BotStar vs. LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)

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
LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
LivePerson headquartered in New York offers solutions for AI-guided live chat and conversational messaging, with the Conversation Cloud (formerly LiveEngage), supporting sales and service teams with answering questions across all popular messaging channels.N/A
Pricing
BotStarLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Editions & Modules
Pro Plan
$15
per month
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BotStarLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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User Ratings
BotStarLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
BotStarLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
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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LivePerson
Liveperson LiveEngage is good for larger deployments with lots of agents, and where the rollout plan is broad with respect to the visitors who you will be targeting. It allows you to manipulate more of the data for reporting than many other platforms. The premium cost and some drawbacks with configuring smaller groups might make it lose some appeal for smaller companies or deployments.
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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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LivePerson
  • The login and interface are near flawless (for what I need). Each of our chat reps has learned how to use it within minutes. Procedure on how to answer certain questions etc., are the only trouble we have, but LiveEngage actually helps with that by storing easily accessible pre-made responses to help guide you or just to paste in directly.
  • Visibility into the context of a customer's question is very helpful. Before I open a chat window, I know exactly what a customer has been browsing prior to asking, and I can usually gather a context from the pre-chat question window. Functionally, it does everything I need it to. Though I don't spend much time in the platform.
  • There haven't been glitches that I remember or have heard of from other reps. The chats usually continue uninterrupted for the duration. Also, you can copy and paste the log pretty easily if necessary.
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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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LivePerson
  • Is my understanding that they have their majority of support between US and Israel, which is great however the timeframe to get a response depending on the issue may take longer than expected.
  • Their dev support can take some getting used to, some issues that are not supported by their regular tech support is within Dev and you will be redirected to their website.
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Likelihood to Renew
BotStar
No answers on this topic
LivePerson
LivePerson has been a great tool for our company and everything is customized. We can customize everything from the canned responses, operator surveys, and customer surveys. We receive a lot of positive information from our customers; and to be able to provide technical support of the website as well as status information for already placed orders is awesome
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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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LivePerson
Desk.com allows us to bring all of our support tools together into one management system. It does not have all the features that LivePerson has for support but it has all the features we need. It also gives us an easier path to self-service and gives our user more direct access to all the channels they need
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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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LivePerson
  • Without giving away numbers, I know it has been a huge tool for our customer solutions department. Conversion isn't as high as compared to phones, but in terms of providing customers with quick information (shipping prices/times, trade restrictions, order status, etc.) it's huge.
  • Increased employee efficiency is a huge one. The capability of taking 3 chats at a time allows each Rep to be way more efficient than on phones alone.
  • Giving the customer the choice to call in, chat or email is huge. LP combines chat and email into one intuitive program so, again, it increases efficiencies for our team and allows them to provide better customer service.
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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