Website Chat Widget

Your website is open at 11pm. Nobody is.

Visitors arrive with one question standing between them and buying. If the only way to ask is a contact form promising a reply within two working days, they close the tab and ask a competitor instead.

What it does

Answers from your own knowledge base

The widget replies using the questions and answers you wrote, so it says what you would say rather than improvising.

Choice of AI provider

Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini or Groq. You supply the key and the provider bills you — Groq and Gemini both have free tiers.

One snippet

Add it to any site that lets you paste HTML. No framework, no plugin, no build step.

Or straight to WhatsApp

Prefer a button that opens a WhatsApp conversation instead? That works too, and the thread lands in the same shared inbox.

Conversations reach the inbox

A widget chat is not a dead end. It becomes a conversation your team can pick up.

How it works

  1. 1

    Write the knowledge base — the questions you answer most, and the answers you want given.

  2. 2

    Add an AI provider key, or choose the WhatsApp button instead.

  3. 3

    Paste the snippet into your site.

  4. 4

    The widget answers what it can; anything else becomes a conversation for your team.

Worth knowing before you sign up

  • The AI widget needs your own provider API key. There is no bundled AI allowance, and the provider bills you directly for what it uses.
  • Answer quality follows the knowledge base. A thin knowledge base produces a vague widget, and no model setting fixes that.
  • It is not a full live-chat product: no queueing, no canned-response library, no visitor-typing indicator.

Questions

Is the widget included in the free plan?

Yes — nothing in PingPlug is gated by plan. What the AI widget needs is an API key from an AI provider, which you supply. Groq and Google Gemini have free tiers, so it can genuinely cost nothing.

Will it make things up about my business?

It answers from the knowledge base you write, which is the point of writing one. Anything you have not covered is where it is weakest, so the honest advice is to cover the questions you actually get asked and let it hand over for the rest.

Can I use it without AI at all?

Yes. The WhatsApp-button version needs no AI provider and no key — it opens a conversation with your business number, and that lands in the shared inbox.

What happens to the conversation afterwards?

It appears in the inbox as a conversation your team can answer, so a question asked at 11pm is not lost by morning.

Try it on your own numbers

Free plan, 100 contacts, no card required.

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