Khoros Care vs. LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)

Customer profile capabilities are a great way to continue to monitor a single user across all platforms. The Manage view leaves a lot to be desired as the experience is very click-intensive and doesn't allow for bulk actions on items. This can make the process of working from a "zero queue" quite time-consuming. Supervisor view should either not be dropped for this very reason, or Manage should be able to perform bulk actions.

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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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• Manages and pulls in posts from communities, Facebook, and Twitter so we can address them in one place as opposed to logging into each site natively.
• Khoros Care has great analytics. I like the customizable dashboards; we use them for weekly reports to upper management.
• Khoros Care helps our social media manager manage and monitor our teams.

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• 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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• I would like to be able to see deleted comments/tweets so we can look into the issues.
• I would like to be able to better customize dashboards for our exact metrics. Some things previously available in Spredfast are no longer available in Care.

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• 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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Khoros Care has continued to provide exactly what we need, or work with us to get what we need to help our customers. They are timely in their assistance when there are technical issues, and they always keep us in the loop when there is an ongoing issue that impacts us

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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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The ability to auto tag, manually tag, make notes, and "snooze" posts is extremely helpful. The efficiency of the work flow for agents is also a huge plus. It keeps agents moving quickly and prioritizing responses for the cases that need it most.

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No issues.

No issues.

Khoros Support has always very responsive and helpful when it comes to getting my issue/inquiry addressed. Their ticket portal is great for tracking any open tickets and they can be updated via the portal or by responding to the email thread. Support reps are always extremely knowledgeable and care about getting you taken care of

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The team received training (from the same executive team member who has been supporting us) over the web and this was of very high quality.

The implementation was carried out by a previous employee who left the organisation, however, because of the nature of the industry, we're frequently updating new processes. The setup of Khoros Care was quite simple to follow and update previous information that was done before I took over.

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It would be too long to list every pro and con. However, Khoros Care is built for asynchronous digital engagement and it shows throughout most of its features. It performs better, the agent workflow is better, and the reporting and analytics are better. On top of that, it requires a lot less people dedicated to administering the tool. This tool is way more agile, to the point where some changes in Khoros Care can be done in a few clicks. Whereas, for other tools, it took us hours if not days of work to do something similar.

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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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Scalability has been easy. As we have grown and more customers have reached out to our digital platform, Khoros Care has been easy to work with and assess our next steps. Additionally, they are regularly integrating new platforms and tools that grow as our digital presence grows and our customers flow into those platforms.

• Less overheads due to automated features in the tool.
• Stopped using external survey tools and used care CSAT surveys, this resulted in cost-cutting.
• Saving time by responding to customers quicker.
• Ability to manage different channels in one platform and unified reporting.

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• 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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