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LiveAgent

Score9.6 out of 10

144 Reviews and Ratings

What is LiveAgent?

LiveAgent is a help desk software designed to help users bring personalization to customer interactions.

LiveAgent presents an omnichannel universal inbox, real-time live chat, built-in call center, and a customer service portal. It offers customer segmentation, automation, built-in CRM, and an analytics package, as well as gamification features, ultimately containing are over 180+ help desk features, and 200+ integrations. The solution boasts users among companies like BMW, Yamaha, Huawei and Oxford University.

LiveAgent is a web-based application but is also available on iOS and Android, and is suitable for businesses of all sizes. A free 14-day trial is available, with no contracts and no credit card required.



Categories & Use Cases

Media

Inside of Tickets
Chat - Support View
Chat - Customer View
Chat - Fully Customizable

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Top Performing Features

  • External knowledge base

    Customers can self-service by searching through help articles.

    Category average: 8

  • Internal knowledge base

    Internal knowledge base helps agents answer customers' support questions.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Customer portal

    Customer portal allows customers to submit tickets themselves and/or access self help resources.

    Category average: 8.2

Areas for Improvement

  • Subscription-based notifications

    Users subscribe to notifications for ticket updates

    Category average: 8.1

  • IVR

    Includes an interactive voice response system for routing callers to the correct agent or information.

    Category average: 8.1

  • ITSM collaboration and documentation

    Issue resolution through collaboration mechanisms like discussion threads, social tools; agents can attach notes, files, etc. to tickets in order to maintain a record of all interactions related to the case.

    Category average: 7.4

Super Reliable Customer Service Software

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our customer support was a mess before LiveAgent came along. We were juggling too many things - emails, phone calls, social media - and it felt out of control. Customers were frustrated because issues took forever to resolve. Our team was stressed trying to keep up. It was chaos.LiveAgent changed everything. It brought all our communication into one organized system - no more hassling with different channels. Now customers connect with the right person quickly. Boring stuff like canned responses is automated so agents can focus on solving problems. The system even gives us reports to make our service better.With LiveAgent, things just flow better. Customers are happier getting fast, quality support. Our agents have tools that make their job easier instead of dealing with chaos. After 5 years, LiveAgent is still delivering harmony to our team. No more angry customers or overwhelmed agents. I can't imagine working without LA keeping everything smooth!

Pros

  • Efficiency: Consolidated channels, streamlined ticketing, empowered agents.
  • Happy Customers: Improved satisfaction, faster response times, consistent messaging.
  • Data-driven Decisions: Valuable insights, actionable reports, trackable metrics.
  • Exceptional Support: Responsive team, helpful resources, easy to use.
  • It just works without any issues!!!

Cons

  • The usability could be better. Some things are not obvious to find.
  • I would be to improve the visual layout and organization of the software.
  • The left sidebar menu feels a bit cluttered.

Other Software Used

Proactive Campaigns, Zoho Connect, Zapier

nice software that could still have improvements

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use LiveAgent in the team and receive our support tickets and customer inquiries there. We processed more than 30,000 tickets with it last year.

Pros

  • Tracking tickets
  • Involve several employees in the processing.
  • Live Chat

Cons

  • Sometimes the performance is very slow
  • The answers to problem solutions are often very slow

Return on Investment

  • it is an important tool for our success

Effective client support tool to manage multiple businesses in one single dashboard

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It helps me to organize multiple prospect engagement points into an easy to use one single dashboard. Several productive options to categorized tickets and agent management. This allows me to provide excellent customer service no matter how our customers prefer to reach out via online and by phone. The reporting and analytics feature has also been incredibly helpful in tracking and improving our customer service performance.

Pros

  • Organize multiple prospects engagement points into an easy to use one single dashboard
  • Improving productivity of the service agents
  • Improving our service performance using reporting and analytics

Cons

  • Adding more integration options
  • Introduce own chatbot
  • Adding more themes to select

Most Important Features

  • Offer multiple touchpoints for our prospects
  • Organized easy management with one single dashboard
  • Comprehensive analytics and reports

Return on Investment

  • Optimal ticket response time
  • Less training and productivity improvements
  • More insights for decision making

Other Software Used

Sendinblue, GetResponse, HubSpot CRM, VistaCreate, AccuRanker, Serpstat

Liveagent had so many more uses than we expected!

Pros

  • Custom forms
  • Live chat
  • Ticket system

Cons

  • Maybe some more theme options, a bit more web 2.0 friendly in style on custom forms.

Most Important Features

  • Multi-user support

Return on Investment

  • Very positive

Great product I'm using on multiple domains

Pros

  • Custom Forms
  • Livechat Support

Cons

  • Keep livechat on my website as showing online without having to log in each time

Most Important Features

  • custom forms
  • use 1 account across multiple domains
  • livechat on my website

Return on Investment

  • Good reliable product on my business website

Alternatives Considered

Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim)