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Social Chat PRO
Social Chat PRO adds WhatsApp contact tools to WordPress, including customizable buttons, agent-specific chat boxes, preset messages, display targeting, and scheduled availability.
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Overview
Social Chat PRO is aimed at businesses that want a visible WhatsApp contact route without building a custom integration. The plugin can present a button or bubble, direct visitors to different agents, prefill conversation text, and control where and when the contact element appears. That makes it suitable for support, sales, booking, or inquiry workflows where the actual conversation should continue in WhatsApp Web or the WhatsApp app. The main implementation limitation is also important: the plugin does not provide an on-site private chat system, because visitors are redirected to WhatsApp. Premium installation also depends on keeping the free plugin installed, and license activation is handled from the WordPress administration area. Test the complete visitor flow on staging, including mobile and desktop behavior, international phone-number formatting, page exclusions, timezone schedules, multilingual text, caching, and any theme or page-builder styling conflicts. The current product page also presents a conversational bots feature as beta, so its service dependencies, limits, and workflow behavior should be verified separately before treating it as a production-critical feature.
Adds a WhatsApp button or bubble that sends visitors into WhatsApp Web or the WhatsApp app.
Supports multiple agent accounts with names, labels, avatars, and agent-specific conversation settings.
Provides a chatbox interface with preset welcome text, preset user messages, and editable first messages.
Offers button customization including layout, borders, position, text, colors, and selectable icons.
Controls display by posts, pages, categories, devices, and other available targeting conditions.
Supports scheduled availability with configurable hours, timezone, and days.
Includes shortcode placement and WPML-related string translation options.
Lists a conversational bots feature with visual flows and integrations as a beta capability.
Compatibility and setup context
- Requires the free Social Chat plugin to remain installed alongside Social Chat PRO.
- Designed for WordPress sites using the WordPress administration dashboard for configuration and license activation.
- WhatsApp phone numbers must be entered in international numeric format without spaces or punctuation.
- WPML string translation can be used for multilingual text configuration.
- Verify behavior with the active theme, page builder, caching layer, and mobile layouts on staging.
- The bots feature uses a separate cloud-based service layer and is identified by QuadLayers as beta; confirm limits and integrations before deployment.
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- The product provides a WhatsApp contact button, multiple agents, chatbox settings, customization options, page targeting, scheduling, shortcodes, and WPML-related translation support.
- The official button documentation describes button or bubble layouts, position, icons, text, preset message content, phone-number formatting, and availability schedules.
- The official display documentation explains include and exclude targeting for post types and taxonomies.
- The official FAQ states that conversations are redirected to WhatsApp Web or the WhatsApp app rather than handled as private on-site chats.
- The activation documentation states that Social Chat PRO and Social Chat Free are installed together and that activation is performed from the WordPress dashboard.
- QuadLayers identifies the newer conversational bots capability as beta and describes its visual builder, integrations, and monthly conversation limit during beta.
- The official WordPress.org page provides the free Social Chat plugin listing and its international phone-number formatting guidance.
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Version 8.3.11
Product Details
Version
8.3.11
Last Updated
Jul 23, 2026
File Size
1.5 MB
License
GPL
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