ChatBeacon Formerly SightMax vs LiveChat

• Easy to install and configure.
• Easy for customers to use.

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• It allows to mange full customer support process to see how many customer care specialists online.
• If there are no customer care specialists in the system (this can occur primarily in the night shifts) LiveChat allows customer to get a ticket and ask a question. When the [actual] customer care specialists are back they can answer the question and send it to the email that was provided on ticket.
• It allows to supervise the conversation between your specialists and the customer. For example, if there is a problematic situation or there is a new employee in the customer care department and you want to rate their writing skills you can enter and see their past chats and how they managed to answer questions that were given them by the customers.
• It allows to transfer chats between agents. This can help you if the customer chose the wrong group for asking a question.
• It gives an opportunity to write direct messages to your clients when they are online.
• It allows customer care specialists to tag chats. This can help you to understand from which section customers have most questions and include them in the F.A.Q of your website.

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• ChatBeacon is just SightMax with a fresh coat of paint.
• The entire agent UI is remarkably worse than SightMax.

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• Price point is a little on the high side, making it difficult for some small businesses to justify.
• When monitoring chats from a manager standpoint, there seems to be an inherent delay; it does not appear to be instantaneous.
• Very minor, but the chat widget sound options can be annoying, and wish there were more available options in order to allow employees to differentiate their own sessions if their desks are near one another.

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• Using website chat (often with an agent:customer ratio of up to 1:3 or more ) vs. phone support (with an agent ratio of 1:1) has greatly reduced support costs in every business unit.
• Providing realtime feedback and links (vs. phone calls) has greatly improved the turnaround on the sales and customer inquiry processes.

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• LiveChat has improved the time spent addressing issues and complaints posed to the customer support team by website visitors and website alike.
• It has saved us financial resource both in terms of the number of customer support agent we need to maintain and how we do not need to engage new employees in any form of specialized, formal training to introduce them to.
• Overall,because we are able to respond to customer queries faster thanks to LiveChat and due to the multiple integration option it provides my team, LiveChat has directly led to increase sales conversion.

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