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JIRA Service Management vs Zoho Desk comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 1, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

JIRA Service Management
Ranking in Help Desk Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
86
Ranking in other categories
IT Service Management (ITSM) (2nd)
Zoho Desk
Ranking in Help Desk Software
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
CRM Customer Engagement Centers (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Help Desk Software category, the mindshare of JIRA Service Management is 10.4%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho Desk is 2.7%, up from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Help Desk Software
 

Featured Reviews

Karim Yousef - PeerSpot reviewer
Efficiently track and document projects with seamless tool integration
We are a management warehouse that provides services to different customers in different sectors. Primarily, we serve the banking sector and the military sector. We manage all the software delivery projects through tools such as JIRA Service Management or TFS Confluence is a great tool for…
Babatunde-Olugbode - PeerSpot reviewer
End-to-end solution to manage customer support tickets and consolidate all communication channels into one platform
For me, the valuable features are related to customer engagement because I want to ensure I don't miss any customer inquiries, no matter the channel. For example, I haven't seen any other platform that consolidates all channels into one console. That's a valuable feature to me. Then there's the pricing, which is better than Zendesk. Zendesk charges in USD per user, per month, whereas Zoho let us pay in Naira (Nigerian currency). Zoho can also identify user locations, letting you leverage existing reviews. These are valuable features that many organizations have adopted Zoho Desk for. We can download the mobile app to see requests and respond from anywhere. It is one of the most improved applications and widely integrated systems I've worked with. You can virtually integrate it with almost anything, like Microsoft Teams and other data applications. The marketplace lets you find native integrations. For example, we have an organization that uses multiple systems and wants to ensure agents don't log in to multiple platforms to see emails. They have a native integration system that takes care of that and works seamlessly.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Reporting and easy export to Excel spreadsheets."
"This solution has helped us a great deal in project management tracking and forecasting."
"One of the main advantages of JIRA is that it can be customized for our solutions. I live in Iran and we translated some parts of it into Persian and customized it with extra features. We hid other features to customize it right to the point. We provide this solution for our customers."
"Useful for tracking issues with development."
"The SLA, speed, the comments from agents' side, and the dashboard for agents are the most valuable features."
"I like the precise ticket management capabilities. JIRA Service Management is easy to use as well."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility of defining your own workflows and automation around the workflows, and the integration with the gate or any repository."
"A good organizational tool."
"The tool has made support very flexible and strong. We can use chat boxes and auto-responses. If someone creates a ticket, it will be created in Zoho Desk's ticket module. We can get emails and respond to them within the product. We don't need a support email product to manage emails. We can easily manage it within Zoho Desk. The tool's interface is good since it updated the layout three months ago and the current interface is more effective."
"The product provides communication features like chats and calls."
"The product is quite stable."
"The tool's UI is very user-friendly. The solution's workflow is flexible and we can create our workflows. We can assign and create groups with the tool. We are also able to control the privileges with the tool."
"The most valuable features of Zoho Desk are archiving queries and analytics."
"The ticketing feature is very easy to use, compared to other systems."
"The product has a lot of features."
"The most valuable feature of generating the ticket through the web form and for the e-mailers. So, if you are facing any issues, by the ticket, you can generate the issue in Google Test."
 

Cons

"It would be better if it had capabilities to connect to mobile applications (e.g., Whatsapp)"
"Integration could be improved."
"It would be beneficial if we could turn comments into subtasks or other JIRA tickets directly."
"When you raise a ticket with Jira, there's no ability to see your other JIRA tickets."
"If JIRA were more of a substantial stand-alone product that covered more needs for project management, we wouldn't be using a suite of products."
"With Jira, we were unable to implement time-based automation in its ticketing system. We would like a feature where we can define tickets based on severity, then tickets are automatically escalated to the next level after a set period of time if they go unanswered."
"If we can have an easier way to deploy this solution without the help of a consultant and a more reliable way of deploying procedures, it would be quite helpful."
"​SaaS version for large organizations (more than 2000 users) is not available."
"I would like to have integrated support, and integration between the ticketing tool and the project management tool."
"Sometimes, the solution has some email issues in a new data center."
"They could enhance the product’s features to customize the automated email responses."
"Zoho Desk should provide more integrations and improve the Zoho project integration."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support. It could be more knowledgeable."
"It could be easier to link Zoho Desk and Outlook."
"The solution needs to have more customization on alerts and notifications."
"The solution should provide an option to autofill some values while creating tickets."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of JIRA Service Management could be reduced."
"We need a license because we have a higher number than the free part."
"The price of the solution is becoming expensive and it should be reduced."
"I would suggest to always buy licenses through an Atlassian partner, so you can also rely on their expertise."
"For the people like us, the lower the price, the better. But when compared to other competitors, I think it's Jira's price is okay."
"Licensing can become quite expensive."
"It is one of the premium products on the market, but it is very costly, especially in the Indian market."
"But about the plugins, I found one plug-in — its name is Actionable Metric I think — and it is $3000. That is very expensive for users in Iran."
"For what it does, it's quite cheap."
"The pricing is better than Zendesk. Zendesk charges in USD per user per month, whereas Zoho let us pay in Naira (Nigerian currency)."
"Price-wise, Zoho Desk is about 35 USD a month per user."
"The gap is limited, but it should limit the price back bracket so that most start-ups can use it most effectively."
"The solution is relatively cheap. However, there are additional licensing fees involved."
"Regarding pricing, it's 35 USD per user a year and 45 USD per user a month. Under the price, I have access to all Zoho products since it all falls under Zoho One's package."
"The product costs $10 to $25 per user per month."
"Zoho Desk's cost is pretty much okay."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Educational Organization
60%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
5%
Comms Service Provider
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Zoho Desk?
The most valuable features of Zoho Desk are archiving queries and analytics.
What needs improvement with Zoho Desk?
Sometimes, the solution has some email issues in a new data center.
 

Also Known As

JIRA Service Desk
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Sample Customers

mgm technology partners, Telestream, Build.com, Zend Technologies, OfficeDrop, PGS Software, American Diabetes Association, NEPTUNE Canada
Intel, Sears, Daimler, Essilor, Aon Hewitt, Shop Your Way, CoffeeRocket
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