FAQs

How Will Live247Support Help My Business?
Live247Support enables you to offer live customer support via our instant messaging software to visitors of your website. With our WeTalk Features, our Online Customer Relations Agents answer all customer inquiries instantly. When your customers are offered personalised support, guidance and reassurance by our Representatives, they are more likely to become loyal customers. In addition to this, you will be able to cut your staff costs because the number of emails sent to you by customers asking repetitive questions is likely to be cut by over 90% when you offer live chat support.

What Packages does Live247Support Offer?
The WeTalk package provides live chat support service for small medium and large businesses, while the YouTalk package allows you to use our online based chat support software with your own staff for free.

What Features Does Your Service Have?
Please see the Features page for full details.

How Soon After Joining Can I Start Using the Live247Support System?
Your account will be activated immediately. If you choose the WeTalk package our expert team can start answering inquiries from visitors to your site within 4 to 24 hours, one of our account managers will start the training program once you install our HTML code and click "activate" in your control panel

Can I have Live247Support Running on More than One Website?
Yes. With WeTalk Features we require a separate subscription for each website submitted. However if you have several domains pointing to the one domain this is accepted as one website. With the YouTalk Package you can use multiple websites for a small additional fee.

Can I Cancel at Any Time Without Penalties?
Yes. Click the ‘Close Account’ button on your admin page. Prepaid minutes are refundable. However, we cannot refund prepaid minutes under the value of $30 due to administration fees.

Is There a Minimum Top Up to Pay Per Month?
No, you only pay for what you need. You can view the Live247support Terms of Service here

Can I Switch Features After Joining?

Yes, you can switch your package at any time however you will lose any remaining minutes left in your WeTalk account.
It is therefore highly recommended to consume all your minutes before switching packages

Where can I find the Live247Support Terms of Service?
You can view the Live247support Terms of Service here
Am I Locked into a Long-Term Contract?
No, you can cancel at any time. You will be refunded your prepay minutes (sorry, no refunds for prepaid minutes under the value of $30 due to admin charges). Previous and current monthly subscriptions cannot be refunded.

How Often Will I be Billed by Live247Support?
You will be billed monthly for the subscription and you can either ‘pay as you go’ with prepay minutes, or use Auto Top Up.

Can I Pay by Check or Money Order?
Yes, see the Payments Methods page.

When Will My Credit Card be Charged for the Live247Support Service?
For subscription-based users, your billing date will usually be within five-days of the day you sign up for Live247support. You will be billed every month unless you click ‘Close Account’ in your control panel.

How Will I Receive My Monthly Statement?
You will receive your monthly statement via your online control panel.

How are Minutes-Used Calculated?
Minutes used are calculated on a continual basis. For example, if you use 1 min 45 sec, you will be charged for 1.75 minutes (or one minute and three quarters). During a time of inactivity, the chat log will remain active for up to two minutes.

What if I Exceed the Prepaid or Free Minutes Without Toping Up?
The system will not allow you to go over your allocated minutes. The system automatically turns your status from being “Online” to “Offline” if this happens. You can select the Auto Top Up option to avoid being shown as offline. If you have not selected the Auto Top Up service and your minutes expire during a conversation, we will continue the current conversation(s) until the conversation(s) naturally end. This will avoid any disruption to your potential customers who are seeking advice.

Do Unused Minutes Rollover to the Next Month?
Yes any minutes purchased will be rolled over to the next month.
How Do I Install the HTML Code Snippet on My Website?
Installing the HTML code snippet is extremely simple. You just copy it from the place it is generated in your control panel to your website code. If for any reason you feel unable to install the HTML code snippet, contact us and we can install it for you for a small fee.

Do I Need to Install Anything on My Server to Run Live247Support?
No. The Live247support application will run on our servers. However, it will appear to your site's visitors that it is run from your website.

Will the Live247Support Ever Experience Any Downtime?
The Live247support service boasts 99.5% uptime. You can rest-assured knowing that your customers and site visitors will have Live247Support available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Does the Live247Support YouTalk Package Run on My Computer?
Live247Support YouTalk Package is designed to run from any computer online through your control panel. There’s no need to download anything.


How will Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents Know How to Answer Inquiries and Deal with Customers on My Website?
When you sign up for the Live247Support service, you will be prompted to complete a questionnaire and submit your FAQ's. These details will usually contain all the necessary information to handle most inquiries. If the Live247support Representative cannot determine a solution to the customer's problem with the given information, he or she will prompt the customer to email you or when next to call, and inform the customer of office opening hours etc.

How Many Online Customer Relations Agents Will Service My Website?
For each website using WeTalk Package no less than fifteen Representatives will be trained specially to deal with customers from your website. At any one time, there will be five Representatives awaiting customer inquiries from your website. If your website creates too many inquiries for five Representatives to handle, we will train more agents to deal with customers from your website to meet demand at no additional cost.

How Can I Instruct the Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents How to Respond to Inquiries?
You can specify how you would like Live247Support Representatives to handle your inquiries, including whether you would like to the Representatives to identify themselves as employees of your company, or as third-party representatives, how they should greet your customers and products they should recommend. You can even chat directly with the Representatives that service your website to give them pointers and make requests, observe chats from your website in real time, download chat logs to review and even engage in current chats all through your online control panel!

What Type of Inquiries can Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents Assist With?
Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents are trained to respond to a variety of inquiries. We regularly handle inquiries such as general product questions, hours and operation of your phone-support team and/or physical storefront, and checking order status (a website where we can view the status of your customers' orders must be furnished if you would like us to check order status). Just contact us if you have any special requests. Anything your staff can do, our staff can do for less.

What are Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents Trained to Do?
Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agents are trained to answer customer-service questions, up-sell your product and assist with everything from how to place an order to dealing with refunds. You can be assured that Live247support will do everything possible to ensure that every visitor to your website becomes a loyal customer.

How Quickly will a Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agent Respond?
Most chat requests will be responded to immediately. Occasionally, during high usage it may take up to 15-seconds for a Live247Support Online Customer Relations Agent to respond to an incoming chat.

Can I Use My Own Staff to Respond to Inquires?
Yes. Subscribe to the YouTalk Package.
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