HelpCrunch vs. LiveChat

LiveChat

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HelpCrunch	Score 8.3 out of 10	N/A	All-in-one software for better customer communication HelpCrunch toolset includes: Live chat Email marketing automation Simple Helpdesk It's a perfect solution for customer support, sales & marketing teams at SaaS, E-commerce, and any other online businesses. Acquire, convert more leads, and support your customers better.	$12 per month
LiveChat	Score 9.3 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 them…	$20 per month, billed annually per user

Pricing

HelpCrunch

LiveChat

Editions & Modules

Basic - Live chat: $12.00
per month
Premium - Live chat: $21.00
per month
Basic - Live chat+Emails: $25.00
per month
Premium - Live chat+Emails: $43.00
per month

Starter: $20
per month, billed annually per user
Team: $41
per month, billed annually per user
Busniess: $59
per month, billed annually per user
Enterprise: Request Quote from Sales

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Unlike most competitors, HelpCrunch's pricing is agent-based (not contacts-based) which gives you a full transparency of your chosen pricing plan and straightforward billing. Free 14-day trial is available to take the solution for a test drive. We're pretty flexible in terms of pricing. If you need a custom pricing plan - just message us via our website chat and we'll come up with a suitable pricing for your needs.

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More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	HelpCrunch	LiveChat
Considered Both Products	HelpCrunch Verified User Anonymous Chose HelpCrunch It is much better than most alternatives available. After doing an initial evaluation with competing solutions, this ended up checking most boxes covering [the] majority of used cases. Incentivized Helpful? SK Shahid Khan Founder Chose HelpCrunch I like to call HelpCrunch as the best live chat software ever used since it provides all the features with the best price. It keeps the agent motivated and help achieve better customer experience leading to higher sales. The other products will usually miss one or the other. … Incentivized Helpful? AS Alan Smith Owner & Operator Chose HelpCrunch We used Small Chat in the past. This is a really light-weight live chat solution which didn't have all the features that HelpCrunch has. So it's possibly not a fair example. I also looked at the market leader - Intercom - who certainly provide a similar service however the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose HelpCrunch HelpCrunch is more affordable than other alternatives on the market and offers better customer support. Incentivized Helpful?	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? 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? Sue Farrance Head Of Customer Success Chose LiveChat I have used two other products that are similar but neither felt as straightforward as LiveChat, and some costs were prohibitive in themselves. Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	HelpCrunch	LiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HelpCrunch	LiveChat
Likelihood to Recommend	HelpCrunch is well suited when you need to provide support to your customers, generate leads and answer questions to drive sales. I cannot think of a situation where it may not be suitable but it is definitely more suitable for the B2C segment. SK Shahid Khan Founder Read full review	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
Pros	Affordable pricing Great customer support Useful features Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Cons	It needs additional training resources. End user support is not the greatest. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Support Rating	Always available, very knowledgeable, faster resolution. SK Shahid Khan Founder Read full review	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
Alternatives Considered	It is much better than most alternatives available. After doing an initial evaluation with competing solutions, this ended up checking most boxes covering [the] majority of used cases. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	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
Return on Investment	Only been using it for a few weeks so I can't give an exact amount relating to ROI, however, I have noticed a 20% increase in interactions with website visitors AS Alan Smith Owner & Operator Read full review	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
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