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Real-Time Messenger
Provide your customers with a tool to chat with vendors
This product is electronically distributed.
Overview
The Real-Time Messenger add-on is a perfect tool for realtime messaging between customers and vendors.
Providing customers with a tool to chat with vendors on the fly is a good opportunity to amaze your customers with exceptional service! If any question arises, it can be immediately addressed to the vendor. The vendor gets email notification and replies to the customer in order to answer the questions, dispel doubts or convince them. It’s obviously a good chance to help customers make their purchase decision faster. Buy additional server configuration not to worry about add-on configuration on the server!
Your benefits
- no need of any third-party messenger or live chat;
- absolute control over all vendor/customer correspondence;
- providing utmost satisfaction with your marketplace;
- no outside arrangements between customers and vendors;
Key features
- Fast and secure messaging for customers and vendors;
- Clickable links in messages;
- Communication history;
- Showing the number of unread messages;
- E-mail notifications about new messages;
- The Contact vendor link on the product details page, order details page and vendor’s products list;
- The Contact customer link on the order details page;
- Ability to specify forbidden words, which are hidden in the correspondence (e.g. @gmail for Google email addresses).
Dependencies
- Real-Time Messenger requires pre-configuration of your server environment.
- PHP 5.6.0 minimum, PHP 7.2 maximum. SSL certificate and HTTPS enabled.
- Add-on installation and server configuration are NOT included in the price. You may purchase server configuration service additionally.
- The add-on may not work with a shared hosting.
How it works
To start a conversation a customer needs to click the Contact vendor link on one of the following pages:
- on the product details page;
- on the order details page;
- on the vendor’s products list.
The vendor can also initiate a conversation with a customer on the order details page.
Communication is shown on a separate page.
Your customers will find it especially convenient to exchange messages from their mobile devices.
The number of unread messages is displayed in the profile.
All the unread messages can be seen on the Messages page.
The Messages page with all the tickets.
User Guide
Learn more about the add-on in our User Guide.
Server Configuration
Configuration of the add-on work on the server might be challenging, so we recommend purchasing our configuration service in addition to the add-on.
Note that technical characteristics and configurations of servers may vary and directly depend on the company providing the hosting services, so add-on installation and setting up the server configuration are guaranteed only for Simtech Development hosting.
In other cases, we do assure you that we will make every effort to configure and install the add-on. But we do not take responsibility in situations when, after the work on configuring the server done, it was not possible to achieve the proper operation of the add-on because of the action or inaction of third parties, including the hosting provider.
- Multi-Vendor
- 4.15.2
- 4.15.1 SP1
- 4.15.1 SP2
- 4.15.1 SP3
- 4.15.1 SP4
- 4.15.1
- 4.14.3
- 4.14.2. SP1
- 4.14.1 SP1
- 4.14.2
- 4.14.1
- 4.13.3
- 4.13.2
- 4.13.1
- 4.12.2 SP1
- 4.12.1
- 4.11.5
- 4.11.4
- 4.11.3
- 4.11.2
- 4.11
- 4.10.x
- 4.9.x
- 4.8.x
- 4.7.x
- 4.6.x
- 4.5.x
legend: [!] fixed bug, [~] minor changes, [+] new functionality, [-] deleted functionality
January 2023
v. 4.9.10
[changed] Display of the error occurred in the developer mode on the dialog list page is fixed
December 2022
v. 4.9.9
[fixed] Incorrect performance of "Message Length" setting ois fixed
[fixed] Message display in the message list on the storefront is fixed
v. 4.9.8
[added] Ability of conversation between marketplace administrator and vendors is added
[added] Ability to create dialog between Vendor and Marketplace Administrator is added for Multivendor CS-Cart edition
[fixed] Minor visual errors in the open dialog are fixed
[fixed] "Contact Vendor" setting incorrect display on the add-on settings page is fixed
[fixed] "Forbidden words" feature behavior is fixed
[fixed] "Contact Vendor" button display is fixed.
[fixed] Display of the messages in the dialog is fixed.
June 2022
v. 4.9.7
[changed] The add-on is adapted to standard Vendor Panel Configurator add-on
November 2021
v. 4.9.6
[fixed] Fonts are transferred from the core to the add-on
v. 4.9.5
[changed] The message page style is changed
September 2021
v.4.9.4
[added] The compatibility with the Ultimate Edition is added
June 2021
v. 4.9.3
[fixed] Seller Administrator display on the Vendor Administrator tab is fixed
[fixed] Email notification for the customers with no placed orders is fixed
November 2019
Version 4.8.0.5
[~] The privileges for the groups of administrators have been added. Note: it is important to configure access for administrators based on privileges.
April 2019
Versions 4.5.0.4, 4.8.0.4
[!] The license entry field was not displayed. Fixed.
March 2019
Versions 4.5.0.3, 4.8.0.3
[!] The "Contact customer" button in order details was not available for vendors. Fixed.
February 2019
Versions 4.5.0.2, 4.8.0.2
[+] The license and the update option via the upgrade center have been added.
[!] The vendor administrator could not see the customers who have sent them a message but have not bought anything yet. Fixed.
October 2018
Version 4.8.0.1
[~] The add-on has been adapted to the Responsive Admin Panel.