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About Bring the personal touch of in-store shopping to your online store. Set your online experience apart, empower your store staff, experts or influencers to assist online shoppers. With Hero, one in four customers will go on to buy and spend up to 70% more. Your customers love to watch, chat and video call. Now they can shop with you the same way. Bring products to life by adding the power of authentic, one-to-many video shopping to your online store. Assist shoppers with live 1-on-1 product advice the way they prefer, over chat and video calling. Keep customers coming back long after they leave your store. Stay in touch via text, email and WhatsApp. Get started with low-touch installation, fast onboarding and dedicated training. Our customer success team will ensure a smooth launch and help you maximize performance. Hero is used globally by brands in more than 31 markets across 14 languages.	About Engage and convert customers through social livestreams and personalized shopping experiences. Social Chat allows you to interact with customers as if they are shopping in store. This enables brands to provide real time suggestions and recommendations. Customers can also interact with your brand and other shoppers in real time. Significant increase in add to cart and checkout rates. Build your customer database directly from livestream events. Powerful analytics to help you understand the path to purchase. While you can build a community on social networks, you'll never own your audience or control your brand. With Social Chat, you own your audience on your site, build your community, engage and eventually convert them to customers. Live streams naturally create a sense of urgency to purchase. With Social Chat, users can add products to cart and checkout with just one click. The frictionless checkout experience delivers instant gratification and results in higher conversion rates.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook	Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Businesses interested in a solution to optimize customer engagement and increase the sales of their online store	Audience Conversational commerce platform that helps companies to convert engagement to revenue
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online	Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API	API Offers API
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Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person	Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information HERO Founded: 2015 United States www.usehero.com	Company Information Social Chat Founded: 2021 United States onsocialchat.com
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Categories Conversational Commerce Live Shopping Shoppable Video Virtual Fitting Virtual Shopping	Categories Conversational Commerce eCommerce Personalization Live Shopping Personalization Shoppable Video

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