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Customer service best practices and recipes

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Zendesk Support recipes reference
You can use our recipes to enhance your support. This article contains a reference list for all of our recipes. Workf...
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Zendesk Support best practices docs
This article contains a reference list for all of our best practices documentation. Workflows Best practices to prep...
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Recipe: Managing a surge in messaging traffic using custom queues
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Recipe: Using Liquid markup to set agent signatures
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Best practices for boosting agent productivity with AI features
What's my plan? Add-on Copilot Zendesk offers many generative AI features that help agents be mor...
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Best practices for using Zendesk AI in your industry
What's my plan? Add-on Copilot You must have the Copilot add-on to use some of the features described in th...
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Workflow best practices and recipes

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Workflow recipes reference
This article contains a reference list of workflow recipes. For a complete list of resources, see Workflows best prac...
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Sending holiday notifications using triggers
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Workflow: Using omnichannel routing to manage calls
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Workflow recipe: Automatically closing tickets created by abandoned calls
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Workflow recipe: Displaying ticket age in views
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Workflow: Using skills to route calls to specific agents
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Self-service best practices and recipes

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Best practices: Self-service docs and tips
Best practices documentation These are the best practices articles for self-service: Optimizing your help center c...
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Best practices for creating a successful knowledge base
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Fine Tuning: "Blueprinting" your help center
This Fine Tuning session with Lisa Painter focuses on empowering you to build a help center that will pave the way to...
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Best practices for creating an internal knowledge base
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Best practices: Optimizing for autoreplies with articles
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Best practices: Developing content for your knowledge base
What's my plan? Support Team, Professional, or Enterprise There are many ways to manage the content crea...
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Customer Success on demand

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Fundamental videos for managing Zendesk effectively
Configuring and managing your Zendesk instance effectively is crucial for delivering outstanding customer support. To...
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How to be successful with Zendesk messaging
This video series will: Deepen your understanding of the differences between chat and messaging for agents and end-u...
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AI agents and automation best practices

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Best practices: Preparing your help center for generative AI
Generative AI is shaking up the world of customer support. Here’s how to ensure your customer service help center is ...
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Improving autoreply metrics for article recommendations
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Best practices: Tracking autoreply usage with triggers, views, and workflows
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Best Practices: Using labels to optimize your article recommendations
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Optimizing your help center content for AI agents
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Messaging recipe: Checking agent availability during an AI agent conversation (Legacy)
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Talk best practices

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Best practices for providing voice support
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Best practices to plan for voice support
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Best practices for rolling out voice support
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Best practices for monitoring and maintaining voice support
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Best practices for Talk from the Zendesk customer service team
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