Live Chat Comparison Chart

Feature VChat / WhosOn LivePerson BoldChat
Price (single operator) £25 per month $99 per month $49 per month
Live Visitor Tracking shows current page,
Visitor Identification with reverse DNS for location /  organisation
Live Visitor Chat with canned responses and push pages,
Audible Alerts & Staff Management
Live Engaging
Fully Integrated with Datasite eBusiness Platform
Multi-channel dynamic live engaging ?
Live Chat Translation option    
Fully customizable pre & post chat surveys with unlimited fields & validation    
Detect when a visitor leaves your site ?
Send files to visitors whilst chatting    
Rule based live enaging with custom text for each visitor   ?
Visitor GEO-IP with link to Google Map   ?
Quick Google search for visitor's organization information   ?
Live visitor list grouping by visitor type, location, current page, prospect level, PPC campaign   ?
Live visitor filtering by location, PPC campaign, prospect level, keywords   ?
Prospect detection   ?
Customer detection with revenue collection   ?
Multiple PPC campaign monitoring with visit cost collection   ?
Multiple concurrent chat sessions in separate windows   ?
Email signature
Out of hours 'leave a message' email form
Waiting chat queue messages ?
Built-in 'click to call back' allowing visitors to request a manual telephone call at a time of their choosing  
Secure operator client with 256 bit AES encyption    
Operator clients for Windows, Mac & Linux    
Create named users, with user access rights and operator activity monitoring    
Operator-to-operator chat and training mode ?
AJAX based chat client (fast, small footprint, no plugins, works on all browsers)    
No requirement for Java to be enabled on visitors browser  
Fully customisable chat client (.NET source code available)    
Click fraud detection    
Spider monitoring    
Real time page error alerting    
Real time website down monitoring    
Ability to track visitors via server-side code, web server log files or client-side javascript or image (or combination)    
Live enaging can execute custom javascript function on client allowing for custom actions to be performed when visitor 'invites' are sent    
Import historical traffic data into WhosOn database    
Full historical web analytics reporting (WhosOn has over 100 web analytic reports built in)  
Automatic daily, weekly & monthly web traffic support reports send to your inbox    
View daily & monthly traffic summary from within the WhosOn operator client    
View web analytic reports via web browser interface  
View live visitor lists both in the Windows based client and web interface    
Access to the WhosOn SQL Database for custom reporting    
Full text searching of all historical chats ? ?
Capture and store visitor contact information against visitor in database    
Operator Client can run on low bandwidth connections with idle detection, compressed and encrypted data between server & client ? ?
Execute custom macros when new chat sessions start & end allow custom integration