Read Receipts for Zendesk Pro vs Field Rules

Supercharge Zendesk with Email Tracking & Read Receipts Read Receipts for Zendesk brings seamless email tracking and read receipt functionality to Zendesk, empowering support teams with real-time visibility into customer engagement. Instantly know when your message was opened, which comment was read, and what actions your customers took — all from inside Zendesk. Why Choose Read Receipts for Zendesk? Faster Resolutions, Higher CSAT: Reduce resolution time and improve follow-up timing by tracking engagement. Real-Time Analytics: Analyze engagement by agent, group, or automation to make smarter staffing and workflow decisions. Automated Follow-Ups: Trigger follow-ups or reminders for unread tickets to improve response efficiency. Flexible Billing: Pay only for agents who need it, or for every agent in your organization — ideal for teams like VIP Support, Sales, or Renewals. Powerful Features Enhanced Visibility: Know when customers read your messages — improve accountability and follow-up timing. Link Tracking: Track link opens and timestamps to refine outreach and support workflows. Metadata: See helpful diagnostic context such as browser and operating system information (when available). IP Blacklisting: Avoid false positives by excluding known internal or partner IP ranges. Regulatory Support: Built to support GDPR/CCPA compliance efforts with a data-minimization approach. Flexible Configuration: Customize the read receipt sender (e.g., [email protected]). Choose how receipts appear in Zendesk — as private comments or stored via ticket fields. Data & Privacy (Disclosure) Read Receipts only accesses the minimum Zendesk data required to provide read receipt and link tracking functionality. Data is not sold or shared with third parties and is used solely to operate the service. OAuth is used for authorization and credentials are stored securely. For full details, please review our Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy Join our trusted community Read Receipts & Email Tracking was crafted to extend Zendesk’s capabilities and is trusted by teams globally. Get Started Today! Ready to upgrade your customer support workflow? Install now and enable Read Receipts inside Zendesk.

Bring your agent ticket forms to life Using a rule-based way of controlling ticket fields for agents, managing ticket forms is now easier than ever before! Reduce agent training time and confusion by not distracting them with ticket fields that do not apply to certain types of tickets. So much functionality is packed in, it's like having live triggers on your forms! Features The Field Rules app can do the following, based on conditions you define: Hide ticket fields Make ticket fields mandatory Set ticket fields as read-only Apply macros Set ticket field values Other app actions* With each rule you create, specify under which conditions it should apply. For example when a ticket has a certain tag, a checkbox is checked, or a dropdown has any value, or a combination of these. You can also define to which agents the rule should apply to. All this gives you the control you need over your forms and what your agents see and when! Simple example Creating rules is as simple as your requirements. Imagine the following example, where you do not want to show the field Priority to your agents when it concerns an internal ticket, identified by the tag “internal”. In this case, create a rule with the following properties: Under Field behavior “Hidden”, specify your ticket field “Priority” Under “When”, click “Add condition” Select “Tags”, then “contains”, then type “internal”. Save your rule Your rule is instantly active and the “Priority” field will be hidden immediately for tickets that may have already had the “internal” tag. Add the “internal” tag to a sample ticket to see what happens…! Of course, this is just a simple rule. You can create as many rules as you want and can control who it applies to, make them conditional on any combination of factors and you can even create live actions such as applying macros. To manage large sets of rules, give them a good name and you can find them quickly with the search bar at the top. Ticket field mapping Using the above features of Field Rules, you can map ticket fields. The key to this is the ability to set ticket field values. You can even set field values of fields that you have hidden. So if you wanted to create your own Ticket Type field, you can hide the built-in field and still map some values in your new ticket type field so that if you want to retain for example the "Incident" value, you can set it on the hidden field, meaning the "Problem ID" field still appears as per Zendesk's built-in behavior. *Other app actions If you use other SweetHawk apps, make things happen in those apps based on live changes on the ticket. For example, if you have the Tasks and Subtickets app, you can have task lists added instantly. Bundle pricing When you're ready to fully implement processes and workflow automation across your business, you can get all SweetHawk apps bundled in the SweetHawk Suite app. Check out our pricing calculator and see the how much value you can unlock with the Suite. We take data privacy very seriously, please see our privacy policy. About us Our Zendesk apps are used every day by over 500,000 Zendesk agents. These apps simplify and solve common and complex challenges, such as ITSM change management, Employee Service, and project management. Some of our most popular apps are: Tasks & Subtickets - automatically create task lists within Zendesk tickets or create subtickets to assign responsibilities out across multiple agents or teams Approve - create flexible and auditable approval processes for your Zendesk workflows (even if your approvers aren’t Zendesk users!) Calendar - link calendar events with Zendesk tickets to make your planning process simpler Recurring Tickets - set up repeating workflows (like renewals or security audits) once, then Zendesk will create tickets to manage those processes at any intervals you’d like. Multilingual Agent Experience — Supported languages: 🇧🇷🇵🇹 Portuguese, 🇩🇪 German, 🇳🇱 Dutch, 🇪🇸 Spanish, and 🇯🇵 Japanese.