Pure Chat
Is This Your Business?3.0
3.0
Author: Jenna Vasquez
LAST UPDATED: June 27th, 2019
PureChat is a newer product in the live chat industry. The company was founded in August 2012 and was launched under a 30-day plan and received 1,000 subscribers within its first month. After a 2 year period, it had 100,000 users, which is pretty remarkable. In 2015, the company won a major award in Arizona. The company has a pretty outstanding platform, for being basic. The paid subscriptions offer an unlimited amount of chats per month, which is fair. We also found that it is a pretty customizable solution and there are a lot of other neat features included with the product. For small businesses, we found that PureChat might be enough to get the job done, in terms of website customer service needs.
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The Good
- Price
- Unlimited languages
- Easy installation
- Simple reporting
- Triggers
- Scheduling
Price
The pricing options with PureChat are pretty amenable (Prices listed below are if you pay annually). We found three different service levels:- Free: Unlimited Users but only 15 chats per month.
- Starter: $15/Month and includes 3 users, 1 website, and 90-day chat history.
- Business: $45/Month and includes 6 users, 3 websites, and 1-year chat history.
- Growth: $99/Month and includes 15 users with unlimited websites, unlimited history, and unbranded chat boxes.
Unlimited Languages
On the website, we found that there are unlimited languages for businesses to engage with their international customers. While a complete language list was not included, we liked that such a basic chat service had major languages to help interact in different languages.Easy Installation
We felt like the installation process for PureChat was plain and simple. With PureChat, you simply install a code at the bottom of each page on your website in the same location as Google Analytics. This makes your PureChat software-as-a-service easy to install. Unless you have a website update in the future, you shouldn't ever have to deal with the code for PureChat more than once.Simple Reporting
We found that PureChat gives you some good options for tracking visitors on your website. You can see your customers' time on page, website depth, etc. In addition, the simple reporting feature works well with Google Analytics to help you see how your chats are maximizing your conversions.Triggers
We found that the triggers with this product were pretty useful. You can interact with customers who seem to get "stuck" on your website, turning them into conversions rather than page exits. Additionally, you can find customers who are about to abandon their carts in your ecommerce store. This means more conversions for your products as customers get help finding where to do something on your website.Scheduling
Sometimes, it can be a problem when an agent forgets to sign out. Instead, PureChat has a scheduler for your agents. You simply put their hours into their account and it makes them "unavailable." When all of your agents are offline, an email form appears so that customers can leave their contact information for a callback at a later date.The Bad
- Lack of cobrowsing
- Lack of file transfer
Lack of Cobrowsing
For us, the lack of cobrowsing was a pretty big deal. Cobrowsing lets you see your customer's browsing window to aid them when they are looking for something on a website. PureChat does not have this feature at this time and it severely limits the ability of the agent. It is possible, however, to send your customer a link to the area of the website that they are looking for.Lack of File Transfer
We couldn't find file transfer as a feature of PureChat. This is problematic as file sharing helps agents send files directly to a customer.The Bottom Line
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