Hiver
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AI-powered customer service platform
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Features
70 features across 11 categories
Analytics(8)
Get insights about your team's workload and performance, in terms of the conversations being handled
Analyze the satisfaction and AI-predicted sentiments of your customers through reports
Measure customer satisfaction and collect feedback from your customers by sending a short survey
Start from scratch or build on pre-built reports to analyze your team's performance
Create custom dashboards to view all crucial performance indicators across different shared inboxes in a single place
Track all your key customer service metrics in real time with rich, visual reports and help your team always stay on top of their game
Create performance reports and real-time dashboards segmented by users, tags, and SLA performance to track First Response time, Resolution time, and overdue or imminent conversations
Set deadlines for responses and issue resolutions. Track SLA compliance and violations to measure team performance
Apps(5)
Fetch business and customer data using out-of-the-box integrations with apps like Asana, Jira, QuickBooks, and more
Access Hiver data programmatically using REST APIs to build custom integrations with tools of your choice
Integrate your favorite apps with Hiver to bring all your service channels, apps, and customer context in one place
Build smart workflows and automate daily tasks by integrating your favorite apps like Salesforce, Hubspot, Zapier and Hiver APIs
Integrate Slack channels with Hiver to receive Slack updates and notifications in real time
Automation(12)
Simplify approval workflows to faster approvals on requests from customers, vendors, or employees from the comfort of your inbox
Automatically send responses to acknowledge new conversations received within or outside business hours
Automatically assign and reassign conversations to various team members in a Round-Robin manner for better workload distribution
Define when your team can service customers and track SLA compliance during those hours. Trigger auto-responders during off-hours
Maximize the potential of your Live Chat with Chatbots to speed up responses and improve agent productivity — all within your inbox
Create rule based automations using CSAT ratings received to improve customer engagement and trigger actions when SLAs are breached or nearing violation
Easily import customer data from external sources such as your CRM into Hiver as CSVs to automate tagging and assignment
Automatically move emails from individual inboxes to a Shared Inbox, using the from-email address or domain
Define an 'Assignment Limit' to prevent overloading of your team members
Leverage no-code, rule-based Automations to assign conversations, tag them, and handle data entry—freeing up time to respond faster
Automate follow-ups, notifications and actions on specific dates to ensure important deadlines aren't missed
Automatically assign conversations to team members based on their skill-set
Channels(4)
Engage website visitors with live chat, automatically route messages, and deflect repetitive queries with AI-powered chatbots
Support customers across email, chat, slack, voice, WhatsApp, and social media channels
Transform your inbox into a powerful voice support centre, delivering exceptional customer service via Aircall integration
Integrate your business's WhatsApp number as a support channel with Hiver to offer WhatsApp support within your inbox
Collaboration(7)
Use the collaborative inbox to easily assign queries, discuss them internally, and fast-track responses—without forwards or CCs
Help teams avoid sending duplicate replies with real-time collision alerts. Ensure no two team members work on the same query
Managers and supervisors can follow important or escalated conversations to get real time updates on the progress
Let teams securely share and access sensitive documents internally
Collaborate within your team seamlessly, without CCs and forwards. Use @mention to tag a colleague and write a note
Share conversations with your teammates, stakeholders, or other departments through private and public permalinks
Draft the perfect responses by working with your team in real time—no more cluttering inboxes with CCs or forwards
Hiver AI(13)
Autonomously resolve repetitive queries, schedule follow-ups, and trigger workflows across tools, teams, and channels
Resolve support conversations across channels with up to a 70% deflection rate
Help teams compose impactful responses effortlessly. Use AI to refine grammar, adjust tone, and enhance writing clarity
Assist your team with contextual support — draft replies, suggest next steps, refine replies, summarize threads and more
Use AI to pull key details like order IDs or reference numbers from conversations and push them into Automations for routing, alerts, and contextual notes
Analyzes conversation data to reveal trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement (Coming soon)
Evaluate agent responses in real time for tone, grammar, and completeness. Replace endless manual reviews with AI scores to save time and get an accurate picture of agent skill levels
Analyze and predict the emotional tone in customer emails so agents can easily prioritize and escalate conversations
Turn lengthy conversations into brief overviews and save them as Notes to speed up handoffs, escalations, and resolutions
Automatically tag incoming conversations based on topic or category — improving organization, reporting, and automation accuracy
Use the powerful visual builder to create agents that can handle multi-step actions such as initiating customer refunds, sending follow-ups, updating external apps and more
Detect closure phrases like "Thanks!" or "Noted" in customer responses to prevent the reopening of closed conversations
Assist your team with contextual guidance in every conversation — draft replies, suggest next steps and more, right inside the inbox
Security(2)
Hiver ensures the confidentiality and security of patient healthcare information
Simplify access management with the convenience of single-sign-on functionality powered by Okta app integration
Self-Service(3)
Deploy a personalized customer portal where customers can raise, manage, and track their issues in real-time
Create branded help articles and FAQs for customers to find answers independently
Create help articles to empower customers to help themselves. Share articles publicly or keep them private for internal use
Support(3)
Get a customer success manager who will help and guide you to maximize value from Hiver platform including premier onboarding
Get help with custom API and integration development
Hiver provides users with complimentary onboarding assistance for seamless integration and effective use of its features
Team Management(4)
Define roles that suit your own organizational structure and workflow by provisioning and limiting access to various features
Enable team members to schedule and manage their availability, ensuring new conversations are attended to during their absence
Run your support team like clockwork—effortlessly manage workload, assignments, availability, and performance
Manage, optimize, visualize and track your team's workload. Monitor team capacity, redistribute tasks, and improve collaboration
Ticketing(9)
Provide your team full customer context—past emails, feedback, and more—so they can respond faster and serve smarter
Collect and store specific information about customer issues to sort conversations, automate workflows and track trends
Save canned responses as email templates and share them with your team to provide faster, more consistent responses
Link similar conversations to track related issues with shared visibility
Enable users and supervisors to solve customer service issues on-the-go with Hiver's iOS and Android mobile apps
Manage all your service channels like email, live chat, voice, WhatsApp, social media and more from a unified inbox
Categorize all incoming queries by adding Tags based on type, priority, and more to manage customer conversations efficiently
Assign, resolve, track and manage conversations effortlessly while keeping support natural and personalized
Use filters to bucket conversations and save them as Views for quick access and streamlined collaboration
Pricing
Free
- ✓Unlimited users
- ✓Ticketing and support channels
- ✓Email, Live Chat & Knowledge Base
- ✓Shared Inboxes
- ✓Collaboration
- ✓Views
- ✓Out of Office
- ✓Integrations - Slack
- ✓Support - Help center, 24/7 email and live chat support
Growth
- ✓Everything in Free, plus:
- ✓AI Compose
- ✓AI Summarizer
- ✓Internal Knowledge Base
- ✓Followers & Collision Alerts
- ✓Custom Fields
- ✓Linked Conversations
- ✓Approvals
- ✓Automatic Assignment
- ✓Rule-based Automations
- ✓Analytics for Conversations
- ✓Basic integrations (Asana, Jira, QuickBooks, etc.)
Pro
Popular- ✓Everything in Growth, plus:
- ✓AI Agents
- ✓AI Copilot
- ✓Voice, WhatsApp & Portal
- ✓SLA & Business hours
- ✓CSAT Surveys
- ✓Load-balanced assignment
- ✓CSAT & SLA-based workflows
- ✓CSAT & Sentiment Reports
- ✓Reports on Users, Tags & SLA
- ✓Custom Reports
- ✓Premium integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zapier)
Elite
- ✓Everything in Pro, plus:
- ✓AI QA
- ✓AI Insights (Coming soon)
- ✓Skill-based routing
- ✓Custom Objects
- ✓Individual to Shared Inbox rules
- ✓Custom Roles
- ✓HIPAA compliance
- ✓OKTA SSO integration
- ✓Additional success services
- ✓Custom build hours
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Integrations
14 known integrations