inqiro

<p><strong>inqiro</strong> is an AI-powered chatbot that reads your WordPress website and answers visitor questions based on your actual content. No manual training, no copy-pasting FAQs – just install, activate, and let it learn your site automatically.</p>
<h4>How It Works</h4>
<ol>
<li><strong>Crawl</strong> – inqiro scans your pages, posts, and WooCommerce products</li>
<li><strong>Understand</strong> – Content is converted into AI-readable embeddings</li>
<li><strong>Answer</strong> – Visitors ask questions and get accurate answers from your content</li>
</ol>
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic content crawling</strong> – Pages, posts, and WooCommerce products</li>
<li><strong>AI-powered answers</strong> – Based on your actual website content, not hallucinations</li>
<li><strong>Chat widget</strong> – Clean, modern design that matches your brand colors</li>
<li><strong>Conversation history</strong> – Review all chat conversations in your dashboard</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual</strong> – Supports German, English, and auto-detection</li>
<li><strong>Tone settings</strong> – Formal, casual, or friendly conversation style</li>
<li><strong>Custom instructions</strong> – Tell the AI how to behave on your site</li>
<li><strong>GDPR-ready</strong> – Consent dialogs, data retention controls, AI disclosure</li>
<li><strong>Mobile responsive</strong> – Works perfectly on all devices</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No jQuery dependency, minimal CSS footprint</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited pages and monthly chats</li>
<li>Lead capture from conversations</li>
<li>Proactive chat messages – opens chat panel with typing animation</li>
<li><strong>Inactivity timer</strong> – open chat after configurable idle time on any page</li>
<li><strong>Exit intent trigger</strong> – catch leaving visitors with a custom message</li>
<li>Remove inqiro branding</li>
<li>Show content sources in answers</li>
<li>Suggested quick-reply buttons</li>
<li>Voice input via Web Speech API</li>
<li>Geographic analytics – see where your visitors chat from</li>
<li><strong>Visual analytics dashboard</strong> – Chart.js charts for chat volume, sentiment, feedback, and top pages</li>
<li>Weekly email report with chat statistics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Business Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Use your own OpenAI or Anthropic API key</li>
<li>Choose your preferred AI provider and model</li>
<li>Custom CSS for full widget styling control</li>
<li>WooCommerce Shopping Assistant with product cards</li>
<li><strong>Abandoned cart recovery</strong> – nudge visitors with items in their cart</li>
<li><strong>Appointment booking integration</strong> – CTA button linked to external booking tools</li>
<li>Conversation handoff to human agents with automatic trigger</li>
<li><strong>WhatsApp handoff notification</strong> – Click-to-Chat link in email, chat, and admin</li>
<li><strong>Contact forms in chat</strong> – form builder with keyword triggers and email notifications</li>
<li><strong>A/B testing</strong> – test greetings, tones, and proactive messages with significance tracking</li>
<li>Sentiment analysis and content gap detection</li>
<li>Conversion tracking</li>
<li>Business hours configuration</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce Integration</h4>
<p>When WooCommerce is active, inqiro automatically crawls your products (including prices, images, and descriptions) and can recommend products with interactive cards that include “Add to Cart” buttons.</p>
<h3>Third-Party Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to external services to function:</p>
<p><strong>inqiro License Server (inqiro.de)</strong><br />
The plugin communicates with the inqiro license server for license validation, usage tracking, and AI request proxying. Chat messages are transmitted to this server for processing.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://inqiro.de</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://inqiro.de/datenschutz/</li>
<li>Terms of Service: https://inqiro.de/nutzungsbedingungen/</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>OpenAI (default AI provider)</strong><br />
Chat messages are forwarded to OpenAI’s API for generating responses based on your website content.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://openai.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://openai.com/terms</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Anthropic (optional AI provider)</strong><br />
Business plans can optionally use Anthropic’s Claude as an alternative AI provider.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://anthropic.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://www.anthropic.com/privacy</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://www.anthropic.com/terms</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>ip-api.com (geo lookup for visitor statistics, opt-in)</strong><br />
When “Besucher-Geolocation” is explicitly enabled in Settings > Privacy, the plugin sends the visitor’s IP address to ip-api.com via HTTPS to determine country and city for geographic chat statistics. This feature is disabled by default and no data is sent unless the site administrator opts in. No other data is transmitted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: https://ip-api.com</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
<li>Terms of Use: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
</ul>


The AI chatbot that truly knows your WordPress website. Crawls your content, answers visitor questions accurately - no training needed.

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<p>AskAny is a WordPress AI chatbot built on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). Before it answers anything, it retrieves the most relevant sections of your actual site content using semantic search, then generates a grounded, cited answer from that content — not from general AI knowledge.</p>
<p>Most WordPress chatbot plugins send the visitor’s question straight to an AI API and display whatever comes back. AskAny works differently. It indexes your posts, pages, products, PDFs, and external sources first, then retrieves the right content for each question before the AI generates a response. Every answer includes a source citation.</p>
<p>It also includes real-time live agent handoff, native WooCommerce order tracking by email or order ID, and SSE-based streaming that uses 90% less server load than polling-based chatbots — all without a monthly SaaS subscription.</p>
<p><a href="https://wpazleen.com/askany/" rel="nofollow ugc">AskAny Website</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/docs/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a> | <a href="https://wpazleen.com/support/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro Support</a></p>
<h3>How RAG Works in AskAny</h3>
<ol>
<li><strong>Index</strong> – AskAny crawls your posts, pages, products, PDFs, Q&A pairs, and external URLs into a semantic search index automatically.</li>
<li><strong>Retrieve</strong> – When a visitor asks a question, AskAny finds the most relevant content chunks using hybrid semantic and keyword search.</li>
<li><strong>Respond</strong> – The AI generates a cited answer using only your indexed content. It cannot answer from general knowledge, so responses stay specific to your business.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Semantic Search and Content Indexing</h3>
<p>The RAG and semantic search system is what makes AskAny different from keyword-triggered chatbots. It understands meaning and context, so it can find the right answer even when a visitor’s question doesn’t exactly match the wording in your content.</p>
<p>Content types indexed: posts, pages, custom post types, WooCommerce products and categories, custom fields, comments, menus, PDF documents, external URLs, Q&A pairs, and FAQs.</p>
<p>Indexing is designed to keep API costs low. Content hash caching reuses embeddings whenever content has not changed, cutting API usage by up to 90%. Batch embedding processes multiple texts in a single API call. Smart update detection only re-embeds content that has actually been modified.</p>
<p>Hybrid search runs both semantic understanding and keyword matching together. This covers the cases where exact phrase matching is needed alongside conceptual retrieval.</p>
<h3>Live Agent Handoff</h3>
<p>Agents manage conversations from the WordPress admin chat panel. When a visitor needs a human, the agent takes over in one click. Full conversation history carries over instantly with no visible interruption for the visitor.</p>
<p>The live agent system includes role-based access, online/offline status tracking, an unread message badge, and Slack integration so agents get notified and can reply without opening the WordPress admin. A Mobile App Push Bridge lets agents respond from Android.</p>
<h3>WooCommerce Order Tracking in Chat</h3>
<p>Customers can check their order status directly inside the chat widget. They can look up by email address, order ID, or transaction ID — no need to visit a separate order tracking page.</p>
<p>The WooCommerce integration also handles product information queries, real-time stock checks, smart product recommendations based on the conversation, and direct add-to-cart from chat. Product data is indexed automatically for RAG retrieval.</p>
<h3>Six AI Providers, No Lock-In</h3>
<p>Switch between providers at any time without losing your indexed content or chat history.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>OpenAI</strong> – GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1, O4-mini</li>
<li><strong>DeepSeek</strong> – Cost-effective with strong reasoning</li>
<li><strong>Google Gemini</strong> – Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite</li>
<li><strong>Anthropic Claude</strong> – Advanced reasoning, safety-focused</li>
<li><strong>X.AI Grok</strong> – Real-time knowledge</li>
<li><strong>OpenRouter</strong> – 100+ models through a single API</li>
</ul>
<h3>Fallback Mode</h3>
<p>When your AI provider API is unavailable, AskAny keeps the chatbot running using indexed content and pattern matching. Visitors never see an error or a broken widget.</p>
<h3>Knowledge Base and Content Sources</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>PDF Import</strong> – Upload PDFs and the plugin extracts and indexes every page automatically. Works for product manuals, documentation, policies, and specs.</li>
<li><strong>External Sources</strong> – Index any external URL, REST API endpoint, JSON feed, or XML source as an additional knowledge base.</li>
<li><strong>Q&A Management</strong> – Add custom question-answer pairs with Markdown support. Bulk import and export included.</li>
<li><strong>Automatic Site Indexing</strong> – WordPress content is indexed automatically on publish and on update.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Analytics and Performance</h3>
<p>Track API request counts, success rates, token usage, and estimated costs per provider. Response time and popular question data helps you spot content gaps. Database tools include table size overview, one-click clean, optimize, and export, with date-range filtering.</p>
<h3>Customization Options</h3>
<p>The widget can be placed as a floating button (bottom-left or bottom-right) or embedded anywhere using the <code>[askany_chat]</code> shortcode.</p>
<p>Configurable options include: custom avatar, logo, header text, welcome message, suggested messages with predefined Q&A responses, typing animation speed (Regular, Fast, Faster, Instant), and response tone (Human, Professional, Friendly, Robotic). A homepage FAQ section and custom links support Markdown. Full RTL and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance is included.</p>
<h3>Multi-Language Support</h3>
<p>The chatbot detects the visitor’s language and responds accordingly. Supported languages include English, Bengali, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, and more.</p>
<h3>Privacy and Security</h3>
<p>All chat data is stored in your own WordPress database. The only external connection is the AI provider API you choose to use. Built-in GDPR controls cover data export, anonymization, and retention. Session security and XSS protection are included.</p>
<p>AI provider endpoints:<br />
– https://api.openai.com/v1/ (OpenAI)<br />
– https://api.deepseek.com/v1/ (DeepSeek)<br />
– https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/ (Google Gemini)<br />
– https://api.anthropic.com/ (Anthropic Claude)<br />
– https://api.x.ai/ (X.AI Grok)<br />
– https://openrouter.ai/api/ (OpenRouter)</p>
<p>Full terms of service and privacy policy links for each provider are in the plugin’s Privacy section.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>= WPAzleen Settings API =<br />
Loads display settings for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area.<br />
No personal data or form submission data is sent or collected.<br />
Privacy: https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy</p>
<h3>Source Code</h3>
<p>The source files for all compiled/minified JavaScript and CSS in this plugin are publicly available at:</p>
<p>https://github.com/wpazleen/askany</p>
<p>Build instructions:</p>
<ol>
<li>Clone the repository.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code> in the root to install dependencies.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code> to compile the JavaScript and CSS assets.</li>
<li>The compiled files are output to <code>dist/</code>.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Compatible With</h3>
<p>E-commerce: WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads<br />
Forms: Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, Ninja Forms, Formidable Forms<br />
Page builders: Elementor, Beaver Builder, Divi, Gutenberg<br />
Caching: WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, LiteSpeed Cache<br />
Messaging: Slack, Android push notifications via Mobile App Bridge</p>
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AskAny – AI Chatbot with RAG, Live Agent and Order Tracking


I’ve been using the AskAny plugin on my WordPress site, and it’s working great so far. Setup was smooth, and the interface looks modern and clean. It’s a handy tool if you want to add an intelligent chatbot to your site.


Great plugin

Free WordPress AI chatbot with RAG, live agent handoff, and WooCommerce order tracking. Real-time SSE streaming, 6 AI providers, no monthly fees.

inqiro vs AskAny – AI Chatbot with RAG, Live Agent and Order Tracking