Live Chat

Live chat that turns into a ticket the moment it needs to

One drop-in script. Every conversation is searchable forever.

HelpWise ships with a real-time chat widget you can embed on any website with a single script tag. Customers get fast answers; agents get every conversation captured as a ticket with full history — so the conversation does not vanish the moment the customer closes the tab.

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A HelpWise live chat widget on a customer-facing page, showing a typing indicator, an agent avatar, a quick-reply pre-chat form, and a "convert to ticket" button on the agent side.

What you get

Everything in Live Chat, on every paid plan

The chat tool that does not throw away the conversation

A lot of chat tools treat each session as ephemeral — when the customer leaves, the conversation is essentially gone, buried in a transcript dump that nobody searches. HelpWise treats every chat as a first-class ticket. Every message is indexed, every agent action is logged, and every chat session becomes a searchable ticket the moment it is over.

That sounds small, but it changes how support works. When a customer comes back two weeks later asking "did your agent ever get back to me about the import?" the agent finds the previous chat in three seconds, with the full context, and picks up where it left off. No "I will need to forward this to the team" — just a continuation of the conversation.

Routing, business hours, and quiet evenings

The chat widget knows your team's business hours. Outside hours it switches to an offline mode, prompts the customer for an email address, and creates an email-style ticket so an agent can respond first thing. SLAs pause overnight. Nobody gets paged at 2am because someone in another time zone clicked "chat" instead of writing an email.

Inside business hours, chat routing is configurable per language, per product area, per agent group. Round-robin assignment with capacity caps keeps the load balanced; manual claim is also supported for teams that prefer it. Customers see typing indicators and read receipts so the conversation feels genuinely live, not like a bot pretending to think.

Frequently asked questions

Things people ask before signing up

Will the widget work on a single-page app?
Yes. The widget is a self-contained script that mounts itself into the DOM and tracks SPA route changes. Same script works in React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Next.js, plain HTML and inside Webflow.
Can I theme the widget to match our brand?
Yes — colours, position, greeting message, pre-chat form fields and avatar are all configurable in Settings → Live Chat. On Enterprise, the entire widget can be white-labelled to remove HelpWise branding.
What happens when a customer leaves mid-chat?
The chat is automatically converted to a ticket and the customer receives a "we will pick up where you left off" email with the conversation history. The ticket appears in the agent's queue with a "chat-abandoned" tag so it can be prioritised.

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