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WhosOn VS LivePerson & Boldchat

WhosOn VS LivePerson and BoldChat

How Do We Compare?

We often get asked how we compare against competitors such as LivePerson and BoldChat.. so we produced the following overview to answer that very question!
Firstly, WhosOn is available BOTH as a hosted service and as an Installable product that you install and run on your own server. The Installable product is purchased with a single one-time payment. LivePerson and BoldChat are hosted solutions only. The overview below assumes our Installable product however the featureset for our Hosted product are the same. Where we have listed ? means we have not been able to find the feature documented.

Feature WhosOn LivePerson BoldChat
Price (single operator) $39(monthly) or from
$395 (outright)
$95(monthly) $49(monthly)
Price (5 operators) $140 (monthly) or
$1175 (outright)
$475 (monthly) $220 (monthly)
Live Visitor Tracking (including):
Real time tracking of web visitors shows current page, reverse DNS, location, organisation, referrer, browser type, operating system, previous visits, previous chats.
Yes Yes Yes
Live Visitor Chat (including):
Automatic Changing Icons, Canned Responses,Co-Browsing, Emailed Transcripts, Push Pages, Audible Alerts, Spell Checker, SSL Secure Chat, 'Is Typing' status, Department Specific Chat, Multi-Language Support, Block Visitor, Chat Transfers, Auto 'Away'
Yes Yes Yes
Live Engaging Yes Yes Yes
Multi-channel dynamic live engaging Yes Yes ?
Live Chat Translation option Yes
Fully customizable pre & post chat surveys with unlimited fields & validation Yes    
Detect when a visitor leaves your site Yes Yes ?
Send files to visitors whilst chatting Yes    
Rule based live enaging with custom text for each visitor Yes ?
Visitor GEO-IP with link to Google Map Yes ?
Quick Google search for visitor's organization information Yes ?
Live visitor list grouping by visitor type, location, current page, prospect level, PPC campaign Yes ?
Live visitor filtering by location, PPC campaign, prospect level, keywords Yes ?
Prospect detection Yes ?
Customer detection with revenue collection Yes ?
Multiple PPC campaign monitoring with visit cost collection Yes ?
Multiple concurrent chat sessions in separate windows Yes ?
Email signature Yes Yes Yes
Out of hours 'leave a message' email form Yes Yes Yes
Waiting chat queue messages Yes Yes ?
Built-in 'click to call back' allowing visitors to request a manual telephone call at a time of their choosing Yes Yes
Secure operator client with 256 bit AES encyption Yes
Operator clients for Windows, Mac & Linux Yes    
Browser based Silverlight client option Yes    
Create named users, with user access rights and operator activity monitoring Yes
Operator-to-operator chat and training mode Yes Yes ?
Can be installed and hosted locally Yes
AJAX based chat client (fast, small footprint, no plugins, works on all browsers) Yes
No requirement for Java to be enabled on visitors browser Yes Yes
Fully customisable chat client (.NET source code available) Yes
Click fraud detection Yes
Manual and automatic click fraud warning notices can be sent to visitors Yes
Spider monitoring Yes
Real time page error alerting Yes
Real time website down monitoring Yes
Ability to track visitors via server-side code, web server log files or client-side javascript or image (or combination) Yes
Live enaging can execute custom javascript function on client allowing for custom actions to be performed when visitor 'invites' are sent Yes
Import historical traffic data into WhosOn database Yes
Full historical web analytics reporting (WhosOn has over 100 web analytic reports built in) Yes Yes
Automatic daily, weekly & monthly web traffic support reports send to your inbox Yes
View daily & monthly traffic summary from within the WhosOn operator client Yes
View web analytic reports via web browser interface Yes Yes
View live visitor lists both in the Windows based client and web interface Yes
Access to the WhosOn SQL Database for custom reporting Yes
Full text searching of all historical chats Yes ? ?
Capture and store visitor contact information against visitor in database Yes
Operator Client can run on low bandwidth connections with idle detection, compressed and encrypted data between server & client Yes ? ?
Can be re-branded Yes
'Powered By' link in chat window can be removed    
Uses SQL Server 2005/2008/Express as its back-end database Yes
Automatic purging of old data from database Yes
ISP's can run WhosOn to provide live chat, stats and analytics services to their own customers Yes
Live chat client can be embedded in custom solutions web and Windows applications (.NET and VB6 COM code available) Yes
Execute custom macros when new chat sessions start & end allow custom integration Yes    
Built-in DotNetNuke integration Yes
Operator client API available for building custom operator applications Yes
Transfer Live Chats and visitor contact data to Salesforce & Microsoft Dynamics CRM Yes