LiveHelpNow is a configurable live chat and/or help desk platform featuring ticket management, live chat and email support, call support, a knowledgebase, analytics, and more.
$21
per month
Plone
Score10 out of 10
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Plone is a free and open source content management system built on top of the Zope application server. Plone can be used for any kind of website, including blogs, internet sites, webshops, and internal websites.
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LiveHelpNow
Plone
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Pricing Offerings
LiveHelpNow
Plone
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
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Features
LiveHelpNow
Plone
Incident and problem management
Comparison of Incident and problem management features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
8.0
1 Ratings
2% below category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Organize and prioritize service tickets
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Expert directory
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Subscription-based notifications
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
ITSM collaboration and documentation
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Self Help Community
Comparison of Self Help Community features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
10.0
1 Ratings
22% above category average
Plone
-
Ratings
External knowledge base
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Internal knowledge base
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multi-Channel Help
Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
8.8
2 Ratings
9% above category average
Plone
-
Ratings
Customer portal
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
IVR
8.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Social integration
8.02 Ratings
00 Ratings
Email support
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Help Desk CRM integration
10.01 Ratings
00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
-
Ratings
Plone
10.0
5 Ratings
19% above category average
Role-based user permissions
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Platform & Infrastructure
Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
-
Ratings
Plone
10.0
5 Ratings
25% above category average
API
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Internationalization / multi-language
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Web Content Creation
Comparison of Web Content Creation features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
Feature
LiveHelpNow
-
Ratings
Plone
9.4
6 Ratings
18% above category average
WYSIWYG editor
00 Ratings
10.06 Ratings
Code quality / cleanliness
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Admin section
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Page templates
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Library of website themes
00 Ratings
5.05 Ratings
Mobile optimization / responsive design
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Publishing workflow
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Form generator
00 Ratings
10.05 Ratings
Web Content Management
Comparison of Web Content Management features of LiveHelpNow and Plone
LiveHelpNow provides an easy way to provide youtube links, manual links and remote software links to customers in real time. There is no need for the cx to have to go check their email or go outside of LiveHelpNow to see the helpful information. Which is important as we prefer to keep customers engaged on our website!
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The larger your organization, the more appropriate Plone will be. This is not to say that Plone is a worse choice for small websites, only that the minimum investment for a Plone site is certainly higher than for other platforms. If you already use Plone for your site and are looking for a redesign or an overhaul, I would only advise switching to a different platform such as WordPress or Drupal if your organization is downsizing. For any other situation, Plone is the natural choice for your growth.
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Plone is a folder-based system, organising content in a similar way desktop-users are doing for the last two decades. No need to teach non-tech customers some relational-database like paradigm for content management.
Plone is secure. It is the most secure CMS you can get your hands on.
Plone is flexible, and makes fast development easy.
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Not everything is configurable or editable by Plone, and when you need to adjust or add custom pieces in, you need to deal with Zope. Zope has an ugly, confusing and difficult UI and structure as a backend.
Using 3rd party products is difficult to do - there are a few different ways to get them installed, all of which take a bit of luck to get right.
Building custom products for Plone is not fun. You've got to deal with an archaic framework to tie in that is not well documented (there is documentation about many things, but not great documentation and there are a lot of holes in the documentation).
Compared to the amount of Plone sites, users and customizations we have in our organization, the amount of support requests and training needed is really small.
The new user interface in Plone 6 is even better, it is super fast, has lots of different blocks for enhancing the page, has flexible layout system and is easy to extend with more features.
Our Plone sites are very robust. We have critical systems on Plone and we have been running sites on Plone for over 20 years with very little unexpected downtime.
Plone is very intensive in its operations, and if not configured well it can be slow. However it is designed and built with speed in mind and with proper use of coding, templates and caching can perform extremely well under high loads. It is capable of scaling to very high load availability environments with no specific coding requirements.
Drupal: Plone is cheaper, so with Drupal is more complex to reach the required ROI. However, Drupal has a lower learning curve WordPress: For our necessities it has a more expensive learning curve than plone. Joomla, is easier to use. However, it have some issues on security and web content where Plone is much better
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The most notable positive impact that we have experienced were during the pandemic. When the world as we know if shut down LiveHelpNow gave us a much needed way for us to stay in contact with our customers. Our hold times for phone support was at an all time high. Having LiveHelpNow allowed many many customers to receive assistance for minor issues without the frustration of calling in.
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The impact Plone has had at the University of Oshkosh is as follows: this software allows student workers to learn about IT departments and CMS's in a user-friendly way. It gives many students great jobs that look great on their resumes.
Since there are great training manuals for Plone, there is increased employee efficient in the workplace. Training doesn't take long, and if there's ever a question, the Plone manual is a great tool to refer to.
If an employee using Plone quits, its easy to find someone to replace them with quick training and great resources.