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LiveAgent

Help desk with live chat, email, phone and social in one inbox

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LiveAgent is a cloud help desk from Quality Unit that puts email, live chat, phone, social media and contact forms into one ticket inbox. Its live chat widget includes visitor monitoring, proactive invitations, a real-time typing view and an AI chatbot that hands off to agents. It has been in business since 2004.

  • Website chat widget
  • Chat routing
  • Visitor tracking
  • Canned responses
  • Offline messages
  • Chat transcripts

Also includes

  • Proactive chat triggers
  • Pre-chat forms
  • Chatbot handoff
  • Multilingual
  • Chat to ticket
  • Typing preview
  • Custom branding
  • Social channels

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