This article applies to the messaging Web Widget. If you're using Web
Widget (Classic), see Removing Web Widget (Classic).
You can deactivate
messaging capabilities by removing the Web Widget from your website, help center, or
mobile app. You cannot deactivate messaging at the account or brand level, although some
older accounts might have these options on the Messaging settings page in Admin
Center.Removing the Web Widget from kyour website, help center, or mobile app does not delete it or alter its configuration in Admin Center.
To remove a widget from a website
- Delete the code from the web page.
To remove a widget from a help center
- In Admin Center, click
Channels in the sidebar, then select Messaging and social > Messaging.
- In the Channels list, click the widget you want to remove.
- Expand the Installation section.
- Under Add to Help Center, deselect Automatically embed Web Widget in your help center.
- Click Save.
The widget is immediately removed from your help center.
To remove a widget from a mobile app
- Ask your developer to remove the channel key from the mobile app code.
11 comments
Anna Rose Heyman
We are currently testing messaging and can't have it on at all times. I want to know how to easily turn the widget off when we aren't going to be available. I followed the above steps 30 minutes ago and my widget is still showing as available for chat
How do you turn it on/off or set a schedule for it to be on/off?
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DJ Buenavista Jr.
Hi Anna,
Thank you for reaching out to Zendesk Support.
In regards to your concern, the following feature of Zendesk Messaging cannot be disabled or turned off by schedule. Only admins can enable/disable the following feature by going to the Admin Center as described in this article.
As this article mentioned, If you disable messaging for a brand, it removes messaging functionality for that brand but retains any widget, SDK, and Flow Builder messaging settings you have configured.
Thank you!
Kind regards,
DJ Buenavista Jr. |
Customer Advocacy Specialist |
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Michael Montano
Hello!
When I log into Admin Center, it does not have an option for "Channels", so I can't follow the instructions about. At the moment, we only are using Zendesk Guide as an internal knowledgebase and want to disable that chat function for that only.
We still want it available for a live site.
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Miranda Burford
Hi Michael Montano,
Based on what you've described, it sounds like you're using the Classic live chat experience (not messaging). This article should help, https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408821673242.
- Miranda.
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Casey Keefe
Hello Zendesk!
I am trying to disable the messaging / web widget for a new Brand under our main account. When I activate the Brand Help Center, the messaging / web widget appears in the bottom-right corner.
However, when I go to Admin > Channels > Classic > Web Widget, the settings only appear for the main account. They do not appear for the Brand, so I am unable to disable them.
In our Sandbox environment, both the main account and Brand appear under Admin > Channels > Classic > Web Widget, allowing me to enable / disable for each Brand.
Thank You!
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Gabriel Manlapig
You can configure Web Widget (Classic) settings for each brand independently. However, you will need to add a Web Widget (Classic) per brand to be able to configure its components.
To do this, please follow the steps below:
If every brand in your account already has a widget, you will not see this option.
You can only select an existing brand that does not already have a Web Widget (Classic).
For more information, see Configuring the components in your widget.
For more information, please see this article: Adding Web Widget (Classic) to multiple brands
I hope that helps. Thank you!
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Casey Keefe
Thanks Gabriel Manlapig !
What we discovered (with the help of our Premier team), was that the widget was appearing only if we were on the company's VPN.
The widget did not appear when visiting the page with the VPN disabled or from a personal computer. Not sure if a bug or intended, but we did get it sorted.
I appreciate the response!
Casey
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BIPO Support
Hi There,
We are currently not using the live chat, from our end, it's being disabled. Would it be automatically enabled for the new messenger when it starts to be automatically updated into production? And we would need to disable it again from our end.
Jordan
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Viktor Osetrov
Yes, it is - you can enable and disable it depending on your business needs via settings:
Hope it helps.
Thanks
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Cori Medler
Hello. We use messaging (not live chat). Right now we have it available in our product and on the Help Center. Our Help Center is open to the public, therefore the messaging/chat option is too. We're looking at a way to make “talk to a human” in the messaging/chat only available to authenticated users (similar to Zendesk's chat experience). But, in the meantime we'd like to deactivate messaging/chat only on our Help Center. Before I change the setting, though, what is the CX for existing open messaging/chat tickets?
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Paolo
You can try to implement the logic here but using the Core Messaging API. In regards to deactivating your widget in the Help Center, this will prevent users to interact with their open tickets via the widget. However, they can still respond via Email. Just make sure to let them know that you are switching the channel to email and the widget is currently unavailable.
Best,
Paolo | Technical Support Engineer | Zendesk
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