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Boldchat v4 |
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Boldchat v2 |
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Basic Edition |
Pro Edition |
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Free Plan |
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Web Operator Client
Enables answering chats, viewing visitors, etc. from a web browser.
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Software Operator Client
Enables answering chats, viewing visitors, etc from software installed on your PC.
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Zero Text Ads
No text ads shown to visitors or operators.
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| Chat Buttons |
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Standard Chat Button
Enables adding chat buttons and text links to your website
that visitors can click to launch a chat.
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Multiple Website Support
Enables implementing chat buttons on multiple websites and enables your operators
to see where each chat originates.
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Chat Buttons on Secure Pages
Supports placing your chat buttons and text links on secure pages (https) on your website without generating security warnings.
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Chat Buttons in Email Signatures
Enables adding a chat button to your email signatures.
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Customizable Chat Buttons
Enables replacing the standard images in your chat buttons with your
own custom images.
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Auto-Switch Chat Buttons
Enables your chat buttons to automatically switch between an
available and unavailable image and your chat text links to
automatically switch between an available text link and
unavailable text link depending on your status.
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Sign-In as Away
Provides an option to login to monitor chats, review prior chats, etc.
without making yourself available to answer chats.
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| Chat Window |
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Loads Instantly
Visitors do not need to install any software. Chat window loads
instantly with no activex nor java applets used.
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Typing Indicator
Shows if the visitor or operator is currently typing.
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Resizable
Content of the chat window resizes dynamically as the chat
window is resized. Customize the initial size of the chat window.
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Auto-Link URLs
Operator typed URLs are automatically hyperlinked.
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Advanced HTML Support for Chat Messages
Supports changing the font, indenting text, adding bullets, adding links, adding images, etc.
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Unicode Support
Full support for sending unicode characters in chats.
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Push Web Pages
Push a web page to the chat visitor's web browser directly. This opens the pushed web page URL in a browser session on the chat visitor's computer.
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Customizable Logo, Colors, and Fonts
Enables customizing the logo, colors, and
fonts displayed in the chat window.
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Multiple Language Support
Customize any text displayed in the chat window allowing you to localize the chat window to any language.
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Email Chats to Visitors
Enables showing a page in the chat window after the chat has ended
allowing visitors to email the chat transcript to themselves.
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Email Chats to Operators
Enables operators to receive an email copy of a chat transcript after the chat has ended.
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Unavailable Email Form
Enables showing a page in the chat window, if no operators are available, allowing visitors to send you an email.
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Spell Checker
Checks your spelling as you type. Misspelled words are displayed with red wavy lines. Right click any misspelled word for suggestions.
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Secure Chats
Enables encrypting chats with 128 bit encryption appropriate
for transmitting credit card information safely during chats.
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| Answer Chats |
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Chat Queue
All operators can see all unanswered chats and operators can see immediately when a chat has been answered by another operator.
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Join Chat Action
Allows additional operators to join an existing chat to provide assistance, provide additional expertise, etc.
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Answer Chats to Take Ownership
Answer a new Chat to take ownership responsibility for the chat. This enables you to receive alerts associated with changes in status of that Chat.
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Assign Chats to Transfer Ownership
Transfer ownership of a Chat to another Operator or assume ownership of a Chat from another Operator. When transferring, the other Operator can receive alerts when a Chat has been transferred to them.
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Auto-Browser
View the actual web page the visitor is on when a chat is started automatically.
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Flag Chats
Flag Chats for later follow-up or to retreive an important chat quickly.
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Receive Alerts on New Chat Requests
Operators can receive a variety of audio and visual alerts when a visitor requests a chat.
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Customizable Alerts
Enables Alerts to be customized (configure audio alerts, popup alerts, flashing icon alerts, etc).
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Block Visitor from Chats
Block a visitor to your website from being able to open a chat session.
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GeoIP
Enables showing the country, region, and city for any visitor in a chat.
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Discuss Chats
Enables Operators to post internal messages to each other to discuss
a Chat. Can be used to coordinate answers such as "Jim or John, have you seen this problem before?".
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| Pro-Active Chats |
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Initiate Chats
Opens a chat window with any visitor currently on your website.
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Invite to Chat
Animates a chat invitation across the visitors browser inviting the visitor to click to chat.
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| Canned Messages |
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Creating Canned Messages
Enables creating canned messages that can be easily inserted into chats sent to users. Normally, canned
messages are used to insert a greeting, a signature, step-by-step instructions to complete a task, etc.
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Plain Text and HTML
Enables using either plain text or HTML formatting within canned messages.
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Answer & Greet Action
Enables answering a chat and sending a canned greeting with a single click.
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Hot Key Access
Enables inserting a canned message with a single key stroke (like CTRL-SHIFT-S for your signature).
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| Manage Chats |
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Search Chats
Search the online chat history by keyword, operator, date range, and website to find any chat.
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Reports
Generate PDF reports to summarize chat activity.
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| Visitor Monitoring |
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IP and Reverse IP
See the IP address and Reverse IP (host name) of each visitor.
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Real-Time Monitoring
Instantly see new visitors entering your website.
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Entry URL Tracking
View the Entry URL of every visitor (useful to see which visitors came from ad campaign #1 vs. ad campaign #2).
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Current URL Tracking
View the Current URL of every visitor (useful to see exactly where visitors are on your website).
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Page View History Tracking
View the page view history of every visitor (useful to see exactly where visitors have been on your website).
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Return Visitor Tracking
View the number of visits of every visitor (useful to see exactly which visitors are new visitors vs. return visitors).
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Custom Visitor Info
Pass custom information about your visitors from your system to be displayed to your operators (user names, email addresses, names, account status, balances, etc).
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Referer URL Tracking
View the Referer URL of every visitor (useful to see which visitors came from www.google.com vs. www.overture.com).
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GeoIP
Enables showing the country, region, and city for any visitor on your website.
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| Manage Visits |
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Search Visits
Search the online chat history by IP, date range, and visit reference to find any visit.
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Reports
Generate PDF reports to summarize visit activity.
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| Chat and Visit Histories |
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Chat History
See all chats over a specified time period.
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Visit History
See all visits over a specified time period.
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Related Chats
See all chats for the visitor of the current Chat or Visit.
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Related Visits
See all visits for the visitor of the current Chat or Visit.
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Auto-Relate Chats and Visits
Auto-relate chats and visits to a contact based on matching the visitor reference to the contact reference.
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| Flexible Grid |
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Sorting
Enables sorting rows by one or more fields by simply
clicking column headings.
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Filtering
Enables filtering rows by either exact matches or partial matches on one or more fields.
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Grouping
Enables grouping rows by any field simply by dragging
and dropping a column heading into a special Group By Box.
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Hiding/Showing Columns
Enables hiding/showing rows simply by dragging and dropping
column headings between the grid and a Column Chooser.
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Customize Row Formatting Rules
Enables rows to be formatted based on user defined rules. For example, a rule
could be created to format all rows which are assigned to you and flagged in white
text on a red background.
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| Organizing |
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Side-by-Side Tabs
Drag tabs to show side-by-side views of key information.
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User Defined Folders
Enables defining new Chat folders. Existing Chats
can be moved to a folder by dragging and dropping Chats to the specific folder.
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Folder Permissions
Restrict access to folders for individual operators.
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User Defined Categories
Enables defining categories and associating Chat with these categories. For example,
the following categories might be defined: Tech Support Inquiry,
Billing Inquiry, Business Development Inquiry.
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User Defined Statuses
Enables defining statuses and associating Chat with these statuses. For example,
the following statuses might be defined: Urgent,
Important, Not important.
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