LiveAgent
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Help Desk Software & Live Chat - AI-powered customer service platform
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Features
165 features across 32 categories
AI(3)
Generate complete, accurate replies in one click by pulling from your knowledge base to ensure every response is correct and consistent.
Polish any draft instantly. Improve clarity, extend details, simplify jargon, or customize tone with one click.
Autonomous AI agent that resolves customer inquiries instantly, 24/7, in 100+ languages. Pulls answers from knowledge base, website, and documents. Seamlessly hands off complex issues to human agents with full context.
Administration(1)
Create custom agent roles with specific permissions tailored to your team structure.
Analytics(4)
Track live chat conversions in Google Analytics for conversion rate optimization.
Gain insights into website visitors including location and browsing behavior during chats.
Track website visitors in real-time with visibility into visitor activity and browsing behavior.
See the URL your customer is on during chats for better context-aware support.
Automation(5)
Assigns help desk tickets to agents based on predefined rules and skills.
Create automation rules and time-based triggers to streamline customer support tasks like ticket transfers and categorization.
Set up automation rules for various events and determine what actions perform automatically.
Time-based automation tools for tasks like help desk cleanup and delayed email responses.
Automated algorithm that prioritizes tickets based on urgency and importance.
CRM(4)
Organize and store company information in your help desk for better customer management.
Store detailed information about contacts like name, email, and job position for personalized marketing.
Segment customers by interests, age, nationality, or any other metric for targeted support.
Store customer data and past interactions to provide personalized support insights.
Call Management(8)
Allow callers to request a callback instead of waiting in queue to enhance satisfaction.
Enable easy in-browser calls to reduce friction and improve customer experience.
Manage incoming calls with queue system and hold music configuration.
Automated Call Distribution (ACD) that directs incoming calls to appropriate agents based on skills.
Attended call transfers ensure calls are efficiently routed and properly handled.
Customizable IVR system for call routing and customer self-service options.
Hosted call center software supporting VoIP calls from devices, browsers, and mobile apps.
Support for various call devices including headsets, browsers, mobile apps, and hardware phones.
Collaboration(3)
Make free voice calls with colleagues to enhance team collaboration.
Boost team collaboration by sharing instant messages, attachments, and team communication.
Add private notes to tickets for internal team communication and context.
Communication(22)
Support file attachments in emails, chats, forms, and knowledge bases for comprehensive communication.
Built-in call center with unlimited call recordings, IVR, agent availability management, and AI-assisted call summaries. Increases resolution rates by 56%.
Customizable contact forms that can be embedded on your website to enhance customer engagement.
Customizable contact buttons that can be embedded on your website.
Full contact forms that can be embedded directly in web pages.
Connect different email providers to your help desk for seamless ticket management.
Customizable preformatted structures for automated responses and communication.
Smart email ticketing ensures no emails get lost or remain unanswered. Prevents duplicate responses with agent collision detection.
Respond to Facebook messages, posts, comments, or mentions directly from LiveAgent.
Support file sharing of JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PDF, and TXT formats in live chat.
Integration with Instagram Direct Messages for customer support.
The fastest live chat widget on the market displaying in just 2.5 seconds. Includes proactive chat invitations, real-time typing view, file sharing, and intelligent chat routing.
Instant responses and real-time communication to boost customer satisfaction.
See what customers are typing before they send messages to speed up live chat interactions.
Manage customer conversations across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Viber from one dashboard. Every social message becomes a trackable ticket.
Integration with Telegram for customer support covering 1-to-1 direct messages.
Centralizes emails, calls, social media, and chats into one dashboard for unified communication.
Respond to Viber messages directly from your LiveAgent dashboard.
Browser-based video calls to personalize interactions and enhance customer service.
Increase outbound sales and improve customer satisfaction with video call feature.
Integrate your WhatsApp number with LiveAgent ticketing system for WhatsApp messaging.
Monitor unique keywords and respond to Tweets requiring action.
Compliance(2)
Review all agent actions during specific periods for security and compliance tracking.
GDPR-compliant help desk software offering secure data protection and compliance.
Configuration(5)
Set operating hours for automated responses and availability management. Important for SLA compliance.
Park your LiveAgent account to make it accessible from your own domain.
Support multiple brands with separate configurations.
Use LiveAgent across multiple websites and domains.
Customize or disable notification sounds in LiveAgent by choosing from existing options or uploading custom sounds.
Content(4)
Easily integrate images into email tickets by copying and pasting directly.
Enhance ticket responses with animated GIFs via Giphy integration.
Visual editor allowing easy content formatting for emails, templates, and knowledge base articles.
Create professional knowledge base articles with easy-to-use visual formatting.
Customization(13)
Remove LiveAgent branding from live chat windows, knowledge base, customer portal, and more.
Create enticing call widgets or customize existing designs from template gallery.
Customizable chat button for directing inquiries and enabling offline messaging.
Animate chat buttons to boost engagement and sales with various customizable effects.
Variety of predefined live chat button styles for easy website integration.
Customizable chat invitations to engage website visitors with predefined invitation styles.
Choose from template gallery and customize chat widgets to match business color palette.
Dock chat buttons to a website's side for better customer experience and visibility.
Customize the appearance of chat and contact form widgets to match your brand.
Add custom fields to tickets to capture specific information relevant to your business.
Customize email templates for automated responses and communications.
Change the wording and design of all system emails and customize whenever needed.
Create engaging video call widgets or customize existing templates from gallery.
Engagement(2)
Send automated chat welcome messages to showcase that you're online and available.
Multilingual, customizable chat invitations that boost ROI by 105% and increase conversions.
Feedback(4)
Collect satisfaction ratings after chat conversations for quality assurance.
Allow customers to provide feedback and ideas via user-friendly interface.
Encourage customers to send feedback and ideas for future development.
Collect customer satisfaction ratings after ticket resolution.
Gamification(3)
Track and enhance support quality by monitoring performance against benchmarks and leaderboards.
Unlock 12 levels in gamification to motivate support team and boost teamwork.
Customize badges and rewards to boost productivity and team engagement.
Hardware(1)
Support for hardware IP phones and desk phones for call management.
History(2)
Store previous communications for enhanced customer service and context retention.
Provide customers with chat transcripts via email after their conversations.
Infrastructure(1)
Choose from multiple worldwide data centers for optimal server access and compliance.
Integration(3)
Use third-party applications to retrieve and push data and manage tickets from outside.
Click-to-email links enable easy email communication from web contact cards.
Browser extensions that display contact info for people and businesses.
Knowledge Management(2)
Organize company information, guides, and new employee training content.
Create multiple customer portals with unique design and content for different products.
Localization(2)
Set up multilingual Chat, Contact, or feedback widgets to support customers in 43+ languages.
Support for multiple languages in the interface and widgets.
Management(9)
Automate agents' call availability by allowing them to set device schedules.
Automatic chat distribution choosing from various routing algorithms to enhance agent efficiency.
Manage agent shifts and reduce wait times by setting maximum queue length for incoming chats.
Allows customer service agents to take breaks without receiving new ticket assignments.
Bulk search and replace functionality for content management and sensitive data masking.
Define and track customer expectations and response time agreements with SLA rules.
Multiple SLA levels for different service categories and response requirements.
SLA rules help you avoid breaching service level agreements with customers.
Alerts agents to high-priority, unresolved tickets tied to SLAs for quick resolution.
Mobile(5)
Native Android app for customer support featuring chat, ticket resolution, and productivity tools.
Native iOS app for customer service on the go with support for ticket resolution and transfers.
Native mobile apps for iOS and Android devices for on-the-go support.
Responsive live chat widgets enabling customers to chat on mobile or desktop.
Native Android and iOS apps for customer support on the go with chat and ticket management.
Notification(2)
Stay informed with email notifications for new tickets and customer replies.
Receive Slack notifications for new tickets and ticket responses.
Organization(2)
Organize agents into different departments for better workflow and ticket routing.
Create and assign custom tags to organize and categorize tickets effectively.
Productivity(5)
Pre-written responses for common customer inquiries. Save time answering FAQs across channels.
Perform bulk actions on multiple tickets simultaneously to improve team efficiency.
Work on multiple tickets simultaneously with tabbed interface for improved multitasking.
Create longer, customizable responses that can be quickly inserted into customer communications.
Create custom filters to quickly locate specific tickets by applying settings and rules.
Recording(2)
Record calls for quality assurance and training purposes.
Securely store all call recordings for legal, training, or support quality assurance purposes.
Reporting(17)
Monitor agents' availability in real-time with comprehensive reporting tools.
Enable customer feedback on support interactions to identify top-performing agents.
Customer ratings and feedback for individual agents to identify top performers.
Detailed insights into agent performance including work time, tickets, and productivity.
Get an overview of customer support performance and service metrics.
Capture metadata about phone interactions for compliance, training, and analytics.
Insights into communication channel usage and performance metrics.
Performance metrics and statistics for allocating tickets and assigning agents to departments.
Access LiveAgent's online ticket history for easy retrieval of past tickets via email links.
Monitor and boost support team performance with customizable reports and charts.
Monitor real-time performance metrics and key indicators in live dashboards.
Track and monitor team SLA compliance with detailed reporting and analysis.
Track fulfilled and missed SLAs with sortable parameters and export options.
Use tags to categorize tickets and create custom reports for better analysis.
Export tickets into HTML, PDF, or CSV formats for reporting and archival purposes.
Monitor ticket resolution time and team productivity with time tracking tools.
Track time spent on tickets and tasks to enhance productivity monitoring and billing.
Security(6)
Secure your account with two-factor authentication using Google Authenticator.
Block specific visitor IPs to prevent them from disrupting interactions.
Secure all browser communication with HTTPS encryption for chat and email.
Ensure strong passwords and track all user actions with comprehensive audit logging.
Secure access to multiple systems with one login for streamlined user management.
Detect and block unsolicited and malware-laden emails using algorithms and various filtering techniques.
Self-Service(3)
Online community forum enabling customers to ask questions and lead discussions.
Create unlimited customer portals with unique designs, settings, and content.
Create self-service resources with articles, guides, and how-tos. AI chatbot automatically pulls answers from your knowledge base for consistent 24/7 responses.
Support(13)
Professional setup and configuration of AI features for your team.
Professional help with integrating various communication channels.
Professional help with setting up custom domain configuration.
Professional setup and configuration of AI chatbot system.
Expert consulting for customer service strategy and optimization.
Custom billing arrangements and payment terms.
Dedicated account manager for enterprise customers.
Professional help with customizing the appearance of your help desk.
Professional setup and configuration of IVR system for your call center.
Prioritized technical support with faster response times.
Training sessions for product setup and configuration.
Scheduled release management and update coordination.
Regular service review calls and performance reports.
Ticket Management(7)
Prevents multiple agents from working on the same ticket simultaneously.
A must-have feature for efficient customer support workflow management.
Combine duplicate or related tickets effortlessly into a single conversation.
Assigns and tracks support ticket ownership, automating transfers between agents.
Duplicate and assign tickets with multiple issues to different agents for efficient handling.
Transfer tickets between agents and departments for optimal handling.
Gathers communication from every channel and organizes it in one place. AI-powered automation rules route, prioritize, and categorize tickets instantly.
Pricing
Small business
- ✓AI Chatbot
- ✓AI Answer Composer
- ✓AI Answer Improver
- ✓Ticketing
- ✓Live chat
- ✓Knowledgebase
- ✓Customer Portal
- ✓Contact forms
- ✓Automation rules
- ✓200+ Integrations
- ✓Multiple language support
- ✓Email ticketing
- ✓Real-time dashboards
- ✓Chat History
- ✓Ticket history
- ✓Merge tickets
- ✓Split tickets
- ✓Internal tickets
- ✓Attachments
- ✓Ticket mass actions
- ✓To Solve Algorithm
- ✓Ticket satisfaction survey
- ✓Custom tags
- ✓Custom ticket filters
- ✓Agent notes to tickets
- ✓Multiple ticket tabs
- ✓Business hours
- ✓10 Departments
- ✓Canned messages (20)
- ✓Predefined answers (20)
- ✓Chat transcripts
- ✓File sharing over chat
- ✓Mobile chat window
- ✓Chat welcome message
- ✓Real-time visitors monitor
- ✓Chat Satisfaction Surveys
- ✓Custom ticket fields
- ✓Ticket/Customer insights (CRM)
- ✓Companies feature
- ✓Agent ranking
- ✓Contact groups
- ✓Copy & Paste images
- ✓GIFs in tickets
- ✓Chat button animations
- ✓Chat button
- ✓Chat button gallery
- ✓Chat distribution
- ✓Chat embedded tracking
- ✓Online visitors
- ✓Website visitor tracking
- ✓3 Contact forms - Contact us buttons
- ✓3 Contact forms - In page
- ✓3 Email ticketing - Incoming accounts
- ✓3 Email ticketing - Outgoing accounts
- ✓2 Live chat buttons
- ✓Slack notifications
- ✓Customer forum
- ✓Feedback buttons
- ✓WYSIWYG editor
- ✓Password validator and audit log
- ✓HTTPS encryption
- ✓GDPR compliance
- ✓Multiple data centers
- ✓1 Knowledge base
- ✓Language adaptable widgets
- ✓Custom domain parking
- ✓Analytics overview
- ✓Event Rules (50)
- ✓Time Rules (30)
- ✓SLA Rules (5)
- ✓Contact Fields
- ✓Email forwarding
- ✓Email notifications
- ✓Email templates
- ✓Hybrid ticket stream
- ✓Online ticket history
- ✓Pause feature
- ✓Responsibility assignment
- ✓Search & Replace
- ✓Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- ✓Sounds configuration
- ✓SPAM filters
- ✓Tags
- ✓Ticket export
- ✓Ticket filters (300)
- ✓Time tracking (addon)
- ✓Automation rules
- ✓24/7 best effort support
Medium business
Popular- ✓Everything in Small plan
- ✓Call center & IVR
- ✓Time Rules
- ✓Reports
- ✓Proactive chat invitations
- ✓Agent ratings
- ✓Sound configuration
- ✓Service levels (SLA)
- ✓Call Queueing
- ✓IVR
- ✓In-call recordings
- ✓Call routing & transfers
- ✓Automatic callback
- ✓Call button
- ✓Call detail records
- ✓Call device scheduling
- ✓Internal calls
- ✓Softphones
- ✓Supported call devices
- ✓Unlimited call recordings
- ✓Video call
- ✓Agent availability monitoring
- ✓Agent ranking overview
- ✓Agent report
- ✓Channel report
- ✓Department report
- ✓Performance report
- ✓SLA compliance report
- ✓SLA log report
- ✓Tag reports
- ✓Time report
- ✓Benchmarks and leaderboards
- ✓Gamification levels
- ✓Rewards & Badges
- ✓20 Departments
- ✓Canned messages (100)
- ✓Predefined answers (100)
- ✓10 Contact forms - Contact us buttons
- ✓10 Contact forms - In page
- ✓10 Email ticketing - Incoming accounts
- ✓10 Email ticketing - Outgoing accounts
- ✓5 Live chat buttons
- ✓Ticket filters (500)
- ✓1 Knowledge base
- ✓Mobile help desk apps
- ✓24/7 support
Large business
- ✓Everything in Medium plan
- ✓SSO
- ✓Custom roles
- ✓Time tracking & Audit log
- ✓Audit log
- ✓X (Twitter)
- ✓Viber
- ✓Telegram
- ✓2-Step verification
- ✓Ban IPs
- ✓Single Sign-On (SSO)
- ✓API Keys (10)
- ✓150 Departments
- ✓Canned messages (500)
- ✓Predefined answers (500)
- ✓50 Contact forms - Contact us buttons
- ✓50 Contact forms - In page
- ✓50 Email ticketing - Incoming accounts
- ✓50 Email ticketing - Outgoing accounts
- ✓50 Live chat buttons
- ✓Ticket filters (1000)
- ✓2 Knowledge bases
- ✓Event Rules (500)
- ✓Time Rules (200)
- ✓Branding (custom domain)
- ✓Assisted domain parking help
- ✓Design customization assistance
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