Zendesk Ticket Merges Are Irreversible and Can Silently Lose Custom Field Data
A support team lost custom field data after a teammate merged the wrong Zendesk ticket, discovering that merges cannot be undone and that some custom field data does not carry over to the surviving ticket. This creates risk of permanent, silent data loss from a routine support action.
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Helpdesk Omits Ticket ID From Subject, Fragmenting B2B Threads
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Intercom Customer Merge Issues Go Unresolved
Intercom has known issues with customer record merges that the development team acknowledges but has not fixed.
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