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Web chat puts the same agent on your website that answers your phone. A visitor asks a question, gets an answer from your knowledge base, and can be handed to booking. Settings → Web Chat. Available when the WEB_CHAT feature is enabled for your practice.

What it is good for

  • Questions before anyone is willing to phone: hours, insurance, whether you take new patients
  • Turning a browsing visitor into a booking without making them call
  • After-hours coverage on the website, not just the phone

Web chat or the scheduling widget?

They are different tools and many sites want both. A visitor who arrived to book is faster served by the widget, which opens directly on real available times. Put both on the site: the widget on the Book and Contact pages, chat everywhere.

Setup

Configure the appearance and behaviour under Settings → Web Chat, then add the snippet it gives you to your site. Your web developer needs about five minutes.
Chat runs against the same capabilities as your voice assistant. A capability that is off for the phone is off in chat too.