HelpCrunch – Live Chat, Chatbot & Knowledge Base for Customer Service vs HelpForShopping

Take your customer support to the next level with the HelpCrunch WordPress plugin. Do you think it’s a tough nut to crack? Not at all! Thanks to our full-house solution, you can: Deliver second-to-none customer service Chat with website visitors in real time Automate routine tasks with chatbot Manage conversations from Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, or Viber by integrating them with HelpCrunch Catch valuable leads’ attention Encourage customer self-service with a multilingual knowledge base But that’s just scratching the surface. Let’s take a deeper look at HelpCrunch’s advanced toolset. 💬 LIVE CHAT Being the platform’s flagship feature, live chat helps you solve customers’ queries like a pro, acquire more clients and process requests in the nick of time. Auto messages for reaching out to clients proactively based on their behavior, e.g. exit intent time, time on page, last visit, etc. In-app messages for targeting users and educating them about your product or service, for instance during onboarding, upselling, feedback gathering, etc. Canned messages for streamlining service reps’ workflow. Create answers for FAQs beforehand and use them in live chat or chatbot conversations any time you need to be more productive. Knowledge base integration for making clients’ lives easier. They can search for the information without waiting for a rep’s reply, or you can send them a knowledge base article right from the live chat window. Live chat widget customization for sticking to your brand’s identity. Tweak the live chat button, choose its color scheme, add agent avatars, and do so much more. Reports for tracking team’s performance, customer satisfaction rate, first resolution time, and other metrics. Assignment rules for automating and assigning chats or tags for easier workflow. Round-robin chat assignment for distributing new chats between your team members equally. Live chat transcripts for sending the entire conversation to clients so that they have everything at their fingertips. LIVE CHAT INSTALLATION PROCESS You don’t have to be a mastermind to add the HelpCrunch live chat on your WordPress-powered website. Just follow this step-by-step instruction: STEP 1. Log into your WordPress account. STEP 2. Find the Plugins section and press Add new. STEP 3. In the Search box, type in HelpCrunch. STEP 4. Hit Install and Activate. STEP 5. Log in to your HelpCrunch account in a separate browser tab. STEP 6. Go to Settings → Channels → Website Widgets and choose the widget you’d like to install on your WordPress website. STEP 7. You will be redirected to the Installation page. Select WordPress installation guide and copy the code snippet from the HTML box. STEP 8. Go back to your WordPress account and find the HelpCrunch live chat widget under installed plugins. Open plugin Settings. STEP 9. Paste the copied HelpCrunch code snippet into the HelpCrunch Code field and save changes. Now our live chat widget is displayed in the bottom right corner of your website. If you have any problems with the setup, please check the installation guide. If you have any questions, just log in to your HelpCrunch account and chat with us. We’ll help you with everything 🤗 📱 MESSENGERS INTEGRATION Your customer service can be a great differentiator and help you stand out from the competition. Delighting your customers should be a top priority, and one of the best ways to achieve this is by communicating with them in the most convenient way possible. Luckily, HelpCrunch integrates with a range of popular messaging applications, such as: Facebook Messenger Instagram Telegram Viber WhatsApp (coming soon) Such integration can help you provide a seamless customer experience. No matter which channels your customers are using to interact with your business, you will be providing the best possible customer service. Furthermore, HelpCrunch can help your team save a lot of time and effort. Our shared inbox provides an intuitive interface for managing all customer requests from multiple channels in one place, without having to switch between different tools. 🤖 CHATBOT The new feature will ease the burden of your groovy tasks. Our chatbot is called HelpBot and has the power to support users 24/7, catch and qualify valuable leads, and encourage customer self-service. Do all chatbots have a seamless installation process? The one from HelpCrunch does! Our chatbot builder is completely code-free, so you can set it up on your website in minutes. Thanks to the pre-made templates, you can decide on the goal your bot will pursue: Collect contact details Qualify leads Offer a special discount Collect details about issues upfront Route new chats to the dedicated team Or create your own template from scratch! HelpCrunch’s chatbot is really cool because it works not only in the live chat widget, but also in popular messengers such as Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, and Viber. You might think that chatbots are a tricky feature to install. Check out our article where we shared all the ins and outs of creating your first flow. Trust us: implementing chatbots has never been that easy! 📚 KNOWLEDGE BASE Knowledge base software from HelpCrunch allows you to build a resource hub of your dreams without much hassle. Not only is it SEO-optimized but also feature-rich and multilanguage. With just a few clicks, you can create a well-oiled information hierarchy with a user-friendly WYSIWYG editor: draft new articles, add categories, and develop sections in your knowledge base. All articles are marked as “Draft” by default at the editing stage, so you can decide when it goes public. A “Preview” option is also available here: check your article first and post it! 📨 EMAIL AUTOMATION Whether you have a newsletter coming up or a one-time offer – take advantage of email marketing feature from HelpCrunch: Share company news and product announcements with your clients via perfectly built emails. Automate your marketing campaigns with email auto messages, engage existing users, and re-engage inactive ones. Create your own custom email templates or leverage ours. Monitor campaign performance with in-depth analytics. Set up email notifications not to miss a single letter when your team is offline. Send manual or auto follow-ups every time your message is unseen. Set up email forwarding to put an end to unread messages once and for all. 💁🏻‍♂️ SHARED INBOX Multi-channel customer support is now becoming a reality with the HelpCrunch shared inbox solution. No matter the size of your team, you can ease its life with a shared inbox. Owing to this helpful feature, everything is gathered under the same roof. Have your staff manage incoming conversations from live chat, social media, chatbots, and email together, leave dialogue private notes for each other, and more. Detailed customer profiles won’t let you forget a single detail about a client because such data as phone number, location, or device is safely kept. With our shared inbox, one customer service agent can handle up to 5 chats simultaneously thanks to such powerful options as tagging, rich customer data, private notes, snoozing chats for later, or assigning conversations (both manually and automatically). Live reports & analytics let you gauge your team’s productivity at a glance. Just choose a period of time and see where you need to improve your strategy. By the way, to always keep your finger on the pulse, use conversation rating to assess customer experience after closing a live chat. 🖼 POPUPS Do you want to catch your website visitors’ attention in a smarter way though have no clue how? HelpCrunch has! With our popup builder, you can be sure that no information will slip through the cracks. It offers everything you have ever wished for a perfect engagement action plan: Full customization including the opportunity to change popup appearance (popup templates, texts, animations, color schemes, and more) so that your popup is more noticeable. Popup display options: there are rules to choose from, such as browser language, current URL, number of page views, etc. Set them up and shoot a popup at the right time for the right audience to get maximum results. Live reports for optimizing popup real-time performance as people click on it. 🔗 OTHER INTEGRATIONS There is also a massive integration list to integrate HelpCrunch with your favorite tools (more integrations are on their way, so stay tuned!): Zapier Slack Google Tag Manager Google Analytics Shopify Squarespace Jimdo 3DCart Big Cartel SOUNDS INTRIGUING? BOOK A DEMO TO DISCUSS THE DETAILS AND START YOUR JOURNEY WITH HELPCRUNCH! CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS ABOUT HELPCRUNCH – THE ONE-STOP PLATFORM FOR BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH CLIENTS “HelpCrunch enabled us to manage our customer support and email automation via one platform which led to improving customer support performance by 40%.” — Valery Kurilov, CEO @ SE Ranking “We had a call info line we wanted to get rid of and have everything online in the live chat. So, that was the reason why we switched to HelpCrunch.” — Jan Střecha, Marketing Manager @ Rekola “Once we started using HelpCrunch software, we were able to return €14.8 euros on each €1 paid for HelpCrunch.” — Fitlap “Nobody’s doing the GDPR preparations the right way. We wanted to make sure we’re ready for it, so it was crucial for us to choose a compliant tool and not to worry about legal complications afterward.” — Max Bondarenko, CMO @ Revenue Grid

Unlock personalized assistance and expert guidance to help customers find their favorite products. Turn your visitors into satisfied customers. Help them find the ideal product for their needs with a tailored, human-centered user experience. Gather insights and valuable information about your customers, their purchase intent and journey on your website. Every visitor that reaches your shop has a long, intricate journey to travel before reaching his (and your goal), purchasing the best product for themselves. With HelpForShopping chat system, you can greatly reduce their effort, making the whole process simpler, making it feel natural. Clear doubts, shorten the customer journey, increase the momentum towards the purchase and increase your conversion rate. HelpForShopping is more than a live-chat. Along with our widget and access to the dedicated backoffice, you can opt to allow our own product experts to help your customers finding what they are looking for. Right on your online shop. Our experts are people passionate and experienced in several product categories. They are like the friend you may ask for help to pick the right product for you. They can guide your customers, making life much easier for them, and at the same time, increase your conversion rate, average cart value and improve their shopping experience on your website. Features Description FREE PLAN 1 Agent 300 chats/month See what Visitors are watching Engage Visitors from the Opportunities Tab Engage Visitors with Automatic Messages Browse and Suggest Products Directly from the Backoffice Quick reply to Visitors Questions with Custom FAQs Allow Visitors to Retrieve Previous Chats and Suggested Products Track Customers Satisfaction Track Sales Quick Overview Dashboard Detailed Analytics Unlimited Conversation History Basic Support Integrated with WooCommerce Integrated HelpCenter GROWTH PLANS Unlimited Chats From 1 to Unlimited Agents Accounts Scalable Price Get All the Free Plan Offers Premium Prioritary Support Define the Product Category each Agent is requested for Monitor Agents Performance EXPERTS ADDON All the features from the selected plan + Premium Prioritary Support HelpForShopping Product Experts Available on Your Website Experts Performance Tracking Serve Your Visitors Beyond Regular Working Hours Visitors can Switch Experts During Chat Installation and Setup Free and Growth Plans Download and Install the Plugin from your WordPress Admin area Go to HelpForShopping Pricing Page and activate a Starter or Growth Plan Follow the instructions until you reach the login page Login with the email and password created On the menu on the left, scroll down and click on “Client Profile” Fill the fields and Save After the “Name” field you see a key, copy it Go to your WooCommerce section on the left vertical menu of the WordPress admin area Paste the Key you just copied from the HelpForShopping backoffice and Save changes Download and Install the free plugin “Product Feed Pro” On the left menu in the WordPress admin area, click on Product Feed Pro and then on Create Feed if the interface does not open by itself. Use the general settings, select as Channel “Google Shopping”, as File Format “XML” and as Refresh interval “Daily”. Change the name of the project and country to the desired ones. In the field mapping setting, make sure that the Google Shopping Attribute “g:google_product_category” is set as “Category” in the Value Column, the required fields are: g:id = Product Id / g:title = Product Name / g:description = Product description / g:link = Link / g:image_link = Main image / g:availability = Availability / g:price = Price / g:google_product_category = Category / g:product_type = Category (not used for mapping) / g:condition = Condition / g:item_group_id = Item group ID Map each category of your shop to the Google Shopping Feed ones. While entering the category the form field acts as a quick search, to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Do not add any Feed filters and rules Disable Google Analytics Tracking and Save the feed In Product Feed Pro ==> Manage Feed, click on the “Download” icon Copy the url showing in the browser Go back to your dashboard on HelpForShopping Web App Click on “Catalog” in the left menu, then make sure the “Link” tab is selected and then paste the url you copied at step 18 into the “url” field. Click Save. If the catalog is loaded successfully a window opens in the interface allowing you to check the products included On HelpForShopping Web App go on the menu on the left at the section “Agents” Create one or more agents, according to the number picked in the selected plan For Free plans: 24. When ready, logout from the client profile and log into the Agent profile (or log in from a private-tab on your browser) For Growth plans: 24. Communicate login credentials to the agents so that they can login here Experts Addon Download and Install the Plugin from your WordPress Admin area Go to HelpForShopping and register by requesting a demo, filling the form and clicking on Submit Get login credentials and enter your backoffice area here On the menu on the left, scroll down and click on “Client Profile” Fill the fields and Save After the “Name” field you see a key, copy it Go to WooCommerce section on the left vertical menu Paste the Key you just copied from the HelpForShopping backoffice and Save changes. Download and Install the free plugin “Product Feed Pro” On the left menu in the WordPress admin area, click on Product Feed Pro and then on Create Feed if the interface does not open by itself. Use the general settings, select as Channel “Google Shopping”, as File Format “XML” and as Refresh interval “Daily”. Change the name of the project and country to the desired ones. In the field mapping setting, make sure that the Google Shopping Attribute “g:google_product_category” is set as “Category” in the Value Column, the required fields are: g:id = Product Id / g:title = Product Name / g:description = Product description / g:link = Link / g:image_link = Main image / g:availability = Availability / g:price = Price / g:google_product_category = Category / g:product_type = Category (not used for mapping) / g:condition = Condition / g:item_group_id = Item group ID Map each category of your shop to the Google Shopping Feed ones. While entering the category the form field acts as a quick search, to make it easier to find what you are looking for. Do not add any Feed filters and rules Disable Google Analytics Tracking and Save the feed In Product Feed Pro ==> Manage Feed, click on the “Download” icon Copy the url showing in the browser Go back to your dashboard on HelpForShopping Web App Click on “Catalog” in the left menu, then make sure the “Link” tab is selected and then paste the url you copied at step 18 into the “url” field. Click Save. If the catalog is loaded successfully a window opens in the interface allowing you to check the products included 3rd Party Service Dependency This plugin relies on a 3rd party service, HelpForShopping, to function properly. The service is used to allow the widget to load and connect with WooCommerce, this is require to allow your agents and/or HelpForShopping Experts (in case you opt for the addon) to talk with users on the website. How the Service is Used The plugin interacts with HelpForShopping under the following circumstances: Widget loading The plugin allows the widget to load on the WordPress website pages. Ordered Product Retrieval The plugin gathers ordered items information at order confirmation and sends the information to HelpForShopping. Registration: The service is used to authenticate users when they register and authenticate them when they log in. Processing: The service handles [specific types of processing, e.g., payments, image processing, etc.]. Please note that to use this plugin, you must have an active account with HelpForShopping and obtain the necessary API credentials. Privacy Policy and Terms of Use By using this plugin, you agree to the terms and conditions of HelpForShopping. HelpForShopping Privacy Policy It’s important to review these documents to understand how your data will be handled by the service.