Facebook Chat on your page: Looking for a simple and free alternative to chat chat in your business?
Below we will see how you can create a chat widget from Facebook Messenger, but also how to add it to your site to chat with your visitors in real time.
Your new Chat will work on both desktops and mobile phones. You should have a Facebook page.
Let's start
From the page developers.facebook.com Click the "Add New Application" button to create a new Facebook application.
Give your app a name and click the Create button to get a unique ID of your app. It will be a simple sequence of digits such as 1234567890000000000.
From your Facebook page now, click the Settings tab, select the Messenger Platform, Whitelisted Domains, and enter your page URL. Click Save. You can add multiple domains if you want to embed the same chat on multiple pages.
Then you need to use the ID of your Facebook page that you want to connect to the chat. All interactions with your customers will be displayed in the inbox of this page.
We are almost done. Open a file (footer.php) and copy-paste the following code. You will need to replace App_ID (from the App you created on the page developers.facebook.com) and Facebook Page_ID from your Facebook page.
That's it. Your Facebook Chat is already on your website. If you do not see it clear the cache and make sure your page domain is registered in the Facebook Page settings.
With Facebook Messenger Chat, you can set an automated greeting that will appear as soon as a visitor starts a conversation. Similarly, you can set one message which will indicate that you are not at the computer.
You can create these messages, from your Facebook page, Settings, Messages and Reply Assistant
Note for Adblock users
Note that the chat is displayed via Facebook. So if you are using any adblock plugin that blocks plugins from loading from Social Networks, will not appear.
