BotStar vs. LiveChat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BotStar
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BotStar is a messaging solution from the company of the same name in Da Nang, designed to make it easy for businesses to streamline all customer conversations. With Live Chat, Chatbot Engine, Multi-platform Integrations, BotStar aims to drive business communications, from Sale & Marketing to Customer Service.
$15
per month
LiveChat
Score 7.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
LiveChat serves as a customer service platform with live chat support, help desk and web analytics functionalities, with the goal of allowing users to provide 24/7 support to customers. The core feature of the software is its chat tool, where both service and sales team can answer customers' questions in real time. Online businesses can interact with customers on their website, to be more accessible. With LiveChat, users can identify people on the website and engage…
$25
per month per user
Pricing
BotStarLiveChat
Editions & Modules
Pro Plan
$15
per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Starter
$25
per month
Team
$59
per month per person
Business
$89
per month per person
Enterprise
Contact Sales
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BotStarLiveChat
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
BotStarLiveChat
Best Alternatives
BotStarLiveChat
Small Businesses
Front
Front
Score 9.1 out of 10
Gist
Gist
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Enterprises
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Genesys DX (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
BotStarLiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(44 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
BotStarLiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend
BotStar
This is a perfect tool to help you save time with repetitive tasks, enhance customer experience. As long as you use Facebook Page or Website, BotStar is suitable for developing your business or project. While it is possible to create chatbots that can speak more naturally, it will require some programming knowledge as well as time to develop.
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We needed a mechanism in place to make contact with visitors to our website easier. What we discovered is that it's an excellent tool for creating reports and dashboards that show how soon issues are handled. Our website can now be updated in real-time, and all of our internal teams are really excited to use this fantastic technology. I really recommend [LiveChat] to many friends and past colleagues.
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Pros
BotStar
  • First of all, the design, as well as the ease of use, are definitely the biggest strengths of this platform. The drag and drop feature allows me to design the flow quite conveniently.
  • Second, the step-by-step video, documented tutorials are simple and only took about 5-10 minutes.
  • Third, BotStar created the feature which allows me to update CMS data automatically with CSV files.
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  • The most important factor of Livechat is their own chat support, I had many requirement from the Sales Head, Support Head to implement features that I was unsure if the product could do. However, as I did the implementation one by one I constantly used the chat support which helped me step by step all the way.
  • The UX of the product is pretty simple and intuitive to use. There are quite a few features that we could easily plug and play. We tried going to the market to find a solution that could help us but they did not have as many out of the box features and simple to use
  • Their integration between LiveChat and Chatbot is pretty seamless and since both of them are from the same company, it's works pretty well.
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Cons
BotStar
  • BotStar updates regularly, but sometime it come with small bugs.
  • Should consider update Smart delay feature.
  • BotStar has lots of tools and integrations, so it would be great to have more documents or a place for people to share their ideas with those tools.
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  • It has a limited amount of agents, so when you have many customer care employees during one shift it is hard to manage the quantity of active agents.
  • When system is overloaded and many customers are waiting in a queue it starts to works slowly (sometimes the program even lags) and you need to refresh the system to write a message.
  • Occasionally when you open a new tab, you might lose your current conversation.
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Support Rating
BotStar
No answers on this topic
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The only issues I have had with LiveChat are the technical glitches within the program. These are not common as in everyday occurrences but when the glitches do happen they tend to have very negative repercussions. This is due to chats with customers being dropped, this may be an internal server issue though and may not happen for everyone.
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Alternatives Considered
BotStar
Easy to use interface and price are the two factors that made me decide to use BotStar. Compared to other chatbot platform, there are a few features that are not available or as diverse, but seeing the platform is updated monthly makes me confident that I have made a wise choice.
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Overall very similar in design, but LiveChat had a better interface, better reporting and analytic tools, better mobile support, and just an easier overall feel. The two products are very much alike in the vast majority of ways, but I ended up preferring this product overall. Price points were similar as well, as well as the allowed number of users.
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Return on Investment
BotStar
  • Speed ​​up customer response on Facebook as well as Website, guaranteed under 10 minutes.
  • Reduce repetitive employee workloads and prioritize more important things.
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  • We have a small team so the overall impact is that it is easy for one or two employees to handle a large number of tickets without hiring more people. Plus, you can use this software remotely, save a ton on traveling to and from and office.
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ScreenShots

BotStar Screenshots

Screenshot of Bot BuilderScreenshot of Audience FeatureScreenshot of CMS FeatureScreenshot of Dashboard InterfaceScreenshot of Preview BotScreenshot of Publish Bot

LiveChat Screenshots

Screenshot of Chat Widget and Agent AppScreenshot of Customer detailsScreenshot of Traffic sectionScreenshot of ReportsScreenshot of Team managementScreenshot of Chat Widget customization