesting approval for compensation exceptions.
4. Document the final remedy and feedback, then share the recurring failure with the support owner.

**The result:** The customer's unfinished issue is addressed and the reason for the failed experience is recorded.

### Turn resolved cases into reusable support knowledge

Finn converts a proven case resolution into a clear help-center article, takes it through the publishing policy, and connects future agents to the approved answer.

**Typically handled by:** Support knowledge management team

**Starts when:** A resolved case reveals a useful answer missing from Zendesk's help center.

#### What Finn handles

1. Gather the verified resolution and remove customer-specific information from the reusable explanation.
2. Draft an article with the problem, prerequisites, exact steps, and expected result.
3. Route new or materially changed guidance through the knowledge owner's approval process.
4. Publish the approved article in Zendesk and add its reference to the originating support case.

**The result:** The working resolution becomes maintained help-center content with a traceable source and publication decision.

### Keep enterprise customer records aligned with support

Finn maintains the customer context that support relies on, correcting verified organization details and ensuring incoming cases reach the responsible team without repeated account research.

**Typically handled by:** Support operations administrator

**Starts when:** An approved account update arrives from Salesforce or an enterprise customer changes its support contacts.

#### What Finn handles

1. Match the Salesforce account to the corresponding Zendesk organization and verified customer records.
2. Apply confirmed support-contact and organization-field changes without changing identity-verification status.
3. Update the case routing information used by the established Zendesk support rules.
4. Record the source change and notify the account owner of the completed support-system update.

**The result:** Support records reflect the approved customer relationship, and subsequent cases use the correct account context.

### Clear a stalled support queue

Finn works through tickets waiting for routine information or a known action, completes the available work, and leaves genuine exceptions with a clear owner and deadline.

**Typically handled by:** Support queue manager

**Starts when:** The daily Zendesk queue includes overdue replies, abandoned follow-ups, or tickets without a next step.

#### What Finn handles

1. Inspect ticket history, due dates, customer responses, and the action blocking each case.
2. Send precise follow-ups for missing information and perform documented remedies already within policy.
3. Update ownership and priority when the customer's situation requires a different support path.
4. Resolve completed cases and record the concrete dependency on each case that remains open.

**The result:** The queue reflects completed customer work and explicit remaining obligations rather than stale statuses.

## Connection setup

Contact Finn to discuss the records your workflow needs and the actions you want it to perform.

Your team chooses what Finn can access, what agents can change, and when a person must approve the work. The connection needs the appropriate account access and permissions from Zendesk.

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