The widget starts a conversation
The website widget stopped waiting to be asked. It opens with suggested replies, gives the panel enough room to hold a real conversation, and exposes the same controls to your own code that the hosted call page has always had.
- New
Suggested replies on the widget teaser
The opening state offers a few one-tap questions instead of an empty text box. Visitors who would never have typed the first message now start one, and the questions are yours to set.
- New
A JavaScript API that matches the call page
Query availability, pick a department, open the widget from any anchor on the page, read the visitor id, and get a promise back when a callback is placed. Anything the hosted call page could do, your own page can now do.
- Improved
A bigger panel, with icon-only tabs
The panel was sized for a callback form and then asked to hold a chat thread. It is wider and taller now, and the top tabs dropped their labels for icons so the extra width goes to the conversation.
- Fixed
Settings no longer offers a sending address we cannot send from
The notification-sender picker listed addresses whose domain had never been verified, so choosing one silently broke your outbound email. It shows only addresses that will actually deliver, and says why the others are missing.