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Zendesk integration

Tickets that open themselves, with the conversation attached.

Create, update and find Zendesk tickets from any chat, USSD menu or workflow, add comments, and look up the people asking — so your support team starts with the whole story.

Works as
Action
Connect with
“Connect with Zendesk”, in a few clicks.
For AI agents
Give an agent Zendesk as a tool, and it opens and updates tickets itself.
Your record
Zendesk stays your record of every case; Buni.ai runs the conversation.

Three ways to use it

Open, update and look up.

Open tickets

Create a ticket from a chat or a USSD menu, with what the person said and who they are.

Keep them current

Update a ticket or add a comment as the conversation or the workflow moves on.

Look things up

Find a person’s tickets, a group or a ticket’s latest comment before the bot answers.

What teams build

Support that starts with the whole story.

Open a Zendesk ticket for every complaint that arrives on WhatsApp, with the conversation attached.

Enterprise

Find a customer’s open tickets before the bot answers, so nobody is asked twice.

Enterprise

Let an AI agent answer from your help documents, and open a ticket when it can’t help.

Enterprise

Every morning, post the tickets still waiting for a reply to the support channel.

Enterprise

Log complaints made through a USSD menu as Zendesk tickets.

Government

When a case in your data store is marked urgent, open a Zendesk ticket for it.

Enterprise

In Zendesk

What the Zendesk steps do.

Each one is a step on the canvas, or a tool an AI agent can use.

Tickets
Create, update and find.
Comments
Add a comment to a ticket, and read its latest one.
People and groups
Find a user or a group.
Organisations
Update an organisation’s details.

Connecting it

Connected in four steps.

  1. STEP 01

    Connect Zendesk

    Choose “Connect with Zendesk” and approve access for your account.

  2. STEP 02

    Add a Zendesk step

    Pick the action: create, update or find a ticket, or add a comment.

  3. STEP 03

    Map the fields

    Match each field to an answer from the conversation.

  4. STEP 04

    Test and publish

    Try every path in the simulator, then publish.

Questions

Before you connect it.

Does it replace Zendesk?

No. Buni.ai runs the conversation; Zendesk stays your record of every case.

Can an AI agent open tickets?

Yes. Give an AI agent Zendesk as a tool, and it can open, update and find tickets during a conversation.

Is there anything to install in Zendesk?

No. You connect your account and approve access.

Connect your conversations to Zendesk.

Tell us how your support team works, and we’ll show you the flow working with Zendesk.