Flexible Chat – AI chatbot plugin for WordPress and WooCommerce vs Webhook Actions – build automations and integrations with AI help

The easiest way to add an AI chatbot to WordPress and WooCommerce Do you want to add an AI assistant, customer support bot, or automated live chat to your WooCommerce store or WordPress site? Flexible Chat is a free WordPress AI chatbot plugin that connects a ready-made chat widget directly to your n8n workflows – bring any AI agent or automation you’ve already built in n8n straight to your frontend, no code required. If you’re searching for an n8n chat widget for WordPress, a live chat for WooCommerce, or a no-code AI chatbot plugin, Flexible Chat is built exactly for that. With Flexible Chat you can: Connect any n8n HTTP webhook to a polished frontend chat interface. Engage visitors with real-time streaming responses, just like ChatGPT. Route conversations by topic before the chat starts. Fully customize colors, texts, and behavior – no coding required. ⚠️ Requires your own n8n instance Flexible Chat is a frontend only – it has no AI logic of its own. You need your own n8n instance (self-hosted or n8n Cloud, a separate service not affiliated with WP Desk) with at least one workflow exposing an HTTP Webhook. Build a basic workflow (Webhook → AI node → Respond) in n8n, copy its webhook URL, and paste it into the plugin settings. Without an n8n workflow, the plugin has nothing to connect to. Key features Seamless n8n webhook integration – connect via a simple webhook URL. Streaming responses – bot replies appear in real time as they’re generated. Topic routing – suggest topics (e.g. “Sales”, “Support”) and route the chat accordingly. File uploads – with strict MIME type security restrictions. Message feedback – 👍 / 👎 buttons under bot responses. Persistent chat history – conversations survive across sessions. Custom metadata – send user ID, page URL, or subscription plan to n8n with every message. AI disclosure notice – add a compliance reminder below the chat input. Works with WordPress and WooCommerce – any page, post, or store page. Advanced customization Brand colors & typography – color pickers with automatic contrast adjustment, adjustable fonts and border radius. Custom texts & welcome messages – header, subtitles, placeholders, initial greeting. Window & toggle sizing – exact dimensions, small/normal/large floating buttons. Developer-friendly – CSS variables, class hooks, DI-driven architecture, Vite HMR support. 🛠 Setup (n8n workflow required first) Set up an n8n workflow with a webhook and copy its URL. Install and activate Flexible Chat. Go to Settings → Flexible Chat Settings. Paste your n8n webhook URL into the General tab. Customize colors, texts, and welcome messages. Save – your AI chat widget is live! Need more automation? Try Flexible Chat PRO The free version covers a single n8n workflow with full visual customization. For multiple AI agents, advanced visitor targeting, or priority support, check out Flexible Chat PRO. Upgrade to PRO → 📚 Documentation & support Questions? Use the official plugin support forum on WordPress.org. Why choose Flexible Chat? 100% free core features. Built and maintained by the trusted WP Desk team. Lightweight, optimized React-based frontend. Compatible with the latest WordPress and WooCommerce. Actively developed and secure. 🔒 Data use policy Learn more about our Use of Data Policy by WP Desk Plugins.

Describe the integration you want. The AI builds it. Webhook Actions ships with Build with AI — an in-admin agent that turns a plain-language request like “When a Contact Form 7 form is submitted, send it as JSON to my n8n webhook” into a working, tested automation. The agent proposes a plan you can review and edit, then creates the webhook, works from a real example payload — your site’s own capture, or the Payload Library for an event your site has never fired — maps the fields, sets dispatch conditions, probes your endpoint, and sends a test delivery. Nothing goes live without your confirmation — new webhooks are always created disabled, and you can undo the last change with one click. 📖 Full documentation at wpwebhooks.org/docs/ ▶️ Try it in your browser — no install, no signup, no API key What you can connect Sources — anything in WordPress that fires an action. Webhook Actions turns any do_action into a trigger, so form submissions, WooCommerce orders, user registrations, post publishes and your own custom plugin events can all start an automation. That covers Elementor Forms, WPForms, Forminator, Fluent Forms, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce and your own code — there is no per-plugin add-on to hunt down. Contact Form 7 and IvyForms go one step further with built-in support: their submissions are normalized into clean JSON payloads automatically. Destinations — any HTTP endpoint. The plugin sends outgoing webhooks to anything that accepts a request: an n8n, Make (formerly Integromat), Zapier or Pabbly webhook node, a Slack or Discord incoming-webhook URL for order and form notifications, Airtable, Google Sheets, Mailchimp, HubSpot, Salesforce, Notion, your CRM, an internal microservice, or an AI agent API. There are no bundled per-service connectors and none are needed — point a webhook at a URL, map the fields, and send. Every delivery is queued, retried on failure and logged with full request and response history. That makes it a no-code way to sync WordPress data outward: describe what you want in chat and let the AI build it, or wire it up by hand in the admin UI. No PHP required either way. No API key needed to start 55 free credits, no key and no signup — claimed automatically on your first prompt. There is no button to press, no account to create and no card; the plugin sends nothing but your site address. That is about five agent turns, or roughly two complete automations built end to end Try it without installing anything — Live Preview (also the button at the top of this page) boots a throwaway WordPress in your browser and runs the real agent on those credits WordPress connectors — if your site already has an AI provider connected (Settings → Connectors), the builder uses it directly and the plugin stores no keys My own keys — connect Anthropic, OpenAI or Google in the builder; keys are encrypted in the Credentials Vault and never returned over the API. A free Google AI Studio key gives you Gemini at no cost: step-by-step tutorial Your own key always wins — once a provider of yours is connected, the free credits are never spent Automatic fallback — if a provider is rate-limited mid-build, the agent switches to another connected provider and keeps going What the AI works from The agent doesn’t guess — it works from real payloads. It maps fields against actually captured payloads, edits existing webhooks by name or id instead of duplicating them, validates endpoints with a guarded probe (SSRF-protected, secrets always redacted), and verifies the result with a real test delivery. Every operation is also published as a WordPress Ability, so external AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor) can drive the same toolset over the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with scoped API tokens. The Payload Library Mapping fields needs an example payload, and until a trigger fires on your site there is nothing to map against — which is worst on the events that are hardest to produce on demand: a refunded order, a cancelled subscription, a deleted user. The Payload Library closes that gap with hundreds of hook payloads captured on our own test sites — WordPress core, WooCommerce, ACF and the major form plugins — so the agent can work from the real shape of an event your site has never fired. Your own capture always wins the moment the event really fires, and a reference payload is always labelled as one: the trigger panel shows a “WP Webhooks Payload Library” badge naming the plugin build it came off, and every build made from one ends with a test delivery before the webhook can go live. What a reference payload cannot know is your own keys. Fields inside containers your site defines — a form’s fields, post or order meta, ACF — are never mapped from it; the agent pauses, names the paths, and asks you to fire the event once. Lookups run while Build with AI is on WP Webhooks AI (the free trial or Pro credits) and cost no credits. The engine underneath (free) Turn any WordPress do_action into a first-class automation trigger your CRMs, n8n flows, AI agents, and internal services can consume — every dispatch is an outgoing webhook you fully control Persistent delivery queue with smart retry and exponential backoff — powered by WP-Cron, auto-upgrades to Action Scheduler or System Cron when available, (Pro) External Cron for guaranteed reliability Per-event UUID and ISO 8601 timestamp — enable downstream deduplication Delivery logs with full attempt history, request/response inspection, replay, and bulk retry Code Glue — attach PHP snippets to any webhook+trigger to reshape the payload before dispatch or run side effects after the response, with a preview that runs your code against a real captured payload first. Build with AI can draft, test-run and assign them for you Per-webhook retry limit and backoff strategy (exponential, linear or fixed), each falling back to a site-wide default Synchronous execution mode — fire inline without queue delay Payload mapping — rename, restructure, exclude, and type-cast fields with dot-notation paths Conditional dispatch — filter events by payload field values before dispatch, so a Slack notification or a CRM sync only fires when it should. Build as many rules as you need and group them with AND/OR matching, by hand or by describing them to Build with AI HTTP method, custom headers, and URL query parameters per webhook Dynamic endpoint URLs — {{ field.path }} placeholders resolved against the payload at dispatch time, or the fswa_webhook_url filter if you would rather do it in PHP Webhook Chains — wire 2xx completions to downstream webhooks with full observability Import & Export — move webhooks and chains between sites as portable JSON (triggers, field mapping, conditions and Code Glue snippets included), with strict validation and a per-item result summary on import Markdown descriptions — document what each webhook and chain does inline, with a Write/Preview toggle while editing Credentials Vault — store reusable auth secrets (Bearer, Basic, API key, custom) encrypted at rest; reference them from webhooks instead of pasting raw Authorization headers. Secrets are write-only over the API — never returned, only a masked hint Activity History — persistent audit log of every admin and API-token action Built-in CF7 and IvyForms integrations — structured payloads, no extra plugins Action Scheduler auto-detection — more reliable delivery on high-traffic sites Fully translatable — the entire admin interface and all server-side strings are internationalized; ships with Polish, Simplified Chinese, and Dutch, and is compatible with WPML and Polylang String Translation Full REST API with scoped API token authentication (read / operational / full / agent) — the agent scope grants full write access for AI assistants while never exposing stored secrets Developer extensibility — 16 filters and 7 action hooks (reference) Pro features AI credits included — Build with AI runs through the hosted WP Webhooks AI service on every Pro plan: no API keys to create, no provider accounts, a monthly credit allowance that renews automatically, and a live credits counter in the builder. Your own keys and WordPress connectors stay available any time External Cron — replace unreliable visitor-triggered WP-Cron with a managed external pinger, provisioned automatically on license activation. Two modes: plugin queue endpoint (down to 20 s interval, configurable batch size) or WP-Cron endpoint (60 s, covers all WordPress background work). No server crontab or external dashboard — controlled entirely from wp-admin, with a live heartbeat chart and inline error alerts See pricing and upgrade → Examples Send Contact Form 7 submissions to a webhook (n8n demo) Send Gravity Forms Submissions to n8n Send IvyForms submissions to a webhook (n8n demo) WooCommerce orders to n8n on completion — wired up with a Claude Code agent WooCommerce to HubSpot integration — sync orders, contacts, and deals with no custom code