Tidio ‑ Live Chat & AI Chatbot

Our business is in the pet healthcare centre. We want to leverage the benefits of AI without automating too much. I was struggling to find a help desk and live chat which was flexible enough to permit this. I downloaded and trialled at least 4 other alternatives and none of them could provide the flexible options that Tidio could. Its early days and we are still i our trial period but I think this platform is going to be a real asset to my business. we are a small team of 4 and as the business owner I am the only one with in depth knowledge however with the use of AI to 'suggest' not automate responses, it will enable my staff to start responding to many of the enquiries that we receive. Moreover the customer service available on this app is fantastic. The automated help desk is great but they quickly put you through to a live agent if required who responds quickly. I had to escalate a couple of issues that the live agent could not resolve and these issues are being worked on currently but I have every confidence that they will be sorted out. None of the other options that I looked at provided live support quite like it and that was one of the key deciding factors when making a decision. Thanks Tidio. You are doing a great job.

Terrible Customer Support – 30+ Days, No Resolution

We have spent over a month trying to resolve a basic WhatsApp‑integration error on Tidio. Despite countless emails, chatbot conversations, and a “Level 2” escalation, our phone number still shows as "pending" and messages never send.

- 30+ days, still broken. Every reply repeats the same “disconnect and reconnect” script—nothing changes.
- No live technician. All contact is through an automated bot or delayed email; no real person ever jumps on a call or screenshare.
- Business impact ignored. Our store relies on WhatsApp to serve customers; Tidio’s inaction has cost us sales and credibility.
- Empty promises. Each “we’ll get back to you shortly” stretches into days of silence.

If you want a platform whose "only" support is a bot that recycles canned responses, Tidio is perfect. If you value rapid, human‑centered help for mission‑critical features, look elsewhere—I’m canceling and moving back to Meta’s own (free) tools.

Tidio is an amazing customer support app! The live chat and AI-powered bot that learns over time are fantastic for automating responses and improving efficiency. It offers all the features you need, like custom workflows and multi-channel support. The setup is easy, and the support team is fast, friendly, and always helpful. Highly recommend it!

This has been a great service so far. It's cut down the time I spend with customer ordering communications back at least 50%.

I've been using Tidio for my customers for a while now. The AI chatbot works but the company's model is really disapointing. Our website gets thousands of viewers with questions but the model is limited conversations per month. Once the limitation is reached, these questions go into a Live Conversation, which is not met if you don't have the team set up for this. So instead of unanswered questions defaulting to your email for example, you get a waterfall of Live Chat questions in Tidio. *Hopefully* your notifications are turned on for this. Mine were not. So I had a lot of unmet customer questions. What a mess. Of course I am happy to set up unlimited conversations... except there is only a tier of limited conversations set up at a price *starting* at $749 USD/month. This is simply unworkable. What a messy model. I'm moving onto an app that supports growth.

It's not possible to bulk export chats. Tidio is not transparant. If webshops receive visitors on their website, the chat conversations should be managed by the customers of Tidio, in this case the webshop, which should be able to bulk export the chats. I found 20+ alternatives in the Shopify appstore already. Chatty seems to be the best alternative.

Edit:
Chatty doesn't have this feature standard implemented, but after asking, they replied to me within 1 minute that it's manually possible, because they put their customer on no 1.
When I asked Tidio to do this, your employee told me that the chats & chat history belong to Tidio only, not the customers of Tidio (Shopify webshops in this case).

Update 2025-07-18:
Not necessary anymore to export chats, which seems surprisingly possible now.
I will never work with TIDIO LLC anymore in the future.

Update 2025-07-21:
Since when is it available in the plus plan?
Also your customer support employee didn't mention this. He clearly stated that it wouldn't be possible at all, because the chats belonged to Tidio, according to this Tidio employee. If Tidio employs such employees, I don't need to work with them, but that's my current opinion.

Hi, I was helped by Tidio's chatbot very effectively and speedily. I am very greatful for the support!

19-06-25: Now I am not happy any more. One can never chat with a human advisor on Tidio. When encountering a real problem, like a feature that is supposed to work, but isn't, the bot runs quickly out of options and then you are "ticketed" for an email by a real person. I will probably have to wait for days now to get an answer. Email responses are too slow...

Tidio has been a big help for us so far. Lyro handles all the repetitive questions, saving us time, and its easy to set up and use. Plus, their customer service is fantastic if you need any help getting started.

This has an expensive and complex price structure, involving paying for flows, then chats, then customer service. I paid for a plan and in 1 day I needed to upgrade again!! if you have any starter plans then you still cannot see crucial information. Just beware, if you want full functionality monthly for a half decent website you will probably land up paying $300 pm not $59 as advertised.

It's good - primarily because there are not a lot of better options out there yet, but definitely a lot of opportunity to be dethroned as AI agents become more advanced. A lot of nickel-and-diming with few quality filters in place to prevent you from feeling like they're not trying to push you into buying more credits/increasing to the next billing tier constantly.

Looking forward to the second gen of agentic AI products that aren't heavily focused on token-based billing that basically charge you 500x on the API call cost from OpenAI. All for what is essentially a the same ChatGPT output I'd get if I messaged it directly, just in a nicer package.

The real kicker for me was that they charge a laughable amount for removing their branding as a separate monthly fee.