Userlike Review: Live Chat Support from Europe

Our Userlike rating in detail

Criterion	Rating	Comments
Ease of use		The interface is well structured and for the most part also easy to understand. A few settings are a bit more complicated than they need to be.
Setup		Copy and paste the code into your site or use one of their plugins. It always takes a few moments until chat widget changes become active, which can be a bit frustrating at times.
Appearance customization		You can change the color and choose between a few chat button styles as well as attention-grabbing "Eyecatchers". These don't work with all chat buttons, though.
Chat features
-Chat client (that customers use)		Looks good and can be moved around freely on the screen. Shows a photo of the agent. Users can rate their chat experience after the chat is over.
-Chat agent console / use of instant messengers (IM)		They offer a web console, which they recommend, as well as the use of IMs like Pidgin.
-Proactive chats and Triggers		Proactive chats that pop up automatically can be set up as well as goals for specific actions (e.g. user bought something after chatting to an agent). Behavior-based triggers can only be implemented by altering the code. Using their new chatbot (aka Chat Butler), you can keep people entertained while they are waiting for a human agent.
-Offline mode		Offer either a feedback form or hide it when your team is offline. You can also use the chatbot to serve your visitors when no one is there. Unfortunately, what you can do with it is quite limited.
-Shortcuts / canned messages		Canned messages can be set up easily (chat macros) as well as push macros (specific URLs that you can push your visitors to).
-Create chat protocols	Yes	Chat protocols can be sent to your chat partner's email address.
Tracking & live analytics		Once you are engaged in a chat (not before), it will show detailed user information like the country, city and the visitor's current page. It should at least should show the number of current visitors on your site so you have an idea of what's going on.
Internationalization		You can use Userlike in 7 languages. The backend is available in English, German, Spanish and Dutch. It's also possible to customize interface texts and/or to create chat widgets in different languages.
Integrations	Yes	Zendesk, Highrise, Salesforce and many more.
More features
-Working in a team	Yes	You can transfer chats within your team; groups can be defined.
-Mobile support	Yes	Works very well for website visitors on mobile devices - it adapts very well to small screen sizes. You can even change the chat behavior for mobile visitors - e.g. deactivate the greeting message.
-Co-browsing	No
-SSL encryption	Yes	All plans
-Ban users	Yes	Type /block to ban a user. The chat client will not appear anymore for this user.
-Log creation	Yes	All chat conversations are stored.
Support	Live chat, email and help section	Their personal support worked really well in our tests. They also have plenty of tutorials available.
Overall rating	3.5/5	We like the ability to set conversion goals for your agents. Intelligent trigger messages would be a useful addition.

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Conclusion:

All in all, Userlike is a solid solution although we felt the user-experience, as well as the range of features, could still be better. There were a few settings in the setup of the chat widget that we didn't find that intuitive. On the bright side, you are able to easily request screenshots from your visitors, which can solve a lot of issues very quickly.

Depending on the features you need, Userlike can be a good choice. We see particular strengths in their multilingual availability, survey and chat rating options as well as their CRM integrations. Getting live support in a European time zone and the possibility to switch off the collection of private user data can be a distinctive advantage for companies located in Europe.

It will be interesting in what ways they will develop their chatbot. So far it's too limited to really be of much help but it's a great first step.

They offer three different pricing tiers, which all feature a 14-day free trial.
 

> Go to Userlike.com and try it for free

 

Updates

27 Sep 2017 - General updates, new chatbot feature.
15 Jul 2015 - Review of the new interface, screenshots updated.
07 Aug 2014 - New chat widget, improvements for mobile users, co-browsing added.
26 Feb 2014 - More languages, chat protocols, and a few other updates.
08 Mar 2013 - The web console now features user statistics.
15 Nov 2012 - The Free plan was discontinued, pricing changes.
29 Aug 2012 - Initial tests.
 

Last updated: 27 Sep 2017 | Robert Brandl