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What your visitors experience

A tour of the chat from the visitor's side — launcher, conversations, unread badge and ratings.

Published 6/24/2026Updated 9/9/2026
Live Chat Widget
What your visitors experience

A tour of the chat from the visitor's side — launcher, conversations, unread badge and ratings.

Session kept across page loads and return visits1–5 star rating after close

Here's the chat from your visitor's point of view, so you know exactly what you're putting on your site.

Opening the chat

Launcherthe visitor clicks the button to open the panel
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Pre-chat formonly if you've set one up — filled in before the first message
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Chatotherwise they start typing right away

Conversations

  • ·Returning visitor — with past chats, lands on a list of their conversations, newest first, and can reopen any of them or start a new one.
  • ·New visitor — goes straight into a fresh conversation.

Each conversation shows your team's replies and the visitor's own, with timestamps. Replies from the AI carry an AI badge.

your site · chat panel
Header: online · away
Visitor's message · timestamp
Your team's reply · timestamp
Reply from the AI · AI badge

They never lose their place

  • ✓Session resume — the chat remembers the visitor across page loads and return visits on the same browser, so the history is still there when they come back.
  • ✓Refresh-safe — if they reload the page while the chat is open on a conversation, it reopens right where they left off.

Unread replies get noticed

When a reply arrives while the chat is closed:

LauncherRed badge with the unread count
Browser tab titlePrefixed with [1], [2], …
Cleared whenThe visitor opens the conversation

So they notice even on another tab.

Online or away

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The header shows whether you're online or away, based on your business hours. When you're away, visitors can still leave a message and you reply by email — nothing is lost.

Rating the conversation

After you close a chat, the visitor is asked to rate it (1–5 stars) with an optional comment. Their feedback shows up in your widget statistics.

Now you know what they see

Launcher, history, badge and rating — the whole visitor journey in one panel.

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