Live Chat

Talk to the people on your website while they are still there. Unlike our WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram and Viber widgets, Live Chat does not hand your visitor off to somebody else's app — the conversation happens on your site, and you answer it from your A2Z Tools dashboard.

How it works

  1. Create a Live Chat widget and choose how it looks and what it asks for.
  2. Paste two lines into your website. Every common platform is covered.
  3. Verify your website address. Live Chat only runs where you say it runs — without that, anybody could copy your widget code onto their own site and use your team's time.
  4. A visitor opens the chat and types. It appears in your dashboard, and your agents reply in real time.

What you get

  • Real-time messaging — typing indicators, delivery status, and messages that survive a refresh or a dropped connection.
  • Your whole team — invite colleagues as agents; conversations can be assigned and reassigned.
  • Pre-chat questions — ask for a name, email, order number or anything else from a fixed, safe list. Each one optional or required, or hidden entirely.
  • Offline messages — when nobody is available, visitors leave a message instead. We never promise them a reply time we cannot keep.
  • Satisfaction ratings — ask how the conversation went, once, at the end.
  • Works on any site — one snippet, guides for 30-plus platforms, and it never blocks your page loading.

Privacy, honestly

A support chat is a product where being vague about data would be easy and wrong, so here is exactly what happens.

  • Messages are stored. They have to be — that is how a conversation survives a refresh and how you read it later. They are kept for 90 days by default, and you can change that.
  • We do not store visitors' IP addresses. A salted hash is kept for abuse handling, never the address itself.
  • No fingerprinting. Nothing beyond the broad device and browser family the visitor's browser already announces.
  • No third-party cookies. The visitor's session lives in their own browser tab and disappears when they close it.
  • Only the page path is recorded, never the query string — those carry order numbers, email addresses and reset tokens.
  • A2Z Tools staff cannot read your conversations as a matter of course. Doing so needs a specific permission that is never granted by default, requires a written reason, and is recorded against the conversation.

What it does not do yet

File attachments

Visitors and agents cannot send files. Attachments stay switched off until file scanning and secure storage are finished — a half-built upload path on a public endpoint is worse than none, so there is no setting to turn them on.

Also not yet: chatbots and automated replies. Every answer comes from a person.

Common questions

Where do my agents answer from?

From your A2Z Tools dashboard, signed in with their own account. There is no separate app and no second password to manage.

Will it slow my website down?

The only thing your page fetches up front is a loader of about four kilobytes. The chat interface downloads when somebody actually opens it, and if our service is unreachable your site is unaffected.

What happens if a visitor loses their connection?

The widget reconnects on its own and collects anything it missed. Messages are saved before they are sent to anyone, so an accepted message is never lost.

Can I use it on more than one website?

Yes — make a separate widget for each site. Each one is tied to its own address.

What if nobody is available?

The visitor sees your offline message and can leave one instead, which arrives in your inbox. We deliberately avoid telling them they will hear back "in minutes" when nobody is there.

Ready when you are

Create a Live Chat widget, style it, and paste it into your site. You can change anything about it afterwards without touching the code again.

Create a Live Chat widget See my widgets

Quick answer

Open this page to create a Live Chat widget, style it, verify your website address, and copy the embed snippet into your site.

Key facts

  • Creates and configures a Live Chat widget
  • The conversation runs on your own site, not in another app
  • The widget only runs on domains you have verified
  • Agents, departments and working hours are configured from the Live Chat dashboard
  • Requires a signed-in A2Z Tools account
  • Pricing is not settled yet - this page does not promise it is free

How to use it

  1. Sign in to A2Z Tools.
  2. Create a Live Chat widget and set its appearance, greeting and pre-chat questions.
  3. Verify the website address it is allowed to run on.
  4. Copy the embed snippet and paste it into your site.
  5. Invite your agents and set working hours from the Live Chat dashboard.

Common use cases

  • Adding live chat to a site that already uses the A2Z chat widgets.
  • Running sales and support chat from one shared queue.
  • Replacing a contact form with a real-time conversation.

Limitations

Live Chat only runs on domains you have verified - without that, anybody could copy your widget code onto their own site and use your team's time. It needs somebody available to answer; outside configured working hours it collects a message instead. Transcripts are subject to a retention period. Pricing is not settled yet.

Privacy & your data

Conversations are hosted by A2Z Tools rather than by a third-party messenger. Messages, transcripts, internal notes and basic visitor context are stored on A2Z Tools servers, attached to your workspace, and readable by the agents you invite. A retention period applies and older transcripts are deleted automatically.

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