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"eGain Live Web is a clear leader among solutions for real-time, web-based assisted customer service and support. We're proud to recognize eGain for its technology excellence with a Product of the Year Award for 2002."

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Live chat software


Are you looking for efficient ways of providing better experiences to your website visitors? Studies show that chat is one of the most effective channels for engaging, selling to, and serving online customers. Reach out to customers—proactively or reactively—right when they need help and avoid abandoned shopping carts and half-filled forms.
eGain Chat enables you to offer real-time chat assistance to website visitors. Agents can exchange text messages, files, web pages, and knowledge base articles with visitors to answer their queries, proactively as well reactively. Rated #1 by analysts, it is the industry’s only chat product to have been proven in both on-demand and on-site deployments for more than a decade.

An integral part of the eGain 10™ software suite, eGain Chat integrates seamlessly with the other social experience, web experience, and contact center applications in the suite. It offers endless sales and service
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opportunities when combined with companion products, eGain® Cobrowse™, a web collaboration solution, eGain® Offers™, a proactive offer management solution, and eGain® Chatbot™, a virtual assistant (avatar) solution. eGain’s chat and web collaboration solutions lead the industry in maturity, depth, and seamless integration with other interaction channels.

Provide exceptional online and mobile customer experiences

eGain Chat is designed for providing memorable customer interactions on your website and through mobile devices. Features include:
Support for most popular browsers. No client downloads required for chat.
Support for multiple languages
Chat console available as a widget for web tops, desktops, and mobile devices
Web collaboration options such as the ability to push pages and share files. Ability to cobrowse web pages and fill forms together if eGain Cobrowse is also installed
Ability to display special messages in the case of off-hour requests, waiting for agent to join chat, error during chat, exit, or abandon
Seamless integration with other interaction channels such as email and cobrowsing
Ability to print, save, and email session transcripts
Ability to make proactive offers for assistance, based on rules, if eGain Offers is also installed

Effectively handle interactions with a unified agent desktop

The eGain 360Plus Agent Desktop™ gives your agents the tools they need to serve customers in a multichannel world.
All interactions, regardless of channel, are part of the common customer profile and interaction history. This includes social interactions
Agents have the ability to change their availability settings for chat and toggle between chat and email inboxes
The common knowledge base, auto spelling checker, and blocked word checker make it easy for agents to provide high-quality responses

Brand and customize the chat experience

eGain Chat is meant to fit into your website. Features include:
Ability to configure look and feel to match company branding
Ability to set up various types of authentication options

Easily set up, route, and monitor chat infrastructure

Setting up your chat infrastructure couldn’t be easier! Administrators get a range of configuration options, which include the ability to:
Set up multiple chat entry points on your website, along with associated queues. Also, the ability to map quick links and quick responses to queues
Change the number of chats an agent can handle at a time
Use native and external chat routing engines:
 
OEM integration with Cisco contact center products
Packaged integrations with Avaya and Aspect
Route chats from queues to agents in two ways: Assign chats automatically to available agents using load balancing. Or, allow agents to pull chats
Force agents to enter a resolution code for the chat before completing it

Flexible deployment options

All eGain products come with the industry’s most comprehensive set of deployment options. They can be deployed in the cloud, on-site, or in a hybrid model. They are also available as risk-free SLaaS (Solution as a Service) deployments.

 

 
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Software 500 award 2010
October, 2010
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August, 2008
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