LiveAgent vs. LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LiveAgent
Score 8.6 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
LiveAgent is a help desk software designed to help users bring personalization to customer interactions. LiveAgent presents an omnichannel universal inbox, real-time live chat, built-in call center, and a customer service portal. It offers customer segmentation, automation, built-in CRM, and an analytics package, as well as gamification features, ultimately containing are over 180+ help desk features, and 200+ integrations. The solution boasts users among companies like BMW, Yamaha,…
$9
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
LiveAgentLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Editions & Modules
Free
$0
per month
Small
$9
per month per seat
Medium
$29
per month per seat
Large
$49
per month per seat
Enterprise
$69
per month per seat
Downloadable licence
11,950
20 agents
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LiveAgentLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Chose LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
In comparison with others, LiveEngage was better at meeting our requirements, they were able to pretty much listen to our needs and have one of their sales manager craft the best solutions to what we needed. I felt more comfortable and the support received, It gave me more …
Top Pros
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Features
LiveAgentLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
LiveAgent
7.8
59 Ratings
1% below category average
LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
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Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets8.056 Ratings00 Ratings
Expert directory7.947 Ratings00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications6.942 Ratings00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation6.738 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission8.558 Ratings00 Ratings
Ticket response8.659 Ratings00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
LiveAgent
9.7
52 Ratings
22% above category average
LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
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Ratings
External knowledge base9.649 Ratings00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base9.747 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
LiveAgent
8.3
58 Ratings
8% above category average
LivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
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Ratings
Customer portal9.653 Ratings00 Ratings
IVR6.728 Ratings00 Ratings
Social integration8.050 Ratings00 Ratings
Email support7.754 Ratings00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration9.546 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
LiveAgentLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(117 ratings)
8.0
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.3
(4 ratings)
10.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.3
(24 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LiveAgentLivePerson Conversation Cloud (LiveEngage)
Likelihood to Recommend
QualityUnit, LLC
LiveAgent is great for companies that want to help customers with their issues. It is also great for getting sales for our company. During our chats, if a customer is interested, we like to ask for the sale. It is too easy for the customers to say no. So it is nice that with LiveAgent, they have an automatic process where the customer can enter their item and address information and it is easy for our agents to get the sale.
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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
QualityUnit, LLC
  • Having the ability to transfer tickets or chats has proven useful when we are working with a customer who has a specific type of inquiry - perhaps a sales question or an employment request. We’ve found it helpful to have the ability to transfer the chat to the online agent best equipped to answer the inquiry so we are able to serve our customers to the highest standard and with an immediate response.
  • We find being able to add notes and labels to previous chats and tickets incredibly helpful in data collection and also in our ability to work as a dynamic team. By being able to sort our chats and tickets into an organized system that our company created, we can work cohesively to review old conversations for continuity, opportunities for growth, and with transparency between departments.
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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
QualityUnit, LLC
  • LA doesn't provide you SMS integration.
  • You cannot divert your phone call from your local carrier to LA agent directly. You need to get a third party number which is way much costly. Also, if you get a third party number to divert your calls from a local carrier to LA, then the callers have to wait more than the usual time in order to get them connected with the Customer Support Team.
  • WhatsApp Integration also unavailable.
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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
QualityUnit, LLC
I am giving this rating as Live Agent is a very good software that is essential to any small or big business that provides customer support services. It gives you the possibility to manage any of your clients issues, answer questions and keep a good relationship with them by providing quick solutions.
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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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Usability
QualityUnit, LLC
The initial setup, onboarding and training is easy. The system provides 2 graphic version of interfaces in black or white default colors. I would appreciate, if there were more. Some of the setup forms are not correctly resized. Overall, I'm always able to find what I am looking for in LiveAgent.
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LivePerson
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
QualityUnit, LLC
The one time that I contacted the customer support at LiveAgent, they were very quick to help me out and the customer support representative walked me through every thing that I needed to know to set up what I needed. Over all, the support staff at LiveAgent were perfect.
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LivePerson
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
QualityUnit, LLC
Implementation was quick and when not counting a bug on our website, it took a couple hours. It was mostly done on our end or with the assistance of LiveAgent's live chat support team. We recommend to check out LiveAgent's tutorial videos on their youtube channel or browsing their knowledge base - we've almost always found answers to our queries there.
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LivePerson
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
QualityUnit, LLC
Before making the decision, we evaluated many tools, but none of them met all of our needs or the costs we could bear for them, until we found LiveAgent. The implementation process was super simple and supported by the LiveAgent support team, who are excellent!
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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
QualityUnit, LLC
  • Less expensive than having multiple individual email accounts.
  • LiveAgent has helped decrease our errors since it's more straightforward than sharing a traditional inbox with multiple team members.
  • Sometimes the emails sent from LiveAgent end up in our customer's spam/junk folder because the auto-generated alpha-numeric ticket looks suspicious.
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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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