Well.ca Labs is a showcase of the technology behind the Canadian e-commerce site, Well.ca

imWell - LiveChat

Overview

We wanted to allow our customers to talk to us through our website. There are many options available, but none of them fit what we were looking for. Some used Flash, others through a popup window, and most cost a lot. We built our own chat application that can go on any HTML page, can be styled however you want and the chat persists across pages on the website.

Screenshots

1. Customer requests a chat

imWell Chat Request

Don’t worry, the imWell system will ask all the available agents and find someone that can take the chat

imWell Handles Links

The imWell system handles links, and will persist across pages, maintaining the history. It’s magic!

3. Transfer to Someone Else

imWell Can Transfer

You can transfer chats to another person in your company, it does this elegantly.

Backend

Using the popular open source chat server Jabber as the backend, we created a web chat client that is truly amazing. In the near future we’ll be opening up a beta of imWell for anyone to use.

Features