How to add webchat to your website?

Webchat allows your business to add a chatbot on your website that doesn’t depend on any other platform like Facebook, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Google. Your customers don’t need to create an account to interact with your chatbot.

Adding the code to your website

1 – Navigate to Settings > Channels > Webchat > Manage and create your webchat.

Add your website domain or subdomain to the Authorized websites. The webchat will only load on authorized websites.

After creating your Webchat, click 3 dots and get the code.

Use web chat as a single-page

Click the 3 dots and “Get Link”.

The webchat plugin is very flexible and allows many customizations

Option Name	Possible Values/Description	Default
type	floating/window/container container: include the chatbot inside any HTML element window: the chatbot will open on a new window	floating
element	Only used if “type” is “container”. example “#div1”
headerTitle	The title that is shown on the header of the webchat	Account Name
color	any color name or color code	#007BFF
hideHeader	Hide the session that contains the business name true/false	false
ref	any ref/flow/step ID to be sent automatically once the user clicks on the chat ICON. Set ref as “get_started_button” to automatically send the Welcome flow.
showPersona	true/false	false
hideComposer	true/false	false
template	template1/template2
icon	the chat icon that shows on the bottom | right
right	Distance of the icon from the left edge of the screen	20px
bottom	Distance of the icon from the bottom edge of the screen	20px
loadMessages	Load past conversations with the contact when webchat is opened. true/false	true
setCustomFields	Allow to set multiple custom fields. id: Custom Field ID You can use a system field name as ID: email, phone, full_name, first_name,last_name	[{id:”email”, value:”…@gmail.com”}, {id:348574, value:”Value here”}]

Changing Color

Changing template

Currently, we offer only 3 templates for the webchat. We will create more templates soon.

template1

template2

Show the account profile image as a persona.

Change the chat icon.

<script src=”https://web.botamation.com/webchat/plugin.js?v=2″></script> <script> ktt10.setup({id: WEBCHAT_HASH accountId: YOUR_ACCOUNT_ID, showPersona: true, icon: “YOUR_IMAGE_URL”}); </script>

Handover the conversation from any channel to webchat.

Not all channels support all the features that Webchat supports. For example, if a customer is messaging your business on SMS and you want to show a gallery with a list of your services, you could transfer the conversation to the webchat. Just send the user a message with the below system custom field.

{{webchat}}

If you want to automatically start a flow or step when the user accesses this link, you will need to append &ref=FLOW_OR_STEP_ID. For example, if the FLOW_ID is 111111 the link will be

{{webchat}}&ref=111111

The link above will load previous messages from the conversation between the bot and the user. If you don’t want to load old messages, append &lc=0 by the end of the link

{{webchat}}&ref=111111&lc=0