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Live Chat and Calls

Working to set up calls or chat in Kayako Classic? These articles will get you up and running.

  • Enabling live chat on your support center and websites

    Providing real-time support to your customers is a critical piece of a good support strategy. Kayako Classic's live chat features enable your team to provide fast, friendly help to your customers from...

  • Installing and configuring Kayako Desktop

    Kayako Desktop lets your support team manage real-time customer interactions via live chat and (for Windows users) over the phone. Each member of your team will need to install Kayako Desktop on their...

  • Handling chats with Kayako Desktop for Mac

    Kayako Desktop provides you with a platform to interact with your site visitors and manage your support chats effectively. By connecting Kayako Desktop to your Kayako domain, you can manage live chat ...

  • Handling chats with Kayako Desktop for Windows

    Kayako Desktop provides you with a platform to interact with your site visitors and manage your support chats effectively. By connecting Kayako Desktop to your Kayako Classic domain, you can manage li...

  • Routing incoming messages when chat is offline

    Kayako has a feature called 'Message Routing' for creating tickets from offline messages when live chat is offline. The message routing feature allows the clients to leave offline messages via the liv...

  • Adding a Click-to-Call button to your site

    Click-to-Call is a form of Web-based communication in which a person clicks a button, image or text to request an immediate connection with another person in real-time by phone call. The feature of Cl...

  • Enabling VoIP/phone support in Kayako Desktop

    VoIP/Phone feature is used for handling Inbound/Outbound calls in Kayako Desktop application. For enabling VoIP/Phone feature in Kayako Desktop application, you need to fill up the phone details at:  ...

  • Adding branded logos to live chat windows

    If you're managing multiple brands in Kayako, it's important that the proper logos appear in your customer chat windows. Since each brand and support site is managed by a different template group, you...

  • Removing the 'Live Chat Software by Kayako' text from your support site

    By default, if you have a live chat link on your support site, there will be a little bit of fine print beneath it that says 'Live Chat Software by Kayako'.  If you're looking to remove the Kayako Cla...

  • Kayako Chat Gateway

    The Kayako Chat Gateway is a service hosted by Kayako, which let's you use your own IM apps to connect to your helpdesk to manage live chats. Rather than using Kayako Desktop to connect to your helpde...