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Zendesk AI for retail

Retail service, faster and more personal

Bring AI and human teams together to resolve retail service moments faster, reduce repeat contacts, and build loyalty across the shopper journey, with context and workflows that help every interaction move forward with ease.

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HOW ZENDESK AI WORKS

More automation, more context, more loyalty

Automate high-volume retail inquiries

Resolve WISMO, returns, exchanges, and inventory checks with AI agents that give fast answers and help teams scale through peak demand.

Guide teams with full shopper context

Give agents journey history and AI-powered next-best actions to resolve complex moments faster and keep every interaction on-brand.

Protect revenue in key moments

Help teams save the sale with smarter returns, exchanges, credits, and concierge support that turn service moments into retention.

AI agents

Handle 80%+ of retail service moments, automatically

Deploy AI agents grounded in your retail policies, brand, data, and shopper context. They take approved actions across orders, returns, and workflows, then hand off to human teams when it matters most.

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Copilot

Make every retail service team your best team

Move teams from reactive service to continuous improvement. Agent copilot guides complex moments. Admin copilot tunes workflows. Knowledge copilot improves content. Analyst copilot surfaces insights, all connected to shopper context, policies, and operations.

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Testimonials

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66%

One touch resolution rate

92%

Decrease in email average handle time

“Our successful experience with Zendesk AI has given artificial intelligence credibility across all of our business. For many of us, it’s the first AI tool that lived up to the hype and actually delivered.”

Raz Razaq

Head of Customer Contact Experience Technology

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EMPLOYEE SERVICES FOR RETAIL

Empower your retail teams behind the scenes

Free up retail staff from repetitive questions and tasks. Let AI handle internal requests - like HR, IT, or policy lookups - so your teams can stay focused on customers. Support stores, warehouses, and HQ from one centralized solution.

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RETAIL INTEGRATIONS

Connect service securely to all your systems and retail integrations

Bring shopper, order, inventory, and fulfillment data into one service workspace, helping teams resolve issues faster without switching between systems or losing context across the journey.

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Frequently asked questions

Retail customer service software helps retailers manage and resolve shopper, employee, and partner service requests across channels like chat, email, voice, social, web, and stores.

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