What is cobrowsing and how does it work?

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What is cobrowsing and how does it work?

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What is Co-Browsing?

Collaborative Online Interaction

Cobrowsing (also known as collaborative browsing, co-browsing, or co browsing), is an innovative technology that allows two or more individuals to collaborate online by simultaneously viewing and interacting with the same webpage, browser tab, or app during a video call or online session. It's utilized for collaborative work, remote troubleshooting, and interactive customer support.

Beyond screen sharing

Unlike traditional screen sharing, where one participant shares their screen for others to passively observe, cobrowsing enables all participants to actively engage with the content. Users can navigate through web pages, click on links, and interact with various elements on the shared screen, fostering a highly collaborative and interactive online experience.

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Browser-based, no downloads

Cobrowse seamlessly on all major browsers, including Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

Easy setup

Enable cobrowsing directly within your app with just a few lines of code. Guide users live in your websites, web app, or other digital properties.

Initiate sessions effortlessly

Unlike other tools, Fullview's cobrowsing can be initiated by support agents with just one click. No confusing meeting codes or links to slow you down or confuse customers.

Join with a click

Participants easily join the co-browsing session by clicking the provided URL or 'Accept Call' pop-up in your web app, making it a breeze to get everyone on the same page.

Stay in sync

Fullview's cobrowsing platform ensures everyone sees the same web page or app interface in real-time, guaranteeing a synchronized experience.

Interactive collaboration

Collaborate effectively by taking turns navigating and interacting with web content, with changes instantly reflected on all participants' screens.

Audio and video chat

Fullview is one of the few cobrowsing tools that offers optional audio and video chat during cobrowsing sessions.

Enhanced features

Enjoy additional features like live chat, annotation tools, and screen highlighting with Fullview's cobrowse solution.

Seamless closure

When the co-browsing session is complete, easily terminate the connection, allowing users to continue browsing independently.

How Does Co-Browsing Software Work?

Most modern cobrowsing technology is based on either WebRTC or rrWeb. These technologies were created to allow for seamless peer-to-peer communication over the internet and require no downloads or plugins. Cobrowsing typically follows these steps:

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Implement co-browsing software

To cobrowse, you'll need to sign up for a software or platform that supports that functionality, like Fullview.

Establish a connection

By embedding a simple code snippet, companies can activate cobrowsing within their app and establish a connection. This allows support or contact center agents to directly initiate calls with online customers, bypassing the need for Zoom links or scheduled meetings.

Initiate a co-browse call

Initiate cobrowsing by distributing a unique session ID or URL. Alternatively, with Fullview's cobrowsing API, you can launch cobrowse sessions directly from your web app and connect with your customer's browser. After integrating this API, users automatically appear in your Fullview dashboard. Click on the 'cobrowse' button next to their name to begin the session.

Synchronizing browsing on the web page or app

Once all participants are connected, the cobrowsing platform will synchronize their browsers. This ensures that everyone sees the same web page or application interface simultaneously.

Navigation and interaction

Participants can then take turns navigating the web page or application. When one user interacts with the content—such as scrolling, clicking links, filling out forms, or submitting data—the changes are replicated and instantly displayed on the screens of all participants.

Collaboration features

Cobrowsing platforms often include additional collaboration features to enhance the experience. These may include live chat, audio or video communication, annotation tools, or the ability to highlight specific elements on the screen. Fullview's cobrowsing has all these features.

Session termination

Once the cobrowsing session is complete, participants can choose to end the session. The platform terminates the connection, and users can continue browsing independently.

What Does Cobrowsing Solution Look Like?

Agents and customers have ...

  • Independent cursor
  • Annotation tools
  • Audio and video controls
  • Chat box

Both users and agents will enjoy a seamless cobrowsing experience and faster issue resolution without the need for any downloads with Fullview Cobrowse.

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In addition, agents can see ...

  • Console errors & warnings
  • User steps
  • Network, device & browser info

In addition, agents can see exactly what users do in their app while on a cobrowsing call to troubleshoot easily and quickly.

Example of Cobrowsing with Fullview

Video Guide to Collaborative Browsing

Curious how collaborative browsing works? Click through the tabs below to see exactly what you can do on a Fullview cobrowse call.

What can you do during a web cobrowsing call?

From drawing and highlighting on screen to taking screen control, here is what you can do during a collaborative browsing call.

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Screen control and screen sharing

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Use annotation tools to highlight or draw on screen

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Click buttons and navigate

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Fill fields and submit forms together

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Screen share on 3rd party content and websites

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Why Choose Fullview Cobrowsing Tool?

Offer top-notch cobrowsing directly from your app with one-click initiation to enhance remote support and solve customer issues more efficiently.

Instant

No links or codes. Cobrowse with
users directly within your product
and see your customer's screen instantly.

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Privacy

You choose what to see and
what to hide with customizable data
masking options.

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Console

See console events and user journeys
during live calls to troubleshoot
effortlessly.

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Provide a customized experience

Cobrowse, screen share and interact with your users' screens for real-time collaboration and problem-solving.

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  • "Wow" your customers

  • Improve CX, CSAT and customer journey

  • Screen control when needed

Get instant context with console logs and replays

Record user sessions and see user activity before and after a call — including user steps, page visits, device, network information, errors, and events.

  • See device, network and system information

  • Filter by errors, warnings, and events

  • Available both inside and outside of calls

Stay compliant

Fullview protects sensitive customer data with data masking and strong encryption standards. Fullview is 100% GDPR compliant.

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  • Customizable censoring of sensitive information

  • Fully GDPR compliant

  • All data stored in the EU or US depending on your needs.

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Integrate with the tools
you already use

Cobrowse and replay user activity
right from your helpdesk and ticketing software

Intercom

Full context on customer issues, directly in your Intercom dashboard.

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Replay user sessions and start in-app calls from Zendesk.

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See what your customers see, directly in your Service Cloud dashboard.

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Hear from our customers

Learn how Fullview has helped leading customer support teams increase customer satisfaction, lower average handle time, and effectively address user needs.

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The responsive Fullview team, coupled with a smooth implementation process and native integration with Personio's ticketing system, has resulted in faster issue resolution and increased overall customer satisfaction.

Marco Ricciardi
Senior Program Manager, Personio

The great thing about using Fullview is that we're able to resolve our customer issues in record time. And we're achieving that, while asking fewer questions in the process

Adam Castleton
CEO at Startle

The last thing that users want to do is recount what they've done to get to where they are if they're having an issue. So the replays and cobrowsing are a huge feature for us. We've seen Intercom threads be resolved about 30% quicker since installing Fullview.

Greg Leizerowicz
CTO and Co-Founder

For support agents, being able to watch a session replay without the pressure of a customer on the phone asking “can you fix it?” is great. And on the development side, not being able to reproduce a bug is no longer a blocker, because we’ve got video evidence that it did happen.

Lee Oldham
Platform Support Manager, Autoprotect Group

Fullview has absolutely become one of our go-to tools when we need to figure out what happened on the customer's side. Understanding what happened and trying to recreate bugs used be challenging. But with Fullview Session Replays, we can just go watch the relevant replay to spot what happened.

Emil Petersen
CEO and Co-Founder, Subit

Fullview has been super helpful for us to get a precise understanding of what our customers feel frustrated with the most, and build up empathy into how customers use our product versus how we think they use it. It definitely compliments and powers up the product analytics data we get from other tools like Mixpanel – powerful combo!

Tarek Khalil
CTO and Co-founder, Rasayel
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Fullview gives us unparalleled insight into how real customers are using our product in their day-to-day lives. It's the single highest ROI discovery tool we use at Checkr Pay.

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Product and Engineering Lead, Checkr, Inc.
Chloe Gloger

We approached Fullview to enhance troubleshooting and QA. Beyond those gains, which were realized immediately, the real value lies in swiftly testing customer behavior during new feature launches. We recently had such a launch, and I identified a problem, but I couldn’t get the full picture from the other tools we used. I checked Fullview Replays and was able to identify the root cause and have the UX fixed within the same week.

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Features

Co-Browsing Software Benefits 

Improve efficiency & decrease costs

Reduce all the unnecessary back-and-forth with users, do more with fewer support agents, and get to resolution faster.

Increase customer satisfaction and loyalty

Reduce user frustration or avoid it altogether by solving challenging issues for them with remote screen control. Create personalized experiences at scale to improve retention.
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Improve FCR and AHT

Cobrowsing makes it easy to solve customer support issues in a single browsing session, so your first contact resolution rate and average handle times are about to get a major boost.

Key Uses of Cobrowsing Technology

From customer support to product development to remote collaboration, cobrowsing can be used to do any number of things. Fill out forms, solve complex technical support requests, create presentations together, process claims, change account settings and more with the best way to collaborate online.

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Customer support

Quickly address and solve technical issues by offering live on-screen assistance to users, providing personalized support.

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Product development

Demo new features and gather instant feedback.

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Customer success

Introduce new products and features and guide customers on screen to enhance customer success.

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Team collaboration

Facilitate effective collaboration on various projects with co workers, brainstorm, work on presentations together, and more.

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Sales experience

Assist customers through complex sales processes, help them fill out paperwork, and improve conversion rates.

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Customer onboarding

Ensure a smooth start for new customers with live guided tours of your product.

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Consultations

Build trust and credibility with potential clients through direct engagement. Help them understand difficult information or complete complex forms or processes.

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Online banking and wealth management

Transform the in-branch customer experience for a digital world by aligning advisors and clients with shared viewing and live on-screen interaction.

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Insurance

Guide users through plan selection and ease friction during the claims process by guiding them on your platform.

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Online hospitality and travel

Simplify the booking process with direct live on-screen assistance.

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Co-Browsing Examples

SaaS

Financial services 

Insurance 

Government agencies 

Hospitality and travel 

Call centers

Why Use Cobrowsing Software?

Cobrowsing is used by call centers, SaaS companies, financial services, government agencies, insurance companies and more for the following reasons.

Improve CSAT

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Reduce customer effort

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Boost customer loyalty

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Increase online conversions

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Reduce average handle time

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Exceed customer expectations

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Most common questions

What is Fullview Cobrowsing Software? 

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Fullview Cobrowsing lets customer support agents initiate in-app calls with users who are online. Once the user accepts, the agent can request screen control to solve customer issues that are hard to resolve over chat, the phone, or email. Fullview Cobrowsing includes video and audio conferencing, annotation tools, and an in-call chat feature. Console information (like user steps, errors, warnings, frustration signals, device, network information, and page visits) is visible to the agent in a side panel during the call so they can see exactly what is happening on the user’s side for easier troubleshooting.

How to implement Fullview Cobrowsing? 

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In order to implement Fullview Cobrowsing, you will have to add our script to your web app (by copy-pasting a few lines of code) and do a simple API implementation to pull your users into your Fullview dashboard. Once you have done that, you will be able to see whether your users are offline, idle, or online, start a cobrowsing call with them, and view any recordings of user sessions in your app. Installing Fullview takes no more than 10 minutes and can also be done using tools like Google Tag Manager to make it even easier. 

Is Cobrowsing safe? 

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Fullview Cobrowsing is completely safe and GDPR compliant. All our data is stored on EU or US servers depending on your needs. Sensitive data is automatically blurred out during calls, and we give you additional options to customize what customer data you want to capture and what you want to censor during a cobrowsing call. Fullview complies with SOC 1-3, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and is HIPAA-BAA eligible. Learn more about how Fullview keeps your data safe on our security page.

How much does Fullview Cobrowsing cost? 

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Fullview has both free and paid versions of cobrowsing plans. The free version includes 4 cobrowsing calls per seat per month. Our pro plan starts at $49 per seat per month and includes access to unlimited cobrowsing calls and unlimited integrations. You can add unlimited team members to your organization on both plans. For enterprise companies, please get in touch with us for custom pricing and discounts. Find more information on our pricing page. 

What is the difference between cobrowsing and screen sharing?

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Cobrowsing and screen sharing both facilitate collaboration during online interactions. Cobrowsing allows users to jointly navigate web content with shared control, annotation, and privacy features. In contrast, screen sharing involves one-way streaming of a user's screen content without collaborative control.

What makes cobrowser essential for customer support?

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Cobrowser is particularly beneficial for handling level 2 and 3 support tickets that are complex to resolve via chat. It enhances the support process by providing real-time collaboration, making it a valuable addition to a multi-channel support strategy. Cobrowser significantly reduces customer frustration by speeding up time-to-resolution. Agents can troubleshoot problems faster by taking control of a user's screen, especially for non-tech-savvy users who may find following instructions challenging.

How does cobrowsing websites improve customer engagement?

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Cobrowsing increases customer engagement by offering a seamless support experience within the application, eliminating the need for users to leave the platform or download additional tools. This results in higher response rates and more efficient issue resolution.

How to cobrowse with co-browsing API?

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Fullview's cross-platform cobrowsing capability allows you to cobrowse on any browser or device by simply signing up and installing the Fullview co-browsing API, which involves copy-pasting a few lines of code—a process that typically takes about 15 minutes. Once installed, all your users are automatically integrated into your Fullview dashboard, where you can easily look up a user to contact through the search function. To initiate a cobrowse session, press 'Cobrowse'; the user will then see a popup request in an open tab of your product, asking if they wish to accept the call. By clicking 'Accept,' they can start the cobrowse session. During the session, each participant has their own cursor for pointing, highlighting, and drawing on the screen, enhancing remote collaboration and support. You can also chat with users during a session to share links or offer further help, making the process efficient and user-friendly.

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