Live Chat
Real-time customer assistance directly on your website or app.

Executive Summary
Groove HQ's Live Chat provides real-time customer support directly on websites and apps, enabling businesses to offer immediate assistance and improve customer satisfaction. It integrates seamlessly with Groove's broader customer support platform, which centralizes inquiries from email, social media, and a knowledge base into a shared inbox. This allows support teams to manage all customer interactions efficiently from a single location. The live chat feature is designed to boost customer loyalty and increase customer lifetime value by providing quick and accessible support. The platform also offers robust automation tools to streamline support workflows, including setting up rules, instant replies, and smart folders. It provides APIs (REST and GraphQL) for extensive customization and integration with other business tools like Shopify, Slack, and HubSpot, enhancing its functionality and allowing for automated management of platform features. Groove offers a 30-day free trial, making it accessible for businesses to evaluate its comprehensive customer support capabilities.
Use Cases
- Providing instant support to website visitors for sales inquiries or technical issues.
- Offering proactive assistance to customers browsing product pages or encountering difficulties.
- Centralizing customer communication from various channels (email, social, chat) into a single agent view.
- Collecting customer feedback and improving service quality through direct interaction.
- Automating responses to common questions using instant replies and knowledge base integration.
Features
Visibility
- Shared Inbox: Centralized location for support teams to manage customer inquiries from email, social media, and live chat.
- Website Widget: Offer a contact form, knowledge base search, or live chat from your website and connect customers to your support team.
Support
- Instant Replies: Automate responses to common questions to provide quick assistance.
- Smart Folders: Organize and prioritize chat conversations based on predefined rules.
- Routing: Direct incoming chats to the right agent or team based on criteria like department or issue type.
- Knowledge Base Integration: Allow customers to search for answers in a knowledge base directly from the chat widget.
Technical Specifications
- Architecture
- Multi-tenant SaaS
- Deployment
- SaaS
- API Available
- Yes
AI/ML Stack
- AI-native support platform
- AI agent
Integrations
- Slack
- Stripe
- Shopify
- Recharge
- Trello
- GitHub
- HubSpot
- Delighted
Pricing
- Model
- Usage-based
- Starting Price
- $1 per ticket
- Target Customer
- SMB,Mid-Market,Enterprise
- Contract Type
- Monthly
- Free Trial
- No (no credit card required)
About Groove HQ
Groove HQ is a customer support platform designed to simplify and enhance communication for growing teams. It offers a unified inbox, smart automation, and AI-powered tools to streamline workflows and improve customer satisfaction.
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