Writing escalation rules for live chat
When a bot should hand off, how to pass context, and how to avoid customers repeating themselves.
LiveAgents runs live website chat around the clock, answers from your help docs, captures leads and routes tricky conversations to your staff with full context — for support and sales teams.

How it works
Services & pricing
Clear scope, prices up front. Pick a service and LiveAgents confirms details by email before any work or payment.
Live chat on your site answering from your FAQ page, with a daily transcript summary.
Answers product, order and policy questions around the clock, trained on your help center.
Routes conversations to the right person by topic, language or value, with a summary so nobody repeats questions.
Asks your qualifying questions in chat and sends qualified leads to your CRM or inbox.
Lists the questions chat couldn't answer and drafts help articles to close those gaps.
Tone guide, escalation rules and canned answers set up with your team in one session.
Live Chat Support guides
Practical live chat support knowledge from the same playbook LiveAgents works from.
When a bot should hand off, how to pass context, and how to avoid customers repeating themselves.
Setting realistic first-response goals by channel and staffing for peak hours.
A monthly routine for finding repeat questions and writing answers customers can find themselves.
Three to five questions that separate buyers from browsers and when to offer a call.
Newsletter
One live chat tactic and one real-world handoff example every Tuesday. Free, and one click to leave.
Sponsorship
Helpdesk and CRM software companies sponsor the Support Desk to reach support leaders choosing their customer service stack.
Logo and one-line mention in a month of issues.
Featured slot in every issue for a month, plus a guide sponsorship.
Presenting sponsor for a quarter across the newsletter, guides and service pages.
FAQ
Yes. Visitors can ask for a person at any time, and you set the rules for when conversations transfer automatically.
Only from the help docs, policies and product data you provide. It says so when it doesn't know.
Yes. It answers overnight and queues handoffs for your team with a summary for the morning.
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