Zinn® Chat

Live chat that answers straight away and costs your pages nothing

A chat box for any website. It answers visitors straight away, hands the conversation to you when a person is needed, and emails you anything nobody picked up — and with the AI chat agent it answers from your own pages. The core is free, the plugin comes preinstalled on every WordPress site we host, and Premium is an upgrade when a site needs more.

  • No hosting plan neededA free account is all it takes
  • Works wherever you hostWith us, another provider or your own servers
  • One account, one invoiceAdd hosting or other products whenever you like

One chat box on every site, one inbox for all of them

Zinn® Chat puts a small launcher in the corner of your website. A visitor opens it, asks a question and gets a reply in seconds — from the assistant, and from you when a person is needed. Add the AI chat agent and the assistant answers from your own pages. Every conversation, from every site you run, arrives in one inbox in your Zinn Digital® dashboard.

It is sold on its own, so you do not need to host anything with us to use it: install the WordPress plugin, or paste one line of code into any other website. If you do host with us, Premium is already switched on for your account.

A support desk answering a visitor's question from the chat window on a website

What it does

Everything a small team needs to answer the people already on its website, without a second tool to learn.

Answers first, and from your pages with the AI chat agent

The assistant replies straight away and hands anything it cannot help with to you. With the AI chat agent on the site, it answers from what your website actually says and links to the page it used; when your pages have nothing to go on, it offers a person instead of guessing.

Hands over to a person

When the assistant cannot help, or the visitor asks for a person, the conversation is handed to you. As soon as you reply, the assistant steps back.

Missed chats arrive by email

When nobody is there, the visitor can leave an email address, and the whole conversation is emailed to you so you can reply later.

One inbox for every site

Conversations from all your websites land in one place in your dashboard, showing which page each visitor was on when they asked.

Looks like your website

Choose the colour, the corner it sits in, the name your visitors see and the first thing it says. On pages written right to left, it mirrors to suit them.

Opening hours

Set the days and hours you answer, in your own time zone. Outside them, visitors can leave their email address so you can reply when you are back.

See it working

These are screenshots of the live product, not drawings of it.

Your inbox

Every conversation, what the visitor asked and the page they were on, and who is waiting for an answer.

The Zinn® Chat inbox in the Zinn Digital® dashboard, with a list of visitor conversations and one conversation open

What your visitors see

A small chat window in your colours, on your own website. When nobody is free, it asks for an email address so you can reply later.

The Zinn® Chat window open on a website, with the team's greeting, a visitor's question and a box for leaving an email address while nobody is free

Your settings

Switch it on, set the greeting, the colour, the corner and your opening hours.

The Zinn® Chat settings screen, with the switches for showing the chat and letting the assistant answer first

Built so your pages stay fast

Most chat widgets add hundreds of kilobytes to every page, whether anybody opens them or not. This one was written to cost as close to nothing as a chat box can.

About 9 KB on the page

One small file, compressed, with no framework, no web fonts and no tracking. Measured from the exact file we serve.

Loads after your page

It waits until the browser has finished drawing your page, so it cannot hold up what your visitor came to see.

No layout shift

The launcher floats above your content, so nothing on your page moves when it appears.

Sealed off from your styles

Its styles live in a sealed box of their own, so your theme cannot break it and it cannot restyle your theme.

How to get it on your site

It takes a few minutes, and nothing about your hosting has to change.

  1. Create your chat

    Sign up free, open Live chat in your dashboard, and add the web addresses the chat will run on.

  2. Add it to your website

    On WordPress, install the free Zinn® Chat plugin and paste in your chat key. On any other website, paste one line of code before the closing body tag.

  3. Answer from your dashboard

    Conversations arrive in your inbox as they happen, and anything you miss is emailed to you.

What it costs

Start free with no card. Upgrade a site to Premium when it needs more, whoever hosts it. On a WordPress site we host, the free plugin is already installed.

Zinn® Chat Premium

$19.00/month

Premium is priced per website, per month, on any website — hosted with us or anywhere else. The free Zinn® Chat plugin comes preinstalled on every WordPress site we host.

Free and Premium, side by side

What you getFreePremium
Assistant answers each month, per site1005,000
How long conversations are kept30 daysFor as long as you keep them
Remove “Powered by Zinn® Chat”NoYes

Everything else on this page comes with both.

Why it is fast, and why it is already on every site we host

We host websites for a living, so we measure what every script costs a page. The chat widgets people were putting on the sites we host were among the heaviest things on them, and they were loading for every visitor, including the ones who never opened a chat. So we wrote one that does not.

A website that answers its visitors keeps them, and a customer whose site keeps its visitors stays with us. That is why the free Zinn® Chat plugin comes preinstalled on every WordPress site we host, ready to switch on, and Premium is there when a site needs more.

Everything about Zinn® Chat, on its own site

Step-by-step guides for installing and answering, how the AI chat agent answers from your own pages, sourced comparisons with tawk.to, Tidio, Crisp, Intercom and LiveChat, and screens of the real app in your language.

Visit zinnchat.com

Two ways to answer your visitors

Zinn® Chat is a chat box for your site that answers from your pages, hands over to you and keeps every conversation in one inbox. The AI chat agent is an assistant for one site that answers from every page of it and links to where each answer came from. Both work on a site hosted anywhere.

Zinn® Chat

Live chat for any website that answers from your own pages and hands over to you. It costs nothing to start, the plugin comes preinstalled on every WordPress site we host, and Premium is an upgrade.

AI chat agent

An assistant on your own website that answers visitors from your own pages, in their language, and links to the page each answer came from.

AI chat agent →

Questions people ask before they buy

Do I need to host my website with Zinn Digital® to use it?

No. Zinn® Chat works on any website. Create a free account, then install the WordPress plugin or paste one line of code into your site. On a WordPress site we host, the plugin is already installed, so you only switch the chat on.

What is the difference between Free and Premium?

Premium gives each site many more assistant answers a month, keeps conversations for as long as you want them, and lets you remove the “Powered by Zinn® Chat” line. The table above shows the exact figures.

Does the assistant make things up?

Without the AI chat agent it does not try to answer questions about your business: it replies, and brings in a person. With the agent it answers only from your own website's pages and links to the page it used, and when your pages do not answer the question it offers the visitor a person instead of guessing.

What happens when the monthly assistant answers run out?

The chat keeps working. New questions go straight to you instead of to the assistant until the month resets, and you can upgrade the site to Premium at any time.

Will it slow my website down?

It is built not to. The file is a few kilobytes compressed, it loads only after your page has finished drawing, and it cannot cause your layout to shift.

What if nobody is online to answer?

The visitor can leave an email address, and the conversation is emailed to the address you choose, so you can reply when you are back. You can also set opening hours, so the chat knows when your team is away.

Does it work on WordPress?

Yes. The free Zinn® Chat plugin adds the chat to your WordPress site — install it, paste in your chat key and switch it on. There is nothing to edit in your theme.

How is Premium billed?

Per website, per month, from your Zinn Digital® account, whoever hosts the website. Premium is an upgrade: it is not included with hosting.

Help with this

Step-by-step guides from our knowledge base, written for exactly this.

Live chat: answering your own website's visitors

Where your visitors' conversations arrive, how to answer them, and what happens when nobody is there.

Read the guide →

The Zinn® Chat plugin

A complete help desk on your own WordPress: an AI assistant that answers from your pages, live chat, and support tickets — installing it, switching it on and every screen.

Read the guide →

Zinn® Chat instead of Tawk.to, Tidio, Intercom

What Zinn® Chat does for live chat, AI chat and help desk, what it costs, and how to use it instead of another plugin.

Read the guide →

Browse the knowledge base →

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