About Tidio
Tidio is an AI-powered customer service and live chat platform built for small and mid-sized e-commerce businesses. It combines a lightweight live chat widget, an AI ticketing system and omnichannel messaging (Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, email) with **Lyro**, its conversational AI agent that automatically resolves up to 67% of customer questions. Designed for merchants on Shopify and WooCommerce, Tidio gives small teams a low-barrier path to 24/7 automated support without hiring extra agents.
Pricing
Freemium + usage-based
Key features
- Lyro AI Agent:: a conversational AI that answers customers on every channel in a human-like way, drawing answers only from your own support content (brand-safe, no external data). It handles multiple
- Handoff and ticketing:: Lyro can keep the conversation, transfer it to a live agent, or create a ticket when a question is outside its knowledge. The AI-powered ticketing system turns emails, chats an
- Lyro Copilot:: suggests AI-generated replies to human agents right in the chat window, based on the same content sources as Lyro, with one-click review and send.
- Live chat & Flows:: a lightweight chat widget with live visitor list, live typing preview, automatic chat assignment, operating hours and native Shopify actions (product cards, cart/order history). Fl
- Omnichannel:: one shared inbox across website chat, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and email, plus integrations with Shopify, WordPress, Zendesk, Intercom, Salesforce and 20+ other platforms.
Pros & cons
Pros
- Fast to launch live chat and simple bots
- Friendly pricing for smaller catalogs
- Decent Shopify / WooCommerce connectors
Cons
- Less deep order-ops tooling than Gorgias-class helpdesks
- Advanced routing and AI depth are limited vs enterprise suites
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