TrustRadius Insights for LiveAgent are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Powerful and Flexible Platform: Users have consistently praised LiveAgent for being a powerful and flexible platform that can be easily customized to meet their specific needs. Many users have stated that they appreciate the platform's adjustability and its ability to cater to their personal requirements.
Integration of Multiple Channels: A significant number of users have highlighted the convenience of integrating multiple channels, such as calls, chats, and emails, into one platform. This feature has been particularly beneficial for global customer service operations, allowing users to effectively manage communication from various sources in a centralized location.
Clear Structure and Organization: Users have consistently liked the clear structure and organization of different forms of communication within LiveAgent. They find it convenient to have all email IDs from various support areas channeled into one system and automatically assigned based on set rules. The tag system and ability to use predefined answers make it easier for users to manage customer inquiries efficiently.
LiveAgent is being used by the entire company. Before using this software we had a bad organization in our mailbox. It’s very useful that you can assign certain emails to different departments or even workers of the department. This allows us to save a lot of time because we don’t waste time anymore by searching emails or reading emails that doesn’t even conern your department.
Pros
Organize the mailbox
Mark the emails as urgent or less urgent
Saves time because you don’t lose time reading emails that don’t concern your department.
Cons
Have a video explaining all the different features
Easier to implement
Likelihood to Recommend
LiveAgent is being used by the entire company. Before using this software we had a bad organization in our mailbox. It’s very useful that you can assign certain emails to different departments or even workers of the department. This allows us to save a lot of time because we don’t waste time anymore by searching emails or reading emails that don’t even concern your department. It’s less appropriate if you are working alone in your department. But if you are a group working with the same email address you can assign emails to different workers.
VU
Verified User
Director in Marketing (Food & Beverages company, 1-10 employees)
Our whole organization uses LiveAgent to speak with customers. It effectively allows us to allocate customers to specific agents that will then speak with them and figure out what needs to be done. It addresses the problem of making the connection between customers who have issues and us customer support agents who can help them.
Pros
Lets you see who is working on what
Keeps all of your messages in order
Lets us add tags to each conversation for quick recognition
Cons
Sometimes it is not very intuitive editing tickets
You can get lost in the messages
Too many buttons and features on one screen sometimes
Likelihood to Recommend
Anytime a customer calls into us or emails in, we immediately see it and it is allocated.
We use LiveAgent to manage a support help desk for two brands and also handle tickets for our online retail business. We use the knowledge base and accept tickets from the web portal, email, live chat and social media channels.
Pros
It works well. We migrated from Zendesk, which was straightforward, and look forward to using LiveAgent for years to come.
Cons
Whatsapp integration.
A better android app.
Integration with Linnworks.
Integration with oFlow.io.
Likelihood to Recommend
A contact is made for support, through live chat, and if the issue isn't resolved it's turned into an email ticket.
We use it daily to track and address inquiries, issues and other communications with our global clients. We have agents, customer care and design team who log in daily to update their tickets. It really organized our workflow with those customers and removed a lot of frustrations when it was hard for us to track issues via other different channels.
Pros
Flexibility.
Personalization.
Centralizing information.
Smooth functionality.
Cons
Integration with other apps.
UI could be a lot better.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for customer care, fashion/apparel consultation.
LiveAgent is used by Customer Service department and it is a great support for our employees to communicate efficiently with customers via phone, chat and ticketing system.
Pros
Ability to combine calls, tickets and chats in one platform.
Ability to sort out tickets for different folders.
Ability to see statistics.
Cons
Improve knowledge base layout.
Improve on bugs (less frequent).
Likelihood to Recommend
LiveAgent is great when you want to see all previous communication with the client, it is easy to find - both tickets and calls. Sometimes phones tend not to work for some reason - could be a place to improve.
LiveAgent is used by our customer services department and is a great asset to bot clients and colleagues.
Pros
Performance statistics.
Client ease.
Colleague ease.
Cons
SLA statistics on tickets.
Likelihood to Recommend
Working and training users is easy when using LiveAgent. Most other user interfaces do not have the knowledge base which LiveAgent has. If there is ever any question that is needed the live chat is a fantastic option where one of the advisers is more than happy to assist. I would highly recommend this service.
VU
Verified User
Supervisor in Customer Service (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing company, 51-200 employees)
We used ZenDesk for several years before we used LiveAgent, and ZenDesk offers tons of options, which we appreciate. When you are launching a small business, you worry and dream of having tons of support request; many to buy your goods/services and/or something has gone wrong and you must provide support as quickly as possible to negate negative reviews... the truth, rarely will you need the tons of features and functions of large advance systems that cost a lot of money and as a small business most advance options don't apply. After having used ZD for years and being grandfathered in an old plan, we simply couldn't justify the cost as our website was easy to purchase from and our support request was few and far between.
Upon looking for an alternative to ZenDesk, LiveAgent was more affordable, offered live chat, integrated with our e-commerce system, offers an Android/iOS app (as a small business, having the app allows for instant replies while on the go.), merge, transfers, etc. for a better price. Now, we all know that it's not always about price and while ZenDesk is a huge company, we haven't had any major issues with LiveAgent and the extra money goes toward employee coffee or donuts, to keep them happy.
The minor issues, notifications to the app aren't 100%, support stated that they are working on a complete rebuild of the app for more functions and dependable notifications. Selecting a Support and Chat system is important but as a small business saving month fees of external service is vitally important.
My professional experience is that you won't be disappointed in LiveAgent when compared to ZenDesk. Side Note: I checked the pricing of ZenDesk as of March 8th, 2020 and they want $49/Agent PLUS additional fees for Chat, extra fees for this and that and API limits and more nickel and diming than I'm interested in! I understand that they are enterprise-focused now but as a small business, you don't need all of that for support, save your hard money for Sales, Market and to keep your employees happy!!
LiveAgent is one of the best customer support platforms that I have ever used for customer support purposes. I have actually dealt with a few other ones and I'd state that LiveAgent stands out with and easy to utilize interface, a lot of beneficial functions and a stunningly easy to use and user-friendly design. The system has all the essential functions in order to offer the full customer care options to our clients. What's more, it all is done in a smooth and beautiful as well as in a handy and convenient way. LiveAgent in the organization is used throughout the 4 different departments and it's the core customer service platform for end-user inquiries. From the first day of its implementation, I have never faced any issue while extensively using it in daily operations and in conjunction with other departments.
Pros
Extensive Functionality - LiveAgent has basically EVERY single function whatever might be needed for the customer care department in order to deliver high-quality support services. Its extensive functionality helps us manage daily support inquiries without any complications.
Social Media Integration - One of the most beneficial functions of LiveAgent is the social media integration. Before implementing this system, I personally had to go through our Facebook page (150K+ followers) and answer all technical related inquiries or questions. You can imagine the massive amount of each post/comment. With LiveAgents' smooth Facebook integration, each of the posts or comments are fetched as a ticket in the system, thus, it saves me tons of time to answer them in one place.
Live Chat - Another useful feature which comes with the package is Live Chat, which was really easy to implement on our websites. Moreover, it is easy to use and monitor with the notifications for the agents, including all the statistics related to it.
A clean and user-friendly interface is another benefit of this system. It is designed in a neat way [so as] not to miss any ticket.
Extensive Reporting System - One of the best functions of LiveAgent is its ability to provide detailed reports basically about anything - agents, live chat, the performance of departments, etc. You can even see how much time a user spent viewing the ticket. This is utterly useful for improving the customer service level.
Very responsive and supportive support team of LiveAgent. They are basically available through email as well as, what's more handy, through live chat. Professional and helpful guys.
Cons
One of those few concerns I have about the system is its lazy scrolling through the tickets. In case you have more than 50 tickets, once you scroll down to go to the bottom of the tickets, it seems that the system is fetching those tickets from the database, thus, taking around a second or two (sometimes) to update the ticket list. The same thing will happen if you scroll up from the bottom at the same time. This would be good to get fixed and make it all listed as a normal list, thus, it would not take some time while scrolling through tickets.
The price of the license to get the LiveAgent installed on our servers is really high. If it was a bit lower, I could suggest my company buy it, however, I assume it is unreasonably high and might be good to decrease the price.
Likelihood to Recommend
LiveAgent will surely meet any of your customer service department's need. There is no doubt about that. However, please note that if you are a [startup] company, it might be a bit pricey. As you increase the quantity of the agents, the price is also increased, thus, consider this. Otherwise, if you are fast-growing small or medium-sized company, LiveAgent might be your number one choice for customer service needs.