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31 Aug 10 Generating the code to put on your website

 

In order to use the Live Chat Service on your website, you need to retrieve the HTML code and put it on your website.

Follow the steps mentioned below to obtain the code:

1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

2. Here, click Manage Live Chat Service. This will take you to the Registered members area.

3. Here, click the code that you require from the different types of codes listed under INTEGRATION CODE section, and copy this code to your website. Click here to know about different types of codes available >>

IMPORTANT 

1. If you use the code available within the LivehelpGenie Operator software, the visitors will be visible only to the Agent who copied the code.

2. The code provided in the software is different than the one provided within the control panel.

3. Ports in the range 37643 to 37648 need to be enabled/opened for the following to work:

i. Live Chat Agent software – If this software is installed on a computer that is behind a Firewall or Proxy Server, then you need to request your System Administrator to enable/open these ports for you.

If you are connected to the Internet via a Cable/DSL ISP, then you need to contact your ISP and request them to enable these for you. Typically, Dial-up Internet users do not face port blocking issues and would not have to request their ISP for enabling these ports.

ii. Live Chat code for your website – If the web server where your website is hosted (which has the LivehelpGenie Live Chat code installed) behind a Firewall, then you need to request your Web Hosting Provider to enable/open these ports for you.

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31 Aug 10 Suspending/Unsuspending the Live Chat Service

 

Order Suspension is a useful feature available to Resellers of Gossimer. In this status, the Order remains in the database but is inactive and the functionality associated with it cannot be used. No one can make any modifications to this Service, unless it is unsuspended.

Follow the steps below to Suspend / Unsuspend the Live Chat Service for a Domain Name

1. Login to your Reseller Control Panel from http://manage.gossimer.biz/reseller.

2. Go to Products -> Search -> Live Chat Service Search and search for the Domain Name for which you wish to suspend the Live Chat Service.

3. In the Order list, click the Domain Name. This will take you to the Order Details view.

4. Here, click Suspend / Unsuspend.

  • If you wish to Suspend the Service, you would have to select the check box for Suspension, enter the reason for Suspension and click Update.
     
  • For Unsuspending, unselect the check box and click Update.

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30 Aug 10 Customizing the Chat Window

Whenever a visitor at your website clicks the Live Chat icon, a new browser window is launched. This window uses a Java applet to connect to the LivehelpGenie Server and provides chat technology.

Gossimer provides you the ability to comprehensively customize this chat window. Not only can you determine the color themes and logos, but you can also modify the default hard-coded messages and button labels. Follow the steps below to customize the chat window:

1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

2. Here, click Manage Live Chat Service. This will take you to the Registered members area.

3. Under Settings, click Chat Window Branding.

4. Here, you can specify details such as

  • The location of your company address and logo – Every time a chat window opens, your choice of logo is fetched from the URL you specify here and displayed in the window.
  • The link to which your image points
  • Miscellaneous text, such as a Welcome message or your Company slogan.
  • The window color theme
  • Display post chat survey and option for visitor to receive copy of chat transcript by email
  • A customized message to be displayed when your Support Operators are not available for some reason.

5. Click Submit.

6. Under SETTINGS, click Chat Window Text.

7. Here, you can specify your own messages or text to replace the default hard coded text in the chat window, such as the connection or wait messages and the button labels.

8. Once you have specified these, click Submit.

 

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26 Aug 10 Renewing / Upgrading / Downgrading / Deleting your Live Chat Service package

You can perform any modifications, such as Renewing, Upgrading/Downgrading or Deleting your Live Chat Service package from your Control Panel itself. Follow the steps outlined below to make the modifications you desire –

Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service package and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

 

Renew your Live Chat Service

You can Renew your Live Chat Service package at anytime, for a duration ranging from 6 months to 5 years.

     

  1. In the Order Details view, click Renew Service button.
     
  2. On the next page, select the duration for which you wish to Renew this package, and click Renew Service.
     
  3. Then proceed to make the payment and the Renewal would be effected immediately.
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Upgrade/Downgrade your Service

At any point in time, you can Upgrade or *Downgrade to any of the other Live Chat Service packages offered by Gossimer, to suit your requirements.

     

  1. In the Order details view, click Upgrade/Downgrade button.
     
  2. Here, in the Package Details section, select the package to which you wish to Upgrade/Downgrade. Simultaneously, you may choose to extend the duration of your package by selecting a duration from the Renew Service drop-down.
     
  3. When you select the new specifications for your Order, you would see the cost of the modification. This is calculated as

    ([n x Monthly cost of the new package] + Pro-rated cost for the current month) – Credits remaining from the existing package

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where, n = duration of the new package in months

 

  • Then proceed to pay for the Invoice, if any payment is applicable. The modification would be effected immediately.
  • IMPORTANT 

    *On downgrading a package, the surplus funds are not credited to your account – however, they can be immediately utilized to extend the duration of your package.

     

     

    Delete your Service

    If for some reason, you do not wish to continue with the Live Chat Service provided by Gossimer, then you may Delete your Live Chat Service package.

    1. In the Order Details view, click the Delete Service button.
       
    2. Confirm the Deletion of this package.
       
    3. On confirming, Deletion would be effective immediately.

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    24 Aug 10 Determining which code you need for your website

    Once you have set up your support chat system, you need to put a certain piece of code on your website. Although it is not necessary to put this code on every page of your site, it would be advisable to do so for best results.

    Gossimer offers you several types of codes to use for your Live Chat setup. You can use any of the following, to suit your purpose -

    1. LivehelpGenie code for websites - Use this code on your websites, to track movement of visitors, and provide a chat link. There are several variations of this code, for instance

    • LivehelpGenie Live Chat and Tracking Code: For pages where you wish to track visitors, and display a Live Chat image.
       
    • LivehelpGenie Live Chat email signature code: To put in your HTML emails.
       
    • LivehelpGenie Live Tracking Code for pages: For pages where you wish to track visitors, without Live Chat Image display.
       
    • LivehelpGenie Code for Secure Websites: For sites starting with https://. There are two sets of code, for tracking with or without the Live Chat Image display.
       

    2. LivehelpGenie code for auctions – Use this code on your auction websites. Provide the name of the Auction, and your username for the selected Auction Type, and click Get My Code to generate the code that you can use on your site.

    Once you have decided about the type of code to use, you need to generate the code to put on your website. Click here to read how >>

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    23 Aug 10 Configuring your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software

    Before interacting with your website visitors for the first time, we would advise you to configure your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software, as follows:-

    Customize your Welcome Message

    When you choose to accept a chat request from your website visitor, you can automatically push a custom Welcome/Greeting Message to the visitor. Typical Welcome Messages look like Hi, I am Your_Name. How may I assist you today? or Welcome to Your_Website. How may I help you?

    You can set your personal Welcome Message from within your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software from Options -> Customize -> Welcome Message.
     

    Prepare Canned Messages and Store them within your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software

    While conversing with visitors, you will realize that there are a lot of standard questions that people ask. You can easily prepare detailed responses for such questions in advance and store them within your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software, so that when visitors ask you these standard questions, you can simply provide them with a canned response to save your time and effort in typing the same response over and over again.

    You may store and push the following types of Canned Messages to your website visitors:

    1. Click Canned -> Manage Canned Messages within your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software

    2. Under Canned Manager, click any one of the following categories and click the Add Item button

       

    1. HTML – You can push any HTML content to your website visitors by storing it in a canned response.ExampleFeel free to email us at <a href=”mailto:name@yourdomainname.com”>name@yourdomainname.com</a>.The above would appear as follows in your visitors chat window -Feel free to email us at name@yourdomainname.com.
       
    2. Images – You can easily display an image inline to your website visitors within their chat window, by mentioning the URL of this Image.
       
    3. Web Pages – You can push a web page to your website visitors, by storing a URL here. When you push a web page to your website visitors, they are prompted to accept opening up the pushed page in their default browser.You can customize the message that is pre-fixed and post-fixed to the pushed webpage by modifying the following 2 messages through Chat Window Customization -The Site Operator would Like you to Visit The Following Website
      Press Ok To Open a new Window & View This Page Click here to read in detail about customizing the Chat Window >> 
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    5. Frequently Used Responses – You may prepare standard responses to common queries and store them within your LivehelpGenie Agent Client software, so that when a visitor inquires about the same, you may push your response to him immediately.
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    3. Click OK in the Add file window to save the canned message

    4. Once you added all the required messages, close the Canned Manager window. These messages will now be available to you when you begin conversing with your website visitors.

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    21 Aug 10 How do I start using the Live Chat Service?

    Once you have purchased the Live Chat Service, you need to take the following steps to start using Live Chat on your website.

    1. Choose the required icon set. Click here to find out how >>

    2. Add Operators (and Departments). Click here to find out how >>

    3. Get the HTML code you need to paste into your web pages and emails and add it to your website. Click here to find out how >>

    4. Customize the chat window interface. Click here to find out how >>

    5. Download the LivehelpGenie Agent Client software and install it on each Agent’s computer. Click here to find out how >>

    Once you have completed these steps, simply login to the LivehelpGenie Agent Client software using the Agent Username and Password created in Step 2, and begin entertaining chat requests from your website.

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    14 Aug 10 How does Live Chat work?

    On your website, a visitor hits the Live Chat icon when he encounters a problem or has a question that needs human response. Should an Operator not be available, a message is instantly taken and a response given to the customer at the time they take action. However, immediate response can be given if an Operator is on-line, creating the very best of customer support and satisfaction. Operators can respond to multiple enquiries simultaneously, meaning even your customer support team can be working to greatest effect.

     

    Live Chat primarily has 2 components, which are given to you when you purchase the Service. One component is a small piece of JavaScript code which must be pasted on pages of your website. The second component is Windows-based software, that is to be used by you/your webmaster and your team of support operators.

    IMPORTANT 

    1. Before your website visitor can chat with your Live Chat Operators, he must have either JAVA or Flash 7 or higher installed in his computer. If neither of these are installed on the visitor’s computer, the Chat window will not get initialized in his browser, due to which he will not be able to chat.

    2. A visitor to your website will be able to use the Live Chat Service only if firewall ports 43 and 143 are enabled at his end.

    Reference:

    Java >>
    Flash >>

     

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    12 Aug 10 Listing, Searching and Managing Orders

    In order to manage your Live Chat Orders, you need to search for them from your Control Panel with Gossimer, and access their Order Details view. To do so, follow the simple steps mentioned below –

     

    1. Login to your Control Panel

     

    Resellers do so from http://manage.gossimer.biz/customer.

    2. Once logged in to your Control Panel,

    Resellers, go to Products -> Search -> Live Chat Service Search
    Customers, go to Live Chat Services -> Search 

    and you can search for the Domain Name for which the Service has been purchased. (To list all Orders, leave all search parameters blank).

    3. In the next page you would see a list of all Domain Names, with Live Chat Services bought through Gossimer. Clicking any of the Domain Names will take you to the Order Details view for that Order, from where you can manage all aspects of the Service.

     

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    10 Aug 10 Renewal Reminders

    Gossimer sends mails to its Customers informing them about all Live Chat Service packages that are nearing their expiration date.

     

    Customers of Gossimer:

    Customers are sent Expiring Live Chat Service packages Renewal Instruction e-mails before they actually expire, after expiry, and on deletion of the package.

    The Reminders are sent to the Customer Username email address from 45 days prior to the Live Chat Service package’s expiry, on the 1st, 11th and 21st day of every month, until it is either Renewed or Deleted (due to non-Renewal).

    This Report displays the Order ID, Domain Name, Product Category, Expiry Date, Days to Expiry and Days to Deletion, besides detailed information about how to go about Renewing these Orders.
     

     

    Gossimer Resellers can easily view all Expiring and Expired Orders from the Renewal Management interface from within their Reseller Control Panel and choose to Renew any Live Chat Service package on behalf of their Customer(s). Click here to read how >> 

     

    IMPORTANT

    When a Live Chat Service package Expires,

    • the package is immediately Suspended. This means that you would be unable to use your package, until it is Renewed.
       

    • the Customer is sent an e-mail, informing him/her that he has 30 days to Renew his Live Chat Service package, post which the package is Deleted.

     

    When the Live Chat Service package is Deleted, the Customer is sent one final e-mail informing him/her that the Live Chat Service package is Deleted, since it was not Renewed within 30 days after Expiry.

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    06 Aug 10 Reports Generation and Analysis

    The Live Chat Service offers Reporting and Analysis designed to measure the effectiveness of your Operators. These include -

    Searching/Listing of Chat Transcripts

    You can retrieve the complete chat transcripts for quality analysis -

    1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

    2. Here, click Manage Live Chat Service. This will take you to the Registered members area.

    3. Under REPORTING section, click Search Transcripts.

    4. Here, you can search by

    • IP Address – compares the IP Address provided with the IP Address of the visitors
       
    • KeyWords – searches the actual transcripts for transcripts that contain the keywords provided

    5. You may also fetch a list of all chat transcripts by clicking List Transcripts.

     

    Post Chat Survey Statistics

    You may display a post chat survey to your website visitor allowing him/her to rate the online support provided. Click here to read how >>

    Once you have enabled the same, you can view Post Chat Survey Statistics as mentioned below -

    1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

    2. Here, click Manage Live Chat Service. This will take you to the Registered members area.

    3. Under REPORTING section, click Post Chat Survey Statistics.

     

    Advanced Reports

    Gossimer offers you a full set of online reports, exclusively as a part of the Live Chat Enterprise plan.

    All you have to do is select the type and parameters of the report. The system will process the report and return the comprehensive result in HTML and Excel format. The report types available cover a wide range of diverse characteristics, such as

    • Operator Login Statistics
    • Operator/Department wise Performance Reports
    • Chat Transcripts
    • Chat Transfer Statistics
    • Operator Login and Availability Statistics
    • Chat Summary (Normal and Extended)
    • Abandoned Chats
    • Icon Status
    • Operator Availability Statistics
    • Rejected Chat Logs
       
    IMPORTANT

    This option is not available with all packages. In order to avail of this feature, you would need to upgrade your package to the Enterprise solution. Click here to know how to upgrade you Live Chat Service package >>

     

     

    To generate the report you require, follow the steps mentioned below:

    1. Login to your Control Panel, search for the Domain Name for which you have purchased the Live Chat Service and proceed to the Order Details view page. Click here to know how >>

    2. Here, click Manage Live Chat Service. This will take you to the Registered members area.

    3. Under REPORTING section, click Advanced Reports.

    4. Select the Type of Report, and the Reporting Level. The Reporting Level can be

    a. Summarized for the full account, or
    b. Summarized for a department, or
    c. For a Particular Operator

    5. Choose the Time Frame for which you wish to generate this report.

    6. Once you have specified these details, click Submit. The report would now be presented in complete detail.

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