LiveChat updates

Improved bubble icon is here!

We present you with the new and improved bubble icon. The new icon moves when visitors hover over it, immediately showing that the element is interactive.

We’ve seen how important such small details are for engaging visitors, so we’re thrilled to add this delightful new touch to the Chat Widget. We hope you and your customers will enjoy it!

Get more out of the customers list

We’ve added a few changes to the Customers tab so it’s easier to use and personalize to your needs.

Customize your view

Turn on and off any column, including Name and Email address, so only the information that matters the most is displayed. You can also reorder columns, and change their width, which makes working with the list more comfortable.

To change the width of the column, simply drag the boundary of the column heading until the column is the width that you want.

Exclude bots and IP addresses

Now, you can filter out crawlers, bots, and IP addresses (like the one belonging to your company) so you see only real visitors that you can start a chat with.

Multiple actions in one go

When you click on any action button, like Start chat or Supervise, the action will be performed but you’re not automatically taken to the Chats tab. This way you can start more than one chat at the same time without switching back and forth between tabs.

What do you think about the changes? Check out your customer list and let us know.

All performance metrics in one place

This morning we released the agents performance report that lets you check how well your team and individual agents are doing. All important info is stored in one report, so you can forget about skipping between tabs and setting filters over and over again.

Just by looking at the list, you can easily spot top performers and teammates who need to improve certain areas of their work.

Other than the metrics you already know, like customer satisfaction or first response time, you can also track a new one called efficiency—the number of chats per hour for each agent.

Personalize your customers list view

Now, you can change the width of columns on the customers list simply by dragging the column boundary.

It lets you change the view so it shows only the info you need, the way that is most useful to you.

Adding LiveChat to PrestaShop just got easier

Good news! Now, you can add LiveChat both from the PrestaShop Back Office and PrestaShop Addons Marketplace. It makes that installation process quicker. With the chat widget in your online store, you can proactively engage your customers to drive more sales.

It also opens the door for us to add more ecommerce features to this integration. Stay tuned for more updates!

Learn more

Visit our Marketplace to read more and connect LiveChat to PrestaShop.

Increase your greeting conversion rate

We’ve recently added a data breakdown to the greetings conversion report so it’s easier to decide which greeting needs some tweaking to bring more chats.

Now, all greetings are displayed in a table with information about the conversion rate and the number of chats. You can also select a few of them from the list to compare their stats.

Want to see how it works? Log in to LiveChat and go to the greetings conversion report.

Check your live chat performance against the industry standard

Now you can track how you stack up against your competitors. To do it, view the benchmark data in the following reports: total chats, chat satisfaction, chat duration, response times.

One glance and you know if your chat satisfaction or first response time are up to customers’ expectations. Or if you need to work on some areas of live chat support in your business.

To see benchmark data, open one of the mentioned reports and flip on the toggle switch in the top right.

Please note that this feature will be available only on Business and Enterprise plans from November 1, 2019.

Get in touch with customers who left the queue

Now, you can send an email to a customer who left the queue right from the queue abandonment report. No more switching between tabs.

How it works

Go to the queue abandonment report and click on the Message button placed next to the customer’s name. Then, edit the message and send it. You can see both your messages and your customer’s replies in Tickets.

Please note that this feature is available with Business and Enterprise plans. To updgrade your plan, go to Subscription.

Admins can now manage subscription

Now administrators can manage the subscription as well as the owner. Which makes things easier when the owner isn’t the person who is in charge of LiveChat in your company.

If you don’t want particular admins to be able to access and change your subscription, you can remove their permission with one click.

All administrator accounts created before today don’t have the permission given by default. If you want to let them access the Subscription section, you need to add permission separately for each admin.

Read our help center article to learn how.

LiveChat + Shopify just got better

Now, when you add LiveChat to your Shopify store you get a couple of features that make supporting customers and selling easier.

Use Product Cards app out of the box when you add LiveChat to your Shopify store

What better way to engage customers than to send a personalized card with an image, a description, and a link to a product page in your store.

View essential LiveChat metrics in your Shopify admin

Stay on top of your support goals with LiveChat dashboard, no more switching between apps.

Connect multiple stores to one LiveChat license

Perfect when you have many stores but one customer service team.

Learn more

LiveChat for Shopify + Product Cards is available to install from the Shopify App Store.

Learn how to connect LiveChat to your Shopify store in our help center.