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Interact with Customers and Visitors with Live Chat
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One of the ways you can build stronger relationships with your customers is by making yourself
available through live chat. Live chats can have a big impact not just on your customer service,
but also on sales performance, as it gives users a chance of having real-time, fast, and effective
interaction.
Configuration
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Go to :menuselection:`Website --> Configuration --> Settings --> Live Chat` select the appropriate
channel, and set it up.
.. image:: media/enable_livechat.png
:align: center
:alt: Enable live chat under website configurations for Odoo Social Marketing
Under *Channel Rules*, choose when the chat pop-up appears, and an action for a given URL and/or
country. Note that to take the country into account, GeoIP must be installed on your server.
.. important::
The *Live Chat* application must be installed on your database.
Monitor your visitors
=====================
Under the *Visitors* menu, see the visitors that landed on one of your
:ref:`social_marketing/website_tracked_pages` online or offline.
| You can send emails (if an email address has been saved), send SMSs (if a phone number has been
saved), send a push notification (if the user has subscribed to it), and even send a live chat
request that will be received by the user once they move to a tracked page.
| Open a record to see details including the visited pages, and the first and last date and time
the user was connected.
.. image:: media/monitor_visitors.png
:align: center
:alt: See a visitor's history of pages in Odoo Social Marketing
.. tip::
#. Your online visitors will be authenticated if they are linked to a lead or an existing partner.
#. If you do not use the *Website* app, you can add a live chat widget to your own website.
.. _social_marketing/website_tracked_pages:
Websites tracked pages
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To define which pages are tracked, on the *Website* application, go to
:menuselection:`Website --> Configuration --> Pages` and enable the option *Track*,
on the respective pages.
.. image:: media/website_track_pages.png
:align: center
:alt: Choose the pages to be tracked in the website application for Odoo Social Marketing
.. seealso::
- :doc:`../../livechat/overview/get_started`