LiveChat vs. eDesk

LiveChat

eDesk

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
LiveChat	Score 6.9 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
eDesk	Score 10.0 out of 10	Small Businesses (1-50 employees)	eDesk is an eCommerce Help Desk purpose built for online sellers. eDesk integrates with marketplaces, channels, webstores and social channels and consolidates them into one shared dashboard. The solution provides tools and order data to help users to speedily turn around issues. eDesk allows users to respond to customer queries and meet their Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with Amazon and eBay. eDesk is designed to provide all the order, product, and delivery data within customer…	$39 per month 300 Tickets

Pricing

LiveChat

eDesk

Editions & Modules

Starter: $25
per month
Team: $59
per month per person
Business: $89
per month per person
Enterprise: Contact Sales

Shopify Entrepreneurs - 300 Tickets: $39
per month 300 Tickets
eDesk Team: $69
per month per user
eDesk Professional: $109
per month per user
Shopify Entrepreneurs - 2,000 Tickets: $158
per month 2,000 Tickets

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
LiveChat	eDesk
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Discount available for annual billing.

These are yearly plans paid monthly for using eDesk. Month to month plans are available

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	LiveChat	eDesk
Considered Both Products	LiveChat JA Joshua Alhat Operations Manager, Sales Chose LiveChat We had to move away from Intercom as it changed it pricing model and the pricing that it came to us with was out of our budget. LiveChat gave us a better product at a lesser price. Incentivized Helpful? RP Renan P Technical Support Engineer Chose LiveChat There are many other options available on the market and of course they are all competing against each other, however, LiveChat really shines more than the others due its simple user interface and the real-time typing that your user is doing on his side, we can easily see the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat WhatsApp Business Incentivized Helpful? Helen Kinnear Client Success Team Manager Chose LiveChat Live chat provides customers with quicker replies than WhatsApp and ensures queries are either answered or passed on efficiently and effectively. Incentivized Helpful? Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Chose LiveChat I have not used other program similar to LiveChat, so it would be hard for me to answer this question. Incentivized Helpful? MD Mark DiNallo Service Director Chose LiveChat 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. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat Ease of setup and use is very light and delightful on LiveChat. Quality of support provided by them is amazing. Admins can easily work on newly added features and functionality. Gives almost everything I need. Pleasurable in terms of doing business with them. This software is … Incentivized Helpful? Ashia Ackov Game Producer Chose LiveChat I haven't use ZenDesk in a few years so I can't remember any pros or cons there, they were both pretty easy to use from what I recall, but we just so happen to use LiveChat now because of the user interface and instant reports. Maybe, set-up for ZenDesk was easier. Incentivized Helpful? Cristina Gonzales Senior Manager Customer Care Chose LiveChat LiveChat is very similar to LiveAgent Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat We have also used WhatsApp Business, however this proved not to be as user friendly and we experienced several glitches and lost chats. However, WhatsApp Business does allow clients to contact us directly from a mobile app they are already likely to have and allows clients to … Incentivized Helpful? MP Michelle Penix Member Advocate Chose LiveChat This is the only job I have used a LiveChat type of program for customer service. The other employers I have worked for used phones or face to face contact in order to assist customers in the daily workplace. I believe the company chose to use LiveChat because of its efficiency … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat Transfer chats from one agent to another. It also supports agent groups, where users can easily select the department they want to talk to. Shows basic information, such as country, IP address and visited pages. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Shindler Director Of Technology Chose LiveChat These products don't load on the user's own web site and aren't as easy to use as LiveChat. We've been happy with Livechat and really haven't explored other options that much because it just works well. I wish there was a free open source product that worked well that we could … Incentivized Helpful? Dominic Johnson Sales Chose LiveChat We haven't used a similar product. Incentivized Helpful? Miguel Brito Dj, Emprendedor y Community Manager en Eventos CAR-YAN Chose LiveChat It is the first time that we've used a program of this type. Actually the result has been positive. It is very difficult to identify a problem, when the experience has been positive. We believe that this type of chat platform has the strength of contact with customers. That … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat The software allowed us to leverage additional Sales Team activity from our web traffic - letting us increase engagement with customers and drive additional sales. The chat routing functions allowed me to segment traffic on particular pages to relevant parts of the sales team. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose LiveChat They all serve different purposes but LiveChat is the only platform that's actually just for chatting rather than for communication amongst remote employees. All systems work together though and for that, our teams run smoothly and communication is amazing! Incentivized Helpful? CYNTHIA AVEH CEO Chose LiveChat MailChimp, Twitter Ads and Skype Incentivized Helpful? Marlon Seijas analista Chose LiveChat We only compare the utility for the business that is to say better for us at this time to address the concerns of our customer. According to this, the management will decide to brainstorm with the staff in charge of implementing or managing the chat. The personal responded and … Incentivized Helpful? Jordan Linford Digital Marketing Director Chose LiveChat The other ones are good too, but ultimately it was the app and ease of use that lead us to LiveChat. Incentivized Helpful? Deborah Ewenla Engineer Chose LiveChat whatsapp, Microsoft Azure, Balsamiq, Dynamic Interactive and WordPress Incentivized Helpful? Akinyinka Natasha Adeyinka Business intelligence analyst Chose LiveChat LiveChat is specifically a help desk tool and it does a good job around this niche market. Intercom tries to be a sales, help desk and marketing tool and isn't top-notch in any of these markets. LiveChat provides more support agent styled features than Intercom. Incentivized Helpful? Abiola Adeniyi Junior Software Developer Chose LiveChat While userlike is now free, (it wasn't free when we used it), we had issues with navigating around this program as it's user interface wasn't self explanatory, and they didn't provide as much support resources like videos and article which Livechat provides. Incentivized Helpful? Suyi Harrison Iwalewe Co-founder Chose LiveChat Livechat had an easy to understand user interface; unlike User like whose user interface takes a while to get around.Livechat provides better analytics too. Incentivized Helpful? Chamakhe Maurieni CEO Chose LiveChat LiveChat has an attractive user console. Userlike's User console put us off.It was simply unattractive and took us a while to even get around. Incentivized Helpful?	eDesk ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Chose eDesk They were not even close to offering what xSellco has and the ease of using the platform. eDesk by xSellco is a great price point, is very easy to use, and it also integrates with ChannelAdvisor and Big Commerce, which was a determining factor for us. It also is an Amazon … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

LiveChat

eDesk

Incident and problem management

Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Product A and Product B
	LiveChat - Ratings	eDesk 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Organize and prioritize service tickets	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Ticket creation and submission	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Ticket response	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Self Help Community

Comparison of Self Help Community features of Product A and Product B
	LiveChat - Ratings	eDesk 10.0 Ratings 22% above category average
External knowledge base	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Multi-Channel Help

Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Product A and Product B
	LiveChat - Ratings	eDesk 8.5 Ratings 6% above category average
Social integration	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Email support	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
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Enterprises	Genesys DX (discontinued) Score 10.0 out of 10	SysAid Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	LiveChat	eDesk
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	7.3 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	LiveChat	eDesk
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Great for companies that sell on marketplaces and want to merge all of their communications. It saves our customer service agents tons of time, and it also connects easily with ChannelAdvisor. It would not be appropriate for a company that does not sell on marketplaces. Incentivized ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Read full review
Pros	LiveChat has an easy to navigate UI. Most of the tabs you need are on the left and self explanatory. If the team itself has any issues with the software, there is a small help tab on the bottom right for immediate tech support. Not sure if it is 24/7 but quick response. There is also a "Reports" tab that makes it easy for the management department to keep track of tickets answered and task to assign. Incentivized Ashia Ackov Game Producer Read full review	Easy to use for customers Maintains marketplace standards for communication Is the only platform that offers these services Connects with Channel Advisor Incentivized ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Read full review
Cons	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. Incentivized MD Mark DiNallo Service Director Read full review	I wish the filters displayed closer to the top of the inbox vs the bottom The new and to-do tabs can be confusing at first Agents must take ownership once in the message; it is not auto-assigned when you click into a message, so there is room for duplication. Incentivized ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Read full review
Support Rating	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. Incentivized MP Michelle Penix Member Advocate Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	We had to move away from Intercom as it changed it pricing model and the pricing that it came to us with was out of our budget. LiveChat gave us a better product at a lesser price. Intercom did not provide us with chat support for the plan we were on - at times we had to wait 24 hours for a reply to a query on their chat. Livechat literally has chat support at all times. This really helped me with my Implemetation. Incentivized JA Joshua Alhat Operations Manager, Sales Read full review	They were not even close to offering what xSellco has and the ease of using the platform. eDesk by xSellco is a great price point, is very easy to use, and it also integrates with ChannelAdvisor and Big Commerce, which was a determining factor for us. It also is an Amazon partner and ensures that they are adhering to all of the strict communication rules Amazon has. Incentivized ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	As I mentioned before, LiveChat can be used to evaluate the quality of the service provided by your employees. LiveChat can ease the work done by your Customer Care team. In addition, it is very easy and fast to learn how to work with LiveChat, so you would need less time to train your new customer care specialists. You can have much better customer care service and your clients will be much more satisfied. Incentivized Tigran Petrosyan Risk Management Specialist Read full review	Saves agents lots of time Creates better communication with customer with less time in between messages Helps us provide great customer service Has helped us meet marketplace communication standards and receive more feedback/reviews Incentivized ES Erika Snow Marketing Manager Read full review
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