Joinchat – Enhanced "click to chat" vs FluentChat – Live Chat for WordPress

Turn conversations into conversions Joinchat is the most installed plugin for WhatsApp: a customizable floating button that turns your visitors into chats, leads and sales. Built for conversion from the very first click: eye-catching CTAs, dynamic start messages, native WooCommerce integration and built-in analytics to measure every conversation. 🌍 Joinchat, the global leader in WhatsApp click to chat 🗺️ Present in more than 176 countries 🏆 #1 chat solution in: 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇪🇸 Spain 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇨🇱 Chile 🇵🇪 Peru 🇵🇹 Portugal Source: BuiltWith® What you get with Joinchat A complete WhatsApp conversion toolkit for WordPress, designed to capture more leads and close more sales. Floating WhatsApp button that opens the WhatsApp app on mobile, and on desktop launches WhatsApp Desktop or WhatsApp Web and shows a scannable QR code. Eye-catching CTAs to greet visitors, present offers and start the chat with the right message. Dynamic start messages so every conversation arrives with full context (the page, the product, the price, the discount…). WooCommerce integration, with a contact button next to “Add to cart” and shop-specific CTAs. Analytics built in — 🆕 — Clicks counter in your WordPress dashboard. Events for Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager and Facebook Pixel, plus Google Ads conversions. Lightweight and fast — JavaScript with no dependencies and lazy-loaded styles. No render-blocking. Customizable site-wide or at the page, product, category, etc. level. 🛡️ Say goodbye to the fear of WhatsApp bans Many companies lose their WhatsApp Business number for contacting customers first without consent. Joinchat flips the model: the visitor writes first, so every conversation starts aligned with WhatsApp’s official policies. The result: your business number protected and your customers reaching out when they need to, not the other way around. With Joinchat, you can unlock the full potential of WhatsApp’s “click to chat” feature. Take Joinchat further with Premium and AI Joinchat Free is just the start. Premium and AI unlock its full conversion potential. 🌍 Show or hide the button by country — 🆕 — geo-target your visitors with country-specific rules. Perfect for international stores, regional campaigns and multi-language sites. 💬 Add more support channels — extend beyond WhatsApp with Telegram, Facebook Messenger, phone calls and more, all from the same widget. 🕒 Multi-agent with custom schedules — assign chats to the right person at the right time. Each agent works their own hours and only takes chats when available, and you can set an alternative CTA when no agents are online. 🔁 Add a Chat Funnel — guided conversational flows that qualify and capture leads automatically with higher conversion than a form, 24/7, even when no one is at the desk. ✨ Add an AI agent — trained on your FAQs and website content. Answers visitors instantly, anytime, with the tone and knowledge you define. 👉 Get Joinchat Premium | 👉 Get Joinchat AI 📝 Settings at page or archive level You can change main settings on every Post, Page, Product or CPT and for Tag or Category archive pages. Edit your WhatsApp number, CTA, Start Message and Visibility options. 🔴 Show a notification Use a balloon on the button to get the visitor’s attention. In this way, you ensure that you do not miss any important message you want to give them, surprise them in a less intrusive way. 📯 Create call-to-action messages CTAs with Rich Chat: multiple chat bubbles with links, buttons, images or random text. Encourage users to contact you with a welcome message, offering help or promotions and offers. Read more 💬 Customize conversation start messages Defines a pre-loaded initial message for when the user contacts via WhatsApp. Add context with our “Dynamic Variables” and you will know what page the visitor is coming from or what product they are looking at when they start the chat. ✅ Opt-in text Opt-in is a users’ consent to receive messages from a business. Write a text with the conditions under which the visitor contacts you (or other info that you consider important). You can make it mandatory and disable contact until the user accepts it. 🛒 Integration with WooCommerce Set CTAs and Start Messages for shop page, product pages and for products on sale. Add a WhatsApp Contact Button directly on your product page next to the “Add to cart” button or choose the best position, even on products without a price. 🧩 WhatsApp Contact Button Block Add beautiful and customizable WhatsApp contact buttons in the Block Editor. You can define phone and initial message of the button or use the post/general Joinchat settings (ideal for Reusable Blocks). Enable QR Code on desktop to allow your visitors to scan it and start messaging from their phone. 🃏 Dynamic Variables Use variables in your CTAs and Start Messages that change dynamically for each page: {SITE} ➡ Website title {TITLE} ➡ Current page title {HOME} ➡ Website home url {URL} ➡ Current page url {HREF} ➡ Current page url (full with query params) {PRODUCT} ➡ Product name (Woo) {SKU} ➡ Product SKU (Woo) {REGULAR} ➡ Product regular price (Woo) {PRICE} ➡ Product current price (Woo) {DISCOUNT} ➡ Product percent discount when is on sale (Woo) 📈 Analytics Integration Automatically send events to Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Facebook Pixel when the user opens WhatsApp. — 🆕 — Clicks counter in your WordPress dashboard Google Analytics 4 send the recommended "generate_lead" event Google Tag Manager send "JoinChat" event Facebook Pixel send "JoinChat" event Google Ads conversion, just add your Conversion ID and Conversion Label You can also create your own custom events or add event parameters. View FAQs / Read more 🍾 Chat Triggers Any element in your page can be a chat trigger, eg: it can launch WhatsApp from a link or show the Joinchat CTA when the user scrolls to the footer. On page load (by url): url query param joinchat to show chat window. Can set delay in seconds, default is 0 (e.g. example.com/page/?joinchat=5) url query hash #joinchat to show chat window (e.g. example.com/page/#joinchat) On click: class "joinchat_app" direct launch WhatsApp class "joinchat_open" opens Joinchat CTA link href "#whatsapp" direct launch WhatsApp link href "#joinchat" opens Joinchat CTA Set custom phone and initial message for direct WhatsApp triggers: data-phone="99999999" data-message="Only for this trigger message". On scroll (when element appears on screen): class "joinchat_show" opens Joinchat CTA (first time) class "joinchat_force_show" opens Joinchat CTA (always) 💱 Multi-Language & RTL Support To be able to support all your users, wherever they are. Our plugin is compatible with WPML, Polylang and — 🆕 — TranslatePress and also RTL languages are supported. 🌈 Theme Colors & 🌚 Dark Mode You choose a color and we customize the entire visual theme of the widget. With Dark Mode display the chat window with dark colors and white text. From settings you can activate it or leave it automatic and detects devices’ configuration. ⚡ Fast & Light Only load what need when needed. Joinchat is lightweight and follow best coding practices. Use vanilla JavaScript without dependencies, deferred scripts and lazy load of styles to prevent render-blocking. See Tests Report and Speed Score. 🔕 No distractions Joinchat integrates with all major Visual Editors and Page Builders and will not appear when editing a page. Supported editors: Beaver Builder, Brizy Page Builder, Elementor, Oxygen Builder, Page Builder by SiteOrigin, Thrive Architect, Visual Composer and WP Page Builder. 🍪 Cookies & GDPR Joinchat can be used without any cookies or persisten storage and don’t collect personal data. Joinchat integrates with WordPress’s Privacy Policy Guide and suggests the necessary text. 👨‍💻 Developer friendly Fully extensible, with lots of filters and actions to extend its functionality or change behavior. Documentation ⌁ If you like Joinchat 😍 Please leave us a ★★★★★ rating. We’ll thank you. Help us with the translation in your language Visit our blog and find tips and tricks at join.chat. Follow @joinchatnow on X. Join chat now!

List of Live Chat Features : Built For WordPress FluentChat is a WordPress plugin. Period. It is NOT a thin wrapper for an expensive third-party cloud-based live chat app. No powered by links. No limit on operators. No monthly plans. You Own The Data All the live chat data is stored on your servers (no, you won’t run into a storage issue). We don’t collect any information. Your info never leaves your website. Free and Unlimited FluentChat is a free live chat plugin, and you can have unlimited operators, unlimited messages, unlimited live chats, and unlimited archives. We don’t restrict your usage in any way. We don’t add a powered by link. Responsive Everywhere FluentChat is responsive all the way through. Your visitors can use the live chat widget on any device. But here’s the bonus: FluentChat’s back-end is 100% responsive too! The live chat dashboard, the settings page – everything is responsive. Clean Interface We are passionate about good design. We wanted to build a live chat plugin that did a great job, and looked awesome while doing it. FluentChat is designed to look minimal, but is packed with a ton of features. Chat Archives You can view all the chat archives in the back-end. You can look at all the messages, important timelines, and the operator who handled the chat. You can even search through the archives and look for specific messages. Chat Logs in Email You can allow your visitors to receive the chat logs in their inbox. This option can be disabled on the settings page. Offline Contact Form When none of your operators are logged in, you can choose to show the users a contact form, asking their Name, Email, and Comment. When your users fill out this form, we will send you an email notification. Canned Messages Operators can store message templates on the Operator Profile page and quickly access them on the Active Chats page when live chatting with visitors. Widget Styling The live chat widget is highly customizable. When customizing the live chat widget on the settings page, you can see your changes in real time. You can even add custom css to your live chat widget for advanced styling. Translation Ready FluentChat is 100% translation ready, and comes with 6 included languages: English, French, Russian, Dutch, German, and Portuguese. We have some documentation on how to translate the live chat plugin here List of Features in FluentChat Pro : We don’t take away any essential features from the free live chat version. We do offer some advanced functionality through our FluentChat Pro plugin. Chat Ratings and Feedback When your users end their live chat, they can leave a rating and some feedback. Operators can easily browser all feedbacks and ratings on the Chat Archives page. Operator Online Hours Operators can set their online chat hours, broken down by days of the week, on the Operator Profile page. Customer Info You can view customer info like their location, last known URL, and browser. You can also configure the widget to ask a customer’s name and email before they can initiate a live chat. You can even add notes to customer profiles and build a better relationship with them. Share Files and Screenshots Your customers can upload and share files with operators. They can even share a screenshot of their page with one click. Operators can also upload and share files with customers. Get Free SMS Notifications You can configure to receive SMS notifications every time a new visitors initiates a live chat. (This feature works with a limited number of operators). User Role Management Admins can choose which WordPress users can act as Chat Operators. They can also allow users to act as Chat Admins, giving them access to settings and global chat archives. With FluentChat Basic all WP users who can ‘edit_posts’ are operators. Auto Initiate Chat You can configure to auto-initiate chat with visitors, even setting a delay period. Custom Chat Icon Logo Want your own logo on the chat icon? Sure! Free 6 Month Customer Support Run into an issue? Can’t figure something out? Let us help you out 🙂 Learn more about FluentChat Pro Live Chat or purchase it here. Support & FeedBack If you like our live chat plugin, please give us a rating! We are constantly striving to improve our live chat platform, and your feedback is most valuable.