Customize your chat window font
There is no font fitting any website design. That's why we decided to let you choose the font for your chat window.
We formed a list of most popular webfonts provided by Google Fonts so that you could choose the one you like.
And if your preferred font is not in the list, just choose 'Other Google Font' option and type the required font name. All Google Fonts are supported, even the most weird ones! But be careful and use preview to make sure your chat window looks well with the new font.
Chat window settings with preview
New Chat Window Settings page is a great tool to make your chat perfect. Within one page you can
- Choose any color for your chat window
- Show or hide company logo
- Customize chat window title
- Make chat window embedded or popup
- Enlarge fonts if needed
- Enable / disable features available to your customers
And the best part is that you'll see all changes you make right there on the preview pane! Enjoy!
Chat agent app for iOS update
- Issues with iOS 12 fixed
- Chat list and Visitors list loading improved
- Agent forced logout handling improved
Close chats automatically after visitor leaves
Have you ever been so overloaded with chats that you hadn't enough time to close finished ones? Our new feature is a life saver for those who experience such a problem. Just enable chat automatic closing in your account settings and forget about tones of finished chats hanging in your agent app!
You can set a closing timeout if you need to keep chats in your app for some time.
A hidden benefit this feature provides is fair and even chats distribution between your agents.
Draw visitors' attention to your chat
Sometimes website visitors don't notice a live chat button or just don't know what it is for. With our new Eye Catcher feature you can help them to see the button, explain its purpose, and encourage visitors to contact your customer support team.
Eye Catcher is disabled by default. You can enable it in your account Control Panel, Account Settings / Eye Catcher page. Tuning up the settings, you can make Eye Catcher more or less obtrusive.
Make sure to switch your chat window to the modern one if you wish to use Eye Catcher as it is not supposed to work with our classic chat window.
Make your live chat even more safe - decide which file types can be transferred via chat
Both your chat agents and visitors can transfer files via chat if this option is enabled in your account. Unfortunately sometimes this option is used by visitors to send malicious files that can harm agents' computers. The solution is to limit file types allowed for transferring.
We offer the following options:
- Transfer image files only - use it to allow only images and screenshots transfer
- Block unsafe files - use it to block executables and scripts. Additionally, you can block archives and MS/Libre Office files that can contain executable content
- Transfer all files - use it if you are sure that your agents know how to deal with malicious files threat
File transfer limitation works for both visitors and agents.
Provide Support Live Chat app for Shopify has been released!
Welcome an effortless live chat integration solution for Shopify stores! Just install the app on your store and connect it to your existing Provide Support account or create a new one.
Get Provide Support Live Chat app for Shopify in app store.
Manage sound notifications in web chat agent app
Use the new Settings block in modern web chat agent to enable or disable sound notifications on certain events:
- Incoming chat request
- New message in chat
- New visitor entered the website
Modern chat agent app is available at https://op.providesupport.com/
Desktop Live Chat Agent App release 6.0.4
Snipping Tool to make screenshots right from the app added. Your agents can now make a screenshot and either send it to chat or copy to the system clipboard.
Sending images from the system clipboard added. If your agents prefer to use third party snipping tools, they can make and edit a screenshot with any tool they like and then just paste it to a chat using the toolbar button.
Get the new Chat Agent App build right now!
Automatic chat start is now available for modern chat window
If you have Skip Pre-chat survey option enabled and want to make jumping into chat as easy as a click, use Start chat immediately after chat window load option.
With this option enabled, a chat will start automatically as soon as your visitor loads the chat window.
Please be careful as such unexpected chat start may seem annoying for some visitors.
The option is available on Account Settings / Pre-chat Survey page.
Skipping Pre-chat survey is now possible for modern chat window
Sometimes there is nothing to ask from a customer before starting a chat. The best option in such cases is to omit Pre-chat survey and let the visitor jump into a chat right away.
When Skip Pre-chat survey option is enabled, your visitors will see a chat form after clicking online chat button on your website. Once they send the first message, the real chat will start and reach your agents.
Try the new option on Account Settings / Pre-chat Survey page.
Desktop Live Chat Agent App release 6.0.2
New desktop live chat agent app release is now available for download!
- This new version is more sensitive to connection issues and tries to fix them quickly
- Images preview is now available in the chat text
- Application language can be switched right from the toolbar
Web Live Chat Agent App has been redesigned!
We encourage our clients to use native desktop chat agent apps to communicate with customers. But sometimes it's not possible to install native app due to a company security limitations, or when using public computer.
Using web chat agent app is a perfect solution in such cases. It doesn't require installation and works well with all modern browsers. It stores your agent login credentials only if you want it to. It supports all basic chat features such as:
- multiple chats handling
- canned responses
- file transfer with media files preview
- operator-to-operator chats and chat transfer
- real-time website monitoring
- proactive chat invitation
Web live chat app was the first agent app released by our company, and we are happy to offer you its new redesigned version. It is available at https://op.providesupport.com/
If you prefer the classic version, it's still available at https://operator.providesupport.com/
Use account status alerts to monitor your chat state
If you are worried that your live chat may go offline accidentally, enable chat status notifications in your account Control Panel.
Online presence monitoring feature allows enabling separate notifications for both offline and online chat status. Notifications can be sent to up to 5 email addresses.
Live Chat Statistics pre-release is now available!
Quick and qualified customer support is one of the keystones for any kind of business. And to make support process smooth for both chat agents and customers you need to know a lot about your support team load and work. Number of incoming, accepted and missed chats, peak load hours, agents' load and acceptance rate, etc.
Our new Live Chat Statistics app provides access to all mentioned metrics and allows checking them per operator / department or for the whole company. A lot of other useful chat statistics data is available as well.
Just enable chat statistics collecting for your account and enjoy!
New pure JavaScript chat button code is now available
Are you using some CMS or E-Commerce platform to manage your website? If yes, then you must have experienced issues with adding custom HTML or scripts to your website. Modern content management systems tend to strictly limit possibility of website source code customization.
In such situations our new Pure JavaScript Chat Button Code comes in handy. It can be easily added to almost any CMS, E-Commerce platform or tag manager. You can get the code in your account Control Panel, Pure JavaScript Chat Button Code page.
