Zendesk vs Zoho Desk vs Jitbit

Zendesk

You know how helpful it is when a support desk actually feels like it understands you. Zendesk sits in the middle of that moment, smoothing out the back-and-forth between customers and teams. It supports agents with a clean ticketing flow, keeps conversations organized, and makes it easy to see a thread of context rather than hunting for scattered notes. The idea is just to help people get answers faster, not to drown you in options you don’t need.

On the technical side, you’ll find it easy to adapt to different setups. Internationalization is baked in, so your team can handle messages in multiple languages without fighting the interface. The REST API means you can connect Zendesk to other apps and automate repetitive tasks without reinventing the wheel every time. Single-Sign-On keeps access simple and secure across tools your team already uses. And for folks who aren’t chained to a desk, the mobile apps keep tickets moving—no matter where you are, you’ve got a handle on what’s new and what needs attention. It’s not flashy, just practical, and it tends to disappear into the background so teams can focus on real problems.

Zoho Desk

You ever try to juggle support tickets and wish you had a cleaner way to see what’s actually happening? Zoho Desk fits right in as a practical help desk tool that keeps conversations organized and moving. It threads emails, chat, and social messages into one place so you’re not chasing threads across folders. When an issue needs more eyes, you can use escalation paths to route it to the right teammate without a lot of back-and-forth. It’s the kind of thing that saves you time without feeling like a big, heavy system.

The real-time stuff sits in the Activity Dashboard, where you can spot bottlenecks and track who’s working on what. You’ll also find Single-Sign-On handy if you’re juggling multiple apps, since it cuts down on login fatigue. For looking back at what happened and planning ahead, the Reports and Analytics module lays out ticket trends, response times, and team performance in a straightforward way. It’s not flashy, but it gives you the data you need to keep customer conversations clear and consistent.

	Zendesk	Zoho Desk	Jitbit
	The most popular help desk app out there	Good helpdesk app that tightly integrates with Zoho ecosystem	Help Desk Software built for email. Trusted by thousands of companies across 50 + countries.
Pricing: 3 years / 5 agents	$8820	$1200	$3897
Pricing: 3 years / 10 agents	$17640	$2400	$8367
Active Directory	✅ Active Directory authentication is possible if you install a special script on your server	❌	✅ Integration via a script for your server or ADFS and SAML
Activity Dashboard	✅ You can put data from some reports into your dashboard	✅ Displays some performance metrics. Not customizable.	✅ Live overview dashboard
Asset Management	❌	❌	✅ A complete asset management module tightly integrated into the rest of the app
Canned Responses	✅ Macros allow you to respond to tickets with a pre-written message.	✅ It is called Macros and works the same way as canned responses.	✅ You can also assign canned responses to specific ticket categories if you need to
Community Forums	❌	❌	✅ Ideas Forum comes out of the box
Custom Fields	✅ You can add custom fields and use them with other features such as automation, macros, etc.	❌	✅ Many custom field types, including dependant fields. Various privacy options.
Custom Statuses	❌	❌	✅ Add custom statuses, customize how your customers see them and assign different colors to them
Customer satisfaction survey	✅ Only on Professional plan or higher	❌	✅ Optional CSATs in email notifications and a report
Design Customization	✅ You can customize the public-facing pages, but not what your employees see	✅ Allows you to use custom colors and logos	✅ Unlimited customization options. Change colors with a live preview, add custom CSS and JS
Email Notification Templates	✅ You can fully customize most email templates for notifications that your customers get	✅ YYou can customize the email content of each event	✅ You are able to completely change a template for any notification type
Escalation	✅ Possible to escalate tickets with workflow automation features	✅ Includes an ability to create automated SLAs and escalation	✅ Possible to set up various escalation scenarios via automation
Exchange Integration	❌	❌	✅ Native EWS support instead of IMAP. oAuth support for Office 365
Import and Export	✅ Starting with Professional plan you can export your tickets to an XML file. Import only possible via API.	✅ Only export to CSV files	✅ Import and Export tickets via CSV files
Internationalization	✅ UI is not translatable. You can provide content, such as Knowledge Base articles in multiple languages on Professional plan	❌	✅ Available in 16 different languages
ITIL Compliance	✅ Claims to be designed with ITIL principles in mind	✅ Comes with ITIL workflows	✅ Support for most ITIL processes
Knowledge Base	✅ Basic version comes with Professional plan. Full version is only available as a separate add-on	✅ Multi-brand customizable knowledge base	✅ Customizable Knowledge Base optimized for search engines
Live Chat	❌	❌	✅ A free live chat component in the web widget
Mobile Apps	✅ Offers apps for iOS and Android	✅ Offers apps for iOS and Android	✅ iOS and Android
Multi-channel support	✅ A lot of support channels are built-in in the app: email, Twitter, Facebook, etc.	✅ Includes email, social media, live chat, etc.	✅ Possible to add unlimited channels via integrations and API
On-premise Version	❌	❌	✅ A full on-premises version that runs on Windows Server
Reports and Analytics	✅ Reports are only available on Professional plan or higher	✅ Allows creation of custom reports	✅ 13 reports with an ability to build your own and to export everything to Excel
REST API	✅ Fully featured API on all plans	✅ Fully featured API on all plans	✅ API covers all the app features
Single-Sign-On	✅ Most standard SSO options are available	✅ Most standard SSO options are available	✅ SAML, Google login, Windows-integrated etc.
SLA Management	✅ SLA features are natively supported in the app	✅ Supports SAML	✅ Full SLA automation via actions/triggers
Support Widget	✅ Web widget and Mobile SDK	❌	✅ Two different versions of a web widget
Third-party Integrations	✅ Hundreds of integrations with all popular apps	✅ Many integrations, especially with the other Zoho apps	✅ 30 native integrations and 500 more via Zapier
Ticket Collaboration	✅ Light agents, side conversations and CCs and followers	✅ Light agents, side conversations and CCs and followers	✅ See when other techs are viewing tickets in real-time, assign multiple people to a ticket
Workflow Automation	✅ Powerful engine that allows you to automate any business process	✅ A lot of automation options with a great editor	✅ Automation Rules are very powerful and can go beyond simple if-this-then-that logic

Looking for help desk software? Check out Jitbit. We offer a fully-featured app at a very affordable price. It comes with all the must have features like knowledge base, two-way email integration (including native Exchange and Office 365 support), automation, hundreds of integrations with third-party apps and much more. Available both as a hosted "SaaS" version and an on-premises version you can install on your own server.