LiveAgent help desk is the ultimate solution for providing excellent customer support. Equipped with 175+ support features you'll be able to link every channel of possible support inputs like fetching emails, Facebook comments, Tweets, contact forms, live chat or phone calls.
Some of the main help desk features include: Automation, SLA, Ticketing, POP3 accounts, Email piping, Departments, Priorities, Statuses, Tags, Rules, Ticket Routing, Canned/Predefined messages, Macros, Email templates, Performance Reports, Live Chat, Chat invitations & Website monitoring, Voice integration and call recording, Facebook and Twitter integration, Support Portal, Knowledge Base, Forum & many more.
LiveAgent is available in 39 languages and both as SaaS license or a self hosted license (installed on your own server).
Server infrastructure is located in USA, UK and Japan to ensure Millenium Falcon like speed responses and to support local law regulations (for EU in particular)
Pros
At work I was assigned a very important job, I had to decide what software the company should acquire to offer the customer service to hundreds of people. I took the task of researching a wide variety of programs online and I really found in Live Agent the solution to our needs.
This program contains all the tools you will need so that your clients receive support in a timely manner.
It has a live chat, tickets, integration with social networks and more. The best thing is that it doesn't matter if the client sends an email, opens a ticket or leaves a comment on a social network, because that message will reach a single platform where agents can receive it and give an immediate response. These messages will be stored together with a conversation history, allowing any agent to be well informed of the case and able to respond and solve the customer's problem.
Live Agent has many other features that make it easier for agents to work, for example, you can create predefined replies to save time or write frequently asked questions and send links to clients so they can access this information immediately.
On the other hand you can customize the portal support with your brand.
You can also obtain a report of the agents' work hours. It really is a complete program and its price seems accessible to me. It is worth what it costs because finally if you manage to offer good customer service, this will definitely favor your sales.
Cons
There are very few negative things that I have to say about Live Agent because it works almost perfectly, rather than negative aspects they could make some improvements that allow each company to customize the different options that the program offers us.
LiveAgent is a holistic solution that allowed us to not only manage our website live chat and customer support requests, but also functioned as a CRM system for managing all of our customer contacts. It was very easy to setup a basic implementation, and we saw immediate benefit via decreased customer wait times and quicker resolution of customer issues.
Pros
LiveAgent is not only live chat software, but is also a CRM which can help to manage your customers and contacts. It supports a variety of integrations like email, phone, websites and social media. The setup is highly configurable, allowing users to tailor the software to the specific needs of their business. The user interface is very clean and easy-to-use, yet it also allows for customization. LiveAgent has a spectacular support team, and they were easy to get a hold of, and they always quickly resolved any issues that we were experiencing.
Cons
The cost can be prohibitive to smaller companies that don't have extra budget allocated for live chat. It is difficult to manage the routing of chat requests and support tickets with a larger team, because the options are limited to assigning to departments, so if you want all requests to go to a person/group, they would need to be added to all departments.
Pros
The interface is very user- friendly and affordable solution to configure multiple mediums for communicating with the consumers. The application also provides chat and video integrations. The application program interface helps you retrieve account information and billing details. They have added a new feature wherein you can view all the calls and e-mail interactions of a client just in a thread. The application is integrated with most of the social media sites. The searchability feature is very powerful, as it allows an in-depth and detailed search. Reporting and statistics help you get tag reports, and an employee’s average answer time. Allows an employee to personalize his dashboard. You can compare the efficiency of the job done by your team members and yourselves. The prioritizing ticketing helps you check out the one that needs to be answered according to its priority.
Cons
The absence of Whatsapp and SMS integration. Bugs encountered while you use the mobile application makes it slower than usual.
I started using LiveAgent for one of my first online companies. Our customer base was well in the 100s of 1000s. Therefore, I opted to use the white label solution that integrated nicely with our user interface. I was quite surprised how inexpensive it was to comparable solutions. For these reasons, I have integrated into four of my companies...one being in a different language (Russian). This is an incredible product and I highly recommend it anyone starting a company online.
Pros
I enjoy the user interface. It utilizes the latest design/development techniques. I also love the cost of the product. It's priced way below comparable solutions. Lastly, I love how you can deploy the software with multiple speaking languages.
Cons
I don't like having to continue paying for extra users. I would rather have unlimited users, especially since we are running the software on our servers.
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Among the paid support system available, I find that LiveAgent is worth the money for small teams, given the functionality available for the packages.
Pros
I like that I can have all the multi-channels (social media, knowledge base, ticket system, live chat) I use for just one monthly pricing. The package includes three agents, so the pricing is perfect for us. I can do a lot of design and layout customisation according to my liking.
It's also a great that my customers can have their own log in to view their support tickets. The best part of all is the amount of integration available with the other tools I use for CRM, marketing, etc.
Cons
As much as having 3 agents included in the package is great for small teams, adding the 4th agent at the equivalent price of the original package seems to be rather costly in a way which is preventing my company to add more agents to our account because it doesn't seem worthy money-wise.
Thank you Lynette. I really appreciate how you¿ve taken the time to send us positive notes on LiveAgent.
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Subscription plans:
Ticket: $15/agent/month
Ticket + Chat: $29/agent/month
All-inclusive: $39/agent/month
Self-hosted licenses:
Downloadable: $11,950 - 20 agents included, +$690 for each additional agent.
Enterprise: $34,950 - 50+ agents.
- A team of 11 support agents is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
- LiveAgent is also available as a self-hosted license for a one-time-fee. If you value privacy and security above all, you can have it under your control
- LiveAgent integrates all support channels into one environment – everything is neatly sorted in one place
- Multi brand support - connect unlimited brands into one app, without extra costs
- Build a customer community and increase customer satisfaction by double digits
Featured testimonial:
"LiveAgent is simply the best and most affordable Help Desk Software on the market! Goodbye Kayako! Adios Zendesk... Bye Bye Freshdesk!! Development is great and fast! Rock Solid and easy to use software. Very customer friendly also!"
- Jeremy Otten, CEO of Random Solutions
To improve satisfaction rates and strike more deals, businesses need to offer high-quality customer service. But in today’s digital environment, where face-to-face interactions are rare, it can be a challenge to provide the type of great support that customers and potential clients frequently demand. LiveAgent is working to provide organizations of all sizes with the tools they need to efficiently reach customers and handle support requests in real-time.
LiveAgent is multi-channel helpdesk software for businesses of all sizes, from one-man-operations all the way to large enterprises. By combining an all-in-one support ticket system with customer portals, universal inboxes, and built-in live chat software, LiveAgent is offering a way for organizations in every industry to provide better, faster, more organized customer support.
LiveAgent helps businesses thrive in customer service, with features like ticketing, ticket distribution, built-in live chat, Facebook ticketing, Twitter monitoring, reporting, built-in customer portals, and a call center integration with Twilio, all of which are designed to enable businesses to better organize their customer support and be available immediately when their customer seek help.
Through LiveAgent’s streamlined user interface, agents are able to respond to incoming emails, chats, phone calls, Facebook posts, and private messages 24/7. They can also monitor tweets that mention specific keywords or brand names. Its features are fully customizable, with no HTML coding required.
Businesses that utilize LiveAgent’s multi-channel helpdesk software benefit from better support, along with faster, more organized, and more consistent responses to customer queries. It can also increase customer satisfaction rates, which ultimately results in increased referrals and sales.
LiveAgent transforms every communication that comes into an organization into an active “ticket.” Tickets serve as communication threads between customers and support agents. They include all emails, live chats, phone calls, Facebook messages, and tweets, along with internal notes and other types of data related to the customer.
When customers contact your company, their communication is automatically transformed into tickets, each with its own reference number (ID). You’ll receive notification when new tickets have arrived, and you can login to the LiveAgent platform to communicate the status of the issue or request. As this status changes, you’ll move the ticket through the lifecycle, from “New,” to “Open,” “Answered,” “Resolved,” or “Postponed.”
Automatic ticket distribution ensures that all support agents receive optimal load, and certain agents are being given more work than they can handle. LiveAgent’s software can be customized to define how many tickets, chats, and phone calls individual support agents should receive in a given period of time. The software will then take these rules into account when routing tickets and automating phone duties.
Based on the rules your organization has setup, LiveAgent will distribute tickets evenly within your team. It may also assign tickets to specific agents based on ticket parameters, like events or topics. If you are assigned a ticket that you cannot resolve, LiveAgent will allow you to change the ownership of the ticket to a different department or agent.
Built-in support portals are the ultimate resource for customers. Businesses will appreciate the added tools for collecting feedback, spurring ideas for future development, and supporting customers 24/7. Designed to include knowledge bases, forum posts, and customer feedback, Customer Portals serve as an information hub when agents aren’t online.
Customize your own customer portal to fit in with the look and feel of your business website, including any company branding elements you have in place. Once your portal is up and running, with a robust knowledge base and community for customer interaction, you’ll be able to support customers even when your agents are offline.
Unlike other help desk platforms, which require businesses to rely on third-party chats, LiveAgent has developed its own built-in solution. The ability to chat live with customers in real-time is an important part of LiveAgent’s platform.
Adding a live chat feature to a website provides real-time convenience to customers, and it can also increase leads and sales by providing customers with immediate access to answers in the moments before they decide whether to click “Buy.” LiveAgent’s live chat feature saves telephone support costs and enables agents to support more customers at once, since multiple chats can be run simultaneously.
Businesses can’t improve on the customer service they currently offer without the types of detailed analytics that LiveAgent provides. Inside the Reports tab, agents can find everything from usage statistics and performance reports, all the way to customer satisfaction ratings and outgoing messages, chats, and calls.
Use LiveAgent’s analytics to improve the service your support team is offering to clients and customers. Reports can quickly be filtered by channel, tag, or agent, allowing you to see which of your employees has the highest overall performance rating. Reports can also be filtered by date, which is helpful when evaluating how your company’s satisfaction rates have changed over time.
LiveAgent offers a REST API for custom integrations. The company also has pre-made third-party integrations—including an integration with Zapier—to help with business automation.
LiveAgent offers two pricing options: cloud hosting and standalone licensing. Costs for cloud hosting start at $9 per agent, per month, for Ticketing and $14 per agent, per month, for Ticketing + Chat. An All-Inclusive plan is available for $19 per agent, per month. Starting packages include three agent seats. Businesses that opt for standalone pricing pay a one-time fee, with LiveAgent hosted on servers both in US (Texas) and EU (London).
Below are some frequently asked questions for LiveAgent.
LiveAgent offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 15.00/month
Pricing model: One Time License, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
14-day free trial, no credit card required.
Subscription plans:
Ticket: $15/agent/month
Ticket + Chat: $29/agent/month
All-inclusive: $39/agent/month
Self-hosted licenses:
Downloadable: $11,950 - 20 agents included, +$690 for each additional agent.
Enterprise: $34,950 - 50+ agents.
LiveAgent offers the following features:
LiveAgent has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Public Administrations, Small Business
LiveAgent supports the following languages:
Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
LiveAgent has the following pricing plans:
One Time License, Subscription
LiveAgent supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
LiveAgent integrates with the following applications:
AWeber, Akita, GetResponse, Help Desk Migration, Mailchimp, Nicereply, ProjectManager.com, Slaask, Slack, VisitorTrack
LiveAgent offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
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