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Best Digital Customer Service Platforms

Jeffrey Lin
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Researched and written by Jeffrey Lin

Digital customer service platforms enable businesses to provide customer support across multiple digital communication channels, such as email, messaging, web portals, chat, and social media. At their core, these solutions act as a company’s help desk by aggregating customer inquiries and assigning them as tickets to customer support agents for prompt service. In addition to creating tickets from customer emails and portals, digital customer service platforms include features of live chat software, allowing customer service representatives to engage with website visitors in real time. Since many customers may try to solve an issue on their own before contacting the customer support department, digital customer service platforms provide features of customer self-service software. These features empower customers to access information or complete tasks without the assistance of a customer representative. Many platforms offer the ability to create a branded knowledge base where customers can view content such as articles or tutorials to troubleshoot common questions about a company’s products or services. Features of chatbots software and artificial intelligence (AI) may also be incorporated to automate responses to frequently asked questions (FAQs) or to assist customers with routine tasks.

To qualify for the Digital Customer Service Platforms category, a platform or product suite must offer the following core features:

Aggregate inquiries from emails, customer portals, and chat messages
Organize external customer inquiries into tickets for support agents
Provide instant messaging capabilities between customer service representatives and website visitors
Allow chat windows to either initiate conversation or live independently on a website for potential inquiries
Provide information and assist customers in completing common tasks without human interaction
Provide 24-hour support to customers seeking assistance
Organize and distribute information for commonly asked questions

In many cases, digital customer service platforms will incorporate additional channels and automation through features of social customer service software or conversational support software, including:

Collecting customer inquiries from a variety of social networks
A platform for support agents to directly respond to social media messages
Implementing a common and centralized structure to all customer interactions, service-related or otherwise
Routing customer conversations in all channels via algorithmic, AI-driven sorting, or both
Tools for creating personalized response flows within conversations across several channels
The ability to follow up with customers through chatbots, service agents, or automation
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The following products include these core categories: Customer Self-Service, Help Desk, Live Chat

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