Question 1

How to add a live chat to my website?

Accepted Answer

So, you just signed up to Crisp and you are ready to add the chatbox widget to your website? Great! This page will help you add a chat widget to your website seamlessly. No need to be a developer.

First, we need to check which content management system your website runs on. Does it run on WordPress? Is it coded from scratch?

Video tutorial on how to add a live chat on a website:

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Install a live chat for most websites

Here is how to retrieve your website code:

Go to https://app.crisp.chat/settings/websites/
Then click integrations
Go to HTML
Copy the script tag

In the file serving the first portion of your HTML (<head />) section, copy and paste the code we provided just before the <head /> tag.

If you can't find the <head /> tag, you can also copy the chatbox widget code before the end of the HTML body, eg: right before the <body /> tag.

Install a website chat widget on WordPress websites

If your website is running WordPress, you have to follow [this tutorial](/en/article/how-to-in

Question 2

How to use Triggers?

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Triggers can be used to send automated events to the chatbox of your visitors & users. Triggers are activated upon events, and execute a given set of actions. You can configure as many Triggers as you wish for the same website on Crisp.

Triggers help you automate your marketing by triggering automated chatbox actions, based on events, on the screen of your visitors. You can, for instance, send automated messages based on what page your visitor is visiting.

Here is a full guide about live chat trigger example.

This guide goes into explaining the general concepts of triggers, and how everything is linked together.

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| Triggers are available from the Crisp Pro plan

Video tutorial:

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Create your first trigger

Go to the triggers plugin

Go to app.crisp.chat
Then go to plugins (in the sidebar)
Search for "triggers"

New trigger

Click on the new trigger button.
Then name your trigger. You can for instance name it My First Trigger,
An identifier will be required. It can be useful in the future. You can name it my-first-trigger
Then scrolldown and toggle Show a message

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Question 3

How to open the chatbox on click on a custom button?

Accepted Answer

The Crisp chatbox can be opened and closed via your website JavaScript code. This allows you to create custom "Chat with us" buttons on your website, and trigger the Crisp chatbox to open when a visitor clicks on such buttons.

You can use the following JavaScript code to open the Crisp chatbox:

$crisp.push(['do', 'chat:open']);

You can call it directly when an user clicks on a button:

<button onclick="$crisp.push(['do', 'chat:open'])">Click Me!</button>

| Want to know more about the $crisp interface? Read: How to use $crisp Javascript SDK?

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Question 4

How to add a chatbot to my website?

Accepted Answer

The chatbot plugin helps you to create your own chatbot. Draw complex response flows, with events (eg. user sent message), actions (eg. send response message) and conditions (eg. check segment). With our bot builder you can craft answers coming from any channels website, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Line or SMS, etc.

This guide goes into explaining how the Bot plugin works, and how you can get the most out of it. Our chatbot plugin comes with a visual builder so you can build chatbot scenarios without any coding skills.

To access the chatbot plugin and install it, simply go to Plugins > Bot

||| A chatbot is different from a live chat widget, if you're looking for ways to add a live chat to your website, please click here.

Video tutorial on how to create a chatbot for a website

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Add a chatbot for Instagram DM

➡️ click here to follow the tutorial.

Create a chatbot with WhatsApp

➡️ Click here to access a detailed tutorial

Create a chatbot for Messenger

➡️ [Click here](/en/article/how-to-create-

Question 5

What's Crisp EU GDPR compliance status?

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The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation that aims at unifying EU member state data privacy regulations into a single regulation, enforced on the EU single market. This article describes the GDPR compliance status of Crisp.

| If your company needs to ensure it is GDPR-compliant, it also needs to ensure its providers (ie. Crisp) are also GDPR compliant. Crisp is GDPR-compliant, and strictly enforces the regulation as to protect the user data we store. The list of our providers (ie. Data Processors) is available, and kept up to date, in our Data Processing Agreement (DPA).

|| Are you looking for a Data Processing Agreement (DPA)? Read how to sign a DPA between your company and Crisp.

Crisp and GDPR (in 12 points)

The GDPR regulation can be reduced to 12 important points. For each point, we explain how Crisp handles its compliance. If we did not answer your questions in this article, you can still contact us and drop us a chat or email.

Also, please note that all Crisp data processor providers have been checked to be all GDPR-compliant (Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Stripe). See the DPA we provid

Question 6

How to use the Auto-Responder plugin?

Accepted Answer

The Auto-Responder plugin helps you respond with a custom response flow of messages and chat events to certain messages from the chatbox, from email, or from other integrations (eg. Messenger). You can create Intents that are fired upon certain conditions, and that contain the response flow.

This guide goes into explaining the general concepts of Auto-Responder and Intents.

| Auto-responder plugin is available from the Crisp Unlimited plan

Video tutorial:

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What does the Auto-Responder do?

Autoresponder helps you gain time by answering automatically to certain kind of messages. Some may call this a bot system; we call it an Auto-Responder.

It can be used in such cases:

You are offline: you want your customers to get a placeholder response saying that you are offline.
Some questions occur very frequently: you have a well-writen, automated answer so that your operators don't have to answer it repeatedly.
Some kind of questions should be handled by specific operators (eg. Technical department): you want to @mention those specific operators so that they are notified of the pending chat that they should handle.
**Some users ask for a specific operator t

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