LiveChat

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LiveChat
Developer(s) Text
Initial releaseJanuary 10, 2002;22 years ago (2002-01-10)[ citation needed ]
Operating system Web-based, Windows, OS X, Android, iOS
Available in41 languages
Type Online chat, e-commerce, web analytics, ticketing system
License Proprietary (SaaS)
Website livechat.com

LiveChat is an online customer service software with online chat, help desk software, and web analytics capabilities. [1]

Contents

It was first launched in 2002 [2] [3] and is currently developed and offered in a SaaS (software as a service) business model by Text [4] [5] .

Companies use LiveChat as a single point of contact to manage from one software all customer service and online sales activities that normally are provided using channels (chat, email and social media) and multiple tools. [6]

Technology

Technically, LiveChat is a proprietary software built with the use of multiple technologies, including JavaScript, Node.js, MySQL, ElasticSearch, C++ and Erlang. [7] The entire platform consists of two main elements:

LiveChat application viewed as agent Chats in LiveChat application.png
LiveChat application viewed as agent

There are two ways of having an online chat session between the agent and website visitor:

Features

Apart from website chat, other core features include: real-time website traffic monitoring, built-in ticketing system and agents' efficiency analytics.

System identifies the best prospects visiting a website based on data gathered from the purchasing decisions of 65 million buyers. [8] Statistics section allows calculating the conversion from chat invitations into chat sessions and then into sales. [11]

LiveChat is available in 48 languages: Arabic, Armenian, Azeri, Bulgarian, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Malaysian, Norwegian (bokmål), Norwegian (nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese. [12]

Customer service platform

First available as closed solution, LiveChat has turned over time into an open and scalable customer service platform. [13] It created an own ecosystem of applications, companies and services supporting business communication with tools such as:

Criticism

Among generally positive reviews, there are comments that emphasize the high cost of the product, especially when compared to cheap or free solutions available on the market. Lack of freemium version and expensive pricing are mentioned by customers who also admit that "range of features & services" justify the price. [16] [17]

Critical reviews claim that "bigger businesses may find the price minimal considering the benefit the product brings, but for start-ups or smaller businesses, it may put LiveChat out of their financial reach". [18]

Research

Since 2014 LiveChat has been publishing Customer Service Report - an annual study of customer satisfaction and analysis of online business communication trends. It includes research of thousands of companies and millions of customer service email and live support interactions. [19]

See also

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  2. ↑ "United States Patent and Trademark Office - TEAS Plus Application". United States Patent and Trademark Office.
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  4. ↑ "Text - AI-powered technology for customer service software". text.com. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  5. ↑ Quality, Compounding. "Text SA: Another Compounding Machine". www.compoundingquality.net. Retrieved 2024-11-19.
  6. ↑ LiveChat Review Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine Enterprise Chat Software Reviews, 2011.
  7. ↑ Use Cases: LiveChat Elastic, Retrieved 2015-12-30.
  8. 1 2 Lynn, Samara (2011-05-19). "LiveChat Livens Up Its Features". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
  9. ↑ Triggers: automated and personalized customer support LiveChat blog, Aug 25, 2010.
  10. ↑ Moore, Stefany (2011-05-27). "No mindless chatter here: Online apparel retailer ScotteVest gains sales via live chat". Internet Retailer. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
  11. ↑ Wolf, Tammy (2011-05-19). "Telepresence - LiveChat Unveils Triggers and Conversion Meter Features". TMCnet. Retrieved 2011-06-02.
  12. ↑ "Modify chat widget language | LiveChat Help Center". LiveChat. Retrieved 2023-01-17.
  13. 1 2 Guta, Michael (8 November 2018). "LiveChat's New Community Platform Helps Your Business Offer Better Customer Service". SmallBizTrends. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  14. ↑ API documentation LiveChat
  15. ↑ Minsker, Maria (9 November 2018). "LiveChat's Community Platform: Where Crowdsourcing Meets Customer Service" . Retrieved 16 May 2019.
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  17. ↑ Top Ten Best Live Chat Softwares for Online Support 123Chat Agents, Retrieved 2015-12-30.
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