There is a good chance you want to do some testing with SnapEngage before you make your Live Chat public, that is: before you go live with Live Chat. Here’s a quick guide to help you slip SnapEngage into your site like a little chat ninja, without alerting your visitors to its presence.

This will require getting your hands a …

If you are wanting to hide the mobile button, you will need to edit the code snippet you place on your website. Below are 2 options for doing this.

Use this snippet to hide the button on mobile AND disable proactive chat

<!-- begin SnapEngage code -->;
<script type="text/javascript">
  (function() {
    var se = document.createElement('script'); se.type = 'text/javascript'; se.async = 

How to: Read chat transcripts

Chat transcripts (also known as chat logs) are a powerful tool which, if analyzed correctly, can help your chat agents be more efficient. This in turn provides a better visitor experience, which is why we do what we do! From an agent’s perspective, they can be helpful as a point of reference for previous chats …

Let us assume that we have three agents set up in a widget; Jasmin, Jon and Dante. All three of them have been assigned with tags based on the languages they speak and whether they should be handling support or sales chats.

Jasmin has been tagged with german, english, sales and support, Jon with english, french, spanish, mandarin and support…

Let us assume that we have two agents set up in a widget; Jasmin and Jon each with a different set of tags.

Jasmin has been tagged with “spanish” and “gold” and Jon with “spanish” and “spanishexpert”.

To illustrate how reactive chats are routed when using tags, we shall explore a handful of different scenarios in which one of them …

Our new customization tool, the long awaited Design Studio about which you can read here, has arrived. It is a powerful tool that will allow you to be as artistic as you may and make your chat box and pre-chat / offline forms best suit your website.

It is a newly released tool however and as we are still …

This article will attempt to address issues involving not being able to use the spacebar in a chat window as seen below.

If you are in a chat and notice that the spacebar is non responsive, it could be due to a Javascript conflict. We have had some reports from SnapEngage users who use the Galleriffic 2.0 library experiencing …

Like other applications and websites, you can configure your device to also automatically start the Chat Portal.

Although chatting is fun and it easily becomes a habit to start and log in your Chat Portal, having it start automatically will make sure that you do not forget to become available for your web-visitors who will be looking to chat with …

When visitors land on your website, perhaps you want to capture their information before they leave without waiting for them to click the chat button. Well, there is a way to programmatically pop-up the Pre-Chat form for your website visitors. Here is a copy-and-paste Javascript snippet that you can use to do this. This snippet uses a few of our …

Overview

You can start a chat from an email link, however, there are certain limitations. SnapEngage needs an active browser window to work — JavaScript code can not be included in emails for security reasons. So you’ll need to create a special “landing page” for these email links.

Create your landing page

This can be any old page on your …

1. Click on the Agent Settings tab of your Admin Dashboard and then click Edit

When using the Chat Portal on SnapEngage you can easily transfer a chat to a different widget with the ‘Transfer’ button from the top right corner.

If you use Google Talk you can transfer a chat from one widget to another with the following command:

\grouptransfer {widgetid}

(enter your widget ID without the {brackets}.)

Your widget IDs can be found …

Add the following call in the same JavaScript block as the call to init() or addButton()

…

To view a chat transcript prior to the end of the conversation:

1. Log into your admin panel.
2. Select the Dashboard tab and choose between the Single and Multi Monitor. The Single Monitor will display the chat activity of the current widget while with the Multi Monitor you can see the activity on more widgets. In both cases …

When you try SnapEngage free for 15 days, we want to make sure you experience all the great features and benefits that we offer with our product.

Here are some features you don’t want to miss!

• Excellent Support:  Offices on two continents allow us to cover a broad time range for support. We are here to answer your questions from

IE does not offer the same Desktop Notifications as other browsers, but it does offer something similar with Pinned Sites. Once a site is pinned to the task bar, the Chat Portal can add a badge to the taskbar icon based on your Chat Portal’s Desktop Notification settings. Also, the taskbar icon will flash if the Chat Portal is not …

Desktop notifications are a great way to make sure you never miss a chat with a website and to stay alert of any important information from visitors and within a team chat.

Getting setup

First thing is to make sure you’re using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Safari. (Internet Explorer   users please see see this post for more …

We have so many useful features that you may have missed a few! We want to make sure you’re getting every ounce of value out of our Live Chat, so here are some of our best features you may not be using (yet!).…

Understand and make use of our Real-Time Chat Monitoring to get all of your chat activity at a glance. Whether you have a single widget or multiple, we have a monitoring page that tracks active chats. This doc will explain the Chat Monitor in detail. To access the Chat Monitor, click on the “Chats” tab of your Admin dashboard, which …

There are a number of scenarios where you might want to use Multiple Widgets to segment various types of chat teams. The most common being separate widgets for Sales and Support teams. Others might include: one widget for each language your support team speaks, or different escalation levels of technical support, or any number of possibilities.

Using Multiple Widgets gives …

Whether you’re new to SnapEngage, or new to Live Chat in general, we want to make sure that you get the most out of our solution. In this document you will find some of our collective wisdom on how to use your Live Chat most effectively.

Get familiar with the Chat Portal

Although it might sound obvious, it is important …

Thousands of organizations use SnapEngage to attract more customers… 20% more on average! Here are some of the amazing ways they have done it.

1. Turbo charge your conversion page

When visitors pause at the signup page or checkout page, they usually still have questions on their mind. How do we get them what they need quickly so they can …

We occasionally hear requests for this feature, “Site Monitoring,” which allows you to view all of your website visitors in real time for the purpose of manually extending chat invitations one by one.

We decided that the time had come to document our official stance on the matter.

It is not surprising that Site Monitoring seems attractive at first glance, …

What are agents? 

Not THOSE agents! Agents are what we call the people who will be using SnapEngage chat to help your customers with their questions. They are the front line of customer service, so you want to set them up as best as you can!

Here we will go into detail on what settings you will be able to …

If you’re using the SnapEngage Web Client, making good use of the Team Chat feature could significantly improve you and/or your team’s performance.

(And if you’re not using the Web Client, now is a great time to give it a try!)

What follows is a list of features, and tips on how to make them work for you. …

Some users may want to hide the Chat Button initially, then reveal it after X seconds. Here is a little copy-and-paste Javascript snippet you can use to do this. This snippet utilizes the functions: SnapEngage.hideButton() and SnapEngage.showButton().…