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Deliver 24 X 7 customer support on Live Chat with Chatbots

Amp-up the power of a Live Chat with Chatbots to speed up responses and improve agent productivity — all within your inbox.

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Join 10,000+ teams that support customers across multiple channels with Hiver

Deliver 24x7 conversational customer support
with AI assistance

Start conversations and instantly engage with customers—from your inbox

Deliver seamless live chat support

Make every live chat interaction seamless. Capture customer details upfront, assign owners to chat queries, and track progress effortlessly. Stay updated in real-time with the mobile chat app and push notifications.

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    Optimize workload and boost team productivity

    Stay on top of every chat with smart alerts, automated assignments, and agent availability settings. Start conversations and respond faster with AI-powered suggestions and pre-built templates.

      Scale support and empower customers with self-service

      Help customers find answers instantly with chatbots that handle repetitive queries. When needed, seamlessly transition conversations to agents for quick resolutions. Enhance the experience by embedding Knowledge Base articles and FAQs directly in the chat widget.

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        Gain insights to enhance team performance & CX

        Improve team performance with chat analytics on volume, workload, and response times. Gather customer feedback with post-chat CSAT surveys. Use chat transcripts to share context and conversation history with teams and visitors.

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          Unleash the full potential of live chat support

          Powerful live chat features to help you speed up responses and improve team productivity.

          Auto-assignment

          Auto-assign new chats to online agents in a round-robin manner or an unassigned chat to the first responder.

          Chatbots

          Create multiple chat flows using different triggers to respond to repetitive queries with prompt chat messages.

          Help articles

          Save your team’s time by deflecting frequently asked queries by embedding help articles within the chat widget.

          Pre-chat form

          Easily capture the visitor's information to initiate follow-ups.

          Business hours

          Set live chat business hours and receive email inquiries directly through the widget outside operating hours.

          Transcripts

          Share chat transcripts to collaborate with other teams or with your website visitors as conversation logs.

          AI Openers

          Get quick AI suggestions to help you start conversations with customers.

          Nudges

          Grab visitors’ attention with chat pop-outs based on time triggers to drive engagement and conversions.

          Our customers love us for good reason

          • 50%

            reduction in first
            response time

          • 250%

            Increase in
            efficiency

          • 60%

            Reduction in first
            response time

          • 100%

            SLA success
            rate

          • 100%

            increase in
            productivity

          • 50%

            decrease in email
            resolution time

          • JÄ™drzej DÄ…browski

            I get visibility into the volume of emails, and the types of issues. I can now ensure that operational tasks are accomplished faster.

            Jędrzej Dąbrowski

            Junior Product Manager at Travelist
          • Fin Brown

            Our clients choose us over competitors due to our speed and quality of communication. We couldn’t have achieved this without Hiver.

            Fin Brown

            Project Manager, Get It Made
          • Christian Sibayan

            Hiver is a very friendly tool. It does away with the complexities of a ticketing system. Everything about it is so simple to use.

            Christian Sibayan

            Manager - Field Operations and Systems, Oxford Business Group
          • David Pinto

            I get visibility into the volume of emails, and the types of issues. I can now ensure that operational tasks are accomplished faster.

            David Pinto

            Business Development, Kiwi.com
          • Luke Thompson

            Hiver is extremely easy to use. We hit the ground running right from day one. Also, their customer service is simply fantastic!

            Luke Thompson

            Co-owner, Visiting Angels - Wisconsin
          • Luke Thompson

            With Hiver, we no longer miss emails. I also have much better visibility into where an issue is on the resolution path.

            Nathan Strang

            Ocean Freight Operations Manager, Flexport

          A live chat solution
          that is forever free!

          Unlock advanced features for just $9/user/month

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          • Free plan includes
          • Multi-channel shared inboxes

            Manage all your support channels seamlessly from your inbox.

          • Ticketing tooltip

            Organize and track emails as tasks and drive visibility into your team's workload. Includes features like:

            • Tags, notes, views and conversation IDs
            • Email templates with attachments
            • Send later, recent conversations and conversation followers
          • Live chat, WhatsApp & Voice

            Support your customers on their preferred channel.

          • Knowledge Base tooltip

            Empower your customers to self-serve and deflect repetitive queries to a centralized library of help articles.

          • Team collaboration tooltip

            Work together as a team with features such as:

            • notes, @mentions and permalinks
            • Collision detection
            • Shared drafts
          • Slack integration tooltip

            Integrate Slack with Hiver to receive real-time notifications for key events—like when you're assigned an email, receive a note, or a new message arrives in a shared mailbox.

          • 24*7 email and live chat support tooltip

            Hiver provides continuous, around-the-clock assistance through chat and email, ensuring timely help for any user inquiries or issues.

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          Lite

          $19$24

          per user per month

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          • Everything in Free plan and
          • Customer portal tooltip

            Enable your customers to track and raise issues by building a portal for your brand.

          • Workflow automations tooltip

            Build rule-based automation with:

            • Triggers like new conversations, mailbox reply
            • Conditions like from/to/CC, tags
            • Actions like assigning/updating status, assigning among, sending a reply, etc.
            • Approval workflows
          • Round-robin auto-assignment tooltip

            Auto-assign incoming emails in a round-robin fashion among your team members.

          • Service level agreements tooltip

            Ensure customer contracts and business goals are met through defined resolution times.

          • Custom fields tooltip

            Add custom data points to every conversation to use in reporting, automation workflows and the API.

          • AI Compose tooltip

            Instantly draft replies or new messages with AI. Use custom prompts to tailor responses to your needs.

          • Approval workflow tooltip

            Ensure faster approvals on requests from customers, vendors, or employees from the comfort of Gmail. Simplify approval workflows.

          • Analytics for conversation data tooltip

            Get insights about your team's workload and performance, in terms of the conversations being handled.

          • Essential integrations tooltip

            Out of the box integrations with apps like Asana, Jira, QuickBooks.

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          Growth

          $29$34

          per user per month

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          • Everything in Lite plan and
          • Analytics for team performance tooltip

            Get actionable insights with user, tag, and contact reports.

          • Custom reports tooltip

            Customize reports of all types to meet your business reporting needs.

          • Advanced integrations tooltip

            Enhance your workflow by using Zapier to integrate Hiver with thousands of the most popular apps.

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          Elite

          For large teams that need advanced features or use
          multiple shared inboxes

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          • Everything in Pro plan and
          • Skill-based routing tooltip

            Automatically assign conversations to team members based on their skill-set. For ex: emails containing the word ‘Reimbursement’ will be assigned only to the payroll specialists in the Finance team.

          • Custom roles tooltip

            Create and assign tailored roles with specific permissions to fit your team's unique workflow needs.

          • HIPAA compliance tooltip

            Hiver ensures the confidentiality and security of patient healthcare information.

          • Single sign-on tooltip

            Simplify access management with the convenience of single-sign-on functionality powered by Okta app integration.

          • Additional success services tooltip

            Get a customer success manager who will help and guide you to maximize value from Hiver platform including premier onboarding.

          • Custom build hours tooltip

            Get help with custom API and integration development.

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          • Free plan includes
          • Live chat widget

            Engage with website visitors in real-time via live chat.

          • Unlimited users tooltip

            Add as many team members as you need without restrictions.

          • Knowledge Base integration

            Connect your Knowledge Base to live chat for instant self-service support.

          • Ticketing tooltip

            Organize and track website chats as tasks and drive visibility into your team's workload. Includes features like:

            • Tags, views, and conversation IDs
            • Chat templates
            • Recent conversations and conversation followers
          • Team collaboration tooltip

            Work together seamlessly with real-time collision alerts, avoiding duplicate efforts on the same query.

          • Missed chat alerts tooltip

            Get notified instantly when a chat goes unanswered.

          • Unavailability settings tooltip

            Use the Hiver chat contact form to enable your website visitors to send you email queries when your team is offline.

          • Pre-chat form tooltip

            Collect visitor's contact information such as name, email, and phone number before they start their first chat, ensuring smooth follow-ups.

          • 24*7 email and live chat support tooltip

            Hiver provides continuous, around-the-clock assistance through chat and email, ensuring timely help for any user inquiries or issues.

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          For large teams that need advanced features or use multiple shared inboxes.

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          Multi-channel engagement
          Live Chat
          Answer all customer queries in minutes instead of hours with Hiver Live Chat, and manage these chats right inside Gmail.
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          WhatsApp
          Add WhatsApp as a support channel using Hiver. Manage all incoming queries on WhatsApp without leaving your inbox.
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          Knowledge Base
          Create help articles to empower your users to find answers on their own. Share these articles publicly with your customers or keep them private for internal use.
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          Voice Call support
          Create and manage voice as a support channel that allows you to track and make calls* right inside Gmail.
          (*requires an Aircall account)
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          Customer portal
          Simplify how your customers submit issues and track its resolution status.
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          Ticketing
          Tags, Notes and Conversation IDs
          Efficiently categorize and access business communication by using Email Tags for type and priority, with @mentions instead of CCs and forwards, and track conversations with unique Conversation IDs.
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          Email templates
          Save canned responses as email templates. Share them with your team and help them provide faster, more consistent responses.
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          Recent conversations
          Get context on historic conversations your team has had with customers, employees, partners and more. Use this information to understand them better and craft personalized responses.
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          Private inbox views
          Categorize conversations using Email Views. Use a combination of filters to bucket email conversations and save them for quick access.
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          Shared inbox views
          Create and save your custom filter combination as a Shared Inbox View, share this tailored view with your team for streamlined collaboration.
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          Out of office
          Enable team members to schedule and manage their availability, ensuring new email conversations are unassigned during their absence for seamless workflow continuity.
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          Conversation followers
          Follow email threads of interest to stay on top of critical customer issues and conversations.
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          Live Chat
          Chat contact us form
          Use Hiver chat contact form to enable your website visitors to send you email queries when your team is offline.
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          Chat transcripts
          Access chat transcripts for cross-team collaboration or send transcripts to visitors for easy reference after a chat.
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          Live Chat auto-assignment
          Allocate live chat inquiries among team members for balanced workload distribution and prompt customer service response.
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          Unlock 24X7 support with Chatbots to reduce agent workload and enhance CX.
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          Team collaboration
          Collision detection
          Avoid email duplication. Ensure no two team members work on the same query.
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          Shared drafts
          Collaborate on email responses in real time by sharing drafts with the team to figure out the best responses for your customers.
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          Approvals
          Ensure faster approvals on requests from customers, vendors, or employees from the comfort of Gmail. Simplify approval workflows.
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          Collaborators
          Collaborate with co-workers from teams outside your shared mailbox, on both internal and external queries.
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          Permalinks
          Share emails with your teammates or other departments through private and public permalinks. Control accessibility with just a few clicks.
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          Automation
          Autoresponder
          Enable automatic email responses based on specific conditions to provide immediate acknowledgments or guidance.
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          Email body search
          Set up trigger conditions based on the content in the email body to make automations more contextual.
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          Workflow automations using custom fields
          Create rule-based automation workflows using custom fields as inputs in triggers, conditions, and actions.
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          Auto assignment (round-robin)
          Leverage Hiver’s powerful rule-based automations and automate mundane and repetitive tasks for your help desk.
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          Assignment limits for round-robin
          Define an ‘Assignment Limit’ to prevent overloading of your team members.
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          Skill-based auto-assignment
          Automatically assign conversations to team members based on their skill-set. For ex: emails containing the word ‘Reimbursement’ will be assigned only to the payroll specialists in the Finance team.
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          Harvey AI
          AI Summarizer
          Compress long emails into concise notes for seamless agent hand-offs to resolve queries faster.
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          Template suggestions
          Eliminate guesswork and leverage Harvey AI to identify the best template to respond to a query.
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          Thank you detection
          Reduce time and effort spent on manually closing thank you emails.
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          AI Compose
          Instantly draft replies or new messages with AI. Use custom prompts to tailor responses to your needs.
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          Analytics
          Analytics for conversation data
          Track and analyze the conversations handled by your team.
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          Analytics for user and tag data
          Create performance reports and real-time dashboards segmented by users and tags.
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          Custom reports
          Start from scratch or build on pre-built reports to analyze your team’s performance.
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          Scheduled data reports/exports
          Pull instant or schedule reports for weekly, monthly, or annual team performance.
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          Custom Dashboards
          Create dashboards to derive insights from real-time and interactive data visualizations.
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          Analytics for custom fields
          Use custom fields to analyze your conversations, create custom reports and more.
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          CSAT
          CSAT Surveys
          Capture feedback with customer satisfaction (CSAT) surveys.
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          Analytics for CSAT surveys
          Analyze the satisfaction of your customers through reports.
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          Automation using CSAT ratings
          Create rule based automations using CSAT ratings received to improve customer engagement.
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          Integrations and API
          API and access
          Developers and admins can use Hiver APIs to build custom integrations with tools and apps of their choice.
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          Asana
          Experience Asana’s project management functionalities within Gmail - collaborate on tasks, add context, and get complete visibility into task status.
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          JIRA
          Enable teams to manage JIRA projects from Gmail. Contextualize, track and maintain visibility into issues linked to customer conversations.
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          Slack
          Communicate and collaborate with ease. Receive essential updates with Hiver’s Slack Integration.
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          QuickBooks
          Add, view, and track invoices in QuickBooks, from the comfort of Gmail. Ensure smoother management of invoices.
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          Salesforce
          Assign conversations accurately based on Salesforce CRM data and save the time and effort spent in manual email delegation.
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          Zapier
          Build smart workflows and automate daily tasks by integrating your favorite apps using Zapier with Hiver.
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          Okta Integration (Single Sign-on)
          Okta’s integration with Hiver allows admins to automate user lifecycle management and ensure smoother access management.
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          Hiver for Mobile
          Hiver Chat for Android and iOS
          Handle your chat queue while you are on the go with the Hiver Chat app
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          Hiver for Android and iOS
          Handle your email queue while you are on the go with the Hiver mobile app.
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          SLA and business hours
          SLA violation
          Monitor SLA violations to ensure your team meets response and resolution deadlines.
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          SLA reminders
          Address customer conversations timely with SLA-based reminders. Quickly access overdue & due soon conversations in a few clicks.
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          Business hours
          Set Business Hours for your shared mailbox to track SLAs accurately during your team's operating hours.
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          SLA reports
          Track by comparing SLA statuses, identifying First Response and Resolution Times, and quickly accessing overdue or imminent conversations.
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          Usage limits
          Tags
          Turn emails into actionable tasks, give them designated owners, and deliver lightening-fast support.
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          Email templates
          Turn emails into actionable tasks, give them designated owners, and deliver lightening-fast support.
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          Shared email inbox
          Turn emails into actionable tasks, give them designated owners, and deliver lightening-fast support.
          1235Unlimited
          Shared labels
          Categorize your shared inbox or selectively share emails within your team.
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          Users
          The maximum number of users that can simultaneously access and manage a single shared inbox
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          Email aliases
          Users can send emails from multiple aliases via a single Gmail account, offering flexibility for different departments
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          Rule-based automations
          This limit defines the number of rule-based automations you can create at a shared email inbox level.
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          Custom fields
          Easily collect information from conversations using predefined field types(dropdowns, text, numbers, and dates). Use this information to categorize and analyze conversations.
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          Custom roles
          Create and assign tailored roles with specific permissions to fit your team's unique workflow needs.
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          Hiver customer support
          24x7 Email support
          Hiver provides continuous, around-the-clock assistance through chat and email, ensuring timely help for any user inquiries or issues.
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          24x7 Chat support
          Hiver provides continuous, around-the-clock assistance through chat and email, ensuring timely help for any user inquiries or issues.
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          Onboarding assistance
          Hiver provides users with complimentary onboarding assistance for seamless integration and effective use of its features.
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          Dedicated success manager
          Hiver provides personalized support with dedicated success manage ensuring your team effectively utilizes the all features
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          Book a call with Hiver support team
          Customers on elite plan can immediately book a 30-min call with Hiver Support from under Hiver settings.
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          Quarterly team training
          A quarterly training program aimed at improving team skills and knowledge to use Hiver.
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          Custom build hours
          Allocated time for developing specific client or project needs.
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          Security
          GDPR
          Ensures privacy and protection of EU citizens' personal data.
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          ISO/IEC
          International standard for information security management systems.
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          CCPA
          Protects the personal information of California residents.
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          SOC2 Type II
          Audits operational and security processes against specific criteria.
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          HIPAA
          Ensures the confidentiality and security of healthcare information.
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          FAQs

          What is live chat in customer support?

          Live chat in customer support is a conversational tool that allows businesses to interact with customers on their website or mobile app in real-time. It’s about providing immediate assistance and answers, without little to no wait time. Hiver’s live chat software, in particular, is easy to set up. Teams can manage chat interactions without leaving their inbox, eliminating the need to switch between tools or learn new software.

          Why is Hiver the best free live chat software?

          Hiver is the best free live chat software because it integrates seamlessly with your inbox. Your teams can provide real-time assistance without learning complicated software or extensive training. Its forever-free plan includes essential features like ticketing, knowledge base integration, and Slack integration, making it a perfect solution for small businesses looking to streamline their customer support at zero cost.

          How does Hiver's live chat with chatbots enhance agent productivity and customer support efficiency?

          Hiver's live chat with chatbot for customer support boosts agent productivity by automating routine questions and sorting conversations for human attention, thereby allowing agents to concentrate on complex issues. This not only reduces wait time but also improves customer support efficiency by offering instant responses and personalized service when agents take over.

          Can I use chatbot for customer support?

          Yes, chatbots can be used for customer support to provide instant responses and 24x7 support. Hiver's chatbot for customer support streamlines the handling of common queries by offering accurate assistance based on predefined rules and triggers.

          What is a rule-based chatbot for customer support?

          A rule-based chatbot for customer support is a bot that responds to customer inquiries based on a set of predefined rules and scenarios. Hiver's rule-based chatbot enhances this by offering tailored 24x7 assistance, efficiently managing customer interactions with high-quality support.

          How customizable is Hiver's live chat feature, and can it align with our brand identity?

          Hiver's live chat for customer support is highly customizable, allowing you to align it with your brand identity by adding your company logo, adjusting the chat widget's color, and tweaking the welcome message. These options promote brand awareness and ensure a consistent brand experience for customers interacting with the chat.