zickt

<p><strong>Zickt</strong> is a customer messenger for WordPress. Drop the Zickt widget on your site and visitor messages land in your team inbox, alongside the rest of your customer conversations.</p>
<ul>
<li>Adds a real-time chat widget to your WordPress site</li>
<li>Conversations from this widget, your other websites, email (e.g., GSuite), and form submissions all arrive in your shared team inbox</li>
<li>Reply from <a href="https://zickt.com/integrations/slack" rel="nofollow ugc">Slack</a> or the Zickt web app</li>
<li>Visitor history, name and email are attached to every conversation</li>
<li>Works alongside any theme, no theme edits required</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin connects your WordPress site to your existing Zickt workspace. Zickt is a paid service with a free trial. <a href="https://zickt.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Start your trial at zickt.com</a>. See <a href="https://zickt.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">pricing</a> for plan details.</p>
<h4>About the Zickt service</h4>
<p>This plugin is an interface to Zickt, a hosted customer messaging platform (Software as a Service). The plugin itself only loads the Zickt messenger script onto your site. The actual messaging functionality, message storage, team routing, and reply delivery all happen on Zickt’s servers, not on your WordPress install.</p>
<p>What the Zickt service provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>Hosted real-time messenger widget and chat infrastructure</li>
<li>Routing incoming visitor messages so your team can reply from Slack or the Zickt web app</li>
<li>Storage of conversation history, visitor profiles, and team replies</li>
<li>Transactional email delivery (reply notifications, follow-ups)</li>
<li>Workspace management for team members, permissions, and channel configuration</li>
<li>Optional integrations (Slack, email, webhooks, CRM)</li>
</ul>
<p>A Zickt account is required for the plugin to function. It is the service that powers the chat. New accounts get a free trial; see <a href="https://zickt.com" rel="nofollow ugc">zickt.com</a> for pricing details, the <a href="https://zickt.com/legal/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a> for service terms, and the <a href="https://zickt.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> for data handling.</p>
<h4>How it works</h4>
<ol>
<li>Activate the plugin and open <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Zickt</strong></li>
<li>Paste your <strong>Channel Key</strong> from the Zickt admin</li>
<li>The Zickt messenger appears on every page of your site</li>
</ol>
<p>When a visitor sends a message, it opens a new conversation in your team inbox. Replies from Slack or the Zickt web app reach the visitor in the chat bubble.</p>
<h4>Optional: identify logged-in users</h4>
<p>Turn on <strong>Identify logged-in users</strong> in plugin settings to pass the visitor’s WordPress account email and display name to Zickt automatically. Logged-in users won’t be asked for their email again when they start a chat. Anonymous visitors are unaffected.</p>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>This plugin loads the Zickt messenger widget from <code>cdn.zickt.com</code>. Loading the widget causes the visitor’s browser to make an HTTPS request to Zickt’s CDN, which records standard request metadata (IP address, user-agent, and referrer) for analytics and abuse prevention. Once loaded, the widget sets cookies on the visitor’s browser to track the conversation session. Conversation content is only sent when the visitor types a message into the widget.</p>
<p>If you turn on <strong>Identify logged-in users</strong>, the following data is passed to Zickt for any logged-in WordPress visitor: user ID, email address, and display name. This identification happens on the visitor’s browser only. Your WordPress server does not call any Zickt API.</p>
<p>For Zickt’s full data practices, see the <a href="https://zickt.com/legal/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="https://zickt.com/legal/terms-of-service" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.</p>
<p>By installing this plugin you should disclose the use of Zickt in your site’s privacy policy.</p>


Zickt — Live Chat

Add the Zickt customer messenger to your WordPress site. Visitor messages reach your team inbox. Reply from Slack or the Zickt web app.

NickDuncan

<p>HeySpark adds a modern chat, call, and video widget to your site and a conversational inbox inside WP-Admin. Your chat data stays on your WordPress install. No external services, no monthly subscriptions, no accounts to create. Just install, activate, and start chatting.</p>
<h4>Why HeySpark</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Self-hosted.</strong> Conversations live in your database, on your server. Nobody else sees them.</li>
<li><strong>No accounts.</strong> Install and go. No signup, no API keys.</li>
<li><strong>Modern UX.</strong> A messenger-style widget your visitors already know how to use.</li>
<li><strong>Fast.</strong> Lightweight, deferred asset loading, no heavy framework dependencies.</li>
<li><strong>Translation-ready.</strong> Full text domain, bundled POT, right-to-left compatible.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Free features</h4>
<ul>
<li>100% free live chat</li>
<li>“Call now” functionality with WebRTC audio calls that are secure and private</li>
<li>Floating chat widget on your site with Shadow DOM isolation (no theme conflicts)</li>
<li>WP-Admin inbox with a conversation view</li>
<li>Real-time chat via long-polling (no external service required)</li>
<li>Online/Away toggle</li>
<li>Offline message form with email notifications when you’re away</li>
<li>Pre-chat form with name + email capture</li>
<li>Optional GDPR consent checkbox with configurable text</li>
<li>Appearance settings: greeting, brand color, launcher position (left/right)</li>
<li>Mobile show/hide toggle</li>
<li>Sound + desktop notifications for new messages</li>
<li>Repeating new-chat sound until you open the conversation</li>
<li>Read receipts (sent / seen ticks), with the exact “seen” time on hover</li>
<li>Auto-close inactive conversations after a chosen time</li>
<li>Live “visitors online” dashboard with activity scores</li>
<li>Optional visitor country lookup in the dashboard, with a country filter (off by default)</li>
<li>Clickable links in the GDPR consent text</li>
<li>Visitor can view previous conversations after a chat is closed</li>
<li>Close conversations from the admin inbox</li>
<li>Translation-ready, bundled POT</li>
<li>Responsive, accessibility-minded design (keyboard navigation, ARIA live regions, focus management)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro features (available separately)</h4>
<p>Upgrade to HeySpark Pro for:</p>
<ul>
<li>One-to-one video calls (camera to camera, relayed through your own TURN server)</li>
<li>Agent-initiated chats: proactively message online visitors</li>
<li>Multiple agents: map WP roles to agent capability, route new conversations</li>
<li>Quick responses (canned replies)</li>
<li>Page include/exclude rules</li>
<li>Business hours with timezone support</li>
<li>CSAT ratings after conversations end</li>
<li>Custom branding: your own widget logo and closed chat-bubble icon</li>
<li>“New visitor” alerts (sound and/or desktop notification when someone lands)</li>
<li>“What’s new” announcements shown inside the widget</li>
<li>Custom CSS for the widget</li>
</ul>
<p>Learn more at <a href="https://codecabin.io/store/heyspark-pro" rel="nofollow ugc">codecabin.io/store/heyspark-pro</a>.</p>


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