Setting Up Zendesk WebHooks Integration: Easy Steps

Are you looking to set up Zendesk WebHooks integration? We have you covered. In this blog post, we will take you through the high-end steps involved in working with WebHooks in Zendesk.

Table of Contents

• What is Zendesk? 
• Benefits of Zendesk
• WebHooks in Zendesk
• Setting up Webhook (HTTP Target) with Slack (A Working Example)
  • Setting up the HTTP Target
  • Create a Target in Zendesk
  • HTTP Target as a Trigger Action Configuration
• Conclusion

What is Zendesk? 

Zendesk is a Customer Relationship Manager (CRM) tool that provides complete solutions for customer needs. It’s actually a suite of support apps that helps transform your customer service into agents for customer retention & lead sources. It has one of the most flexible plan structures, making it ideal for business of any size. 

Zendesk consists of support, chat, call centre solution and knowledge-based modules that have the flexibility to get upgraded individually. Its support plans include basic versions of chat, call centre & knowledge base. 

To summarize Zendesk provides the following features:

• Flexible ticket management with automated workflow
• Mobile support with native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps
• Robust reporting and advanced analytics
• Open API enabling seamless integration into your business
• Export ticket views to CSV
• Rest API
• Group rules and macros
• SSO with Twitter, Facebook, Google and SAML
• Over 100 out-of-the-box integrations with 3rd party apps
• Customer facing web interface that you can easily brand
• & much more

Benefits of Zendesk

Zendesk provides the following benefits:- 

• Extraordinary features so its more than just ticketing
• Scale your Customer Services
• Engage High-Value prospects
• Content Maximization using Zendesk AI based bot. 
• Zendesk Explore provides reportings as forecasting, Dashboard viewer portal, secured attributes & customized fields. 
• Zendesk provides call options including inbound & outbound calls, voice mail, automatic ticket creation & caller display with history. 
• Zendesk automates common tasks that include the repetitive process, thereby frees up your agent’s time and enables them to solve the complex problem faster.

So overall zendesk Zendesk comprises several customer service features in its help desk system. From easy ticket tracking options to complex pre-configured automation rules, undeniably this support ticket system can save both money and time while ensuring better customer satisfaction.

WebHooks in Zendesk

Webhooks, on the other hand, are automated calls from example.com to a server. Those calls are triggered when a specific event happens on example.com. For example, if a new user signs up on example.com, the automated call may be configured to ask the server to send out a welcome email. 

WebHooks receive calls through HTTP Posts only when the external system you are hooked to has a data update. 

Webhooks are commonly used to perform smaller requests and tasks, however, there are situations where a webhook is more appropriate than an entire API.

One common scenario is when your app or platform demands real-time updates, but you don’t want to waste your resources. In this instance, a webhook framework would be beneficial.

Setting up Webhook (HTTP Target) with Slack (A Working Example)

Slack as we know is a very popular team collaboration platform. In this example, we will show how to use an HTTP Target to send comments from newly rated tickets directly into Slack by integrating directly into a Slack channel using Slack’s incoming webhooks.

Setting up the HTTP Target

Below are simple steps to set up Slack’s webhook functionality. More detail can be found on this link. 

1. Go into the Settings of your app. Create an app if you have not already created it. Click on the Incoming Webhooks. 

2. Click the Incoming Webhook toggle button from Off to On. 

3. After you enable it, there will be some more options that will appear. Click on “Add new Webhook to WorkSpace” 

4. Webhook will be created as a result of Step 3. It will ask you where to Post, you can chose #general for now. You will be sent back to the settings with now having a Webhook created. Copy the Webhook, It would look like this:- 

https://hooks.slack.com/services/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

Create a Target in Zendesk

1. As an admin, navigate to Settings → Extensions → Add Target.

2. Click on HTTP Target.

3. Configure the webhook to use the url generated earlier. This one:

https://hooks.slack.com/services/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

4. Click on Submit Button to save the target. 

Next Step is to configure a trigger notification using created Target. 

HTTP Target as a Trigger Action Configuration

1. As a Zendesk Admin, move to Settings → Business Rules → Triggers. 

2. Click on Add Trigger. 

3. You can configure your Trigger Conditions to notify the slack target on the conditions that have been set. 

4. Finally, you can set the actions needed to be performed if certain conditions mentioned above are met. 

5. Finally, you can click on “Create Trigger” containing the JSON formatted content. 

Conclusion

So finally you have established Zendesk Webhooks integration and now you will be able to receive tickets into your slack channel from Zendesk. An easy way to complete the above-mentioned tricky process is to use Hevo Data which provides integration with 100+ software/tools & sets up these data Pipelines without any hustle.  

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